What Is The Meaning Of The Moyne Case? — SEE PAGE 4 — the PUBLISHEDMILITANT IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE VOL. IX — No. 6 NEW YORK, N. Y„ SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1945 267 PRICE: FIVE CENTS SLAVE LABOR BILL ADOPTED -&BY HOUSE 12 Released Trotskyists Honored At Meeting Roosevelt And Brass Hats r Spur Union-Smashing Drive “Big iThree” Conference Fighters For Labor’s Rights Cleveland Auto Administration Steamroller Forces Through Militants Fight Bill Conscripting Labor For Private Profit Given Ovation A t Mass Rally The forces of capitalist reaction mobilized in No-Strike Pledge their union-smashing drive under the leadership of By Art Preis CLEVELAND, 0. — The Roosevelt and his General Staff last week jammed NEW YORK CITY, Feb. 2 — Over 800 unionists and other struggle to win a m ajority vote the May-Bailey slave labor bill through the House of progressive fighters for civil liberties this evening jammed the Grand to revoke the no-strike pledge Ballroom of the Hotel Diplomat here to honor the 12 Minneapolis in the CIO United Automobile Representatives. This measure would strip the labor Labor Case defendants released last week after their 13 months Workers’ current referendum movement of the most important social gains made behind Roosevelt’s prison bars. has been gaining momentum in decades of struggle. Inspired by the imprisoned Trotskyist leaders’ courageous stand in this leading Ohio industrial for labor's rights, this Welcome Home Mass Meeting, sponsored center. Widely ballyhooed by the brass hats as a “win- by the Civil Rights Defense Committee, enthusiastically pledged to A Cuyahoga County committee the-war” measure, the bill is actually an open declara­ continue the struggle for repeal of the infamous Smith “Gag” Act of the UAW Rank and File Cau­ under which the Socialist Workers Party leaders were the first labor cus, which is conducting the na­ tion of war against the American working class. This victims. The demand was issued for an unconditional presidential tional fight against the no-strike most vicious piece of class legislation aims to place pardon and restoration of their full citizenship rights, now denied surrender policy, has been estab­ lished. At the first meeting sev­ the defendants because of their “ felony” convictions. the working class com­ eral weeks ago, leading officers pletely at the mercy of Prolonged O.vation and militants from six UAW Stalinist Union plants joined the Rank and File. the exploiters. It destroys A prolonged ovation was accorded to the three released prisoners Since then, - new adherents have who addressed the meeting, Albert Goldman, Farrell Dobbs and been joining in increasing num­ Traitors Urge the most precious rights Felix Morrow, and to James P. Cannon, who was unable to attend bers weekly. of labor and enhances the because of illness but sent a stirring statement to the gatheidng. Thousands of leaflets explain­ privileges of capital. It tightens The released Socialist Workers Party and Minneapolis Truck- ing the necessity for voting the grip of the reactionary m ili­ against reaffirmation of the no­ Forced Labor drivers Local 544-CIO leaders spoke with the fervor of the revolu­ tary caste on the economic and strike pledge have been distrib­ tionary socialist convictions for which they were railroaded to prison By Joseph Keller political life of the country. It is uted throughout the auto plants and which capitalist government persecution has only deepened. They a long step toward the intrench- here. These leaflets, similar to Stalinist traitors in the CIO issued a m ilitant call to all labor to unite in unceasing struggle ment of a totalitarian military those distributed by the Rank secretly button-holed Congress­ dictatorship which aims to crush against capitalist reaction and in defense of the workers’ rights. and File in Detroit, have received men in Washington and urged the organizations and institutions Outstanding labor and civil liberties leaders joined in greeting a wide sympathetic response. them to vote for the Roosevelt- of labor under an iron heel. the returned Trotskyist fighters. The welcoming speakers included An unprecedent slander cam­ sponsored May-Bailey slave la­ Osmund K. Fraenkel, counsel for the American Civil Liberties paign has been unleashed against bor bill. This gave some House SPONSOR ROOSEVELT Union; James T. Farrell, noted novelist and Chairman of the Civil the auto militants here by the members a pretext for “ shift­ The May-Bailey slave labor law Stalinists. For years the Stalin­ Rights Defense Committee; Benjamin S. McLaurin, International ing” to support of the forced was sponsored by Roosevelt, Gen­ ists have dominated the local CIO Field Organizer of the AFL Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters eral Marshall, Admiral King and council and many of the impor­ labor measure on the grounds and National Secretary of the Negro March on Washington Move­ their satellites. It provides that tant UAW locals. The reactionary that “ labor” was “ split” on the ment; and B. A. Gebiner, Assistant Geneval Secretary of the Work­ men between the ages of 18 and Stalinists howls are rising in pro­ issue, it was disclosed by the men’s Circle. George Novack, CRDC National Secretary, was the 45 who leave their jobs “without portion to the inroads being made New York daily PM, Jan. 31. cM riR an......... ........> by the Rank and File among The “ Big Three” Conference:STALINIST TREACHERY A t this mais meeting, all the 18 Trotskyists origirtaiUY- im­ workers in the Stalinist strong­ See Editorial prisoned, 6 of whom" were released last October, demonstrated the holds. The Stalinist treachery, accord­ front of solidarity they have maintained throughout their trial and The porkchoppers and payrol- ing to PM, “ was revealed by the ‘T im e fo r A ction’ shift, of several New York City imprisonment. Oscar Shoenfeld, Karl Kuchn and A1 Russel, released lees of the UAW International Secret Diplomacy In Action Page 6 last October from Danbury, Conn., prison, sat on the platform with Board, together with the Stalin­ Representatives who said they S i - had been visited over the week­ their newly-released comrades from the Sandstone, Minn., peniten­ ists, are spending huge sums of By Harry Martell money and engaging in every dir­ end by delegations representing tiary. A message of solidarity came from the other Minneapolis freedom from Want' permission” of their draft boards The three conspirators are meeting again. As before, secrecy Left-wing CIO locals and the ty trick. Typical of their meth­ shall be subject to a fine of $10,- prisoners, Grace Carlson, Jake Cooper, Oscar Coover, Harry DeBoer, —complete and impenetrable— shrouds the conference of Stalin, French children, women and Greater New York Industrial ods is one leaflet full of the vilest 000 or 5 years imprisonment or Vincent Dunne, Max Geldman, Clarence Hamel, Emil Hansen, Carlos Churchill and Roosevelt. Not a single word has been officially, men are so hungry that as the Union Council who urged them to lies against the hundreds of both. The same penalties are ap­ Hudson, Ed Palmquist and Carl Skoglund. N. Y. Times, Feb. 1, reports: approve the May-Bailey Bill now thousands of UAW militants who issued concerning the agenda’ of the conference or the plans of plied to workers who refuse to “A riot broke out recently in under debate.” “Left-wing” is oppose the no-strike policy. the participants. Even the correspondents of the prostituted accept jobs when they are com­ Cannon’s Statement a movie” in Nice, “when a PM’s customary misleading des­ An example of their slanders world press, whose reports are censored and re-censored by civil manded to do so by their draft In his statement read at the opening of the meeting, Comrade huge plate of caviar and cold ignation for the extreme right- is that the Rank and File wants and m ilitary authorities, are barred. The doors are securely boards. Under this law, workers salmon was shown on the wing Stalinist reactionaries. Cannon, founder of the American Trotskyist movement and SWP “to create a strike wave so that bolted. Against whom? Certain-^ can be shifted from one industry National Secretary, paid special tribute to Grace Carlson, sole woman fascism will not be defeated . thought. those orders wise and screen. Police had to be called PM reports further: “ ‘I was ly not against enemy intelli­ to restore order.” The author­ to another to work at lower among the defendants, who was separated from the rest of her subversive individuals . do not sensible.” nearly knocked off my feet,’ one gence — for everyone knows ities then banned another wages. They can be sent from comrades all alone at the women’s prison in Alderson, W. Ya. She want our boys to come back,” etc. On Ita ly : Congressman said. ‘I thought la­ Hollywood film “which shows their homes to other cities with This is said of the best union that the principal topics before “We have a joint arrangement bor was solidly' opposed to the is affectionately called “The Senator” since the time in 1910 when the conference w ill be political great roasts of beef, fowl and no provision made for moving fighters striving to maintain de­ with America about Italy.” bill and I had intended to vote their families or possessions. Bhe ran on the Minnesota SWP ticket for the U. S. Senate. not military, exactly as they were other food.” cent conditions for their brothers, The British Minister of Labor against it. With this division of They can be ordered to act as “ Our hearts ached for our Senator there all alone with such at Teheran, at Cairo, at Moscow, The French masses had been sons, husbands in the armed Bevin corroborated his boss at opinion, however, I intend to go strikebreakers under penalty of (Continued on page 3) at Quebec.