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Vol. XV - No. 4 NEW YORK, N. Y., MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1951 PRICE: FIVE CENTS World Opinion Forces UN ‘Peace’ Maneuvers '<3

U.S. LABOR’S STRUGGLE Next Week Power of Asian Revolution LINKED TO ASIA REVOLT “THE Staggers U.S. Imperialism By The Editor By A rt Preis The White House and the Pentagon are thinking of a nego­ GREATEST Peiping has rejected the terms of the latest UN tiated peace in the Korea war. They have been confronted with “ peace” proposal as a maneuver “ merely to give the U.S. three granite facts. First, the combined strength of the Chinese ATROCITY” forces a chance to rest” and recoup their strength for and Korean revolutions has so far proved superior to the military renewed warfare in Korea. Mao *>~ Tse-tung’s government is insist­ nations of Asia and the Middle power of U.S. capitalism. Second, there is a tidal wave of popular A Documentary ing that the invading American East, in any discussion involving resistance all'over the world to becoming involved in the Truman- forces be withdrawn from Korea the fate of the colonial world. MacArthur intervention in Asia. Third, the American people want Record of U. S. as a major condition. for con­ It also insists on the participation the war stopped now. sideration of any settlement of of France in order to raise the question of the latter’s four-year This failure of American capitalist power to crush the Asian Intervention the Far Eastern conflict. Moreover, Mao opposes restrict­ war against the Indo - Chinese revolution despite superior arms has given new confidence to op­ people. pressed peoples everywhere. The decayed system of capftalism in In Korea ing any conference on a Far East Europe and colonial exploitation in Asia has one main “policeman” settlement to the “Big Three” WELL-FOUNDED SUSPICION powers (U.S., Britain and Soviet — the U.S. ruling class. And that ruling class no longer seems in­ Chinese suspicion of Washing­ Union) and China, as the UN Censorship Keeps GIs* vincible. DON'T MISS IT! ton’s intent in voting for the plan provided. Peiping demands As yet U.S. workers have not by and large connected the set­ UN’s cease-fire plan is well- the inclusion of semi - colonial back of their own ruling class abroad w ith their experiences at founded. U.S. representatives in India and Egypt, as the leading home. The unexpected failure of American arms in what was the UN, after the vote, had let it Voice from Home Folks considered a minor foray against a weak people on a tiny peninsula be known that they had agreed has staggered the American public. to the plan only because they What is happening to the Amer­ ■According to a Jan. 9 Asso­ ing what the soldiers think about fe lt sure the Chinese would not ican GIs facing possible entrap­ ciated Press dispatch from Tokyo, the officer corps, rig h t up to Big Business and U.S. Workers J.P. CANNON EXPLAINS accept it. State Department ment in Korea? What are they correspondents are forbidden, MacArthur himself. MacArthur’s spokesmen, in defending the ad­ thinking and saying? Arc they, among other restrictions, to file press handouts may fool some However, to understand what has happened to U.S. imperial­ ministration from charges of echoing the pleas of their parents stories that would “ embarrass the people back home about his ism abroad, the workers need only turn to their own experiences “ appeasementr” pointedly stated and wives at home, asking to be United States, its allies or neutral SK06LUND CASE ISSUES resiponsibility for the military with Big Business over the past two decades. I t is not news to that “ discussion” with China did withdrawn from the bloody countries,” that would “ injure the disaster in Korea, but they don’t American workers that the blustering monopolists can be whipped. NEW YORK CITY, Jan. 15 — The recent deportation not imply any concessions. Korean mess into which they morale of our forces, or our fool the men who are facing the They whipped them handily in the organizing drives of the late order against Carl Skoglund under the McCarran Act was Nevertheless, the fact that the were unwillingly thrust? Do they, allies” or m ight cause “ despond­ hot lead. They have their own Thirties and early Forties. They again humbled the big corpora­ U.S. voted fo r the cease-fire ency in our forces or our people.” reported in the Swedish press and brought a letter of in­ too, want the war to be stopped ideas about MacArthur’s “ genius” tions in the post-war strikes. proposal at all . is generally now before more tens of thou­ Breach of these regulations by and no doubt are expressing these quiry about his case from Evald ------recognized as a diplomatic retreat correspondents would mean ex­ The same ruling class which served an ultimatum to the II q g 1 u n d, Swedish Trotskyist sands of them are added to the ideas among themselves. It is now for American imperialism. That pulsion from, the war theatre and Korean people to submit to capitalist rule, also commanded the leader, to the Socialist Workers over 50,000 U.S. casualties al­ the opinion of almost all war cor­ Swedish Letter is why it has stirred up a further even court - martial, although American workers to bend the knee to open shop rule. Henry Ford Party. Following is the reply by ready suffered in Truman’s respondents — those who wrote storm of disagreement over for­ “ police action?” newspapermen are civilians. glowingly just a few weeks ago once bluntly announced he would never sign a union contract; the SWP National Secretary James On Skoglund Case domineering bosses of Bethlehem Steel would not talk w ith union P. Cannon: eign policy within Congress and In imposing what the United Very revealing is the -AP dis­ about MacArthur’s “great mili­ Dear Comrades, representatives; General Motors called out the National Guard to has even created the beginnings Press describes as “ the strictest closure that “ for several days tary leadership” — that from the Dear Comrades: In an ordinary bourgeois of a conflict in administration censorship regulations in the his­ standpoint of military tactics put down “ anarchy” and “red terror” against the ’37 sitdowners. large chunks of field dispatches It is true, as you read in the paper we have read that the circles. tory of war reporting,” Gen. Mac- M acArthur and his staff have But the U.S. mass production workers, fed up w ith the speed­ have been snipped out of press press, that the U.S. Immigration old Swede, Carl Skoglund, is A rth ur and the Pentagon have displayed incredible stupidity. up and the stretch-out, determined to win their democratic rights CONCESSION TO CHINA reports” and “ one field dispatch Department has ordered Carl expelled from the USA. He lowered an iron curtain between N. Y. Times correspondent in industry and under the slogan “Solidarity Forever” brought from an AP correspondent, Tom Skoglund’s deportation. However, has been charged with “ revolu­ It is true that the State Dept, the men at the front and the folks Richard J. H. Johnston, w riting the industrial tyrants to heel. The odds against the workers seem­ Lambert, was killed by censors you should not expect to see him tionary action” for the Trot­ regarded the cease-fire plan, if back home. Both the text of the from Tokyo, charged on Jan. 10 ed overwhelming. Just as the U.S. imperialists used the UN to because it described American in Sweden for some time, if at skyists! If it is any reality accepted by Peiping, as a ma­ censorship regulations and war that the censorship “ made it con­ bring pressure against the Korean people, so the American capital­ troops as dispirited, bewildered all, since his case is fa r from behind this and if Skoglund is neuver to gain time for strength­ correspondents’ reports that have ceivable that the Korean war ists used their courts against labor. But here as in Korea, the and uncertain of the future.” concluded. coming to Sweden and when, ening U.S. forces in Korea. But leaked through the censorship could not be covered at all — at odds proved, in fact, to be against the small minority of industrial let us know' it immediately. the fact remains — and this is For over a decade government indicate that one of the main WHAT SOLDIERS THINK least with any degree of truth . . . barons who were powerless against the organized forces of the With revolutionary greet­ what is such a bitter p ill fo r the officials and other agents of the purposes of the tig h t press gag Not the least purpose of the It appeared to many veteran cor­ new unions. ings. capitalist politicians in Washing­ employing class have persecuted is to keep the voice of the troops news blackout from Korea is to respondents that censorship . . . EVALD IIOGLUND ton — that their maneuver in­ this veteran warrior of American from reaching this country. keep correspondents from report- was being used to cover up m ili­ Stockholm, Sweden volved a concession to the Mao Invincible Power of the Oppressed labor, hoping to eliminate him tary errors and defeats.” (Swedish Trotskyist leader) Tse-tung regime, insofar as it from the union movement and The U.S. workers demonstrated in struggle their inventiveness, acceded to direct discussion with MacARTHUR’S ALIBIS talents and power. They found new ways to fight and win, just expel him from the country. How­ of all for his long and honorable China on the previously-banned ■Horner Bigart, N. Y. Herald- as the Korean soldiers mystified the West Point brass with their ever, he together with his host record of service to labor’s cause. issues of Formosa and seating of PROTESTS MOUNTING ON Tribune correspondent whose “irregular”^ tactics and “fanaticism.” of friends and supporters have For almost forty years he had Peiping in the UN. b rilliant coverage of the Korean never ceased combating these Workers who know all this can also understand what humbled been active in union ranks and Their maneuver — a fact they war has won him a Pulitzer Prize, attacks and they intend to con­ Truman and MacArthur in Korea. It was the invincible power of was foremost among those who cannot conceal — was from weak­ DRAFT OF 18-YEAR OLDS states flatly in the current Look tinue the fight fo r his rights and the oppressed millions, striking fo r freedom, unity and independ­ helped build labor’s present power ness and not from strength. Their magazine that M acArthur’s “ un­ against his deportation. ence, convinced their cause was just. The U.S. billionaires have throughout the Northwest. concession, however hedged with As the administration disclosed its program to con­ sound deployment of the United not given up. Although forced to retreat, they continue preparing WIDESPREAD SUPPORT Moreover, his defenders have conditions and mental reserva­ script all 18-year old young men for two years and three Nations forces and momentous for large-scale war against the Asian peoples, just as they never recognized that the persecution tions, was wrested from them blunder . . . helped insure the Skoglund’s case has widespread months, a steadily increasing torrent of protest letters rest in their class-war against the workers at home. against him is more than a per­ against their will. They were S)------success of the enemy’s strategy” support in labor and liberal cir­ and telegrams poured into Wash­ Wall Street’s wars to crush the anti-capitalist struggles of the sonal matter and involves issues forced into it by the power of the pay) and then would be available and “ precipitated and magnified cles. Many prominent defenders ington. peoples of the world are no less reactionary than their unremitting affecting every American. Sko­ Asian revolution, as expressed by fo r all types of duty — overseas the swift disaster.” Brushing of civil rights in this country Testimony of Secretary of De­ offensive against the American workers. These wars will never glund is the second victim of the (he sweeping advances of the and especially combat. A fter eside MacArthur’s alibi that his have come to his aid through the fense Marshall and his assistant, cease until the U.S. workers join in the world-wide fight for so­ recently - enacted McCarran Law Chinese and Korean armies completing their 27 months, retreat (a word correspondents Civil Rights Defense Committee. Anna M. Rosenberg, before the cialist emancipation. Skoglund merits this support first (Continued on page 4) against U.S. m ilitary might, and Senate Armed Services Commit­ assuming they had not been killed are now prohibited from using) by the great tide of world public tee revealed the sweep of U.S. in some “police action” or that was caused by the “ overwhelming opinion, including large sections capitalism’s plans to Prussianize the country had not been plunged hordes” confronting the U.S. of the American people. the youth. As both Marshall and into an all-out war, they would forces, Bigart says, “ The harsh Originally, Washington had Rosenberg emphasized, the plan then have to . join the National and unassailable fact of the tried to get the UN to demand Korean campaign is that a fine Truman9s War Budget to Boost was not an “ emergency” measure Guard or Organized Reserve for withdrawal of the Chinese forces but a long range program of three years or the inactive American army, powerfully sup­ from Korea as a condition for militarization. The bill they pre­ reserves fo r six years. ported by the A ir Force and Navy, any Far East “settlement.” Only was defeated by air enemy that sented not only has no time lim it As Marshall and Rosenberg a few days before the cease-fire had no navy, virtually no air Workers9 Taxes Another 40% but some of it's sections presume were spelling out the drastic plan was voted on, the State force and scarcely any armor or its remaining in force for more terms of the conscription pro­ Dept, circulated in the UN a artillery.” Truman wasn’t fooling when he increase in income taxes of wage- is the matter of “obligational “ additional shifts and longer than ten years. The proposed bill posal, letters and telegrams from proposal to brand China as an The truth is that the American said in his Economic Message to earners enacted last year. The ex­ authority” whereby the govern­ hours,” “taxation . . . supple­ does not replace the present draft angry constituents started delug­ “ aggressor” and to invoke “ sanc­ troops are being led by ambitious Congress on Jan. 12 that the pected receipts w ill be $161^ bil­ ment actually contracts for tens mented by greatly increased sav­ of men in the 19 to 26 age group. ing the congressmen. One sen­ of billions of dollars more expen­ tions” against her. and arrogant career men, seeking American people would have to lion short of expenditures, but ings . . . invested in government That draft w ill continue. The new ator, who asked that his name be pay “ much higher taxes” to Truman in his budget message ditures to be paid off in follow­ only their own advancement, who bonds” and, above all, reduction THE UN PROPOSAL measure would obligate all young kept secret, told reporters that insisted that we must maintain a ing years. For the Dept, of De­ are ready to play with the lives finance his war program and of purchasing power available to men upon their reaching their “ TKe protests have been increas­ “ must expect sacrifices.” “ balanced budget.” fense alone this amounts to $112 labor. But the U.S. delegates ap­ ing with every mail.” Other sen­ (Continued on page 3) proved a simultaneous cease-fire 18th birthday, to 27 months in On Jan. 15 he spelled it out in Although his budget message billion for 1951 and ’52. The total Wage “stabilization . . . must ators, upon being questioned, by both sides, to be followed by the Jim Crow armed forces. cold cash. He called fo r 1952 fed­ contained no actual proposal on in obligational authority is $142 be undertaken if prices are to be admitted that they were receiv­ further attempts to restore peace, Furthermore the administration U. S. Army Censor eral spending equal to the annual new taxes, he informed reporters billion. The estimated final two- stabilized,” Truman said. Since ing an ever-increasing number of effect the withdrawal of all non- spokesmen revealed to the sen­ average of the World War II that he intends to ask Congress year budget will total $182 bil­ there w ill be “ severe” contraction protests on the 18-year old Holds Reporter Korean troops “ in stages,” ar­ ators that Truman had just in­ years from 1942 to 1945. The ap­ for as much as $20 billion more lion, or more than $90 billion per in supplies of consumers goods, draft. range for the Koreans to choose creased the figure fo r the armed 'Incommunicado' propriations figure he set fo r the in taxes fo r 1962. Most of these year — just $8 billion short of “ the objective should be to lim it their own government and, finally forces to 3,462,205 and that the PENTAGON DILEMMA fiscal year 1952, which begins taxes, according to the report of the 1944 wartime peak. correspondingly total spending of Alex Valentine, correspond­ to hold a UN-sponsored confer­ forces had to reach that figure this coming July 1, was $71,594,- his Council of Economic Advisors This amounts to more than wages.” Speaking with obvious The Defense Department ent fo r Reuters, leading British ence between the U.S., Britain, as early as possible, with June 30, 000,000 (that’s billions). on which his messages were $500 for every man, woman and reference to escalator wage con­ spokesmen bluntly warned the news agency, reported on Jan. Soviet Union and China with 1951 as the very latest. I t was based, must come from the "lower child in the U.S. — more than tracts that provide automatic senators that if they weren’t 15 that the he was “virtually BIG LEAP IN ONE YEAR specific reference to Formosa and also stated that Truman may set and middle income brackets.” $2,000 per average family of wage increases to meet past price given the 18-year olds their held incommunicado fo r twelve U’N membership for Peiping. even higher figures w ithin the This is a terrific 78% leap in four. One out of every three dol­ increases, Truman said ominously alternative would be drafting hours” at the U.S. F irst Corps TAXES ON WORKERS I t is, of course, no coincidence next few weeks. one year over the present all- lars of income w ill be extracted ithat “ to extend such cost-of- married veterans without children headquarters in Korea when A rise of even $161/^ billion in that the U.S. agreed to this when time-high “ peacetime” budget of from the American people to pay living adjustments without limita­ LONG PERIOD OF SERVICE and non-veteran fathers in the 19 he sought to transmit a story taxes w ill double this year’s in ­ its military situation in Korea is S47,210,000,000. Almost all of the for this war-preparation budget. tion, even in all those cases where to 26 year groups. which “ concerned grumbling crease of $8 billion. For every extremely grave and when its own By lowering its physical stand­ 1952 increase is fo r m ilitary ex­ This can only mean a drastic it could be done, would add to the Many politicians caught be­ by enlisted men.” “ allies” are clamoring fo r con­ ards the m ilitary leaders figure penditures. Proposed appropria­ five dollars the workers pay ih slash in living standards. process of wages chasing prices tween the cross fires of the He finally was released and taxes in the current fiscal year, cessions to Peiping rather than that they can take 80 per cent tions fo r the U.S. armed forces and prices chasing wages.” of all 18-year olds. The remaining m ilitarization program and the got, his dispatch cleared by the are $41,400,000,000 compared to after this coming June 30 they TRUMAN’S AUSTHRITY involve them, along with America, 'wrath of parents are looking for Eighth Arm y censor to whom $12,300,000,000 in the pre-Korea w ill pay $2 more, a 40% boost PROGRAM Of the total 1952 budget only in full-scale war with the 500 20 per cent will be subject to $7.8 billion — little more than some type of non-military duty a way out of the hot spot in which he was seeking to transmit the fiscal year ending last June 30, ever the recent 20% hike. Thus, Truman summed up the million Chinese people. they find themselves. A “ com­ story when he was held by the and $21 billion fo r the 1951 fiscal But, Truman admitted, “ the economic cost of his war pro­ 10% — w ill go fo r all govern­ Both the European and Asian which has not yet been decided ment “ non-defense” expenses, in­ upon. The 18-year olds accepted promise” now receiving serious F irst Corps chief of staff. The year ending this June 30. full amount of inflationary pres­ gram with “we must work harder, “ friends” of U.S. imperialism consideration is to conscript the latter said the report of the Against this $711/(j billion sure is not measured by the reduce consumption, and forego cluding social welfare programs. refused to go along w ith Wash­ by the armed forces would be male youth at 18l/2 rather than soldiers’ grievances was “ scur­ budget the government will have budget deficit alone.” In addition improvements in farm, business Almost 90% w ill go fo r war or ington’s “ get tough” policy. These given from' four to six months at the age o f 18. This proposal rilous” and “ untrue.” estimated maximum receipts of to the $711^ billion that w ill and household equipment.” For war-connected expenses, past or governments are under terrific of basic training (at reduced originated with Senator Taft. $55,138,000,000 including the 20% actually be appropriated, there the workers, specifically, it means present. (Continued on Page 2) Page Two THE MILITANT Monday, January 22, 1951 The World Crisis — The Doom of Stalinism By Michel Pablo gang of American military and perialism, and that imperialism, But the policy of the Soviet everything it cannot rigidly con­ The Thorezes of Europe, in re­ mon interest in preventing the The test of strength to which political leaders believed that vie-! conscious of its weaknesses, bureaucracy and the Communist trol. sponse to anxious workers de­ imperialists from controlling all imperialism has committed itself tory had been -won in Korea. would hesitate to unleash a gen­ parties under its command is How then explain Stalin’s manding Russian intervention in of Korea. But the Kremlin will in' Korea is now turning into W ithin a few days MacArthur. eral war. naturally very different. We must semblance of support to the Korea last September and October be the firs t to regret that events disaster. idol of the reactionary world We added that even if imperial­ hammer on this. struggle of the Asian colonial claimed that this would play into have taken such a turn as to bourgeoisie, raised on a pedestal ism, frightened by the dimensions the hands of the imperialists and The consequences of tlie defeat KREMLIN AIMS AT peoples? The Soviet bureaucracy cause the China of Mao Tse-tung of glory, was turned into a of the retreat it has to make, sustained in that sector of the COMPROMISE can well afford to support limited provoke a general war. Mean­ 1o make such a ringing entry into world fron t where, in the final- common scapegoat. He is now ac­ should, in spite of everything, and unhazardous conquests pro­ while the Chinese, both in Peiping (lie Korean arena upon which the analysis, the forces of revolution cused of ignoring the most provoke such a war, there is no I f the Kremlin in Korea, in the vided these secure it obvious and later even at the Warsaw eyes of Asia in revolt and UN, at the Warsaw “ Peace” Con­ and imperialism are locked in elementary rules of military art. reason for us to fear it. We diplomatic and m ilitary advan­ Congress, spoke in a diametrically the revolutionary proletariat are battle, will soon prove to be far- by fanning out his forces from a should, on the contrary regard gress and through the whole tages in its clash w ith imperial­ opposite language. I f we wish to fixed. And in this way China • reaching. weak center, thus falling into the it as the equivalent of the final policy of the Communist parties ism. From this point of view it avoid the spread of the war, Mao marched into world politics. This has not escaped the atten­ Chinese trap. struggle in tAsia and Europe of the Western capitalist nations, may, fo r example, favor the con­ Tse-tung argued, then i t is Because such a sti'engthening aims at a compromise with im­ tion of the best-informed bour­ against imperialism and an­ quest of Korea or Indo - China necessary to resist by force, beat of China — which is the pole for COLLAPSE OF COLONIAL perialism, and not at the con­ geois spokesmen, correspondents ticipate inevitable revolutionary achieved under control of the down and demoralize the im­ the revolutionary struggle of the RULE sistent struggle to abolish. it, or politicians. consequences in America itself. Communist parties, which it in perialists precisely in Korea. Asian colonial masses, undermin­ then this is not "due to the fear of In reality, however, the Korean turn dominates. In order to end the interven­ ing the foundations of imperiad- STALINIST BETRAYALS imperialist military superiority, IMPERIALISM ROUTED defeat represents collapse of an tion in Korea, Mao opposed his ism more powerfully than has but above all to the fear of the IN ASIA attempt by imperialism to stem We can now go even further. DIPLOMATIC ADVANTAGES volunteers and an open defense of been done by any other factor character such a war against They realize that imperialism the disintegration of its colonial We can state that had the Soviet I t is thus possible, although this their military actions in Korea until now — may well prove the imperialism will assume in this has been routed in Asia by the domain and to alter the relation­ bureaucracy really pursued a STALIN is not certain, to explain its sup­ by the Chinese representatives in most powerful impetus toward an period. uprising of revolutionary masses ship of forces in its favor by revolutionary policy and had the port to Kim II Sung and the the UN — to the signatures col­ independent course of the Chinese and that its forced withdrawal, relying on forces which proved Communist parties, instead of In the present relationship of a war might break down all equi­ Korean Communist Party in lected by Thorez and wires sent Revolution. from colonial areas w ill bring; incapable of achieving this goal. confusing the European masses forces in Asia and Europe, where libriums, including the one overthrowing the rotten regime to the UN. about a fatal deterioration of its: The united imperialist front, with campaigns “for Peace” and neither the’ colonial masses in achieved by the> Soviet bureau­ of Syngman Rhee and unifying Could one say, as some do, that CONSEQUENCES FOR THE world system. built around American imperial­ fo r “ Signatures,” educated them revolt nor the proletariat in the cracy inside the USSR and to a all Korea under its influence. this is simply a division of labor WEST 'For the first time since the.end ism with the help of the UN, has in the spirit of a revolutionary metropolises have anywhere suf­ lesser degree in the East Euro­ But even in the case of such a between the Kremlin and Peiping, The defeat of imperialism in of the Second World War they thrown all the m ilitary and poli­ perspective, it would today be fered a decisive defeat, an im­ pean “ buffer zone.” In such a war limited conquest, the Soviet bu­ and that Stalin and Mao are Kox-ea will be deeply felt in all also realize to what extent the tical forces at its disposal, all o f possible to reject any compromise perialist war against the USSR the Soviet bureaucracy risks suc­ reaucracy has revealed its op­ actually collaborating in complete Asia and in all the colonial and relationship of forces on the in­ its available mobile resources into With imperialism and carry the would rapidly take on the aspect- cumbing, together with imperial-' position to a complete victory of accord ? semi-colonial countries, including ternational chess-board has be­ the Korean, battle, ,and imperial-; revolutionary drive of the Asian .of an international civil war, un­ ism, to the enormous revolu­ the Korean revolutionary masses, those nearest under the shadow of come unfavorable to imperialism ism has lost this battle. and European masses through to leashing immense revolutionary tionary drive of the Asian and by deliberately doling out its aid THE MARCH OF CHINA Yankee imperialism: Latin Amer­ and threatens to become even This confirms the analysis of. the very end. forces. The Kremlin has no guar­ European masses struggling for to the Koreans, in order that they Such speculations befit only ica. I t w ill stimulate the revolu­ Worse. the relationship of forces made For never has the international antee whatever that it w ill be their real liberation. might simply contain the im­ those who are ignorant of the tionary energies of millions the Great confusion as well as panic by our movement ever since the situation of imperialism been able to control these forces Under Such conditions war perialist armies engaged in Korea nature of the Soviet bureaucracy world over. They are now begin­ now prevails in the imperialist outbreak of the Korean war. We worse, its m ilita ry unprepared­ wherever they are set in motion. w o u 1 .d become revolutionary and thus prolong the conflict. and its real relationships with ning to realize to one degree or camp. And this came about at the indicated that this relationship is ness more glaring, its confusion On the contrary, the shocks and “ chaos” and the bureaucracy, even The Korean war was turned revolutionary movements which another that we approach the very moment when the arrogant' evolving unfavorably for im­ and demoralization more acute. revolutionary dynamism of such more than imperialism, fears into a disaster for the imperial­ develop on an independent basis, final decisive battles in which the ists beginning with the interven­ as is the case with the Chinese socialist future of mankind will tion of the Chinese who, in words CP and with China itself. be pitted against imperialism. and deeds, pursue a policy The imperialists have gravely In the capitalist countries of essentially different from that misconstrued the fact that both the West this historic defeat^ in­ Asia and the Kremlin Bureaucrats of the Kremlin. China and the USSR have a com- flicted upon the most powerful imperialist country by colonial masses just emerging from op­ erful of the remaining states reaucyacy’s doom because, on the The Soviet bureaucracy has not capitalist encirclement, to acqui­ By Dr. Colvin R. deSilva pression, w ill also have no less recede into secondary positions. one hand, it drove a deep fissure only lost its isolation; it has esce in the bureaucracy's usurpa­ Trotskyist Member of Ceylon important i-epercussions. Contradictorily, however, the into the bureaucracy’s interna­ simultaneously also acquired a tion of power. Meantime, the Parliament The bourgeoisie w ill attempt to Soviet bureaucracy, when regard­ tional structure, and because, on frictions of Stalinism and their .competitor and rival. cvercome its current confusion, Gn Nov. 7, 1950, 33 years had ed as a distinctive social forma­ the other hand, this fissure Was Further? the Soviet bureau­ projection internationally in the Last week’s story in The M ili­ munity, wi’ites Winifred, “We had its own contradictions newly ag­ tion or grouping, has never stood created on the basis of the cracy cannot, in face of world decisive form of state-relations elapsed since the event which has tant about the huge protest meet­ a very favorable reception and gravated by defeat, and its nearer the abyss of extinction. It national independence question imperialism’s continuing pressure must lead to the increasing ex­ gone down in history as the ing over the police murder of very few turn-downs. One woman demoralization. And it will throw too has won a war only to lose arising in a revolutionary, i.e., and threat, use m ilitary means posure of its contradictions be­ John Derrick, a Ne­ said to me, ‘Well, I cei-tainly am itself headlong into increasing and' Russian October Revolution. Its the peace. For, by bringing into socialist, form as against the fore the masses. This w ill erode (even if they were feasible) to gro veteran, was glad to see this paper again.’ ” accelerated m ilitary preparations. reverberations can s till be heard; being or helping to bring into Soviet bureaucracy itself. The liquidate such rivalry. It can Stalinism’s grip on the labor well received in New The St. Paul sub-getters were “ The entii’e West must adopt its repercussions are yet to work being a whole series of Com­ movement. The true contemporary USSR is a multi-national state. therefore only adapt itself to the York’s Negro com­ shocked to learn that A. Ragland ’austerity,” declares its hysterical themselves out completely. A t the munist party-ruled states, it has Consequently, what the Soviet bu­ situation. For, even if the Soviet Marxist program, that of Trot­ munity. Members of died recently. Owner of a bax-ber press. same time, its very fate remains tended to destroy or, at least, to reaucracy faces in the satellite bureaucracy' may seek to push skyism, will simultaneously come the Militant Army shop, he took a tria l subsexiption B ut its chances of counter- to be decisively determined. For, undermine its own reason for countries, it can also have to face into its own. Yugoslavia into imperialism’s sold 42S copies in to The Militant seven years ago posing guns in place of bread and although the Russian revolution existence. w ithin the Soviet borders them­ Thus, the wheel is turning full arms, it dare not risk losing the Harlem and the and thereupon became a steady of recreating the setting of na­ broke the chain of world capital­ The root of the Soviet bureau­ selves. alliance w ith China. To that circle. Bolshevism, which brought Bedford - Stuyvesant leader of America’s leading tional unity as againsc the “ red ism at its weakest link, nev­ cracy’s emergence and accession the Russian revolution to success extent, the Soviet bureaucracy area. Socialist weekly. peril” under'the wing of “strong ertheless the rest of the chain to power was the isolation of the CHINA AND STALINISM has ceased to be the boss of world and which Stalinism thought to On reading the regimes” in order to be able. to remains strong enough to fetter Soviet state. The emergence of have buried even while speaking Jane Sebastian, reporting for China heralds the Soviet bu­ Stalinism. And this marks also article about Der­ unleash the war and above all that revolution’s further develop­ n e w Communist - party - ruled; an appreciable diminution of the in its name, is once more resur­ San Francisco, writes that two reaucracy’s doom because, on the rick, customers time carry i t on, are slimmer and ment. states tends to destroy, nay, one hand, she cannot be reduced Soviet bureaucracy’s absolute gent in the name of Trotskyism. comrades sold 12 copies of The and again asked if The M ilitant Militant in the Negro district riskier than ever befox-e. There is however, a change in destroys, that isolation in relation to a mere satellite, and because, power within the Soviet Union. Stalinism stands doomed. There would be sold next week at the This war program will in­ the Soviet Union’s position in­ to the capitalist world. This fact on the other hand, she will in­ has not only been, by reason of near headquarters and six copies THE SOVIET MASSES same place or i f they could get in The Mission, a white working evitably provoke the Western ternationally which may yet prove cuts at the very root of the bu­ creasingly provide a competing Yugoslavia, a real break in it. at their neighborhood news­ proletariat into great struggles. reaucracy’s existence. Doomed class district, in about an hour, decisive. Although the Russian and rival center of attraction to The weakening of the bureau­ favor of Trotskyism for the'first stands. They w ill join the colonial masses proletarian revolution has not yet anyhow to be a purely transitory the Communist parties of the cracy is also the releasing of op­ time since Stalinism came to “ Street sales are going to be con­ ■Literatux-e Agent Cathy D. tinued.” in their assault on the last decisively broken its 1917 borders, phenomenon socially, it now world. I t is no accident that, portunity for the masses it op­ dominance. There is more: In the reports that George Rock sold 40 bastions of imperialism. These the Russian or Soviet state, which stands actually doomed hist­ within the Stalinist movement presses. The breach in the Soviet historical perspective and on the “ We are starting to get copies in less than half an hour. revolutionary perspectives domi­ was that revolution’s product, has orically. Yugoslavia heralded this itself, the “Mao line” is being Union’s isolation must also lead stage of the world revolutionary literature , work under way,” Other high-scorers were Ben and nate more and more the arena of certainly broken its isolation. fact. China does the same in an­ steadily and with increasing to a breach in the psychology of movement,- i.e., both w ithin the Dorothy B. of Newark reports. Yvonne of the Youth, 25 each, history. There is today not merely the other way. frequency contrasted with and the Soviet masses in the sense of Soviet Union and without, already “ One of our three teams got and Inez, 24; Frank M. of Brook­ It is in this revolutionary crisis USfeR but a whole system of Yugoslavia heralded the bu- counterposed to the “ Stalin line.” sapping the- disposition, bom of the turn is to Trotskyism. started this week and sold 10 lyn, 21; Johnny Andrews of which is objectively maturing states clustering around the Militants at the AFL Labor everywhere, and it is in this world USSR. Together, they constitute Harlem, 20; and John Rogers of Lyceum. Jack W. sold 4‘ copies of the Youth, 19. perspective, that the struggle a wholly new phenomenon in the F I to friends he called on.” against the Soviet bureaucracy world history. This gratifying response to “ The Chicago branch of the The M ilitant’s handling of the must likewise be placed. Stalin­ The new phenomenon has Socialist Workers Party warmed Role of The American Stalinists Derrick case is an indication, in ism w ill perish as this crisis brought new problems with it. up fo r its election campaign by unfolds. The only feature really common Cathy’s opinion, of the deep selling 67 Militants at a Stalinist By Joseph Keller had contact with it. And over the They have fought every mani­ in attempts to mobilize pressure resentment among Negro New to these states is that they are ‘peace’ rally,” writes Literature past two decades millions of festation of genuine independent to influence the actions of the im­ Yorkers over the police brutality all ruled by Communist parties. A fter 32 years of intense ac­ Agent Mannv Stone. On the workers have come within its in­ labor political action and' every perialist - dominated UN and in that has continued under the new Each of these Communist parties, tivity and with many favorable campus The M ilitant is making fluence, only ,to be repelled by it. attempt to establish a class party paper campaigns to “ outlaw the regime of Mayor Impellitteri. however, differs from the other many friends. “ Marj, our star at Local Addresses opportunities for growth, the of labor. Their great “peace” atom bomb.” Their big pitch now F irst result of a discussion in its composition and structure. MAIN LESSON selling, is becoming well known American Communist Party to­ champion —* until the U.S. in­ is the formation of a “great move­ among Minneapolis members of The state each rules also differs through her consistent sales.” day lacks any real mass in­ The main lesson these workers vasion of Korea — was the m il­ ment for a national peace ticket the M ilitant Arm y on ways and Of Socialist from the others. In consequence fluence. It is unable to rally any Boston asked fo r another bundle have absorbed as a result of their lionaire former Vice President in 1952.” They do not say whose means of increasing cii’culation there is between these states increase this week.' “ Comrade sizable forces outside its own personal experience with Stalin­ Henry Wallace and his capitalist “peace ticket.” A labor party was an oi-der to double their quite as much friction as co­ Patch is doing an excellent job Workers Party ranks in opposition to war despite ism is that the Communist Party Progressive P a rty., W ith the ticket, perhaps ? No. As S. W. bundle. “ With the political ordination. the wide-spread anti-war senti­ is nothing but an agency to in selling most of these papers; AKRON—For Information, write P. O. desertion of Wallace and his Gerson puts i t in the Jan. 15 climate favorable to us it is up Box 1342. ment and the unpopularity of promote the foreign policy and she has a regular route and sells NATURE OF STALINISM associates to the pro-war camp, Daily Worker, a ticket given to all of us to start to do some­ BOSTON—Workers Educational Center. Truman’s “ police action” in ciuite a few weekly,” Literature 30 Stuart St. Open Tues.. 5:30-9 P.M. interests of the ruling bureau­ the Stalinists have been le ft to “form and direction” through “a thing about it,” Literature Agent This often violent friction must Korea. Few outside elements have cracy in the Soviet Union; that Agent Rena Breshi reports. Social last Sat. of every month. seek capitalist allies among any variety of channels — third party P. 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Stalinism and the. ruling Soviet ernment in order to advance lig h t that shined through the build mass parties in a number Their “ peace” program consists lative committees.” On the kind workers that we have the only CT.KVET.ANI>—Peck’s Hall. 1440 E. bureaucracy. Constituting, as this Stalin’s current interrtational Xmas season. B ill sold 17 conies R2nd St. (off Wade Park Ave.). every of European countries, fo r in­ not in class struggle and revolu­ cf party needed, there is a tell­ solution to the problems that con­ bureaucracy does, nothing but of The M ilitant to friends and on Sun.. 9 P.M . stance, where its betrayals have maneuvers; that it sells out the tionary action fo r socialism, but tale silence. front us.” DF.TROTT—0108 D in wood Ave. Open reaction enthroned at the heart of the street corner, plugging in Mon. through Sat., 12-5 P.M. Phone TT not been so apparent to the work­ workers’ interests when this By way of warming up while the revolution, the .only relation ers, because its parties emerged promises to pay o ff in the form particular the article on the Gordy 7-0267. i t can establish with the new waiting fo r the increased bundle, FLINT—SWP. 1507 Oak Street. Phone only recently from many years of better relations between Mos­ case.” 22490. Communist party-ruled states is four comrades went out Sunday According to Literature Agent of illegality and underground cow and Washington. WORLD ANTI-WAR PRESSURE on neighborhood calls with the DOS ANGKT.ES—M ilita n t Pub. As«»n. that of overlordship. The resist­ activity and the younger genera­ N. V. of New Haven, Conn., Rm 325. 124 W . 6th St. Phone VAndyke ance on a revolutionary basis to Thus, from 1935 to 1946, the pamphlet, The Socialist Workers 8001. tion, in particular, had had no “ talks to acquaintances, overheard M IL W A U K E E —917 N . 3rd S t.. 3rd fl. this relationship has now filled a Stalinists were the most unabash­ Party, What It Is and What It direct experience with Stalinism. ed and blatant supporters of the FORCES “PEACE” MANEUVERS bus conversations, etc., show dis­ Open Sun. through Fri., 7:30-9:30 P.M. whole year or more of the history Stands For. They sold 28 copies content.” The New Haven mem­ Phone H opklne 2-5337. Democratic administration and MINNEAPOLIS—10 South 4th St. Open o f the East European states. IN LIGHT OF DAY (Continued from Page 1) recognized — and that is that the; and a copy of Fourth Interna­ bers of the M ilitant Arm y have its war preparations and im ­ tional, the theoretical magazine dally except Sun. 10 A.M.-O P.M. 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By Murry Weiss a deep and abiding hatred. The Lenin’s central idea is that modern society is divided American working farmer will be into two basic classes, workers and capitalists: These his ready ally -— for the farmer thinks of the corporation as a Karl Marx and V. / . Lenin classes are in irreconcilable struggle; the only progressive ______I condemned man thinks of rope. conclusion of that struggle is*^ The American youth despise the “ Whenever we want to give a concise answer to the ques- workers’ power; this power of the These events prove that this is militaristic - imperialistic clique indeed the epoch of imperialist tion: who is Marx? we say: ‘Marx. . . . is the author of workers must reorganize produc­ who would drown the world in wars, proletarian revolutions and Capital.’ And when we ask ourselves — who is Lenin ? we tion and all social and economic blood. The Negro people con­ relations; this workers’ power, colonial uprisings. A fte r the say: ‘Lenin is the author of the October Revolution.’ Lenin, stitute a deep - rooted revolu­ based on workers’ democracy, Second World War the capitalist more than anyone else, was emphatic in saying that he did tionary force in factories and must acquire an international system received another rapid farms. not intend to revise, remodel or alter the teachings of Marx. scope in order to lay the basis series of blows from the toilers The labor apologists fo r capi­ of factory and farm, that has sent Lenin dame, to use the words of the Bible, not to change for socialism. talism shall wipe the sneers o ff it reeling and very close to a the law of Marx but to fulfil it.” These propositions were the their faces. knockdown. In one country, Yugo­ — Leon Trotsky, Prospects and Tasks in the East. 1924. basis of Lenin’s thought and Lenin was speaking of the TROTSKY LENIN action throughout his political slavia, the capitalists were com­ American working class too, when pletely knocked out by a success­ life. This was the revolutionary he analyzed the forces at work in ful workers’ revolution. essence which he fought to imbue our epoch. Today we can add to The postwar revolutionary wave in the party of the working class.. what Lenin said. I t is precisely in Western Europe very nearly in this powerful and last Strong­ Who Are the Guilty? ORTHODOX MARXISM finished the enfeebled capitalist hold of capitalism that the system on the old continent. Only There are times when history makes Such ideas were not “ new” even greatest blows for freedom Will It is. Truman as well as Taft, Congress the efforts of the Stalinist bu­ in Lenin’s time, even in backward be struck. a very abrupt turn, upsetting all the as well as the Pentagon, Democrats and reaucracy coupled with those of Czarist Russia. Lenin always con­ The decisive battle between previous calculations of the capitalist Republicans alike, who bear the full re­ “ socialist” and Laborite leader­ sidered himself an orthodox capital and labor w ill take place ships gave European capitalism rulers. Such critical times put to the sponsibility for the Korean “ police-ac­ Marxist; by that he did not mean here in the U.S. And part of that another brief extension on life. test all their prominent figures, parties, tion” ; for the Presidential usurpation of verbal orthodoxy (the basest battle will be to lift the labor No sooner had the postwar programs as'well as the government it­ Constitutional powers; for the conspir­ traitors to .socialism, were avid bureaucrat o ff the worker’s back capitalist world recovered from self. Our country passed through an ex­ “ quoters” of Marx’s words and and continue the great work that acy to destroy our civil liberties, paving its narrow escapes than its revo­ Lenin never tired in his struggle made the letters CIO the indelible perience like this in the early Thirties the way for the police state measures; against them fo r treachery in lutionary nemesis rose out of the when the Great Depression erupted. The and for bringing our country and the symbol of militancy, audacity deeds). “ lower depths” of our planet. The and hope. Korean disaster now marks another such world so dangerously close to all-out war. For Lenin, scientific socialism revolutionary process ricocheted turn. The peril facing the American people meant carrying the tested Marxist from the 1917 Russian Revolution THE STALINIST BOGEY principles of theory to their prac­ to Asia, and the Third Chinese “ But what of Russia and Stalin­ Every influential politician now seeks is the handiwork of,these arrogant men Revolution in the last half century a convenient scapegoat on whom to pin of selfish interests. It is becoming dear­ tical conclusions. For the “ social­ ism?” the bureaucrat will ask. ist” right-wingers and centrists, began revealing its mighty force. “Mustn’t we defend the workers the guilt. Taft accuses Truman of “ usurp­ er and clearer that Washington — from the principles of Marxism were Here we see the deep realism cf Europe against Stalinism? Do ing power” ; lof imperiling “the basic lib­ Taft through Hoover down to Truman — good fo r ceremonial editorials and of Lenin’s world outlook. Imagine you want to live under Stalin­ erties of the people of this country” and has proved itself fumbling, bankrupt and Sunday speeches, but carrying the state of mind of the super­ ism? Don’t you know” — arid of dragging the people on the road to deceitful. them into practice during times billionaires. Since 1917 they have V. I. LEN IN here the sneer combines w ith a of crisis — ah, there was another been driven by the inexorable triumphant leer—“that you Trot­ “ set up a dictator in the U.S.” Taft here, What the Democrats and Republicans laws of the capitalist economic for his own partisan reasons, tells the are primarily concerned with is not “ na­ matter. For them, revolutionary investment, for raw materials and the expense of the colonial peo­ skyists and all revolutionists principles lose their charm as soon system to try to reeonquetr the markets—that’s the characteristic ples — more than half the world’s would be the first to be shot by bitter truth. tional defense” or “national survival” as they have to be applied. one-sixth of the earth’s surface of the capitalist system in senile population, not to mention the the Stalinists? Doesn’t your taken by the Russian socialist In turn, Truman accuses Taft of going but with saving and defending the inter­ Lenin’s power as revolutionary decay. Colonial uprising growing scores of millions of proletarians Leninist conception of the epoch along cheerfully on Korea; rubber-stamp­ ests of imperialism. And with saving revolution. China was still ear­ Gut of global wars — that’s the in the capitalist centers. Herein give way to the primary task of theorist and world proletarian marked as a Wall Street preserve. ing everyone of the dictatorial measur- face, clambering up the ladder of federal leader consisted ,in developing new world being born. Proletarian lies the main clue to the answer stopping Stalinism?” Europe was being smothered in revolutions — that’s the active to such a question. Here we have the central piece the White House requested; and now offices and patronage, coining privileges Marxist theory and practice for the brutal embrace of the dollar. the Twentieth Century. method by which all anti-imperial­ The privileges of the labor bu­ of straw on which th« psycho­ demagogically seeking to make political and profits — at the people’s expense. U.S. capitalism, so it felt, had ist movements of the toilers reaucracy of the U.S.. and the logical equilibrium of the bureau­ capital out of the crisis, with eyes on inherited the earth and was im­ All this clashes head on with the in­ LENIN’S GREAT WORK achieve their goal in this epoch. privileged standard of living the crat hangs. In the name of this patient to cash in on this in­ the 1952 Presidential elections. On this terests of the American people. His work, together with Trot­ To accomplish these revolutions American workers wrested from hollow prop he feels free to com­ heritance. ’ rare occasion Harry (Third-Term) Tru­ The guilty ones today sit in Congress, sky’s on the permanent revolu­ mankind must forge a giant link capitalism in struggle, cannot be mit every crime against the labor man speaks the truth, too. For his main in the White House, in the Pentagon, tion, on the national and colonial RIVAL CAPITALIST NATIONS in the chain of history. Lenin’s understood except in the context movement. interest likewise lies in holding on to everywhere in the seats of power. They questions, on the agrarian ques­ Following World War I the deep most important contribution to of the whole world process. A ll But who made the secret the Presidency. are guilty of betraying the American tion, on the nature of monopoly contradictions in capitalism pre­ the solution of the modem crisis these privileges rest on the treaties with Stalin that destroyed Both say our people were never in such capitalist imperialism; on the vented the real imperialist aim of humanity is his theory of the supremacy of Wall Street im ­ the revolution in Spain? Who used people. We Trotskyists indict them of nature and role of the party, on ■proletarian revolutionary party. perialism over the exploited peo­ Stalin to derail the European danger. This is so. But both of them lie this betrayal today. And that is how from being realized — a unified the nature and role of the state, bloc of capitalist nations in war He evolved and applied his views ples in both hemispheres. revolution after World War II? when they ask the American people to they will ultimately be indicted at the and the road to socialism, on the against the Soviet Union. The in the October Revolution. They But this in its turn, rests upon Who would make a deal with locate the source of this danger in Asia bar of history when the aroused Amer­ labor aristocracy and the labor defeated German capitalists, as­ then became the basis of the the willingness of the world to Stalinism today if only it could or Europe. The fact is that the gravest ican workerg, working farmers, Negroes bureaucracy, and on the problems signed the role of spearhead Third International. submit. There is no submissive­ crush the Asian revolt, if not the danger is right here at home and comes of an isolated workers state in against the Soviet Union, fashion­ The Leninist theory of the ness in the attitude or actions of labor bureaucrat’s master, Amer­ and other minorities pags final judge­ its struggle against encirclement ican imperialism? from the capitalists and their politicians. ment upon them. ed their own ghastly dream of a party is now part of the arsenal the Asian, African, South Amer­ and degeneration — all this work thousand years of fascism. of the world working class. Today ican and European toilers. They The Kremlin and its agencies, forms the basis fo r all scientific The Japanese imperialists en in Asia, as in Europe and the have risen from their knees and the leaderships of the Communist thought on the phenomena of larged their horizons and their: Americas, the Leninist party has Wall Street is sliding off their parties throughout the world —■ Imperialist Precedents capitalism in its death agony. voracious appetite fo r expansion, to be built as the supremely con­ backs. these w ill be the first victims of Lenin defined the salient fea­ ehen though their industrial ap­ scious and decisive factor fo r the American capitalists, cornered the victorious liberating strug­ The halls of Congress are resounding out exception, these represent brazen tures of our times in his marvel­ paratus for swallowing and di­ victory of tire working class. and panic-stricken, are baring gles of the working class. In their with historical “ precedents” concerning ously succinct formula: “ Ours is gesting conquests remained their sharp claws and slashing at fear and deceit, the bureaucrats usurpation of power by the most reac­ AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM the rights of the President as against tionary occupants of the White House. the epoch of imperialist wars, feeble. the American workers. But here, depict Stalinism as an all-power­ “ And what of your conception the constitutional prerogatives of the By John Adams (chief promoter of the proletarian revolutions and colo­ Thus the war came to be fought too, they w ill meet their match! ful wave of the future. nial uprisings.” among the rival imperialist pow­ of the epoch as it applies to House and the Senate. So is the press. STALINISM,WILL GO infamous Alien and Sedition Laws); by In the last 35 years the world ers. And today, what a change in America?” A sneer accompanies AMERICAN FORCES Politicians, professors and journalists vie Polk (who usurped power to attack Mex­ has passed through two imperial­ the relationship of forces! this question from the smug, OF REVOLUTION Not at all — Stalinism (like with one another citing precedents. Time ico) ; by McKinley (who sent U.S. troops ist world wars, a global economic overfed labor bureaucrat of the The American worker has all labor bureaucracies) is an­ magazine has dug up 135; Sen. Connally to crush the Boxer Rebellion in China crisis, and the sweep of fascism RESULTS OF WORLD WAR II U.S., the kind who “ useil to be” never forgotten how he beat the other privileged crust on the has filed a claim for “ 100 occasions;” over the continent of Europe. For, in the process of World a Marxist. ‘Let this bureaucrat corporations in the struggles of working class. The movement of in concert with the European imperial­ remember that he subsists as a the Thirties. He hates the in­ the class w ill cause this crust to Columbia’s Prof. Commager rests with But it has also experienced the War II, China tore loose! And ists) ; by Theodore Roosevelt (who raped opposite of these consequences of with China, the whole colonial member of a caste, and fattens at dustrial and financial moguls with crack into a thousand pieces. As a vague generality: “ One Administra­ the little Republic of Colombia to seize capitalist decay in such events as: world is in revolutionary upheaval Lenin said to the skeptics and tion after another.” the Panama Canal); Wilson (who set up the socialist revolution of the against the imperialist plutocracy. fainthearts, “ Live a little and you Involved here is the issue of who has an American protectorate over Nicara­ Russian working class led by No wonder, imperial dreams are w ill see.” the right to declare war. Truman claims gua with U.S. marines), and so forth. Lenin and Trotsky in 1917. the turning into nightmares and the All the anti-Leninist revision­ pallor of inner decay and in­ ist theories on our epoch have he has; Taft says Congress (read: Taft) eruption of proletarian revolution CENSORSHIP PREVENTS In a word, all the acts of aggression, in Europe after the First World decision is to be seen on the face one common denominator: a must do it. Both sides in the dispute especially against Latin American coun­ War, the awakening of a billion of our own ruling class. barren distrust of the proletariat. deliberately disregard the people, whose tries, which have made the Dollar Im­ colonial slaves to revolutionary Lenin’s formula of “imperialist Those who hold these views can delegated representatives they are sup­ perialists so hated in our hemisphere are consciousness and activity, and wars, proletarian revolutions and GIs FROM BEING HEARD see our epoch only through the posed to be, but whom they never con­ the organization of the American colonial uprisings” contains a eyes of frightened petty-bourgeois now being offered in the name of “ the (Continued from Page 1) no rational purpose except to Philistines. The outward material sult on any vital issue. mass production workers into the logic of its own. Imperialist wars defense of democracy.” This reminds us CIO. for colonial outlets for capital cf their soldiers in any adventure “ inflict as heavy losses on the power — that’s all they see. They enemy as possible.” But how And what are these so-called “ prece­ of a murderer who demanded immunity that may win the brass a bit more make a deep bow to everything aboht the American losses? dents” that are now being painted up on the ground that he had, after all, recognition and publicity. And that appears powerful, whether Last week, U.S. Chief of Staff it be Stalinism, fascism or the as decisive in the settlement of the fate­ used the same knife in several previous facts are now coming out that ful issue of war or peace? Virtually with­ murders and got away scot-free. ,1. Lawton Collins, arrived in Wall Street oligarchy. These this officer corps is reeking with Tokyo to try to take the situa­ chicken-hearted pretentious the­ COMMONWEALTH NATIONS corruption. tion in hand from blundering, orists assume the attitude either What but the rising resentment blustering MacArthur, said that of hum ility and adoration, or Truman Junks Civil Rights Promises of the ranks toward the officers “ as of now, we’ll stay and fight.” frenzied despair, according to REVEAL ANTI-U.S. SHIFT safely ensconced in the rear could No doubt, they are w illing to which power they are nearest or Truman’s “ State of the Union” speech As Dixiecrat Representative Hebert of have evoked the memorandum of “ expend” more GIs to protect the current mood that has seized peace is to come.” They also demonstrated that civil rights are the Louisiana said after the speech: “ He’s By Charles Hanley Brig. Gen. Bryan L. Milburn, in the high command’s reputation them. asked fo r speedy peace settle­ against the “disgrace” of being joined the Southern Democrats!” On Jan. 4 a ten-day conference charge of Headquarters and THE ROLE OF THE TOILERS first home-front casualty of the war ments with Germany and Japan. Service Command of general driven out of Korea by a revolu­ of British Commonwealth Prime “ W hat?” they ask themselves. preparations program. In his long speech And while Truman publicly buries his Although those Commonwealth headquarters in Tokyo, about not tionary army of Asian peasants Ministers began in London. The “ Ragged peasants, led by work­ “ Fair Deal” program of Civil Rights how countries which have not form ally permitting the command to be “ a and workers. No doubt they are telling Congress what legislation he conference showed that the British ers with calloused hands — w ill recognized revolutionary China haven fo r gluttons and lounge not anxious to have American fare these rights in the U.S. today? government and those of the these dumb beasts of burden wanted, Truman did not mention civil did not offer any formal agree­ addicts.” The memorandum states, troops come back and tell the The answer is they are at their lowest Dominions are concerned about really build a new world? Im­ ment to do so, they agreed to call “ I am very much concerned true story of what has happened rights for Negroes and other oppressed the war danger and the situation possible!” point in the history of this country. fo r the Chinese participation in about the number of obese, ob­ in Korea. But if the mouths of in the Far East. They are not for Yes, ours is the epoch of the minorities, FEPC, or repeal of the Taft- Without looking, put your finger on the talks about a Japanese peace viously overweight and ex­ the GIs are gagged, that is all a new world war which would women and men of toil. They and Hartley Law. map of the U.S. There, as in every other treaty and fo r talks between cessively corpulent personnel the more reason why the people probably mean anti - bourgeois they alone can save humanity. Washington and Peking. This throughout the command” and at home must speak up to demand In the 1948 election campaign these state or town or city, civil rights are be­ mass upsurges in India, the loss And the American working men of Hong Kong and perhaps practically amounts to an ac­ calls for “ corrective action.” the withdrawal of the troops and were Truman’s main promises and vote- ing violated. Negroes are not allowed ceptance of the rights of the Mao to save the lives of the American and women w ill play a central getters. In subsequent “ State of the to vote or to get equal education; they Malaya, and a serious impoverish­ AMERICAN TROOPS SHOCKED role in this world-historic drama. ment of Great Britain herself. government. boys facing the risk of complete Union” speeches Truman at least verbal­ are being discriminated against in mak­ Not only their experience in disaster. Lenin’s summons — “ Have the Britain and Indian spokesmen CANADA TURNS FROM U.S. courage to build a new party and ly carried through the indecent farcq of ing their livings. In many places they therefore wanted the Common­ actual combat under these of­ Thus, Australia and Canada, all the oppressed w ill come ty are being beaten or lynched or their wealth nations to agree on a ficers, but all the conditions that his “ Fair Deal” program by calling for which fo r several years had been you” — w ill acquire a new and homes are being bombed. I f they are policy of normal diplomatic rela­ have surrounded the U.S. inter­ PIONEER POCKET the passage of civil rights bills and re­ closer to the Washington State vention undoubtedly have shocked deeper meaning in our own land. peal of T-H. Of course, after calling for in the army they are being jim-crowed. tions with China counterposed to Department than to the London LIBRARY: • American workers wi'l build the U.S. memorandum in the the troops. One of them wrote a these bills he never lifted a finger to Wherever working men have unions in Foreign Office, now turn to the letter which Rep. Mike Mansfield, their new party — they will U.N. which proposes economic and other ‘Commonwealth nations be­ 1. The Death Agony of break forever with the bureau­ force their passage. But the liberals and this country their rights to force better political sanctions against the Democrat of Montana, read in conditions and wages from the bosses cause they begin to fear Wash Congress, disclosing the fact that Capitalism a n d the crats who chain them to capitalist labor bureaucrats were satisfied with Mao government. ington’s interventionist line. political machines, and as they lip-service and demanded no more of are hampered by T-H. U.S. supplies are being sold at Tasks of the Fourth AGAINST WORLD CONFLICT Nevertheless the Prime Min­ fantastic prices on the Korean do they will learn to know Lenin, him. International the revolutionary teacher and The illegally imposed “ subversive” The Commonwealth countries isters’ declaration contains an black market. "So help me God,” leader of the world working class. Now, however, Truman doesn’t feel list is the basis for the crassly un­ now try to bring about peace assurance to the U.S. that thev writes this young soldier, “I’ve 64 pp. 25c obliged even to call for such legislation. constitutional persecution of the Interna­ negotiations between the U.S. and are against “ appeasement,” that never seen anything so rotten. The “ national emergency” gives him tional Workers Order in New York at China, and to prevent the Korean they would always seek to “ arrive I’ve never been so disillusioned 2. The Suppressed Testa­ present. This fraternal insurance organ­ war from, becoming the starting at common international policies and disgusted in my whole life.” ment of Lenin with an CHICAGO and his administration the chance for with the U.S.” and that they open solidarity with the anti-Negro, anti­ ization has just been prohibited from point of a new world conflict. But the Big Brass is concerned article by Leon Trot­ Socialist Workers Party Hdqs. In a joint declaration Jan. 12 would continue their defense only with covering up its inep­ 5th Ward — 5558 Ellis labor reactionaries. Truman, no doubt, holding its national convention. the nine Commonwealth Prime effort. sky ...... 48 pp. 25c titude and corruption, with trying for feels more comfortable now. Phrases, Truman looks at the country and Ministers announced that they The native capitalist repre­ to retrieve its prestige and however mild, in favor of the rights of makes a report in terms of cannon fod­ would “ welcome any feasible sentatives of the Commonwealth reputation. It is recklessly sacri­ order from IRVING BEININ organized labor and of the Negro people der, planes, tanks and atom bombs. The arrangement for a frank ex­ countries thus seek to protect ficing more thousands of Amer­ Pioneer Publishers SWP Candidate for Alderman change of views” with Stalin and their vested interests against the ican youth in a “ holding” retreat 5th, Ward never tasted sweet to his lins. He wore workers and the Negro people look at the 116 University Place Mao Tse-tung. They pointed out consequences of all-out war, and — beg pardon, “ planned with­ Open Weds, from 7 to 10 p.m. the disguise of a “ friend” of labor and of country and see persecution, discrimin­ that such talks between the great still maintain their alliance with drawal” — down the whole length New York 3, N. Y. the Negro people with obvious ill grace. ation and deprivations of liberty. powers are a necessity “ if real U.S. imperialism. of the Korean peninsula that has Success Story ------By Theodore Kovalesky ------t h e MILITANT

We weren’t very surprised to see the new scraped and saved until he could buy his own VOLUME XV MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1951 NUMBER 4 sign. Some laughed a little. A ll of us smiled. little shop on Ames St. w ith a second hand bar­ B ut most of us knew that this was how things ber’s chair and a new barber pole that rotated must be, and we smiled in a friendly way. with i-ed and white stripes continually descend­ Briefing the Party Whips I t was black and gold, something like a doc­ ing. Now he wrote his own letters, “ . . .a little to r’s or dentist’s sign. I t was very solid and time more, and I w ill come. . . ” and he signed Urges City Hall March dignified. The red and white striped cylinder “Ruggiero Antonini” in big, round characters. s till revolved in its glass casing, crying out in But he wrote less often, and the replies in the a clash of color that here you could get a hair­ handwriting of the Montalbano priest came less cut. But the dignity of hard-earned success frequently; and when he .stopped w riting alto­ In Murder of Negro Vet showed up in the new sign, “ SIGNOR RUGGIE­ gether, the replies stopped too. The depression RO ANTONINI, HIGH CLASS HAIRCUTS.” had come. His savings fe ll away, so what was On Dec. 7, John Derrick, a veteran, was killed in cold ® Yes, that’s his name, Ruggiero Antonini, now there to w rite about anyway ? Should he still blood in Harlem by New York City cops. A t a huge mass Signor Antonini; but as long as he’s had the say “ a little time more,” when he knew- that meeting of protest, Congressman Adam Clayton Powell little shop on AmesySt. (and that’s as long as time must begin all over again? Better say called for a march on City Hall®' many of us can remember) we’ve called him nothing. to demand redress and an end to meeting, and but fo r a stroke of “ Paisan.” When they need a haircut men say, So he kept living and cutting the hair of men iuck, he m ight have been mourn­ “ Either I got to get a fiddle, or I ’ll have to go and children and sometimes women. He kept police brutality. Gladys Barker, ing his own sons that night. It see Paisan.” Or you hear them say, “ Hey, I ran going to bed alone at night in the clean little Socialist Worker's Party candidate seems that this cop had some into old Scotty over to Paisan’s the other day.” room behind the shop. No longer did he look for Lieutenant Governor in the difficulty pulling his gun out of But now maybe we ought to drop that name. through the darkness to Montalbano and sigh last N. Y. state elections, has tne holster, while he was accus­ “ Signor Antonini” might be much better. in his bed. He just went to sleep and, as time addressed the following letter to ing the churchmen of “ casing” Signor Antonini came to this country many, passed, forgot even to dream. the jewelry store they happened many years ago, long before he became Signor Through the years we used to see him and Congressman Powell in support to be standing near. Antonini, back in the days when he was merely, grebt him, good old Paisan, as he sat on a wood­ of his proposal: We are not safe on Harlem “Hey, you!” or “Hey, Tony!” Or just plain en chair in the doorway waiting fo r customers, Truman briefs Democratic leaders on his State of Union streets. Derrick was killed by “ wop.” He was a young man w ith the short, waving a friendly hand to all who passed. But Dear Congressman Powell: message to Congress calling for “ much higher taxes.” (L. to r.) these two patrolmen fo r ab­ thick, brown body of an Italian ploughman. He one day last summer as we walked by his shop I support with every fibre of Senate M ajority Leader McFarland, (A riz.), Senate M ajority solutely no reason at all. Then, was friendly; he was poor; he was ambitious. we didn’t see the chair. Where was Paisan? Whip Johnson (Tex.), House M ajority Whip Priest (Tenn.), and my being, your call for a gather­ you recall, they are reported to Maria and his two little ones were still at Mon- Through the years we used to see him and House M ajority Leader McCormack (Mass.). ing of our forces at 110th St. have planted a gun on the cold talbano, but he would send for them soon when sound of a hand lightly touching an automobile and a march on City Hall, to body of this veteran who had just he got rich. Meanwhile he’d get a priest or some horn, and there he was, no longer little Paisan, returned that day from a seven- other educated man to write letters to them, but Ruggiero Antonini, a man of importance, a demand punishment for the killer- year stretch in the army. Now, I telling them, “Wait patiently for a little while big man, sitting inside a beautiful new car park­ cops who murdered and robbed am informed by friends in until I make my fortune. Then I will return to ed in fron t of the barber shop, smiling benignly John Derrick on Dec. 7, 1950. Aarlem, the witnesses, who spoke Montalbano as a big man, a man of importance, and with dignity, waving his hand in courteous COAST GUARD HOUNDS Since your rallying call on Jan. 30 fearlessly at the protest meet­ and I w ill bring you to America. We w ill have greeting. 6 at Refuge Temple, Mayoi ing, are being “ contacted” and GLADYS BARKER a fine house and a new American automobile. The long struggle for success was done. Paisan intimidated. I long to see you, my dear wife, and our little was dead, and in his place smiled Signor Rug­ W IST COAST MILITANTS lmpellitteri has TRANSFERRED ones.” And he would take a pencil in his thick giero Antonini, the self-made businessman, the these cops “ to an undisclosed STAY KILLERS HANDS brown ploughman’s fingers and make a mark owner of a new American automobile. What then SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 13 — The government drive command.” Is this supposed to Yes, Congressman Powell, we Detroit SWP to where it said, “ Your husband, Ruggiero Anto­ of Maria and the little ones? Who knows? Time to destroy independent unionism among seamen and long­ be a victory? Are you satisfied? want a march on City Hall to nini.” passes, signori, and you cannot live in the past protect ourselves and our kin! If I retold the story of the years that followed, And after all, he had tried, he had tried very shoremen of this country is being pushed on the West Or do you feel as I do, — as if Treat War Crisis Stay the hands of the killers! you would perhaps yawn and turn away, for you hard. Coast against the International® I had been dishonored? power for all such ships be pooled Demand of the Mayor, the Police have heard it often. Too many times already So good rest to little Paisan, and long live Longshoremen and Warehouse­ in union hiring halls. HATRED OF KILLER-COPS Commissioner and the whole cal­ On TV Jan. 28 you have read and 'heard of the man — of the Signor Ruggiei-o Antonini! Good rest, too, to the men’s Union and the National loused administration, that Pa­ DETROIT, MIOH., Howard legion of men who le ft their wives and children dead dreams and troubled hopes of yesterday Union of Marine Cooks and “ 3. That the Coast Guard get Harlem is aflame with hatred trolmen Minakota and Palumba Lerner, Socialist Workers Party waiting, who struggled and grew tired, who Let not their memory haunt and mar this suc­ Stewards. Both unions have been cut of the maritime industry, and of killer-cops. Our people demand candidate for governor of Michi­ fought and lost, who pined and yearned. . . and cess story. branded as “ Communist con­ that the unions be allowed to deal justice and freedom fx-om fear. be brought to justice! gan in the 1950 election cam­ fin ally forgot. That was Paisan’s story too. Perhaps now even the old red and white bar­ trolled” organizations by govern­ directly with .the National Ship­ What innocent Negro w ill die May I urge that you take the paign, w ill appear on a TV pro­ Somehow he gathered together the fragments ber pole w ill go. I t isn’t really necessary with ment-inspired propaganda. Both ping Authority without Coast next on our streets ? Do you recall lead immediately and call a con­ gram, Sunday evening, January- the new sign, and it detracts from the conserva­ were expelled last year from the Guard interference.” how a clergyman at Refuge ference of all organizations in of his firs t shattered di-eam and looked about 28, from 8 to 8:30 P.M. w ith clearer eyes. He saw the need fo r educa­ tive good taste of Signor Antonini’s establish­ national CIO by the Murray ma­ Such opposition as this by the Temple on Jan. 6 told the audience Harlem, for mobilization of the The name of the program is tion and went to barber’s college. Somehow he ment. chine. cooks and longshoremen on the how his sons, also clergymen, March. As an active member of Latest moves against the two West Coast is the reason fo r the had almost been shot by a cop the Socialist Workers Party, and “ Press Conference” on WXYZ, unions is the stepped-up pressure government’s concerted drive that evening? Here he was on the. Lenox-5th Ave. Tenants TV channel 7. Brewster Camp­ by the U.S. Coast Guard to en­ against these two particular the platform with you at this League, I pledge fu ll and uncon­ bell, Detroit “ Free Press” C ity force a blacklist in the industry. unions now. huge Johnnie Derrick protest ditional support to your proposal. Editor, will act as the inter­ Robbery in Phone Booth! rogator. ------By Milton Matthews ------THE PASS SYSTEM Lerner will have an opportunity Government screening is the to discuss the program of the The “21 little children” of the woi'ld’s largest sidering the Sept. 30 1950 report of the local most effective blacklist system SWP on key national and in­ corporation, American Telephone and Telegraph, company. The firm showed an annual net income yet devised to use against union ternational questions. He w ill ap­ are celebrating the end of a successful campaign of $42,461,510 — an increase of $17,149,609 over militants. I t is enforced through FLINT CHEVROLET LOCAL HONORS pear at this time in lieu of a pre­ which finds them $400,000,000 richer then they 1949. Net earnings per share rose to $8.14 so the issuance of special passes by election program which saw both wex-e at the conclusion of World War II. The that New York Tel. could pay o ff AT&T and still the Navy Department. A ll long­ major capitalist party candidates, “ 21” are the local telephone companies that were have a surplus of $747,510. The reason fo r this shoremen must apply fo r these SPIR IT OF 1937 SITD0W N STRIKES Williams and Kelly, appear prior gi-anted a series of rate increases culminating profitable showing was the effect of the increase passes. Those who do not get the to the election. awarded to the firm on June 9, 1949, a hike of passes cannot work. There is no By RalpJi Kelly Genora dealt with the Taft- glorious and heroic sections. In last week in the destruction of a 60-year-old cor­ VICTORY FOR SWP nerstone of American life, the five-cent phone $26 million on home and business rates. On the specified time lim it on the Hartley law, the higher taxes in the days to come we w ill be on FLINT, MICH., Jan. 14 — In In winning the right to present call. basis of this report, even using the distorted issuance of passes. A consider­ store for workers, the job freeze, the front line barricades of labor a meeting unique for these times, its program to the people of We are taught in our schools that public u til­ bookkeeping set-up of the company, the 100% able section of the workers are wage freeze with elimination of fighting fo r a decent world for Chevrolet Local 659, UAW - CIO Michigan over TV, the SWP ities are monopolies beneficial to the public wel­ coin box i-ate increase was unwarranted. As usual not issued passes at all, and are escalator clauses, the McCarran- ourselves and our kids,” she said. scored a signal victory fo r the fare, whose activities are closely supervised by in our decaying society, the hardest h it are the thereby eliminated from the in­ honored the men and women, dead Kilgore B ill which she declared, Everett Sides, m ilitant shop civil rights of minority parties. state laws and regulations. Put this one at the poor who cannot afford home or business phones. dustry. and living, who risked their all “ is aimed, not at socialists like committeeman, stated, “ U ntil vei"y me, but at labor. I have been a The radio TV station had top of the list of “ lies my teacher taught me.” Thievery runs thi-ough the entire telephone in­ No reason is given fo r the gov­ (o build the union. The fighting recently the UAW was a dynamic AT&T owns 99% of the telephones in this dustry. Follow this. Telephone prices are set by ernment’s refusal to issue a spirit of the 1937 sit-down strike socialist for 20 years, I was a rank - and - file controlled union, refused to grant Lerner the same opportunity as had been given country, the company that makes them, large the PSC on the basis of a local company’s rate waterfront pass. In most in­ also gave its answer to Walter socialist in 1937 when we built and even today when we ax-e fast this union — and I’m still a the candidates of the major areas of the earth where the raw materials are base which in turn is predicated on the original stances workers are not even told Reuther and the International coming under a bureaucratic, parties. It yielded only after the mined and the ships that bring them here. This cost of its ,plant and equipment. A ll plant and that a pass has been denied them. UAW Board in their recent socialist today. But this sinister centralized control we still retain and treacherous bill can ja il any SWP carried its case to the Fed­ octopus starves the life out of many thousands equipment is purchased from Western Electx-ic, In this manner an effective black­ attempt to throttle The Search­ our dynamic character-. militant worker by charging that eral Communications Commission. of colonial slaves and crim inally undei-pays half owned by AT&T of course. Western Electric list system is introduced which light, official paper of Local 659. “ We have the right to criticize a million American phone workers. In its annual charges high monopoly prices, the p ro fit going serves to circumvent the estab­ he at one time or another in his A similar victory was won in Pioneers of the eax-ly days were any officer at any time and the repox-t of Aug. 31, 1950, the company showed that to AT&T. lished practice of equal job rights life associated with a red or rad­ 1948 when Grace Carlson, SWP introduced and received with membership of this local intends net earnings fo r each shai-e of stock were $11.98— In carrying through their steal, the New York through the union hiring halls. ical.” candidate fo r Vice President, enthusiastic applause by the pack­ to retain these God-given rights. firm had fu ll cooperation of the GOP machine After outlining what lay ahead spoke over a Detroit station. A t the highest point in 20 years. AT&T pays a con­ This blacklist system was in­ ed auditorium which was re­ If the International carries out stant annual dividend of $9.00 per share which in the state. I t was reported without denial in the immediate future she that time, too, the Detroit branch troduced last year and applied splendent with the union colors, their implied threat and bars us during the last elections that the man who de­ declared, “ The courageous work­ of the SWP carried its fight to means an ever-rising sui-plus, from $325,399,502 then only to army and navy members in original flying squad from publication of this demo­ manded and pushed through the re-nomination ing men and women of this the F.C.C. in Washington, D.C. in 1947 to $340,087,915 in 1949. docks. The government now pro­ uniforms, early union buttons and cratic paper, we serve warning of Dewey was Winthrop W. Aldrich, chairman countx-y w ill stand just so much... Lerner, however, will be the first We find that the New Yoi'k Telephone Co., poses to extend it to commercial newspaper clippings .of stories on them that the voice of the of Chase National Bank and a director of AT&T. piers as well. then they w ill fight back just as SWP representative to appear on which annually pays dividends of $8 per share and pictures of the great sit- Chevrolet worker w ill not be to AT&T, petitioned fo r rate increases because “Fighting” for the public interest and head of they did in 1937. When that time TV in Michigan. AFRAID OF OPPOSITION down strike days. silenced by their dictatorial, bu­ its own earnings fell to a “dangerous” $7.18 in the state PSC was Benjamin Feinbex-g. Feihberg comes — all of past history proves reaucratic orders,” Sides said. W alter Reuther, president of happens to be an old Dewey stalwart, form erly Although hundreds have already Kerm it Johnson, ’37 Chevy the UAW -CIO, appeared on the 1948 and $6.16 in 1949. I t claimed it was in the it w ill come — we shall be en­ “ There are two ways to face the GOP majority leader in the New York State Sen­ been blacklisted, the Coast Guard strike leader, was introduced to same program on January 7. In “ red” because it had to dip into its surplus’ to gaged in even mox-e glorious future — under bureaucratic, one- ate. No one need be overly clever to realize that has carefully avoided any an­ lead the singing of “ Solidax-ity” struggles than in ’37.” answer to a direct question, he meet its payments to AT&T. man control such as the A F L — As though this wasn’t enough, the PSC in a political payoff by Dewey to Aldrich and AT&T nouncement of these lists. The and “ We Shall Not Be Moved” repudiated socialism fo r the or as free members of a rank- has just occurred. purpose o f , this method is to to the accompaniment of the FLINT WORKERS WILL FIGHT United States. New York showed criminal neglect by not con­ and-file democratically controlled forestall as long as possible any riginal Strike Band. The enthusi­ “ The workers of F lin t have There w ill be an open house at union fighting side by side for a popular opposition within the asm and applause mounted and shown the stu ff they’re made of. the SWP headquarters, 6108 Lin- union to the system. prevailed throughout the whole We have written in the pages of world of peace, prosperity and wood, the night of the broadcast Page from Greek History This blacklist system is the meeting. labor history some of its most freedom.” to view the TV program. issue before delegates from all ------By Tom Conlan ------RESPECTS TO LITTLE longshore locals on the coast, now- PEOPLE locked in closed meetings in Long­ President Coburn Walker, spear­ Now that history has seized the U.S. super­ all of ancient Greece. When sinister figures view, Washington, to decide policy billionaires by the throat, their wiser men are like Gov. Dewey propose to "Spartanize” Amer­ for the ILWU. Early reports in­ heading the fight against the In­ trying to think in historical terms, seeking from ica, it is important for the workers to bear dicate that right-wing delegates ternational Executive Board for S WP Reply on Skoglund internal democracy of the union, past experiences not alone to avoid future pit- this in mind. arc making a determined effort opened the meeting by stating, falls but also to find avenues of escape from Sparta started and remained a m ilita ry dic­ to reverse the union’s previous (Continued from Page 1) the Communist Party in 1928; against foreign-born and m ilitant tatorship, ruled by one or two generals (“ kings” ) “ We meet. ■ today to pay our present dangers. General of the Arm y Marshall stand to fight the government which has been condemned by that he has remained an ix-recon leaders of labor. lias offered his colleagues “ the period of the or by their stand-by’s \the Euphori) who period­ respects to the little people who blacklist. But whatever the policy every big labor organization and cilable opponent of all it stands We believe that the American Peloponnesian War and the fa ll of Athens” as ically usurped the military (or “kingly” ) power adopted at the Longview meet­ walked the picket lines.” Con­ fo r; that he has been assailed as people don’t like this kind of d irty civil liberties body as unconstitu­ the clue to the world situation today. Marshall’s and ruled just as despotically. Wherever the ing, it is certain that an aroused trasting the present methods of a Trotskyist by Communist Party business and are recoiling against suggestion has been picked up widely — from Spartans conquered they imposed oligarchical membership w ill challenge the the top leaders with those of the tional, unjust and a violation of leaders over the past twenty it. We believe that many more the Vatican-inspired magazine Life to the demor­ rule (Councils of Ten) under the thumb of a whole blacklist system when its past, Walker said. “ In the early all democratic traditions and prin­ years. w ill come to Skoglund’s defense Spartan General (much as MacArthur now rules days we did not use charts and alized “ liberal” periodicals like New Republic. fu ll effects are felt. ciples. This instrument of op­ In the second place, Skoglund against the efforts of the Depart­ in Japan). graphs and technical terms to Thex-e is much to be leax-ned from the pages This same blacklist system is is being punished today because ment of Justice witch-hunters to get what the union wanted. We pression has been designed to of history, including those of Greece. And the Athens, on the contrary, began her rise to being applied to seamen. The he wouldn’t turn stool-pigeon and deport him. In any event, they walked in and said to man­ harass foreign-born Americans; American workers ought not to overlook this. power and progress by abolishing the rule of policy of the Marine Cooks and betray his friends and fellow- will not succeed in taking away agement, ‘This is what we want But it is not enough to think historically. One the generals and installing the firs t democracy Stewards union in opposition to to victimize militant unionists; workers, as so many ex-members his rights and freedom under the or we’ll shut the plants down — must never forget the standpoint from which on record in class society. Athens’ x’ise and fall the whole scheme was made clear to gag anyone who criticizes th of the Communist Party have McCarran Act without the most and that’s the only language the such thinking is done. The capitalists always parallels the birth and death of this highly pro­ at a meeting in Washington, D.C., foreign policies of the capitalist been doing. In 1939 the FBI vigorous struggle against such a Corporation understands.” think of the present as well as the future and gressive development in the slave era. But it is called on Jan. 4 by the Federal rulers and who opposes Big Busi­ offered him citizenship if he crime. He and his defenders w ill therefore also of the past fx-om their own class precisely this important lesson that all the Maritime Administration. Repre­ Walker then outlined the cur­ ness plots against the welfare of would work along with them. He fake every legal step to combat standpoint. So, too, should the workers. Marshalls would so much like to erase from sentatives from all seafaring rent fight with the International the people. I t aims to outlaw turned down this dirty proposi­ the vicious McCarran Law and Life, followed by New Republic, uncovers the mankind’s memory. unions were present. The real in its attempt to throttle the Marxism and to suppress radical tion, as any honorable xxxan would. save him from deportation. At following parallels in Greek history: “spiritual All the more so because of the true circum­ purpose of the meeting was to local paper, The Searchlight, political organizations. Since then he has been suffering the same time, they intend to retreat,” “inconstancy,” “irresponsibility,” “ax-- stances surrounding the downfall of Athenian win official union acquiescence •which has been outspoken in its the consequences. take his case to the American rogance” and “ recklessness.” In this thex-e is a democracy. I t was not, as commonly taught, the in the government’s union-bust­ criticism of UAW Pres. Reuther’s DANGEROUS PRECEDENT people and to the labor movement. grain of truth. What the capitalists are now conquering Spartan militarist Lysander who de- ing program. policies. I f a man like Cax-1 Skoglund, LOYAL TO HIS CLASS We hope their fight w ill be vic­ really discerning ax-e not the “ weaknesses” which sti'oyed democracy in Athens by imposing an He made it clear that Reuther who has lived here fo r fo rty years Infox-mers, turncoats, and other torious. Such an outcome would may well be chax-ged against the Athenians, but oligarchical rule (Council of Thirty) there (Thu­ UNION PROGRAM and his satellites could not preach and devoted his life to productive such traitors to the workers are not only render justice to Sko­ rather their own failings which they are unload­ cydides, Book V III). Athenian democracy fell Hopes in this direction were ‘the democratic way of life” in labor and the advancement of the having a holiday under the glund, but would be an outstand­ ing on the ancients. Not the Athenians, who ax-e earlier as a consequence of the attempt by blasted by Secretary - Treasurer public speeches and at the same working people, can thus be patronage of reaction in this ing triumph for American lib­ not to be confused w ith the mortal enemies of Athens’ rulers to conquer Sicily, suffering an Eddie Tangen of the MCS who time attempt to institute a dic­ depoi’ted fo r his union activities country today. These scum are erties over reaction. culture, but the reigning capitalist rulers are unexpected defeat there, and leaving their coun- presented a list of thirteen de­ tatorship over the UAW. and political ideas, who can con­ treated like national heroes by the Your letter indicates that if truly spiritual banki-upts, inconstant, irresponsi­ try exposed to attack. For soon after the Sicilian mands in the name of 5000 mem­ sider himself secure in his x-ights? paid pi-ess. Skoglund stands out Skoglund should be deported, he ble, arrogant and reckless. And in this sense, debacle, the ruling class of Athens imposed the bers of his union. These demands GENORAJOHNSON SPEAKS That is the basic issue px-esented in contx-ast as a workers’ leader w ill receive a warm welcome in President Truman is qxlite an exact social sym­ reign of 400, or an oligarchical tyranny at home. are: Genora Johnson Dollinger, or­ in his case; that accounts fo r its who never knuckled under to the Sweden. It is gratifying to know bol of U.S. imperialism. And here is indeed a striking parallel that “1. That maritime union hiring ganizer of the famous Women’s importance. employers, who coixcenti-ated upon that he would have friends among Greece, including Athens and Sparta, was nev­ American workers should mull over. The mer­ halls be legalized and exempted Emei-gency Brigade of 1937, was The proceeding against Sko­ increasing the power of the labor the workers there who would come er more than a petty slave empire, incomparable cantile slaveholders plunged into their Sicilian from Taft-Hartley bans. intx-oduced and gave a rip-roaring glund under the McCarran Act movement, who wouldn’t sell out to love and respect him as have both in size and power, with such ancient colossi adventure as lightmindedly as the capitalist en­ “ 2. That union contract con­ speech that was interrupted many is all the more unwarranted and or submit to any threats of in­ the working people of the North­ as Persia, Carthage or Rome — all of them slavers undertook their Korean adventure. The ditions prevail on all MSTS (mili­ times by spontaneous applause. unjust because the ground fo r his timidation from official hirelings west who know him best. How­ despotic. Athens was more of a “ city-state” first casualty of the disaster in Sicily was the tary sea transportation service) She predicted “ some dark days deportation is former member­ of the capitalist class. For these ever, we hope that if he does than Sparta. The firs t was a slave mercantile democracy in Athens. And what has been the ships, and that all shipping on ahead fo r labor as America goes ship in the Communist Party dur­ reasons, he was hated by all the revisit his birthplace, he w ill go community; the second was based on slave agri­ first casualty of Korea, if not our cherished civil these vessels be done thx-ough on military footing again for ing the 1920’s. It is well-known enemies of labor and is now h it not as a stigmatized deportee culture,. the most reactionary and backward in rights and democratic freedoms? union hiring halls. That the man­ World War III.” that Skoglund was expelled from by the sweeping witch - hunt but as a freeman.