Build a Labor Party Noiv! WALL ST. WAR SCHEDULE AND THE H-BOMB (See Page 3) t h e PUBLISHED WEEKLYMILITANT IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE V ol. X V II - No. 35 NEW YORK, N. Y., MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 1953 PRICE: 10 CENTS French General Teachers Defend Civil Rights Strike Compels Laniel to Retreat For Victims of the Witch-hunt By William F. Warde - ® • The mighty wave of strikes which rolled over France for three weeks brought production, transport and the Success in the H-Bomb Race state administration to a standstill, and shook the capitalist You Can’t regime to its foundations, has $>■ Attack School Firings temporarily subsided. embraced nearly 4 million strik­ Last Friday, Aug. 21, after an ers. Hide from agreement with the Laniel gov­ Premier Laniel recognized, if For Exercising Rights ernment, the Socialist and Catho­ the labor leaders did not, that the lic-led unions called their mem­ issue of power was sharply posed The H-Bomb bers back to work. This disrupted by this massive collision of social . the unity of action which had been forces. A t firs t he was complete­ Washington continues to con­ Under Fifth Amendment achieved from below by the ranks ly adamant against the strikers. ceal the fact that there is no in the various unions, localities He counted upon the movement conceivable civilian defense from The American Federation of Teachers (AFL), repre­ and work-places. The Stalinist- disintegrating and petering out, the latest atomic horror weapon, leaving the authorities in a posi­ the H-Bomb. sentative of the country’s organized school teachers, raised controlled General Confederation a vigorous protest last week against the McCarthyite cam­ of Labor tried to keep the strike tion to wield the whip upon beat­ According to ■the Aug. 22 going. However, its call did not en and demoralized workers. weekly size-up by the Washing­ paign to strip citizens hounded by the witch hunters of meet with general response and This strategy was upset by the ton staff of the Scripps-Howard their constitutional rights. newspapers, “ Civil Defense au­ it had to issue a back-to-work workers themselves who, after A t their 36th annual convention starting the strikes, forged unity thorities are groping fo r a new order. in Peoria the delegates of the Thus the most potent and pro­ in the heat of combat and kept policy, now that Russia has the New York SWP teachers union condemned the mising strike movement of the deepening and extending their H-Bomb.” These authorities have been advising us “to stay put, French working class since 1936 movement. They dragged th.eir practice of dismissing teachers seek shelter in case of enemy was brought to an inconclusive leaderships along with them, put Completes Drive for no other reason than their attack. They’ve stressed danger end. This potentially revolutionary such heat upon them, and exhibit­ use of the F ifth Amendment to of congestion on roads and streets struggle was an open test of ed such staunch powers o f resist­ the Constitution to protect their if everyone tried to leave at To Get on Ballot strength between the capitalist ance that the government had to rights. College and school boards modify its attitude. once.” NEW YORK, Aug. 22 — The throughout the country have been rulers and the forces of labor on But “soon — though officials both the • economic and political New York Local of the Socialist doing this in deference to demands GRANT CONCESSIONS won’t say it yet — the advice arenas. Workers Party announced today of the witch hunters. Laniel promised not to revise is likely to be ’leave, if. you can,’ the completion of its petition The government provoked the Civil Defense is thinking along The F ifth Amendment provides the railwayinen's pension sys­ drive to put the party on the strikes by issuing decrees design­ city-evacuation lines.” that no one “ shall be compelled ed to ease the problems of its tems; to review wage scales of ballot for the forthcoming munici­ to be a witness against himself.” budget at the expense of the ■the lowest paid workers in indus­ A LITTLE HITCH pal election. This article was added to the try; to pay year-end bonuses to poorest-paid workers. The postal There’s one little hitch in the Designated “ Operation Signa­ Constitution as part of the orig­ postal workers; to pay Workers’ workers, who are directly affect­ “ evacuation” idea, even apart ture,” the campaign was begun inal Bill of Rights after many wages in’ many cases for most of ed by the cuts, spontaneously re­ from the fact that a city like and completed in 'the record time bitter experiences of the English- the strikes’ duration; and to lim it belled and touched off the pro­ New York, say, would suffer a of* five days. This was made pos­ speaking people w ith frameups test actions. These continued to punishment to strikers who had total traffic jam five minutes sible by both, the enthusiastic in star-chamber court proceedings, spread from one category of work­ engaged in sabotage or other, seri- after an evacuation order is campaign spirit of the New York it has long been an elementary ers to another until at times they (Contihucd on page 2) given. The “ big unsolved problem” Local and the generally sympa­ safeguard of individual legal is “ how to get advance warning, thetic response of the workers rights. approached. in time to get folk» away.” Congressional inquisitors have The war-makers had been try ­ Party members and friends A Sign of the General Strike who circulated the petitions on been working overtime to break ing to reassure uS that atomic down this protection. By hurling war is “not so bad.” They put out the streets of New York agree that the witch-hunt fear that was loaded questions at witnesses they propaganda blurbs about A-Bomb seek to entrap them into damag­ shelters and hiding under tables noticeable several years ago has receded. Workers who were some­ ing admissions against themselves and what not. or force them to become inform­ All they can offer for riro'ec- what reluctant to sign in the last campaign did not hesitaite this ers against others. When a w it­ tion from the H-Bomb, which can ness avails himself of the Fifth disintegrate everything in an] time. How Rebels LOVELL URGES FULL AID This was true even on the few Amendment, th e McCarthyite area the size of the state of pack howls that he must have Rhode Island, is: “ Run fo r your occasions when signers were something to conceal and is vir-, lives!” — if you have enough harassed by professional red FOR GM FIRE VICTIMS baiters who urged them not to tually incriminated. advance warning, if you have a Took Over in put their names down. car to make a getaway, if the McCARRAN BILL DETROIT — Frank Lovell, Socialist Workers Party The New York Local of the streets and roads are not hope­ A t the recently concluded ses­ lessly jammed, if you don’t run Brandenburg candidate for mayor here, has called for community sup­ Socialist Workers Party is now port to the CIO United Automobile Workers demand for turning its attention to prepara­ sion of the Senate, McCarran into another H-Bomb or A-Bomb sneaked through a “talk-or-go- en route. In This Week Magazine for fu ll compensation to the thou-a>- tions for a spirited socialist elec­ to-jail” bill designed to tighten The belligerency of White House Aug. 23, Gaston Coblenz, whose sands of auto workers made job­ state and elsewhere have been tion campaign. the screws upon witnesses hauled occupants, the war provocations foreign correspondence on recent less by the $50,000,000 fire which shut down or drastically curtail­ before Congressional committees of generals and admirals, the German events has been reliable destroyed General Motors’ new ed fo r lack of transmissions. and nullify the protection offered bellicose threats of Wall Street and accurate, gives a detailed ultra-modern dual-purpose Detroit UAW President Walter Reuth- account of the East German by the F ifth Amendment. McCar- agents in Congress are no longer Transmission plant in Livonia. er has urged Governor Williams Half Way Mark workers’ uprising in Branden­ ran’s measure apparently prom­ to be tolerated. Their conduct is The catastrophe on Aug. 12 to call a special session of the burg. This is a medium-sized ises immunity, but this is a fraud. inviting a mass “ evacuation” to resulted from failure of the state legislature to provide sub­ factory town of 70,000 people 30 In reality it guts the Fifth eternity for tens of millions of profit-hungry corporation to pro­ stantial increases in the size Is Reached in Americans and the destruction miles from Berlin, which had a and duration of unemployment Amendment by confronting w it­ reputation as a left-wing strong­ vide adequate fire safeguards. The of modern civilization. benefits. lie pointed out that nesses wi(ji Ihe alternative of hold. It belongs to the district unemployed workers face fo r an turning stool-pigeon or going to The only defense against the estimates of 60,000 unemployed SWP Fund Drive which once sent Karl Liebknecht extended time the inadequate ja il for contempt or perjury. H-iBomb is to prevent war. Take as a result of the fire may be By Reba Aubrey to the Reichstag. benefits under Michigan's com­ thé war-making powers away pensation laws, which were w rit­ too low because of those affected Campaign Manager The resolution adopted by the The June 16 explosion was American Federation of Teach­ from the Wall Street politicians.