No "Secrets" In Atomic Bomb —See Page 7 THE MILITANT PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE W ORKING PEOPLE VOL. IX — No. 42 NEW YORK, N. Y., SATURDAY. OCTOBER 20. 1945 401 PRICE: FIVE CENTS MILITARISTS PLAN NEW WAR Greek Stalinists Stalinist Editor Possibility Of Peace Era Budenz Deserts Discounted By M arshall Slay Trotskyists To The Church Total Destruction of Mankind Threatened B y Paul G. Stevens By Art Preis By Frightful New Atomic-Powered Weapons Louis Budenz, anti-Marx­ News from Trotskyist sources in Greece indicates that ist and Jingo patriot whom By Joseph Hansen the Stalinist betrayal of the masses in the Civil War last the Stalinists welcomed into December was accompanied, and in some cases preceded, The Third World War is already in the blue­ their fold in 1935 and quickly by a horrible massacre of hundreds of members of the print stage. Even before the official termination elevated to top leadership, Greek section of the Fourth International. The Greek last week deserted the Com­ of the Second World War, Wall Street’s newly- Trotskyists had already lost many m ilitants in the struggle munist Party for the “faith fledged m ilitary caste has proJected the opening against the Metaxas dicta-® of my fathers, the Catholic torship before the war and phases of another bloodbath so frig h tfu l and de­ C hurch.” against the Fascist and Nazi SWP Protests s tru c tiv e it can mean His break and open declara­ the end of mankind, occupation during the war. French Arrest tion of warfare against com­ The program of The Greek munism as well as its Stalinist Lockheed Union This is the meaning of Trotskyists called for the elec­ Of Indo-Chinese counterfeit was made to the cap­ Gen. George C. M ar­ tion of democratically elected | NEW YORK, Oct. 13. — italist press on Thursday, Octo­ Aids Picketers shall’s Biennial Report committees in the factories and i James P. Cannon, National ber 11, while his name still ap­ on the land, the formation of Secretary of the Socialist peared as editor on the mast­ to the Secretary of War. workers’ militias and the carry- i Workers Party, today sent head of the Stalinist Dally In Movie Strike The General himself reveals ing out of a working class policy the following cable to Gen. Worker. B U LLE T IN what the Third World War wiU both before and after the rout Charles de Gaulle, President Accomplished in the dark of look like in its first few days. of the Nazis. They warned of the French Provisional the night, Budenz’ flight came HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 12. — Referring to atomic power, he against the reactionary aims of Government: as a stunning blow and an act Picketing continued today at the declares: “ This discovery of the Allied imperialists and the “Socialist Workers Party of base ingratitude to the party struck Warner Bros, and Uni­ American scientists can be man’s Greek capitalists and urged the strongly protests arrest of Dr. which six years ago raised him versal studios despite announce­ greatest benefit. And it can de­ masses to distrust them and to Tran Due Tao and delegation to its national committee be­ ment finally by the NLRB that stroy him. It is against the la t­ rely only on their own indepen­ of 42 representing 25,000 cause of his outstanding record striking AFL Painters Local 1421 ter possibility that this nation dent strength in the struggle for Indo-Chinese living in Paris. as a Trotskyist-baiter and slan­ had won the collective bargain­ must prepare or perish. their emancipation. We demand their immediate derer of the genuine revolution­ ing election held last May. Her­ “Atomic power will affect the bert Sorrell, strike leader, said, FEARED BY STALINISTS release. We demand they be ary communists. peaceful life of every individual given full opportunity to put “ Our picket lines w ill continue For thus seeking to arm the on earth. And it will at the the case of the Indo-Chinese DECADE OF “ SERVICE” until the strike is settled” and masses against the plots of the same time affect every instru­ people fighting against im ­ To his Stalinist associates the all strikers are returned to work bourgeoisie and its British spon­ ment and technique of destruc­ perialism to the French peo­ blow was all the more devastat­ without discrimination, contracts sors, the Greek Trotskyists tion. ple and the peoples of the ing because Budenz had served wih striking unions are renewed, aroused the fear and the hatred Rank And File Dock Strikers “But the atomic bomb is not whole world. Imprisonment the Communist Party so long and machiney established to set­ of the Stalinists who controlled alone among the scientific ad­ of the 42 will be interpreted and faithfully through a decade tle future Jurisdictional disputes. the ELAS and the EAM (Greek vances that make the possibil­ only as an attempt to pre­ of twists and turns in its process National Liberation Army and of degeneration into an open ities of the future so terrifying. vent understanding and co­ Demand Own Negotiating Body Special to THE M ILITANT The development of aircraft and Front. Never permitting the operation between the masses agency of U. S. imperialism dur­ masses to determine the policies ing the war. B U LLE T IN By Lois Saunders rockets and electronics has be­ in Indo-China and the people come equally incredible. In ord­ of the EAM and the ELAS, the of France. Let the people of After a stunned 24-hour si­ NEW YORK, Oct. 14.— Some 5,000 insurgent ra n k and LOS ANGELES, Oct. 11 — Stalinists held these organiza­ lence, the Stalinist National Police, who yesterday morning er to prevent any possible mis­ the world hear the voice of file members of the AFL International Longshoremen’s conception of the terrible po­ tions In a bureaucratic vise as Free Indo-China.” Committee rigged up a state­ IN THE NEWS arrested hundreds of unarmed organs of the ‘‘People’s Front.” ment in the October 12 Daily union at a meeting in Manhattan Center here this afl#r- pickets ; Ait, Warner Bros,. Burr tentialities of'the future, I asked In’ this'coalition the' Commun­ Worker '^toA "explain” ' Tiaft"' sd noofi^'Voted -to accept ■ MayorvSmk«siidia’.s proposal lo f a batik studio; retreated in' confu­ the'Uommafadihg General of the but members of all political ist Party bureaucrats yielded to choice a product of their school state-supervised election to determine whether their own sion today when at six a.m. Army Air Forces to prepare an working class groups opposed to Not Out Of Job Yet the policies of Greek capitalism had graduated into an avowed negotiating committee or that of ILA President Ryan w ill sharp the first contingent of a estimate of the capabilities of Stalinism. represented in the EAM by law­ enemy of Marxism and Joined negotiate the new contract. A return to work is contin­ Admiral Nimitz told a news mighty wave of thousands of other modem weapons. yers, politicians, old time labor The maJor blows of the OPLA the most virulent opponents of ent on employers’ acceptance of the proposal. Ryan and conference in Washington on Oc­ Lockheed workers drove up “ His report is confined to the skates, etc. were struck against our com­ communism and vigorous de­ tober 6 that the atom bomb will dramatically and with flags fly­ certainties but, as is obvious rades and against another left the employers are trying to forestall such an election by a The Trotskyist program of in­ fenders of capitalism. not mean the end of the Navy ing Joined the pickets. from the atomic bomb, the de­ wing organization of workers back-to-work movement. dependent working class action, W ith much beating of breasts, ©- “in your lifetime and mine." It F ifty carloads of AFL mach­ velopments of the war have been In a situation in which the known as the Archeo-Marxists. the Stalinist leaders, through Special to THE M ILITANT inists, led by their president so incredible that the wildest These murders took place in tional Union here officially noti­ is Just "another weapon which masses were in ferment, con­ their Chairman William Z. Fos­ fied all locals of the Interna­ Thomas E. McNett, and display­ imagination will not proJect us Salónica, where the ELAS was must be brought to the scene of stituted a definite danger to ter, complained that “ the pro­ By F. J. Lang tional Longshoremen’s Associa­ ing the banner of the Interna­ far from the target in estimat­ these “ People’s Front” machina­ in complete control. This city motion of a man with Budenz’ action to be used. I see no way tional Association of Machin­ ing the future.” was far from the actual front NEW YORK, Oct. 13.—An es­ tion that “seamen would give tions. In order to prevent the record was a most serious error. timated 35,000 longshoremen any assistance necessary to win to get them there except by ships ists and the American flag, pa­ Marshall then quotes from lines of the civil war. More than raded past the studio. Pickets Trotskyists from gaining leader­ Budenz came to our party after here remained off the Job today the beef.” until we can proJect them from General Arnold’s report on the ship of the masses, the Stalin­ 230 revolutionists were slain in a prolonged period of participa­ (Continued on Page 8) (Continued on Page 2) cold blood by the OPLA in Saló­ in the face of mounting pressure That seamen’s support was this continent to another.” ists organized a GPU-type of tion in the Muste - Trotskyite to get them back to work under forthcoming was demonstrated nica alone last December.