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Vol. 11 No. 1, 6 January 1947

Labor Action

A Paper in the Interests of Labor
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Emanuel Garrett
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Albert Gates Irving Howe Henry Judd

An Editorial

• How to Destroy the Stalinist Grip on the Labor Movement

53% Price Jump Proves Need for Wage Increases

French Deny Freedom to Indo-Chinese, by Abe Stein

[Delegation Presented Petition Initiating FEPC Legislation in Michigan] (photo)

Curran Hits Stalinist Domination of CMU, by N. Gaden

UAW Seeks 23-Cent-Hour Wage Boost

Asks Joint Seamen Action

GOP Admits It Will Not Push for FEPC in Congress

News and Views from the Labor Front

• Report on Calif. CIO Session, by William Barton
• Government to Junk Machine Tools So Bosses Can Sell at High Prices
• ABC Jim-Crow Hit by UAW

The Bosses Dictionary

• Prank (cartoon), by Carlo

One-Tenth of the Nation, by J.R. Johnson

KKK Vandals Bur House of California Vet

Vienna Faces Open Starvation

Tapping the Wall Street Wire, by Jack Ranger

• Mr. H and His $10,000

Labor Action Magazine Section

Hands Off Indo-China!

Blum and Thorez Support Suppression of Indo-China, by Irving Howe

• Stalinists Aid French Imperialist “Civilizing Mission” in Indo-China

Rival wings of GOP Prepare for Struggle to Control Party in 1948

Irish Nationalists Suffer Attack by De Valera Gov’t

Is Capitalism Worth Saving? by Ernest Erber

World Politics

Off Limits, by James M. Fenwick

• The Latest Housing Scandal
• The Incredible Truth
• Real Estate Cracks the Whip – Truman Jumps Through the Hoop
• Remember?

Editorials

• The Right to Portal-to-Portal Pay
• The CO’s and Amnesty for Nazis
• Help the Workers Defense League

International Socialist Notes

Bitter Starvation Hits Vienna as Occupying Forces Take Fat of the Land

We Say: “Transform the PAC into a Labor Party”, by J.R. Johnson

Story of the Ceylon General Strike, from Sama Samajist

The Passing of Mayor Kelly and the chicago Sun’s “New Era”, by Robert Ferguson

Budapest Masses Protest Hunger

A New Threat of Literary Censorship, by James T. Farrell

Hugo Urbahns – Farewell to a German Comrade, by S.

Truman “Intelligence Program” Creates Secret Spy Agency, by Mike Stevens

Stalinists Betray Mexican Trade Unions, by A. Ferrara

Program of the Workers Party

The Oil War in the Middle East, from The London Tribune

With the Workers Party

Youth Corner ..., by Julius Falk

• The Politics of the AYD

Sunday Forum in New York to Hear Howe

Stalinists Support French Imperialism

Press Manager’s Press Action, by Henry Judd

Readers of Labor Action Take the Floor

• Poor Farmer Robbed Same as Wage Labor, from O.T.
• Note on Jewish-Arab Position, from Ed Findley
• [Reply], by Albert Gates
• School Strike in Jersey City, from Philip Romano

How to Fight Stalinism in the AVC, by W. Fargo

• Statement and Resolution of the “Four Freedoms” Chapter 28

Sloan Statement Illustrates Economics-Politics Relation, by Walter Jason

What Auto Labor Faces in New Year

Is Anti-Labor Advertising Tax-Deductible

Quotas Set for $5,000 Labor Action Fund Drive

Rap Indifference of N.Y. Police in Tresca Case

Vol. 11 No. 2, 13 January 1947

Labor Action

A Paper in the Interests of Labor
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Emanuel Garrett
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Albert Gates Irving Howe Henry Judd

Are U.S. Munitions, Funds Being Used to Kill Indo-Chinese?

Truman and GOP Jockey on Anti-Labor Offensive, by Emanuel Garrett

“After All, Gentlemen, Who’s Against National Defense” (cartoon), by Bernard, from Seafarer’s Log

Curran Wins Support in CMU Ranks

Detroit WP Urges Labor Lead March for State FEPC Law, by Ben Hall

An Editorial Statement

• A Balance Sheet on Bilbo

Lift 30,000 Rents a Month

Goldman Is Chicago Mayoralty Candidate

News and Views from the Labor Front

• Government Board Aids company Scheme to Break Strike at Allis-Chalmers, by Ken Hillyer & Mike Holman
• De Mornay Budd Workers Strike Bronx, N.Y., Plant

One-Tenth of the Nation, by J.R. Johnson

Tapping the Wall Street Wire, by Jack Ranger

• A Close-Up of the Economy
• What It Adds Up To

Chicago Branch in Line for NI Sub Drive Prize

Labor Action Magazine Section

fst">New Methods and Old Goals in Imperialist Rule of the Far East, by C.T. Hollocher

• French Indo-China (map)

Why the CIO-Nathan Report Threw the NAM into a Panic, by Albert Gates

• Corporation Profits, 1936–1947 (diagram)

Who Else? from N.Y. Times

Opposition to CP in Chile Unions Increases, by A. Ferrara

The New Leader Doesn’t Tell the Truth About Blum and Indo-China Freedom, by I.H.

“Serving the Public” Means Boosting Railroad Profits, by Mike Stevens

Off Limits, by James M. Fenwick

• What the Veteran Is Thinking
• Veterans Are Not Homogeneous
• Editorials The Liberals and a Third Party The Cat’s Out Books You Should Know ...
• Heredity, Race and Society, by L.C. Dunn ∓ Th. Dobzhansky, reviewed by H.J.

Poland: “Poland ... Not Yet Ready for democracy”, by Andrzej Rudzienski

• Corroborative Testimony, by Sydney Gruson, from the New York Times

Two Years After the War and Allied Military Gov’t Still Runs Italy, by Jack Arthurson

Is Capitalism Worth Saving? – II, by Ernest Erber

Rapid Growth of Monopoly in the U.S., by Charles Stewart

A Letter of Correction, from George Addes, UAW

• [Reply], by Editors

Role of Factory Committees in France, by J.A.

Calif. Bosses Send Anti-Labor Sheet Free to Workers

Program of the Workers Party

A New Threat of Literary Censorship – II, by James T. Farrell

With the Workers Party

Youth Corner ..., by Julius Falk

• SYL Seeks Publication Fund
• Asks Contributions
• Chicago Leads Recruiting

Commission Will Push Conscription

Gas Workers End Strike in Newark

Press Manager’s Press Action, by Henry Judd

New Year’s Affair in Philadelphia a Great Success

Readers of Labor Action Take the Floor ...

• “Until All Have Regained Freedom”, from Albon Man
• Hits Beck Action in Denver, from Albert Benson
• [Response], by Ed.
• Profit System and the Negro, from Dr. Charles Calvin

Chicago WP Opens Goldman-for-Mayor Campaign

• Albert Goldman: Prominent Fighter in Socialist Cause
• CIO Council Names 3 Labor Candidates

Plan Anti-Labor Legislation

Contributions Mount Towards $5,000 Fund

Truman: Strikebreaker

“Socialist” Minister Directs Tanks Against Indo-Chinese

Vol. 11 No. 3, 20 January 1947

Labor Action

A Paper in the Interests of Labor
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Emanuel Garrett
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Albert Gates Irving Howe Henry Judd

CIO Joins Fight of Miners Against Rule by Injunction

Truman Budget Stresses Military, Skimps Housing

Goldman Opens Mayoralty Drive at Budget Hearing

NY Workers Party Will Picket French Consulate

Curran Appeals to NMU Ranks Against Stalinists, by N. Gaden

Help Europe’s Starving Socialists!

Indo-Chinese Suffer New French Blows

News and Views from the Labor Front

• Kearny Ship Workers Protest Layoffs, by Philip Romano
• For FEPC March on Lansing, by Ben Hall

One-Tenth of the Nation, by J.R. Johnson

Shachtman Speaks for Cleveland WP on February 2

Carlo Tresca Commemorated

Tapping the Wall Street Wire, by Jack Ranger

• Even the Servants Go on Strike
• An “Energizer” to Prod the Poor

Labor Action Magazine Section

Trend to Militarization Seen in Marshall Choice

Truman Reports on Labor, Budget and Taxes Before 80th Congress

• The Budget, by Albert Gates
• Tax Issue, by I.L. Goslin

Zionist Congress Fails to Meet Major Jewish Issues, by William Gorman

What the Big Powers Plan for Spain, by A. Ferrara

Los Angeles SWP Members Join the Workers Party, from S. Sylvester & B. Burton

World Politics

• Poland – The Agony of a Nation, by Irving Howe Off Limits, by James M. Fenwick
• Taking Off, Mr. Bolte?
• Up from Dartmouth
• Walking on Eggs

Editorials

• Is U.S. Labor “Too Powerful”?
• Industry-Wide Negotiations Indispensable to Unions
• Which Kind of Senator More Dangerous to Labor?

International Socialist Notes, from Verité

Critical Opposition Rises in the Communist Party, by Carl Davis

• From a Former Member of Frisco Communist Party, from O.W.

The Wave of Anti-Clericalism Grows in Italy, by Tom Tanakos

Stalinism: World-Wide Menace to Labor, by Stanley Grey

“Government by Injunction” – A Strike-Breaking Tradition, by Julie Falk

American Way of Life Is Menaced – Rally to Save the Dining Room

Opium: A Device of Imperialist Policy, by Arthur Stein

Program of the Workers Party

French Government Started the War Against Indo-China

With the Workers Party

January NI Discusses Coal Strike; Polish Anti-Semitism, by Eleanor Mason

NI Sub Drive Ends, Circulation Jumps

Nicola (obituary)

United Nations Discussed at Philly Forum

New York Sunday Forum Discusses “Can Intellectuals Escape Politics?”

Detroit SWP Wins Fight to Retain Its Headquarters

Readers of Labor Action Take the Floor ...

• Some Points on Nathan Report, from A.W.
• Commends Printing of Evans Letter, from M. Hall
• Asks Why No Unity Between WP-SWP? from N.L.S.
• [Reply], by Ed.

Press Manager’s Press Action, by Henry Judd

All the News Fit to Print Doesn’t Include Amnesty

Starving Workers Seize Warehouses; Strikes, Demonstrations Sweep Italy, by Jack Arthurson

Chicago WP Announces Its Platform

Stalin: “Let’s Drink to Head of My Gestapo!”

Fire Ravages Farrell Home

Workers from Nearby Bronx Shops Join Mass Picket Line at De Mornay Budd

Newark First Branch to Meet Fund Quota, by Nathan Gould

The Name’s Gottwald and Not Goering!

Rosenfeld: New Trends in U.S. Literature

Book Service Lists Marxist Classics

Vol. 11 No. 4, 27 January 1947

Labor Action

A Paper in the Interests of Labor
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Emanuel Garrett
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Albert Gates Irving Howe Henry Judd

Shachtman Tour for WP Starts on January 30!

Rent Ceilings Menaced by New ‘Control’ Plan

Pennies, Splinters Won’t Build Houses, by Susan Green

Save the Starving European Socialists!

Goldman Flays Chicago Record; Presents WP School Program

• Campaign Rally in Chicago Set for February 16

Viet Namese Join Protest Before French Consulate

News and Views from the Labor Front

• Teamsters Win Wage Boost, by Tod Wilkinson
• AFL Seamen Support CIO Shipyard Workers
• Labor Solidarity Nets 15 Cents an Hour Increase for De Mornay Budd Workers

Question Bell Telephone Rate Bid – But Who’ll Investigate? by Philip Romano

Tapping the Wall Street Wire, by Jack Ranger

• How Are the Farmers Doing?
• Notes on Business
• Economic Trends
• The National Debt
• A Milestone to Decay

Branches Push to Meet Fund Quota by Deadline

Labor Action Magazine Section

Congress and Big Business Unite to Block Portal to Portal Pay, by I.L. Goslin

Jim Crow Georgia Offers a Lesson in “Democracy”, by Emanuel Garrett

NMU Struggle Goes to Ranks; Curran Meets Stalinist Attack, by Albert Gates

Are you for Democracy in Indo-China, Liston Oak? by Irving Howe

You Paid So They Could Get Rich

Fortune Poll Shows Labor Party Sentiment

Italian Socialist Party Split Creates New Political Split, by Saul Berg

Off Limits, by James M. Fenwick

• The Marshall Appointment
• Cold Comfort for the Kremlin
• But Who Is He?

Editorials

• New Peace Treaties Mangle Europe

World Politics

• Paris, Saigon, Prague, by I.H.

Hollywood Depicts an Aspect of Social Morality, by James T. Farrell

A Stalinist Apologist on Polish Elections, by Ralph Ingersoll, from PM

Is Capitalism Worth Saving? – III, by Ernest Erber

Marshall Report and Chinese Civil War, by Henry Judd

Record of the Blum Cabinet: A Stopgap for Capitalism

Germany Today: Rags, Lice and Hunger, by Jack Arthurson

Program of the Workers Party

“I Was in a Stalinist Prison Camp ...”

With the Workers Party

Bureaucratism and Political Weakness, by SWP Minority

First State Conference of Ohio WP, by G. McDermott

Press Manager’s Press Action, by Henry Judd

Readers of Labor Action Take the Floor ...

• A Rave Note on Ranger Column, from Frank Harper
• Once Again, the Palestine issue, from Irving Berg
• [Reply], by Albert Gates Lenin, Liebknecht, Luxemburg: Three Titans of the Socialist Revolution, by Abe Stein
• [Lenin and Luxemburg] (with photos of Lenin & Luxemburg)
• One of Lenin’s Greatest Achievements Is His Still Valid Study of Imperialism, by Abe Victor
• Karl Liebknecht (photo)
• Modern Militarism Which “Arms the People Against Itself ...”, by Susan Green

Vol. 11 No. 5, 3 February 1947

Labor Action

A Paper in the Interests of Labor
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Emanuel Garrett
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Albert Gates Irving Howe Henry Judd

WP Runs Draper for Councilman in Los Angeles

‘Control’ Head Devises Rent-Lifting Scheme, by Susan Green

UAW Wins Close Vote at A-C, by Ken Hillyer

Demand Indo-China Freedom (photos)

• Viet Namese, WP and SWP Picket French Consulate

Reuther Takes Union Situation to Ranks, by Walter Jason

Eleven Die in Chicago Fires, by M. Slater

Portal Claims Face All-Sided Attack

News and Views from the Labor Front

• Doubts UMW Will Win Ford Railmen, by Don Shannon
• Textile and Other Industries Paralyzed as Strikes Lash Franco Regime in Spain

Tapping the Wall Street Wire, by Jack Ranger

• Farms Get Bigger
• Surpluses to Be Dumped
• The Recent Meat Black Market

$5,000 Fund Drive Falters as It Enters Final Week

Labor Action Magazine Section

The Peacemakers (cartoon), by Carlo

An On-the-Spot Account from Inside Indo-China, by Arthur Stein

Miners of Bolivian Plateau Choose Eight Trotskyists as Their Deputies, by Luis H. Velasco

Colonial Rebellions Sweep Asia to Drive out New Imperialism, by Henry Judd

Injunction a Traditional Means to Break strikes, by Julius Falk

World Politics

• A Letter from a Reader on Poland, from Bess S.
• A Reply, by Irving Howe

Nicaragua: U.S. Imperialism Runs a Banana Republic, by A. Ferrara

Editorials

• Indo-China and the Stalinists
• And Bill Green Fears Socialism

International Socialist Notes

A Note on Australia, by S. Berg

Stalinism’s Dirty Record on the Jewish Question, by Albert Findley

• An Editorial Note
• From the Stalinist Press (2 anti-semitic cartoons)

Jim Crow in Los Angeles – I, [_by Hal Draper_]

• Foreword

Trinidad Workers Strike Oil Companies

With the Workers Party

In Peace as in War – They Are the Victims of Capitalism, by A British Soldier

Youth Corner ..., by Julie Falk

• Education in America
• Some Facts on Education
• Challenge of Youth Volumes in Hand

[Notice], from Labor Action European Relief Service

SP Clique in Labor Party Committee Bureaucratically Ousts Seattle WPers

Press Manager’s Press Action, by Henry Judd

UAW Vets Meet in Washington

End the Fire Massacres Demands Chicago WP

In 12 Years Private Capital Cleared Only 6 of Chicago’s 15,000 Slum Acres, by Tod Wilkinson

Shachtman Coast-to-Coast Tour Starts in Buffalo

Brad Analyzes Government Role in Mine Situation

A Full Report on the Recent Split in the Italian Socialist Party, by Jack Arthurson

Vol. 11 No. 6, 10 February 1947

Labor Action

A Paper in the Interests of Labor
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Emanuel Garrett
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Albert Gates Irving Howe Henry Judd

Save the Rent Ceilings! by Susan Green

• What You Can Do on Rents

British Plan Terror Rule in Palestine, by Al Findley

Goldman Hits Taxi Profits at Hearing

File Petitions for Draper in Los Angeles Campaign

Urges Philadelphia AFL and CIO to Start Own Daily Labor Paper, from Philadelphia WP

• Bulletin

Teachers Face Pay Fight, by A Teacher

News and Views from the Labor Front

• Aftermath of Frisco General Strike

Tapping then Wall Street Wire, by Jack Ranger

• Those Portal Pay Suits
• Business Notes

Tenant Protests Halt Evictions in City Projects

Court Upholds Jim Crow “Covenant” in Michigan

Negro Symposium in Phila. Forum

UAW Internal Situation Is Aggravated by Quarrel over Allis-Chalmers Strike, by Ken Hillyer

Labor Action Magazine Section

New Rash of Anti-Labor Bills Breaks Out in 80th Congress

How Washington Scuttled Veterans Housing Program, by Analitikos

Striking Paris Printers Help Trotskyist Paper

The Role of Women in U.S. Industry, by Susan Green

Colonial Imperialism Remains Despite Political Concessions, by Henry Judd

Important Correction on SWP Article

Trotskyist Leaders in Indo-China are Victims of GPU!

International Socialist Notes

Religion: A Former Marxist Runs for Cover, by Irving Howe

Editorials

• Labor Unity and Joint Action
• Twisting the Knife Again
• Where else Can You Read It?

Books You Should Know

• Marxism in the United States, by Leon Trotsky, reviewed by H.J.

“Socialism” in Great Britain, by Stanley Grey

Books Received

Auriol Is Darling of Jesuits and Stalinists

UAW Vet Conference Works Out Good Program but Restricts Its Actions to Mere Lobbying, by H.B. Masters

Hollywood Rewrites Spanish Inquisition

The Polish Independent Socialists, by A. Rudzienski

Program of the Workers Party

Carlo Tresca: The Life of a Rebel, by Emanuel Garrett

French Rule in Indo-China Has Brought Only Exploitation and Illiteracy, by R. Valensi

The Story of Jim Crow in Los Angeles – II, [_by Hal Draper_]

N.Y. Labor Action School Opens New Series of Classes

With the Workers Party

New York WP Demands Indo-China Independence

The ‘Workers’ Fatherland’ – Where Life is Much Better, by Drew Middleton, from New York Times

Shachtman’s Coast-to-Coast Tour Hits Middle West Cities

Press Manager’s Press Action, by Henry Judd

Readers of Labor Action Take the Floor ...

• On the Wages of the Miners, from J.M.F.
• A Letter from a Missouri Cropper, from John Jones
• Vancouver No Beauty Spot to Its Workers, from Charlie
• In the Factory on New Year’s Eve, from Robert Sherman

Chicago Experts Report Medical and Sanitary Substandard Conditions Under Old Party Rule, by M. Slater

• Points Made by Albert Goldman in His Talk Over Station WJJD, Sunday, Feb. 2nd, at 1:45

Newark Landlords Evict 24 Tenants from Homes, by Philip Romano

Labor Conditions in Portugal

California AVC Convention Faces Bitter Fight Against Stalinism, by William Barton

Correction

Vol. 11 No. 7, 17 February 1947

Labor Action

A Paper in the Interests of Labor
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Emanuel Garrett
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Albert Gates Irving Howe Henry Judd

Will There Be Labor Unity? by David Coolidge

Albert Gates Takes Shachtman’s Place on National Tour

Protests Hit Banker Plan to Boost Fare

Draper Place on Ballot Seen Certain

CMU Junked by Stalinists in Maritime

Landlords Set for Big Kill Under ‘Hardship’ Loophole

• Tenants Organize in New york to Keep Lid on Rent Ceilings, by Dorothy Holder
• What You Can Do on Rents

Urge Labor Paper to Replace Record, by F. Harper

News and Views from the Labor Front

• Corn Grows High at Seattle Conference, by Vincent S. Wheelon
• Reuther Goes to UAW Ranks in Buffalo on Internal Fight, by Don Murrain
• Bliss Labor aids Moss Strike, by Jack Meade
• Will Celebrate 27 Years of Mutual Aid

Tapping the Wall Street Wire, by Jack Ranger

• We Could Do It Better
• Why the Oil Pipelines Rust
• Profits Keep Rising

New Jersey Windbag Race-Haters Organize New Totalitarian Group

Labor Action Magazine Section

The Militaristic Overtones of Marshall’s Foreign Policy, by Henry Judd

U.S. Makes New Bid to Win Dictator Peron’s Support, by Anthony Ferrara

Georgia’s “White Primary Bill” – a Step in the Tradition of Hitler, by Alan Charles

How the Truman Administration Scuttled Veterans Housing, by Analitikos

World Politics

• The Elections in Poland, by Irving Howe

Japan: How MacArthur Broke Labor’s General Strike, by Jack Brad

Editorials

• The Eisler Case and the Role of the GPU

International Socialist Notes

Books You Should Know ...

• All Thy Conquests, by Alfred Hays, reviewed by N. Johnson

Italy Staggers Under “Peace Treaty” by Jack Arthurson

A Review of the Film Sister Kenny, by Susan Green

Chicago Readers

Hunger, Cold, Illness Drive German Workers to Desperate Demonstrations, by Jack Arthurson

Program of the Workers Party

Note to Readers

A Record of the Unity Negotiations Between the WP and the SWP, by Oscar Williams

We Mourn Jim Larkin, Irish Revolutionist, by Ray O’Neil

The Story of Jim Crow in Los Angeles – III, [_by Hal Draper_]

Toilet Kits for Dogs – While People Starve

With the Workers Party

Ceylon 4th Internationalists Nominate Thirty Candidates

Labor Action Fund Drive Ends Short of Its Goal

Cleveland Tour Meeting Draws Record Attendance

Education Opportunities Limp in Shadow of Liberty Bell, by F. Harper

Press Manager’s Press Action, by Henry Judd

Veterans of Revolutionary Movement Join Cleveland Workers Party Branch

Discuss Socialist Policy for Germany at Philadelphia Forum Series Lecture

Expensive Ballyhoo About Price Drop Can’t Be Used to Buy Clothing or Food, by Susan Green

... Until you Hear Some Facts of Life

Hit Jim Crow in Seattle Skating Rink

Some of His Best Friends Are Hungry

WP and Chicago’s Election Campaign, by Albert Goldman

Vol. 11 No. 8, 24 February 1947

Labor Action

A Paper in the Interests of Labor
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Emanuel Garrett
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Albert Gates Irving Howe Henry Judd

Seek to Stab Rent Control by Fund Cut

• Dewey Bars Rent Group from Capital

AFL, CIO Tell Congress Keep Hands Off Labor!

Another Lynch Victim!

Paris Printers Fight Paris Scab Attack

Brophy Backs Reuther in UAW Tilt with Thomas, by Walter Jason

Draper Challenges Opponents to Debate

Chi. Campaign Meeting Stresses Socialist Policy, by Tod Wilkinson

UAW Progressive Candidate Beaten by Thugs

News and Views from the Labor Front

• Phila. Labor Can Publish Its Own Paper, by Jack Brad
• UE Local Urges Philadelphia Labor Paper
• “Hand in Glove” (cartoon), by Seaman
• Mass Picketing Aids Cleveland IAM Strikers

One-Tenth of the Nation, by J.R. Johnson

Reactionary Election Laws Force Write-In Campaign for Goldman, by Robert Ferguson

Tapping the Wall Street Wire, by Jack Ranger

• Business Failures Coming

Labor Action Magazine Section

Churches Drive to Smuggle Religion into School System

• Jim Farley Spills the Beans

Teachers Struggle Points to Crisis in Education, by A Teacher

• Some Facts on Education

In Mississippi: 57forWhiteStudentsbut57 for White Students but 57forWhiteStudentsbut7 for Negroes, by Julius Falk

Two New Atomic Bombs Could Make Manhattan a Ghost Town! by George Tobin

What Is “Progressive Education?” by Oscar Williams

It’s Moving Day in St. Clairsville!

Japanese Labor Movement Tastes MacArthur ‘Democracy’, by Jack Brad

Off Limits, by James M. Fenwick

• The Wrangle Over China (Part I)
• What the U.S. Wants
• The Chinese Stalinist Armies
• Policy Following the War

Editorials

• Schuschnigg Comes to America
• What Can the Germans Read?
• We Start a New Subs Drive

International Socialist Notes

Books You Should Know ...

• The Fate of Writing in America, by James T. Farrell, reviewed by Arthur Stein

Indo-China: Inside Story of French Imperialism’s Suppression of Colonial Freedom Told by a French Socialist

• A Test Case for Freedom

The Role of the Vatican in Indo-China, by Jack Arthurson

Program of the Workers Party

The South American Stalinists Sell Out for “a Plate of Lentils”, by Luis H. Velasco

The Story of Jim Crow in Los Angeles – IV, [_by Hal Draper_]

With the Workers Party

New International Surveys Critical Situation in Spain, by Eleanor Mason

“Socialism a Practical Necessity” – Shachtman at Meeting in Detroit

Chicago WP Backs Lewis in 3rd Ward

Press Manager’s Press Action, by Henry Judd

Note to Readers

Readers of Labor Action Take the Floor ...

• A Question About On-the-Job Training, from L.J.
• [Reply], by James Fenwick
• Disputes Stein’s Review of Farrell’s Stories, from J. Lovejoy
• [Reply], by Arthur Stein
• Two Suns for an Excellent Paper, from D.L.
• Revolutionary Politics and Jewish Question, from Jack Brad

“Anti-Red” Drive a Smokescreen – Philly Speaker

British Labor Government Wracked by Coal Crisis, by Henry Judd

Gerhart Eisler: A Key Figure in GPU Gang, by Albert Gates

Why We Need a Labor Party

Company Doctors Report Accidents as ‘Heart Failure’

What Are the Issues in Dispute Over Lilienthal? by Susan Green

Vol. 11 No. 9, 3 March 1947

Labor Action

A Paper in the Interests of Labor
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Emanuel Garrett
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Albert Gates Irving Howe Henry Judd

Tennessee Labor Defends Unions in State March, by Charles Kent

Senators Plan Scheme to Knife Rent Control!

Labor, Students Support Buffalo Teachers Strike

Rising Prices Show Neeed of Pay Boost

N.Y. Court Upholds Jim Crow ‘Covenant’

The Rich Get Another Windfall, by Susan Green

Presents WP Housing Plan

News and Views from the Labor Front

• Michigan “Red Scare” Aimed at Labor
• Admiral Moreell Rewarded for Services to Big Business

Tapping the Wall Street Wire, by Jack Ranger

• U.S. Imperialism Reverses Tariff Policy

The Housing Problem Can Be Solved, by Albert Goldman

Phila. Needs a Labor Paper, by F. Harper

Labor Action Magazine Section

Ten Years Ago GM Workers Held the First Sit-Down Strike! by Mike Stevens

“Honeymouth Ellis” Arnall, Liberal Dixie Demagoguey, by Jack Ranger

Stalin’s Russia Starves the People of Rumania

Joe Snafu Applauds Col. Kilian’s Promotion

When Officer Loots, He Calls It “Legitimate”, by Gerald McDermott

World Politics

• Britain – An Epoch Ends, by Irving Howe

Off Limits, by James M. Fenwick

• The Wrangle over China (Part II)

Editorials

• Teachers and Trade Unions
• “White Primary” in Georgia

Books You Should Know ...

• Black Boy, by Richard Wright, reviewed by N. Johnstone

Two Specialists on Free Speech Split an Ethical Hair, from New York Times

Great Britain

• Its Dying Capitalist Economy Staggers Under the Impact of the American Dollar, by Henry Judd
• Nationalization Is Necessary but Not Enough for Socialism, by Stanley Grey
• A Contrast: Lenin’s Method and Attlee’s, by J.R. Johnson
• British Unions Attack Stafford Cripps for Opposing Labor Control of Industry, by Jack Arthurson

Who Heads the Stalinist Quisling Government in Poland? by A. Rudzienski

• Polish Stalinists Aid Church Clause

The Story of Jim Crow in Los Angeles – V, by Hal Draper

With the Workers Party

Leaders Convert Rent March into Democratic Party Rally

Sub Drive Begins in March; Branches Accept Quotas Set

Food Canners Discuss Profits, by George Underwood

Press Manager’s Press Action, by Henry Judd

American Policy in Japan Discussed at Sunday Philadelphia Forum Series

Vote to Chase Jim Crow Out of Los Angeles!

• Election Platform
• Draper Led Fight Against Gerald Smith
• Hal Draper (photo)
• Vote April 1
• Housing Needs Ignored; W.P. Presents Program

Vol. 11 No. 10, 10 March 1947

Labor Action

A Paper in the Interests of Labor
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Emanuel Garrett
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Albert Gates Irving Howe Henry Judd

Teachers face Problem of Strike Action, by A Teacher

Tenants Must Act Now to Save Rent Control! by Susan Green

• Call March for Housing Rent Control

Trotsky Murder Plotted in N.Y. by GPU – Budenz

Faction Fight Intensified in UAW Local Elections, by Walter Jason

U.S. to Pay British Troops in Greece

Draper Lashes Jim Crow Ghettos in Los Angeles

2,000 New Labor Action Subs by March 30!

News and Views from the Labor Front

• Sees “Operation Dixie” Succeeding in Textile, by Charles Kent
• Cleveland Banks, Landlords thrive on “Circles of Rot”, by Gerald McDermott
• Wants to Outlaw Teachers’ Strikes (cartoon)
• Ohio Vets Seek State Bonus

Tapping the Wall Street Wire, by Jack Ranger

• The Portal Pay Pipe Dream
• “The Great Housing Boom of 1947”

Labor Action Magazine Section

The ‘Devil’s Odyssey’ of a Ship That Couldn’t Find a Port ..., by Jack Arthurson

Does Britain’s New Offer Mean India Will Be Freed, by Henry Judd

Labor’s Effort Was Decisive in Winning Free Education

Fairytales Verboten

A French Socialist Asks Help for Europe’s Hungry People! from R.D.

Harold Laski in Stalin’s Service, by Irving Howe

• Professor H. Laski Offers Definition of Democracy, by Harold Laski, in The Nation

World Politics

• Pacific, Atlantic – A Big Deal

Off Limits, by James M. Fenwick

• The Wrangle over China (Part 3)

Editorials

• On Truman and Bevin Again
• A Trifle of 5 Billion Dollars

International Socialist Notes

• French Trotskyists win Damages from Stalinists
• Viet Namese Contribute to La Verité Support

Books You Should Know ...

• When Boyhood Dreams Come True, by James T. Farrell, reviewed by N. Johnstone

Well Informed Source, Close to God, Issues Statement, from New York Times

• The Fruition

Closed Shop

• Senators and Industrialists Start Drive Against a Basic Right of American Labor, by Susan Green
• Two Conceptions of Democracy Are Tested in Closed Shop Fight, by Ernest Erber

“It’s Just More Work and the Same Conditions”, by Johnny Jones Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen

World Stalinist Leaders Plan Campaign in Colonies

Who Heads the Stalinist Quisling Government in Poland? by A. Rudzienski

Stalinist Dominate California AVC Convention

Program of the Workers Party

Workers Control of Industry Is Essential Part of Socialism, by Stanley Grey

With the Workers Party

Indo-Chinese Leader Seeks Deal with French Cabinet, by Arthur Stein

Youth Corner ...

• Fewer Jobs for Youth, by Julius Falk

Likes Ranger’s Wall Street Column, from W.H.

Press Manager’s Press Action, by Henry Judd

Readers of Labor Action Take the Floor ...

• Anti-Semitism and Polish Underground, from Jay Stone
• [Response, _by Editors_]
• Hits Militant Line on Palestine, from Irving Berg
• Bug-House System of Private Profit, from D. Charles Calvin

The San Francisco Workers Party Branch Presents Its Program for California Housing, by Gordon Haskell

Draper Hits Jim Crowism in Chamber of Commerce, by Hal Draper

• Contacts Aid WP Campaign in Los Angeles
• Election Rally

Hoover Report Proposes Soup Kitchen Economy for Germany, by Henry Judd

Vol. 11 No. 11, 17 March 1947

Labor Action

A Paper in the Interests of Labor
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Emanuel Garrett
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Albert Gates Irving Howe Henry Judd

Budenz Reveals GPU Plotted Trotsky Murder in New York, by Irving Howe

Government by Injunction, by Emanuel Garrett

Who Runs the Supreme Court? by David Coolidge

• [John L. Lewis] (cartoon), by Carlo

One Cent More for Bread ...

Slate Backed by Reuther Wins UAW Chrysler Local Election, by Walter Jason

Seek “Compromise” Formula to Boost Rents, by Susan Green

News and Views from the Labor Front

• Sharp Contest in Ford Local Election, by Don Shannon
• Clothing Prices Up 84 Per Cent
• Municipalities Will Have to Be Next Target of N.Y. Teachers, by A Teacher
• Pacific Seamen Win Wage Boost; Faction Struggle Flares in NMU
• ILWU Organizes Actions to Keep Ceilings on Rents

Gates Stresses Need for a Labor Party at Seattle Lecture

Labor Action Magazine Section

[Merry-Go-Round] (cartoon), by Carlo

Big Four Moscow Meeting Disputes Fate of Germany, by Henry Judd

• Joseph Stalin (cartoon), by Carlo

American Dollars to Buttress Shaky British Bayonets in Greek Crisis, by Arthur Stein

GPU Terror Cast the Deciding Vote in Polish Election, by A. Rudzienski

International Socialist Notes

• 10,000 at Mass Rally of Ceylonese, from Robert Gunawardena

Off Limits, by James M. Fenwick

• The Wrangle over China (Part IV)

Editorials

• What Is the Supreme Court?
• Are Government Workers Chattels

Books You Should Know ...

• The Great Prisoners, ed. by Isidore Abramowitz, reviewed by Justin Graham
• Blood in the Streets, by Albert C. Hicks, reviewed by J. Falk

The Murder Machine That Drove a Pick-Axe into Trotsky’s Brain Directs Its Terror Against All Sections of the Socialist Movement, by Emanuel Garrett

• Labor Action Demands That Budenz Reveal Facts on the GPU Assassins

Program of the Workers Party

Nationalization of Industry in England, by Stanley Grey

With the Workers Party

Press Manager’s Press Action, by Henry Judd

Readers of Labor Action Take the Floor ...

• Hits SWP Attitude Toward the GPU, from Jack Weber

Election Rally

British Imperialism Resorts to Martial Law to Prevent Jewish Immigration into Palestine, by A.P. Findley

Draper, WP Candidate, Calls for Workers Control of Los Angeles Transit Lines

N.Y. Union Group to Fight Stalinists, by Jack Porter

Labor Action Suspends Its Own Relief Service to Work with ACEWR

Vol. 11 No. 12, 24 March 1947

Labor Action

A Paper in the Interests of Labor
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Emanuel Garrett
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Albert Gates Irving Howe Henry Judd

WP, SWP Open Negotiations on Uniting Parties

• Text of WP and SWP Statement on Unification

Truman Speech Is Step to New World War

Big 4 Conference Bares Imperialist Rivalry of Powers

War Strategy Behind U.S. Greek Loan, by Arthur Stein

Seek Grand Jury Investigation of GPU

• Daily Worker Remains Silent

News and Views from the Labor Front

• Results of UAW Elections in Chicago, by Mike Holman & Ken Hillyer
• A Workers Dictionary, compiled by Jack Ranger
• Chicago Aldermanic Campaign Raises Labor Party Question, by Robert Ferguson
• AFL, CIO Sea Unions Confer
• Jim Crow Veneer Ripped Off in Philadelphia Lucasta Snub
• Detroit Tenants Work with CIO to Plan Action Against Rent Boosts, Evictions

Tapping the Wall Street Wire, by Jack Ranger

• Who Buys Surplus Goods?
• Higher Prices, Profits

Labor Action Magazine Section

A Climax in U.S. Foreign Policy, by Irving Howe

• War-Capitalism (cartoon), by Carlo
• [Roosevelt] (cartoon), by Carlo
• [Truman] (cartoon), by Carlo

A Stirring Book from Hitler’s Buchenwald, by Henry Judd

World Politics

Off Limits, by James M. Fenwick

• The Wrangle over China (Part V)

Editorials

• Against Outlawing the CP!
• Arab-Jewish Labor Unity

International Socialist Notes

• Revolt in French SP on Indo-China Policy, by S. Berg

Books You Should Know ...

• The Financier, by Theodore Dreiser, reviewed by N. Johnstone

No Comment

The Closed Shop Is a Step Towards Real Workers’ Democracy, by Ernest Erber

Karl Marx – Socialist Titan (print)

His Name Will Live Through the Ages, by Frederick Engels

Program of the Workers Party

Ruth Fischer Comments on the Eisler Case, by Ruth Fischer

An Exchange on the Socialist Attitude to the Bilbo Problem

• A Letter, from Albert Goldman
• A Reply for the Editors, by J.R. Johnson

What Is “Workers Control of Industry?” by Stanley Grey

With The Workers Party

Youth Corner ...

• On the Austin-Mahoney Bill

Press Manager’s Press Action, by Henry Judd

Readers of Labor Action Take the Floor ...

• Corrects Error in His Article, from Arthur Stein
• Socialist Attitude Toward Unions, from Virgil J. Vogel
• [Response, _by Editors_]
• Harper Discusses Labor’s Problems at Philly Forum (unsigned)
• Fights Incentive Pay Scheme in His Union, from A.G.A.

NLRB Jumps Ahead of Congress in “Amending” Wagner Act Regulations on Employers’ Behalf, by Susan Green

To the Working People of Los Angeles’ Seventh District from the Los Angeles Branch of the Workers Party

Labor Is Target in Michigan Crusade on “Red Menace”, by Ben Hall

“Need and Poorness Are in All Corners”, from J.G.

Vol. 11 No. 13, 31 March 1947

Labor Action

A Paper in the Interests of Labor
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Emanuel Garrett
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Albert Gates Irving Howe Henry Judd

Europe Needs Food – Not Guns

• Turkey – The Bone the Dogs Fight Over (map)

Congress Prepares Sneak Bill to Scrap Rent Lids

Major Powers Manipulate Warring Greek Factions, by Arthur Stein

Draper Drive for Council in Last Week

Detroit WP Back CIO Conference for an FEPC Bill

Palestine Simmers After Martial Law, by Albert Findley

Palestine CP Now Against Jewish Entry

AFL Leaders Hinder Maritime Labor Unity

News and Views from the Labor Front

• Delegation to Lansing Asks FEPC Bill, by Sid Roberts
• Allis-Chalmers Strike Ends as Local Votes to Return to Work Minus Contract
• ACEWR Completes Shipment of Medicines to Europe; Needs Funds to Extend Work
• Rubber Workers’ Strike Off; Settlement Provides for 11½ Cent an Hour Increase
• Boilermakers Fight Union Dictators, by Vincent S. Wheelon
• Teachers Take Strike Poll, by S. Winters

Tapping the Wall Street Wire, by Jack Ranger

• A Close-Up of the Economy
• Labor Lobbyists

Labor Action Magazine Section

What Fate for German People?

• Imperialist Wars – International Working Class (cartoon), by Carlo
• [Bevin] (cartoon), by Carlo
• [Molotov] (cartoon), by Carlo

Greece Long a Victim of Foreign Capital, by Katherine Davenport

UN Dropped in Ashcan as Powers Mangle Greece

Daily Worker Puffs at Budenz’ Religion, but Ignores His Revelations on GPU Murders

• Stalinist Press at Work (cartoon), by Carlo

Georgia’s ‘Liberal’ Governor Continues Jim Crow Setup, by Emanuel Garrett

Off Limits, by James M. Fenwick

• Pure Science – and the Prick of Conscience (Part I)

Editorials

• Big Three Secret Diplomacy
• Witch-Hunt in Washington

World Politics

• Will Russia Quit the Balkans? by Irving Howe

Yoo-Hoo, Harry! from New York Times

A Social Portrait of Coal Miners in the United States, by James Dakota

Coal in Development of the U.S. Economy, by John Dillon

Stalinism Rewrites U.S. History, by William Gorman

A Discussion of Workers Control in a Workers’ State, by Ernest Erber

Hollywood Views the Returning G.I., by Jackie Robbins

Program of the Workers Party

With the Workers Party

Spring Term of New York Labor Action School Offers Courses in Political History of WP

Meeting in Oakland and Los Angeles End Western Half of Gates WP Tour

Every Boy Can be President and Every Girl Can Be a Success, by E.R. McKinney

Press Manager’s Press Action, by Henry Judd

Readers of Labor Action Take the Floor ...

• Buffalo CIO Meeting Poorly Organized, from Pearl Prentiss
• Sit-Downs First at General Tire, from G.M.
• A Letter from a Sharecropper, from A Sharecropper
• Capitalist System Causes Jim Crow, from Lou

A Vote for Socialism Is a Vote Cast for Peace and Security – Goldman, Chicago WP Candidate, by Albert Goldman

Austrian Socialist Disappears; GPU Machine Suspected

French CP Tries ‘Clever’ Tactic on Indo-china

British Officers Feast While Germans Starve

Report Large Mass Underground Activity in Franco Spain

Next Week in Labor Action

Vol. 11 No. 14, 7 April 1947

Labor Action

A Paper in the Interests of Labor
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Emanuel Garrett
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Albert Gates Irving Howe Henry Judd

Must More Miners Die? by David Coolidge

• Coal mining – Our Deaths and their Profits (diagram)
• One Year Ago They Pleaded for Their Lives

Price Levels Climb to Near All-time Peak

German Workers in Mass Demonstrations for Food

News and Views from the Labor Front

• Stack Is Barred from Office by NMU, by N. Gaden
• Seek Jim Crow Prohibition in Chrysler Contract

Tapping the Wall Street Wire, by Jack Ranger

• War and Peace
• Taxes and the Rich

Workers Dictionary, compiled by Jack Ranger

One-Tenth of the Nation, by J.R. Johnson

• Negroes and Bolshevism

Pennsylvania House Gets FEPC Bill, by Jack Brad

‘An Extremely Welcome Gift’

Labor Action Magazine Section

Seven Years of the Workers Party, by Ernest Erber

• The Workers Party in the Struggle Against American Fascism (photo)
• Socialism (cartoon), by Carlo

Active in Labor Struggle, Leader in Socialist Thought – WP Record, by Nathan Gould

A Party with Freedom and Alert Internal Life, by Irving Howe

Join the Workers Party (drawing)

World Politics

• Desertions from Stalin’s Army

Off Limits, by James Fenwick

• Pure Science – and the Prick of Conscience (Part II)

Editorials

• Are Gov’t Workers Slaves

Revolutionists and the GPU, by James P. Cannon

Who Says There Is a Housing Shortage? from New York Times

Our Party Told the Truth About Imperialist War! by Susan Green

• [Collage]

Hit Use of Slave Labor by Powers in Europe, Statement by AFL

Program of the Workers Party

A Social Portrait of Life of Coal Miners in the United States – II, by James Dakota

Concentration of Ownership in Coal, by John Dillon

With the Workers Party

Youth Corner ...

• Socialist Policy on the AYD

Press Manager’s Press Action, by Henry Judd

Schedule Eight Forums in N.Y. Spring Series

Ask Safety for Indonesians

Offensive Indicated Against Wage Squeeze and Anti-Labor Bills, by Susan Green

Germany the Pawn in Big Four Game, by Henry Judd

Vol. 11 No. 15, 14 April 1947

Labor Action

A Paper in the Interests of Labor
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Emanuel Garrett
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Albert Gates Irving Howe Henry Judd

We Need a United Labor Offensive

Miners Stay Out of Pits, Demand Safety Actions, by David Coolidge

The CIO Hits the Nail on the Head (Cartoon), by Guernsey-Montgomery, from the Economic Outlook, CIO

Draper Polls Strong Vote for Council

Telephone Workers Strike Against AT&T Monopoly

Ruhr Strikes See German Labor Revival, by Henry Judd

Price Boosts Cut Labor’s Purchasing Power, by Susan Green

Viet-Namese Gov’t Thanks Workers Party for support, from P.N. Thach

News and Views from the Labor Front

• Analyzes Rubber Wage Agreement, by George Whitney
• Ford Local chooses Militant Leaders
• Fauilure of New York Teachers to Strike Seen as Reason for Salary Deadlock, by A Teacher

Tapping the Wall Street Wire, by Jack Ranger

• Behind Outcry About High Prices
• Women and Jobs
• Economic Notes
• Business Notes

Workers Dictionary, [_compiled by Jack Ranger_]

Result of Chicago Election

Disregard Prison Bureau Records, Says CO Secretary

Labor Action Magazine Section

The Vindication of Leon Trotsky, by Albert Goldman

• Facts on the Moscow Trials

Depression Threat Stirs Annual Wage Demand, by Susan Green

The Tax Evasion Racket, by Tod Wilkinson

Dead Vet’s Mother Pleads for Amnesty, Gets Truman Speech

World Politics

• Stalinism and the Vatican, by I.H.

Russia: An Engrossing Novel Describes Its Terror, by Irving Howe

Editorials

• Wages and Hours Law in Danger!
• Near East Oil Grab

Calcutta General Strike Celebrates Viet Nam Day

Neatest Trick in the World, from Daily Worker

Harold Stassen: ‘Liberal’ Eyes on the White House, by Jack Ranger

• Independent Political Action (cartoon), by Carlo

The Capitalist Class Is Responsible for Agony of Miners, by J.R. Johnson

• Penalty for Death and for Trespassing

Slave Labor Used Widely by Stalinist Dictatorship

Who Owns the Coal Industry? by John Dillon

Amnesty Plea Renewed as Draft Expires

Program of the Workers Party

With the Workers Party

Send Your Greeting for Our May Day Issue

Gates Address West Va. Miners

Press Manager’s Press Action, by Henry Judd

Mass Pressure Need to Push Pennsylvania FEPC

Philadelphia Lecture Series

A Question to John L. Lewis: When You Attack Democrats, Why Defend GOP? by E.R. McKinney

10,000 at United Labor Rally in Oakland Attack Scabbing of Municipal Administration, by William Barton

WP Branch Protests Attack on Labor Action Distributors, from Gordon Haskell

Vol. 11 No. 16, 21 April 1947

Labor Action

A Paper in the Interests of Labor
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Emanuel Garrett
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Albert Gates Irving Howe Henry Judd

March on Washington! by David Coolidge

Telephone Workers Fight AT&T Monopoly’ “Public Service” Strike-Breaking Attempt, by Susan Green

Let the “Public Safety” Guardians Answer: How Many Miners Must Die

Strikers in Madras Demand Release of Arrested Trotskyist, by V. Karalasingham

They Would Strangle Labor Unions

Stalin’s GPU Kidnaps Austrian Revolutionist

The Auto Workers and Henry Ford, by Auto Worker

News and Views from the Labor Front

• Why the Phone Workers Are Striking
• Unionists Sponsor FEPC Benefit Dance in N.Y.
• Labor – Bigotry (cartoon), by Ed Harron
• WDL Refutes Dewey Memorandum on Anti-Strike Law

Tapping the Wall Street Wire, by Jack Ranger

• The Oil in the Middle East
• New M-Day Plans
• Economic Notes

Labor Action Magazine Section

The Struggle in the Auto Union, by Ben Hall

• Walther Reuther (photo)
• George Addes (photo)
• R.J. Thomas (photo)

UAW Strike Notice on Chrysler, by Walter Jason

Why Stalinists won in Ford Local Fight, by Don Shannon

Contrasts Ford and Chrysler Local Elections

International Socialist Notes

• Colonial Revolt in Madagascar
• Conference of British Stalinists

Off Limits, by James M. Fenwick

• The College Veteran

Editorials

• Politicians of the Half-Truth
• Why We Need Our Own Party

Books You Should Know ...

• The World I Never Made, by James T. Farrell, reviewed by H.J.

Trotsky’s Summation Speech, by J.R. Johnson

It Looks as If There Must Be Another Purge On, from New York Times

A New Theoretician for American Imperialism, by Irving Howe

Art and Commerce in Hollywood, for New York Times

How Wall Street Rules the Coal Mines, by John Dillon

Governor Dewey Pulls a Fast One on the Veterans Bonus Issue, by I. Blake

Poland, “Country on Wheels,” Faces New Border Revisions, by A. Rudzienski

• Editorial Note

Program of the Workers Party

Aid European Hungry Workers

With the Workers Party

Youth Corner ...

• Founding Convention of SLID

Readers of Labor Action Take the Floor ...

• On the Situation in the Teachers Union, from Olive Karen
• [Response], by Editors
• Says Charlie Chaplin Disappoints Him, from Ivan Collitz

Press Manager’s Press Action, by Henry Judd

Record Profits “Worry” Business, from Wall Street Journal

Elections In Japan Test Strength of Opposing Classes and Parties, by Jack Brad

The Need for a Labor Party Is Clearly Demonstrated

AT&T – World’s Biggest Monopoly, by Arthur Stein

Reuther Hits at Red-Baiting, by Gerry McDermott

CIO Operators Vote on Backing Telephone Strike

Vol. 11 No. 17, 28 April 1947

Labor Action

A Paper in the Interests of Labor
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Emanuel Garrett
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Albert Gates Irving Howe Henry Judd

Labor’s Organized Millions Can Smash Boss Offensive! May Day Manifesto by Workers Party

• Socialism (cartoon), by Carlo

A March on Washington Can Be Labor’s Answer

Steel Settlement Fixes 15 Per Cent Pay Rise Formula

Gruner Execution Intensifies Palestine War, by Irving Howe

News and Views from the Labor Front

• Is Submission “Labor Statesmanship?” by Susan Green
• Speakers at Philly CIO Rally on Anti-Labor Drive Offer Nothing but Talk, by A. Parks
• Guaranteed Wage a Prime Need for Dress Workers, by Gertrude Randall
• Chicago CIO Militants Cheer Call to Action

Tapping the Wall Street Wire, by Jack Ranger

• Jesse Jones and the B.&O.

Labor Action Magazine Section

The Haymarket Martyrs and History of American May Day, by Arthur Stein

• [Execution of Haymarket Martyrs] (drawing)

Dedicate May Day 1947 to a Real Labor Struggle, by E.R. McKinney

Henry Ford: Apostle of the Assembly Line and Speed-Up, by Julius Falk

International Socialist Notes

• Colonial Deputies in French Parliament
• The Massacre of Bolivian Miners
• Report to 4th International from Korea
• Albert Binant 1923–1947

Off Limits, by James M. Fenwick

Editorials

• A New Note in Russian Economy
• Growth of a Roosevelt Myth

Books You Should Know ...

• The Coming Crisis, by Fritz Sternberg, reviewed by W. Amadeus

In Commemoration of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, by Ernest Erber

• May Day in the Ghetto
• Deportation to the Death Camps
• The Ghetto Fights Back

Program of the Workers Party

New Bill Offers No Real Hope to Displaced Persons, by Al Findley

The Fantastic Nature of the Fight in American Stalinist Ranks, by Carl Davis

• A Letter from an Ex-CPer, from J.D. Perkins

May Day Celebrated All Over the World, by Henry Judd

With the Workers Party

ACTU Undermines Reuther Fight on Red-Baiting, by Stanley Grey

Protest Franco Plan to Execute Two Anti-Fascists

Press Manager’s Press Action, by Henry Judd

Philly WP Offers Lecture Series on American History

Aid European Hungry Workers

“Actually We Live on Potatoes,” German Worker to ACEWR

Bluenose Seeks to Suppress Novel on Military School

Vol. 11 No. 18, 5 May 1947

Labor Action

A Paper in the Interests of Labor
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Emanuel Garrett
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Albert Gates Irving Howe Henry Judd

Mobilize to Cut Prices!

• One Way to Meet Price Rises (cartoon), by Carlo
• These Are Facts!

Power Politics Dominates UN Palestine Discussion, by Al Findley

Half-Million Detroit Workers Down Tools, by Walter Jason

Natalia Trotsky Demands Trial of GPU Murderers

No Comment Necessary!

News and Views from the Labor Front

• Opposition in UE Ordered to Dissolve
• Newark Labor Stages Rally to Support Telephone Strikers, by Jack Webb

Tapping the Wall Street Wire, by Jack Ranger

A Dictionary for Workers, compiled by Jack Ranger

2,000 Attend Verité Festival

Wall Street and Local Profiteers Fight for Control of Buffalo Bell Aircraft Co., by John Barnes

Labor Action Magazine Section

Spanish POUM Appeals to Workers of the World

Stalinist Assassins Must Be Made to Stand Trial! – Natalia Trotsky, by Natalia Sedov Trotsky

Glasgow Dock Strike Holds Fast After Bitter Seven-Week Struggle, by Roy Tearse, from British Socialist Appeal

A Self-Portrait in a Stalinist Writer’s Novel, by Irving Howe

World Politics

• Where Is Wallace Going? by I.H.

Off Limits, by James M. Fenwick

• Let’s Raise That Subsistence!

Editorials

• The Big Four Flop in Moscow
• What Way Out in Palestine?

International Socialist Notes

• I Visited an Indo-Chinese Camp, by Max Tisserand
• A Victory for Workers’ Democracy in France

Well, Well, Well! Is War Over? – Canada Cancels Labor Action Ban, from Albert Goldman (postmaster)

Plight of DPs Remains as Powers Adopt Do-Nothing Policy, by Al Findley

Additional Comments in the Discussion on Workers Control and Democracy, by Stanley Grey

Program of the Workers Party

DeGaulle Makes New Bid to Take Power in France

How American Imperialism Dominates the Island of Cuba, by Gaston Bruyere

The Third Front of Socialism in Poland, by A. Rudzienski

With the Workers Party

Telephone Striker in Chicago Sends In Her Observation

A First-Hand Report on Party Line-Up, Strength in Japan

Press Manager’s Press Action, by Henry Judd

Readers of Labor Action Take the Floor ...

• Liked April 7 Labor Action, from C.H.
• Facts on Legend of Henry Ford, from Bill Miller
• Commends Exposure of GPU Murderers, from A.A.
• Wants Revolutionary Program for Students, from J.S.

Correction

Charges Withdrawn, Strikers Freed

Henry Wallace Peddles His Particular Brand of Imperialism at Paris Meeting for Americans

“Hold Still, Willya? ...” (cartoon), by Seaman

Hollywood Tries Something Different, by Susan Green

WDL Protests Execution of 2 Anti-Fascists

Tomatoes Jump 20 Cents in One Year!

Italy Stalinists Try Deputy Who Opposed Support of Church

Vol. 11 No. 19, 12 May 1947

Labor Action

A Paper in the Interests of Labor
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Emanuel Garrett
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Albert Gates Irving Howe Henry Judd

Toward a March on Washington and a Nationwide 24-Hour Stoppage!

Mass Action: The Way to Bring Prices Down, by Emanuel Garrett

“Here, Slip This On!” (cartoon), by Carlo

New Political, Social Crisis Wracks France

Supreme Court Decision Perils Personal Liberties

Picket Race-Hater’s Meeting in Philadelphia

News and Views from the Labor Front

• U.S. Seamen Fight Panamanian Registry
• New York Telephone Operators Ordered Back by Union Leaders
• UAW Local 856 at Goodyear Aircraft Votes Militant Line in Wage Parleys

Tapping the Wall Street Wire, by Jack Ranger

A Dictionary for Workers, compiled by Jack Ranger

Labor Action Magagine Section

Post-War Problems (cartoon), by Carlo

A Program for U.S. Labor in Post-War Capitalism!

Japanese Elections Reveal Sharp Shift in Political Relationships, by Jack Brad

“Scholars” Find That Wages Are Unimportant! by William Barton

Books You Should Know ...

• The Flivver King, by Upton Sinclair, reviewed by N. Johnstone

Big Four: Future War Rests on U.S.-Russian Rivalry, by Henry Judd

Editorials

• Start Now to Fight Rent Boost
• What Did the Gentlemen Prove?

Program of the Workers Party

How American Imperialism Dominates the Island of Cuba – II, by Gaston Bruyere

Bay Area CIO and AFL Get Behind Fight of Striking Telephone Workers

Foreign Marriage Ban in Russia Embarrasses British Stalinists, from British Socialist Appeal

With the Workers Party

UN Debate will Not Benefit Either Jew or Arab Masses, by Gene Vaughn

Discuss Imperialist Intrigues, War Aims at Oakland Meeting

Press Manager’s Press Action, by Henry Judd

Mattson Ducks UE Settlement Explanation in Report to Chicago Regional Conference

Spread Filth (cartoon)

Philadelphia ACEWR Chapter Holds Successful Dinner for Italian Relief

A United Labor Movement Is an Urgent Need, by E.R. McKinney

CP Opposition Group Must Examine Theory to Find Source of Stalinist Degeneration, by Carl Davis

WP Protests Arrest of Indian Trotskyists

Vol. 11 No. 20, 19 May 1947

Labor Action

A Paper in the Interests of Labor
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Emanuel Garrett
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Albert Gates Irving Howe Henry Judd

Famine Spreads, Starvation Diet Dooms Millions, by Irving Howe

Halt Anti-Labor Drive by Stop-Work Protest! by Emanuel Garrett

• What’s in the Bills?

No, You Don’t! (cartoon), by Carlo

Westinghouse Local Votes Militant Line

Cadillac Square Demonstrators Are “Disciplined” by General Motors, by Ben Hall

Traces UAW Bad Pay Settlement to Political Weakness, by Walter Jason

News and Views from the Labor Front

• Two Day Strike Answers Dictator

Tapping the Wall Street Wire, by Jack Ranger

A Dictionary for Workers, compiled by Jack Ranger

Labor Action Magazine Section

India Faces Grave Internal Upheaval

Events Behind Ramadier’s Victory Over Stalinists in Cabinet Dispute, by Henry Judd

Workers Party Cables Protest in Arrest of Madras Union Leaders by Government

Strike of Renault Workers Outlines Crisis in France

Chaplin’s Latest Production, by Susan Green

Off Limits, by James M. Fenwick

• W.Va.U., ROTC, UMT, USA, USSR, etc.

Editorials

• In Preparation for New Wars
• Starvation Policy in Germany

International Socialist Notes

Books You Should Know ...

• Stalinists on the Waterfront, by Art Preis, reviewed by Arthur Stein

The Economic and Political Prospects of U.S. Capitalism – II

Program of the Workers Party

How the Parisian Strike Wave Spread, by S. Berg

With the Workers Party

Text of Resolution Adopted by Philly Anti-Smith Rally

To the Editors of The Nation, from Jack Weber

Readers of Labor Action Take the Floor ...

• “Life Is Always Hard Here ...”, from O.H.
• In the Park we Met a Cop, from Rose
• G.L.K. Smith’s Speech in Philly, from W.M.
• a Better world in Which to Live, from Dr. Charles Calvin

Press Manager’s Press Action, by Henry Judd

Freedom from Want (cartoon), by Carlo

And a Bomber Squadron Drowned Out Speech, by Michael Drum

Comrade Rudzienski Corrects an Error in the Translation, by A. Rudzienski

Aid European Hungry Workers

Vol. 11 No. 21, 26 May 1947

Labor Action

A Paper in the Interests of Labor
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Emanuel Garrett
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Albert Gates Irving Howe Henry Judd

Union Leaders Rely on Truman, Not Labor, by David Coolidge

We Propose: National 24-Hour Protest Strike

• The Need of the Hour (cartoon), by Carlo
• Raise It in Your Union!

Labor Backed Slate Wins Oakland Vote

Trial of Willie Earle’s Murderers Focuses Light on the Lynch System

U.S. Rulers Threaten Starving Germans with Death Penalty, by Henry Judd

News and Views from the Labor Front

• Modify GM “Disciplinary” Penalties, by Ben Hall

Tapping the Wall Street Wire, by Jack Ranger

A Dictionary for Workers, compiled by Jack Ranger

Labor Action Magazine Section

Crisis of Franco’s Regime Highlighted by Bilbao Strike, by A. Ferrarra

20th Century Fund Study Proves Need for Socialist United States, by Albert Gates

Railroad Freight Rates Reflect Fight Between Capitalist Groups, by Jack Ranger

Trujillo: Santo Domingo’s Bloody Dictator, by Gaston Bruyere

A Lesson in Capitalism for the Strong World

World Politics

• Struggle in Java Continues, by I.H.

Off Limits, by James M. Fenwick

• British Troops & Anti-Semitism

Editorials

• Science Serves the Warmongers
• IG Farben and Its Allies

ILGWU Sets a Dangerous Precedent in Court Action

Freedom from Fear Section, by Gerry McDermott

Citizens 1st, Veterans 2nd

The Political Situation in German: The National Question, by Irving Howe

Jean Malaquais on Existentialism at “Left Forum”

Asks Truman to End Amnesty Board Delay

Program of the Workers Party

Juan Peron’s Economic Expansion, by Juan Velasco

Finds Anti-Semitic Approach in Koestler’s Palestine Novel, by Miriam Evans

A Correction and an Apology

With the Workers Party

“The Shoe Fits” (cartoon), by Seaman

New York School Announces Extension of Friday Night Classes Through June

Bay Area Branch Holds Successful Election Rally

ACEWR Plans to Cable Food Packages to Starvation Zones

Press Manager’s Press Action, by Henry Judd

Aid European Hungry Workers

Ohio Conference Discusses Unity of WP and SWP

Open U.S. Doors to Immigration of Jewish People!

Who Says There’s No Money for Housing? (cartoon), by Carlo

World Arms Budget Is 10 Billion Dollars More Than in 1938, by Arthur Stein

Jews Will Gain Nothing from Russian About-Face, [by Al Findley]

A Grim Reminder of the Coming War

Vol. 11 No. 22, 2 June 1947

Labor Action

A Paper in the Interests of Labor
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Emanuel Garrett
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Albert Gates Irving Howe Henry Judd

Smash Jim Crow System!

• It’s a Crime to Be a Negro in Greenville ..., by E.R. McKinney
• It’s Legal, Now! (cartoon), by Carlo

Press Stages Gutter Orgy Against Relief

Rent Control Law Expires June 30; Congress Bills Provide for Increase

For a 24-Hour Protest Strike and a March on Washington!

News and Views from the Labor Front

• Split Threatens in New York Food Union
• PAC Chairman Kroll Addresses Louisville CIO
• Local 856 Strikers Authorize Fight to Finish Against Goodyear, by Sydney Carter

Tapping the Wall Street Wire, by Jack Ranger

A Dictionary for Workers, compiled by Jack Ranger

Labor Action Magazine Section

U.S. and Britain Aid Dutch to Suppress Indonesian Freedom

Coming Economic Crisis in the U.S. No Longer Doubted by Economists, by A. Kimbay

Program Is Vital in UAW Contest with Ford Motors, by Ben Hall

Is There Such a Thing as “Guilt of the German Nation”? by Irving Swanson

New Film of the Irish Revolt, by Henry Judd

Off Limits, by James M. Fenwick

• “The Best Years of Our Lives” (Part I)

Editorials

• A New York “Relief Scandal!”
• The Liberalism of LaGuardia

New International Features Stalin’s Slave Laborers

The Results and Lessons of an Experiment in Labor Politics, by William Barton

Thomas Mann Punishes Hitler; Avoids Germany on His Tour, by Irving Howe

Program of Workers Party

A Contribution to the Discussion on Workers Control Theory, by Susan Green

Examining a Dread Disease: Virus of Rigiditis Digititis, by Gerald McDermott

With the Workers Party

The Feeling Is Growing: Something Is Wrong! by J.R. Johnson

Press Manager’s Press Action, by Henry Judd

Readers of Labor Action Take the Floor ...

• Will Yellow Dog Contracts Return? from Food Worker
• Sees Unity Need in Telephone Tieup, from Telephone Striker

Aid European Hungry Workers

India Factions in Showdown as Britain Announces Plan, by Henry Judd

• His Policy Fosters Fratricidal War (cartoon), by Carlo

An Editorial

• Portrait of a Lynch Liberal

Anything to Get into the White House (cartoon), by Clare

Times Dispatch confirms Story in Labor Action

Vol. 11 No. 23, 9 June 1947

Labor Action

A Paper in the Interests of Labor
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Emanuel Garrett
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Albert Gates Irving Howe Henry Judd

Answer Taft-Hartley Bill with a Labor Offensive! by David Coolidge

• To Win We Must Show Our Might!

Senate Passes Bill for 15% Rent Increase

WP and SWP Will Picket Greek Consul

Youth Conscription Plan Is Step Towards New War, by Julie Falk

Stalinists Take Over in Hungarian Coup, by Irving Howe

News and Views from the Labor Front

• East Bay Machinists Vote Strike Action, by Jack Neal
• On the ILGWU and Real Political Labor Action
• UAW Threatens Strike at Briggs, Detroit, Evansville Plants

Tapping the Wall Street Wire, by Jack Ranger

A Dictionary for Workers, compiled by Jack Ranger

British Group Urges Amnesty on Truman

Labor Action Magazine Section

“An Abiding Belief in Old-Fashioned Virtue” and Slavery

Michigan CIO Convention Will Test Strength of UAW Faction, by Ben Hall

• Head Respective UAW Caucuses (photos)

How They Built the Framework of the “Four Freedoms” (cartoon), by Carlo

These Are the Facts on “Deluxe” Relief, by Hy Phillips

Powers Play with Displaced Persons’ Lives, by Al Findley

World Politics

• British Labor Party Conference

Off Limits, by James M. Fenwick

• “The Best Years of Our Lives” (Part II)

Editorials

• Where Is the Price Drop?
• On Congress and the Economy

International Socialist Notes

British ILP Meeting Shows Party Is Nearing Collapse

James Connolly and the Socialist Struggle for Irish Unity, from Workers’ Republic

Italian Stalinist Posters Cater to Superstitions

Atomic Bomnb and the Hollywood Mind, by Susan Green

How Trotsky Was Expelled from Norway by Trygvie Lie, by Leon Trotsky

He Sacrificed EVERYTHING for Love, from Boston Globe

Program of the Workers Party

With the Workers Party

Philadelphia Forum Hears Speakers on Marxism and Science, by Frank Harper

ACWEWR Cables Food Parcels to Hunger-Stricken Germany

• Aid European Hungry Workers

Philly Unionists Come to Rally Get Nothing but Empty Rhetoric

We Want to Be Free in a Free Country, in a Free World ..., by Ernest Rice McKinney

• Ernest Rice McKinney (photo)

Southern Game Laws (cartoon), by Carlo

Vol. 11 No. 24, 16 June 1947

Labor Action

A Paper in the Interests of Labor
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Emanuel Garrett
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Albert Gates Irving Howe Henry Judd

Demand a 24-Hour Strike!

• Reach for Your Weapons! (cartoon), by Carlo

Giant Parade Proves Labor Is Ready to Fight, by Susan Green

Miners Quit Pits; Protest Slave Bill

Labor Action Compelled to Reduce Size

Guaranteed Annual Wage Issue at ILG Convention, by Mary Bell

How Can Militant Vets Meet the Crisis in AVC? by W. Fargo

News and Views from the Labor Front

• State Convention to Test UAW Groups, by Walter Jason
• Maritime Workers Want New Contract
• Miners Demand General Strike

Tapping the Wall Street Wire, by Jack Ranger

A Dictionary for Workers, compiled by Jack Ranger

Labor Action Magazine Section

Exposes Strategy of the Stalinists at AVC Convention, by Saul Berg

Some Capitalist Leaders Explain How Their Profit System Functions, by E.R. McKinney

Stalin Reaches Out for Expatriates, by Arthur Stein

• Spreads His Net (cartoon), by Carlo

Seizure of Hungary Is Russia’s Reply to Truman Doctrine, by Irving Howe

• He’s Angry (cartoon), by Carlo

International Socialist Notes

• Socialist Youth Hit Stalinist Hooliganism
• Ceylon

Off Limits, by James M. Fenwick

• Blaming It on Baby

Editorials

• A Lesson in Labor Unity
• No “Death Penalty” for Slaves

A Militant Program for the American Veterans Committee

• A Program to Support
• On Stalinism by Newark Chapter No. 1
• Call for a Bonus

Renault Strikers Address Metal Workers

The Anti-Socialist thinking of the Dissident Stalinist Groups, by Carl Davis

• “Bookseller” Hopes to Be Called Back (cartoon), by Carlo

Review of Telephone Strike Reveals Inadequacy of Present Union Leaders

Program of the Workers Party

Wants Material for History of Socialist Party, from Daniel Bell

With the Workers Party

Grand Jury Questions Ex-Daily Worker Editor on Trotsky Murder, Poyntz Abduction

Press Manager’s Press Action, by Henry Judd

Audience Finds WP Forum on Palestine and DP Problems Unusually Interesting

Reuther Betrays Political Opportunism in UAW Press Release on Rent Control

Anti-Labor Drive Meeting Provokes Fruitful Discussion

Democratic Solution of Pakistan Issue Vital to Genuine India Independence, by Albert Gates

• Empire Saver (cartoon), by Carlo

Protest Political Arrests in Greece (photo)

Slowdown Highlights N.Y. Transit Dispute, by Gene Vaughn

Won’t Recognize Law, statement by Sailors Union of the Pacific

Vol. 11 No. 25, 23 June 1947

Labor Action

A Paper in the Interests of Labor
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Emanuel Garrett
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Albert Gates Henry Judd Irving Howe

Fight: For March on Washington, 24-Hour Down-Tool Action! by David Coolidge

• Labor’s “Generals” (cartoon), by Carlo

Editorial

• Tax Structure Is Easiest on Rich, Hardest on Poor

No Contract, No Sailing, Say Seaman [_sic_]

“It’s a Fascist Measure!” Says Murray, But ... Refuses to Organize a Fighting Labor Protest, by E.R. McKinney

O’Dwyer Shows True Colors on Fare Rise, by W.W.

The Boss’s Dictionary: Radical (cartoon), by Carlo

News and Views from the Labor Front

• Addes Plan wins on FE-UAW Merger
• First Quarter Profits After Taxes for Auto and Auto Parts Companies (table)
• Chrysler Delegates to Back Labor Party Resolution at Michigan CIO Conference, by Walter Jason
• UAW Leaders Say Situation Demands Political Action, by Herb Mason
• Oakland Transit Workers Take Economic Offensive

Pennsylvania Solons Duck FEPC Action

With the Workers Party

Readers of Labor Action Take the Floor ...

• Not All Was Lost in Telephone Strike, from Richard Page

Correction on AVC Article

Editorials

• On the 4 Pages
• And Prices Rise
• Stalinist Trials

World Politics

• Will Austria Be Next?

Tapping the Wall Street Wire, by Jack Ranger

Books You Should Know ...

• The Future of Housing, by Charles Abrams, reviewed by Henry Newman

Joint Protest Strike by Arabs and Jews

O.K. Men! ... Any Questions? from New York Times

Railway Strike Highlights French Economic, Political Crisis, by Max Sterling

French Socialist Youth Defy Party Decision Ousting National Bureau

International Socialist Notes

• France

Relief Committee Asks Contributions for Workers Medical Clinic in Italy

Vol. 11 No. 26, 30 June 1947

Labor Action

A Paper in the Interests of Labor
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Emanuel Garrett
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Albert Gates Henry Judd Irving Howe

Organize a Labor Party!

• Why We Need a Labor Party! (cartoon), by Carlo

Miners Quit Pits as Fight on Anti-Labor Law Begins

An Editorial

• How Are Our Unions Going to Fight Back?

Political Trap for Labor Baited with Truman Veto, by David Coolidge

The Boss’s Dictionary: Rebellion (cartoon), by Carlo

News and Views from the Labor Front

• Hits Addes Plan on FE-UAW Merger
  His Plan Won’t Provide Healthy FE-UAW Unity (photo)
• ILGWU Leaqders Skirt Political Action Need, by Gerald McDermott
• Reuther Forces Win at State CIO Meet, by Walter Jason
• Milwaukee Judge Sentences Local 248 Leaders to Jail

With the Workers Party

Readers of Labor Action Take the Floor ...

• Complaint and Reply on Palestine Article, from Al Findley
• [Reply], by The Editors

Editorials

• Whither PAC?
• Third Partyism
• Polish Borders

GPU Makes “Jail” Life Easy for Murderer of Leon Trotsky

Katyn Massacre: a Tragedy That Bleeds, by A. Rudzienski

Motorcade a Dismal Failure, by Don Murrain & Meg Tyler

Marshall Plan for the Imperialist Domination of Europe Underlines the Need for Socialism, by Irving Howe

Commission Doesn’t Bring Promise of Peace to Palestine, by Al Findely

AVC Convention Registers Progress, by Saul Berg

Vol. 11 No. 27, 7 July 1947

Labor Action

A Paper in the Interests of Labor
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Emanuel Garrett
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Albert Gates Irving Howe Henry Judd

Do Not Pay More Rent!

An Editorial

• No Law Can Make Labor Give Up Rights

Moral: We Need FIGHTING Weapons (cartoon), by Carlo

Why Do We Stress the Labor Party? by Emanuel Garrett

Fight on Anti-Labor Law Will Not Be Won in Court, by David Coolidge

Dubinsky Shelves Guaranteed Pay

News and Views from the Labor Front

• Eddystone Workers Give Strike Notice, by Frank Harper

The Boss’s Dictionary: Anarchy (cartoon), by Carlo

Draft Plan Would Create Permanent Political Prisoners

Negro “Leaders” Aid GOP in Killing FEPC Bill, by Jack Brad

With the Workers Party

Readers of Labor Action Take the Floor ...

• The Four Freedoms and Imperialism, from Patrick N.H. O’York
• [Reply], by The Editors
• “Where the Hell Is John L.?” from A Miner

Editorials

• At the NAACP
• China’s War
• Hungry World

World Politics

• No Peace for Asia, by Harold R. Isaacs, reviewed by Irving Howe

Tapping the Wall Street Wire, by Jack Ranger

Form Labor Vet Group at AVC Convention

Legislation Voted Against Labor’s Interests Is Also Against the Negro People’s Interests, by E.R. McKinney

French Socialist Youth Win Support in Fight Against SP Leadership, by Richard

We Must Raise Our Voices in Protest, by A. Ruzdienski

Advertising and Entertainment on the Quiz Programs, by Susan Green

Vol. 11 No. 28, 14 July 1947

Labor Action

A Paper in the Interests of Labor
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Emanuel Garrett
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Albert Gates Henry Judd Irving Howe

Steel Workers By-Pass NLRB in Negotiations, by Emanuel Garrett

Tenant Protest Rises Against Rent Robbery

• What to Do, Not to Do about Rent

The Fight Has Begun! (cartoon), by Carlo

Labor Party Sentiment Mounting in Buffalo

Mine Union Wins Record Wage Gain

Ship Strike in Third Week

The Boss’s Dictionary: Share the Wealth (cartoon), by Carlo

News and Views from the Labor Front

• Ship Strike Raises Basic Program Need, by B. Lowell
• Calls on UAW to Lead Rent Fight in Detroit, by Miriam Evans
• Strike Called Off at Philadelphia Eddystone Works

Savannah Appoints Nine Negro Cops, by E.R. McKinney

Press Manager’s Press Action

Readers of Labor Action Take the Floor

• English Comrade on Labor Party, from R.L. Jenkins
• Has New Name for T-H Bill, from Ivan Colitz
• Wants Free Fares on N.Y. Subways, from N. Ackerman
• Editor’s Note

Editorials

• Subway Fare
• On Housing
• Indonesia

World Politics, by Irving Howe

Cuba: A Grave Threat to Its Economy, by Gaston Bruyere

WP Asks Special Legislature Session to Enact Penn. FEPC, by Jack Brad

IWO, Stalinist Front, Pensions Max Bedacht

The Stalinist Swamp – Daily Worker Exposes “Renegades” in NMU

UAW Control at Stake in FE Merger Proposal, by David Coolidge

• Union Lines Drawn in Contest Against Bureaucratic Plan

Chrysler Local Votes “For” at Meeting Lacking Quorum, by Walter Jason

Lynn Affair Nets $70 for European Relief

Vol. 11 No. 29, 21 July 1947

Labor Action

A Paper in the Interests of Labor
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Emanuel Garrett
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Albert Gates Henry Judd Irving Howe

Law and Order in Georgia Adds 6 New Victims, by E.R. McKinney

U.S. and Russia Build War Blocs in Europe!

Sing for Your Supper! (carto0on), by Carlo

Form Tenant Committee in Detroit

Risk Arrest in Solidarity PW Action

Opposition Winning Vote in in UAW on Thomas-Addes FE Merger Plan, by Walter Jason

Price Rise to Boost Fabulous Profits

The Boss’s Dictionary: Socialism (cartoon), by Carlo

News and Views from the Labor Front

• Names Killers of Pennsylvania FEPC, by Jack Brad
• Postal Clerks Seek 16 Per Cent Raise in Wages

One-Tenth of the Nation, by E.R. McKinney

With the Workers Party

Readers of Labor Action Take the Floor ...

• On Income Taxes and Subway Fares, from E. Keller
• [Reply], by Ed.
• War Mongers, from D.C. Calvin

Editorials

• Murray’s Test
• Green’s Speech
• GPU Terror

World Politics

• Public Morality and Indonesia, by Irving Howe

Tapping the Wall Street Wire, by Jack Ranger

Use Natives as Slave Labor in south Africa Farm Areas

This Issue of Labor Action

Capsule Edit

MacArthur Seeks to Restrain Japanese Protest, Backs Katayama Coalition Government, by Jack Brad

Examines Meaning of Fraudulent Franco Plebiscite, by A. Ferrarra

New Totalitarian Offensive in Poland, by A. Rudzienski

Bolivian Plateau: Scene of Native Struggle and Repression, by Juan Robles

Vol. 11 No. 30, 28 July 1947

Labor Action

A Paper in the Interests of Labor
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Emanuel Garrett
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Albert Gates Henry Judd Irving Howe

Labor Party Is Key Need! by Emanuel Garrett

U.S. Arms Back Dutch Tyranny in Indonesia

“Reward Your Friends, Punish Your Enemies!” (cartoon), by Carlo

Truman Report Shows Crisis Lurks Behind Post-War Economic Boom, by Albert Gates

Rader Is Candidate of Philadelphia WP, by Frank Harper

UAW Votes Down Merger, by Walter Jason

• Wins (photo)
• Loses (photo)

News and Views from the Labor Front

• R.J. Thomas Loses Vote in His Own Local on Merger Proposal
• Mich. Council Resolution on Labor Party
• No Kidding, Mr. Hartley! from N.Y. World-Telegram

The Boss’s Dictionary: Bolshevism (cartoon), by Carlo

Rations Cut to 650 Calories; Relief Packages Are Vital

Cudahy Spills the Beans, from The Meat of It, published by Packinghouse Workers Union

With the Workers Party

Aid European Hungry Workers

Editorials

• British Piracy
• Our Cartoon
• Stratton Bill

A Weapon for a Labor Offensive! (cartoon), by Carlo

Red Prussian Is Ignorant Book on Marx, reviewed by Irving Howe

• Karl Marx (photo)

World Politics

• The World Is Silent, by Irving Howe

Poland: In the clutches of Stalin’s GPU Gang, by Jan Rey

Johnson Leads His Faction Out of WP

Bolivian Miners Hit Attack on Trotskyists

There Is Worry Behind the Smile (cartoon), by Carlo

August New International Features Analysis of Labor’s Fight on Taft-Hartley

Vol. 11 No. 31, 4 August 1947

Labor Action

A Paper in the Interests of Labor
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Emanuel Garrett
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Albert Gates Henry Judd Irving Howe

Defend Indonesian People!

• Workers Party Call to Action on Indonesia ...

28 Miners Die as Company Ignores Union Safety Plea, by Todd Wilkinson

Ask Meeting to Unite Tenant Work

Stalinists Lay Ground to Back Republican Mayor for Detroit, by Walter Jason

U.S. Props Greek Terror; Big Powers Vie on Control, by Jim Tanakos

The Boss’s Dictionary: Art (cartoon), by Carlo

WP Candidate Blasts Pa. Jim Crow, by Frank Harper

Don’t Pay More Rent!

News and Views from the Labor Front

• Win First Round in Court Battle on Mpls. Jim Crow Bartender
• Lawyers to Aid Small Unions

One-Tenth of the Nation, by E.R. McKinney

With the Workers Party

Readers of Labor Action Take the Floor ...

• Adds Point to Article on Savannah Cops, from L. Mann
• [Thanks], by Ed.
• Again Disputes Our Subway Stand, from E. Keller
• [Reply], by Editor

Editorials

• Lynch Law
• Party Probe

World Politics

• Russia’s Economic Crisis – I, by Irving Howe

Tapping the Wall Street Wire, by Jack Ranger

Admit Capitalist Bankruptcy as Army Recruiting Lags, by G.M.

Progressive Book Club Selects Books by Farrell, Sternberg

Refuse Jim Crow Service in Los Angeles Store

Books Received

Labor Veterans Group in AVC Sets Forth Its Program in First Issue of Monthly Bulletin

Open WP Campaign to Place Rader on Philly Ballot

UAW Report Examines Monopoly Effects on Agricultural Implements Industry

Labor Action Brings You an Exclusive Report on the Firestone-Ford Nuptials, by Gerald McDermott

Vol. 11 No. 32, 11 August 1947

Labor Action

A Paper in the Interests of Labor
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Emanuel Garrett
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Albert Gates Henry Judd Irving Howe

Eviction Suits Sweep Nation

• Rader Calls for Halt on Evictions at Philadelphia Hearing

UAW Wins First Round at Ford on Taft Act!

Detroit WP Names Benson for Mayor

When Landlord Asks for More Rent, Say “NO!”

Subway Fare Rise Plan Slowed, Not Stopped, by Paul Bern

The Boss’s Dictionary: Red Plot (cartoon), by Carlo

News and Views from the Labor Front

• Text of WP Statement on rent and Evictions in Philadelphia, by Jack Brad
• Apartment Hunting in Detroit, by Herman Benson

One-Tenth of the Nation, by E.R. McKinney

With the Workers Party

Tuberculosis Sufferer Asks ACEWR to Send Clothing, Equipment for Baby

Editorials

• Indonesia’s Freedom
• Totalitarians in Rumania
• Lynch Verdict
• Right to Vote

World Politics

• Russia’s Economic Crisis – II, by Irving Howe

Rio Conference: U.S. Has New Scheme for Latin America, by A. Ferrarra

Korea: Suppressed, robbed, fought Over by Big Powers, by G. McDermott

• They Promised Freedom, but ... (cartoons), by Hi.

Don’t Pay More Rent! Fight Against Evictions! by Irving Howe

Hangings and Deportations Highlight Palestine War Between British Imperialists and Jews, by Al Findley

• Jews Can’t Tell One from t’Other (cartoons), by Carlo

Examines Record and Backing of Mayor Jeffries, by Herman Benson

Vol. 11 No. 33, 18 August 1947

Labor Action

A Paper in the Interests of Labor
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Emanuel Garrett
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Albert Gates Henry Judd Irving Howe

CIO Seeks Roll-Back and Control of Prices

• These Are the Facts ...
• This Is What We Can Do ...

Philly WP Tops quota on Petitions

Herman Benson for Mayor (facsimile)

Unions Challenge Taft-Hartley Act

Sees Ford Victory Guide for UAW Labor, by Walter Jason

Los Angeles Consulate Picketed

What Are the Qualifications of Mr. Murphy? by Herman Benson

The Boss’s Dictionary: Free Enterprise (cartoon), by Carlo

News and Views from the Labor Front

• WDL Asks Action to Restore Civil Rights in Jersey

Benson, WP Candidate, Makes Suggestion to Detroit News, by Herman Benson

With the Workers Party

Demand Breaking of Jim Crow UN Rent Pacts

Philly Rally

Readers of Labor Action Take the Floor ...

• Small Parties Get Raw Deal in Detroit, from Mrs. Mary P. Perkins

Charge Russians Operate Slave Camps in Germany

Editorials

• On Farmers and Workers

World Politics

• Forgotten, Forlorn, Without Hope, by Irving Howe

Tapping the Wall Street Wire, by Jack Ranger

Books You Should Know ...

• No Star Is Lost, by James T. Farrell, reviewed by N. Johnstone

Also Received

Leon Trotsky: Man, Revolutionist, Thinker, by E.R. McKinney

• Leaders of the Revolution, Lenin and Trotsky (photo)
• Trotsky (cartoon), by Carlo
• As Organizer of the Red Army (photo)

Don’t Pay More Rent! Fight Against Evictions! – II, by Irving Howe

Vol. 11 No. 34, 25 August 1947

Labor Action

A Paper in the Interests of Labor
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Emanuel Garrett
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Albert Gates Henry Judd Irving Howe

Monopolists Get Stranglehold on American Economic System

Sham Hearings on Trusts and Prices

Let’s Get Organized! (cartoon)

Rio Meeting Part of U.S. War Plans, by Arthur Stein

• Sec’y of State Marshall (cartoon), by Carlo

Mayor Jeffries Seeks Political Support from CIO in Michigan, by Herman Benson

CIO Pickets Show Strong-Arm Boss Where to Get Off, by Walter Jason

News and Views from the Labor Front

• Isthmian Seamen “Hit the Decks”

Herman Benson for Mayor! (facsimile)

Pickets Against Dutch War on Indonesian Nation

Gangs Attack Negroes in New York

With the Workers Party

Readers of Labor Action Take the Floor ...

• British Labor Party and Palestine, from H.S.
• [Reply], by The Editors
• Reader Defends Right of WP in Elections, from Mrs. M.P.H.

Editorials

• Independence of India
• Death of a Scoundrel
• Congressmen on Housing

Economic Conditions Behind Puerto Rican Immigration, by Eugene Vaughn

Off Limits, by James M. Fenwick

• Zook for Chief of Staff

Hollywood Touches a Serious Theme in Movie Crossfire, by Irving Howe

Philosophy Corner (Ends and Means Dept.), from New York Times

In Memoriam: Sacco and Vanzetti, by James T. Farrell

• [Introduction], by Editors

General “King” Lee of the MTOUSA, by James M. Fenwick

Dubinsky Earns Appellation of “Labor Statesman”, by Mary Bell

Vol. 11 No. 35, 1 September 1947

Labor Action

A Paper in the Interests of Labor
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Emanuel Garrett
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Albert Gates Henry Judd Irving Howe

The Death of Bilbo and the Death of Two Negro Children, by Kate Leonard

Gov’t Statistics Show Wages Below 1939!

This Is the Was to Stoß’em (cartoon), by Carlo

Isthmian Sailors Win Strike!

Politicians Challenge Rader, WP Candidate

Reuther Caucus Meets to Map Program, by Walter Jason

Illinois CIO Parley Drubs Stalinists

News and Views from the Labor Front

• The Struggle over Two Labor Contracts and Their Meaning, by Walter Jason

Herman Benson for Mayor!

Race-Baiter Jeffries Makes Bid for Liberal-Labor Support, by Herman Benson

With the Workers Party

Philadelphia Branch of WP Holds Political-Social Rally

Editorials

• The UN and the Indonesian War
• Another Forced Jewish Exodus

Greece as Batttleground of Two Rival Imperialists, by Sam Adams

Tapping the Wall Street Wire, by Jack Ranger

• What’s Happened to Europe?

Books You Should Know

• Literature and Morality, by James T. Farrell, reviewed by N. Johnstone

If Sacco and Vanzetti Were on Trial Today ..., by Irving Howe

A Report on Labor Events from the Pacific Coast, by William Barton

Workers Party Holds Three City Conference in Philly, by Frank Harper

Eviction Notices Increase Daily but New Commission Proves Total Failure, by Jack Rader

Japanese Workers Show some New Wrinkles in Strike Strategy

Vol. 11 No. 36, 8 September 1947

Labor Action

A Paper in the Interests of Labor
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Emanuel Garrett
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Albert Gates Henry Judd Irving Howe

Rising Prices and Anti-Union Laws Dictate Need for Labor Offensive

Stalinists “Win” Hungary Voteby Terror, Fraud

• His Police Boss Hungary Election (cartoon), by Carlo

On the Capitalist Conveyor (cartoon), by Carlo

Minneapolis People Seek Rent Freeze

Two Independent Labor Candidates Names for Cleveland Wards 22, 32, by G. McDermott

Rader Challenges County Commission on Ballot Ruling

Detroit WP Asks Meeting Permit

News and Views from the Labor Front

• Sales Tax Shows Face of Maryland “Frined of Labor”

West Coast News Items

A Survey of the Petroleum Industry, by John Dillon

With the Workers Party

Editorials

• The Elections in Hungary

Hollywood’s The Hucksters Will Not Upset the World, by Irving Howe

Off Limits, by James M. Fenwick

• What’s Happened to the Legion

The Intellectual Life in Stalinist Russia

An Editorial

• It Is Still the Same Old Legion

Veterans Are Victims of “Chain Reaction” in Philadelphia’s Growing Housing Crisis, by Jack Rader

What the Policy of “Lesser Evil” Means in Detroit, by Herman Benson

Political Interest Growing in Germany, by Max Sterling

Poll shows GOP, Democrats Look Alike

Herman Benson for Mayor!

Vol. 11 No. 37, 15 September 1947

Labor Action

A Paper in the Interests of Labor
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Emanuel Garrett
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Albert Gates Henry Judd Irving Howe

Food Prices at New High!

Low Income Savings Fade Under Rise in Living Costs, by Susan Green

Exodus, 1947!

CP Wreckers in NMU Hurl Foul Charges, by Arthur Stein

1,000 Shop Stewards Defy Stalin Terror in Budapest Parade

WP, SWP Candidates Cited for Contempt; Fight Board Ruling, by Jack Rader

UNSCOP Plans Will Not Aid Jews, by Ed Findley

News and Views from the Labor Front

• Judge Says Guilty Before Defense Presents Its Case

Notes on West Coast Labor Movement ..., by William Barton

With the Workers Party

Readers of Labor Action Take the Floor ...

• South Side Chicago Negroes Face Terror, from Frank Johnson
• Keeping a Watch on Detroit Vote, from Mary P. Hopkins
• Suggests Reading on Sacco-Vanzetti, from N. Johnstone

Editorials

• Evictions Rise
• No Affidavits

Train of Tomorrow ..., by Leo Gordon

Tapping the Wall Street Wire, by Jack Ranger

• March of the Sales Tax

Little Studies in Retrogression (The Art of Polemics Department), from Newsweek

“Lesser Evil” Will Lead Labor from Bad to Worse, by Herman Benson

Picketing the British Consulate (photo)

Buffalo Pickets Protest British Policy, by Preston Little

WP’ Benson-for-Mayor Campaign in Detroit Swings into High Gear, by Paul Owen

Carusi Unfit to Handle DPs, WDL Charges

And the Board’s Action Nets Its First Results ―

The Socialist Banner Will Wave in Victory, by Max Shachtman

Vol. 11 No. 38, 22 September 1947

Labor Action

A Paper in the Interests of Socialism
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Emanuel Garrett
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Albert Gates Henry Judd Irving Howe

Prices Can Be Controlled!

Judge Fines WP Candidate; Committee Fights Ruling, by Frank Harper

Workers Go Deeper Into Debt as High Prices Cut Wages, by Mike Stevens

Who Is Responsible for Price Rise? by Susan Green

Primaries in Philadelphia Shed Light on Basic Error in CIO-PAC Policy, by Jack Rader

News and Views from the Labor Front

• How the Stalinist Wreckers Work in NMU, by Arthur Stein
• WDL Lawyers Hold Anti-Damage Suit Clauses Are Legal

Notes on West Coast Labor Movement ..., by William Barton

Cleveland Labor Campaign Gets Vigorous Start, by Gerry McDermott

With the Workers Party

Readers of Labor Action Take the Floor ...

• Disputes Howe on Crossfire, from Susan Green
• Adds to Editorial on the Legion, from M. Hall

Editorials

• A Vital Lesson in Storch Vote
• Don’t Blame it on the Hungry

World Politics

• Is British “Socialism” to Blame? by Irving Howe

Off Limits, by James M. Fenwick

• I’ve Been Robbed

29 More Arrests in Palisades Anti-Jim Crow Drive

Detroit WP Candidate Questions Mayor Jeffries on Jim Crow Textbook, from Herman Benson

WDL Will Aid Hickman Defense

Wave of Strikes in Poland Is Symbol of Mass Resistance Against Stalinist Totalitarian Rulers, by A. Rudzienski

English Workers: Poorly Fed, Poorly Housed, Poorly Clothed

Answers Michigan Committee on Platform of Detroit WP, by Herman Benson

Evictions on Rise; City Officials Duck Housing Emergency, by Herman Benson

Price of Capitalist Rule Seen in Housing Crisis, by Jack Rader

Vol. 11 No. 39, 29 September 1947

Labor Action

A Paper in the Interests of Socialism
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Emanuel Garrett
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Albert Gates Henry Judd Irving Howe

Workers Party Asks Protest on Arrest of Polish Socialists

• Polish Socialists Appeal for International Help, from Polish Socialist Party Delegation for Abroad

Mass Action Is the Key to Real Price Control! by Susan Green

• Better Yet – Eat Cake! (cartoon), by Carlo

Hit Scheme to Keep WP, SWP Off Ballot, by Frank Harper

CIO, AFL Unions Pledge Aid to Hickman Defense

• Mr. and Mrs. Hickman ... (photo)

Mass Discontent Rising in Italy, by Irving Howe

News and Views from the Labor Front

• Reuther Blisters Addes-Stalinists Bloc, by Walter Jason

“Coleman Murdered My Kids!” by Willard Motley

Detroit Negro First Assaulted by Cops, Then Arrested on Trumped-up Charge

With the Workers Party

Readers of Labor Action Take the Floor ...

• Taft Proposes We Eat Less, from John Howard
• Thoughts Inspired by Freedom Train, from Norman Johnstone

Editorials

• Profits, Wages and Prices
  Weekly Take-Home Pay in Manufacturing, 1939–47 (graph)
  Corporate Profit After Taxes (graph)
• Issues in the Santo Hearing

Tapping the Wall Street Wire, by Jack Ranger

• What to Call It?

These Are the Men Arrested by Stalin’s Police in Poland

PCI Pursues Revolutionary Work Among German POWs, by A. Calves

NMU Convention

Philadelphia Eviction Cases Mount; 1,300 Await Hearing, by Jack Rader

What Kind of People Are Congressmen? by Jack Ranger

Capitalist Politicians Agree to Do Nothing About Detroit Rents, by Herman Benson

Bolivia: On the Road to Dictatorship, by J. Robles

• Translator’s Notes, by A.F.

Vol. 11 No. 40, 6 October 1947

Labor Action

A Paper in the Interests of Socialism
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Emanuel Garrett
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Albert Gates Henry Judd Irving Howe

Factions Fight for Control at NMU Sessions, by Arthur Stein

US, Russia Spokesmen Shape War Blocs at UN!

No Foundation! (peace), by Carlo

URW Militants Rebuff Weak Leadeership, by E.J. McLain

British Offer Does NOT Mean Free Palestine, by Al Findley

Detroit Tenants March on Lansing, by Tom Winters

News and Views from the Labor Front

• Which Union for Telephone Workers?
• Notes on West Coast Labor Movement ..., by William Barton
• Argue UAW Issues in Buffalo
  [R.J. Thomas]
  [Walter Reuther], by Herb Mason

Cast Socialist Vote in Detroit!

New York Meeting on Second Anniversary of Viet Nam’s Declaration of Independence

Stalin’s Poland

Maryland PCA Director Forgets to Tell Who Runs Democratic, Republican Parties, by Richard Starks

Editorials

• Freedom Train
• Big Business

Off Limits, by James M. Fenwick

• Mithradatic Measures

What Is Happening in Stalinist Poland? by Abe Stein

Vote Labor, Vote WP in Philadelphia

• Election Platform (cartoons)
• Democrats-GOP Combine to Gag candidate of WP
• Socialist Fighter
  [Jack Rader] (photo)
• Adequate Housing a Desperate Need
• Drive Jim-Crow Out of Philadelphia!
• How to Write-In Jack Rader’s Name

Vol. 11 No. 41, 13 October 1947

Labor Action

A Paper in the Interests of Socialism
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Emanuel Garrett
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Albert Gates Henry Judd Irving Howe

Food: Truman Plan Won’t Feed Europe or Lower Prices

Stalin “Revives” International in Reply to U.S., by Albert Gates

Addition and Subtraction (cartoon)

Stalemate Still Governs NMU convention, by B. Ripley

Meat Starts at 5 Cents, Reaches $1.10 a Pound, by Susan Green

Detroit Flash

Score Philly Judge; Rally Asks Write-in Vote for J. Rader, by Frank Harper

Chicago Meeting Demands Hickman Freedom

News and Views from the Labor Front

• Rent Control “Hot Potato” in Detroit
• Notes on West Coast Labor Movement ..., by William Barton
• Operators Press Speed-up in Coal Mining, by Gerald McDermott

With the Workers Party

Editorials

• CP in France

World Politics

• British Tories and Nationalization, by Irving Howe

Tapping the Wall Street Wire

• Grapes of Wrath Again

Henry Agard Wallace – The Big Wind from Iowa, by Jack Ranger

The Roerich Matter

We’re Sorry

Vol. 11 No. 42, 20 October 1947

Labor Action

A Paper in the Interests of Socialism
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Emanuel Garrett
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Albert Gates Henry Judd Irving Howe

New Rent Rises Threaten

• [Need for Housing] (diagram)

Stalinist Gang Defeated by NMU Delegates

WP Candidate in Detroit Polls 4,639

HCL Investigators Offer Nothing at Philly Hearing, by Jack Rader

“Business as Usual” Governs AFL Parley, by William Barton

Hall Debates Scheitinger on UAW Caucuses, by Jim Donna

News and Views from the Labor Front

• Ohio Labor Candidate Netw Big Vote, by Joe Hauser
• Notes on West Coast Labor Movewment ..., by William Barton
• Ask support for Barberia in SF Vote
• Amnesty Demonstrators at Freedom Train Arrested; Freed as Cops Grope for a Reason
• Mine Workers Seek Political Action Avenue, by G. McDermott

Readers of Labor Action Take the Floor ...

• Presents His View on Palestine Issue, from Al Findley
• Winthrop AldRICH and “Freedom Train–, from Norman Johnstone

Stalin’s Poland

For International Action Against Stalinist Reaction, by A. Rudzienski

World Politics

• The Stalintern, 1947 Model, by Henry Judd

Off Limits, by James M. Fenwick

• Wall Street’s New War

Ceylon Trotskyist Comes Close to Winning Over Prime Minister

Billions for War Weapons ... Pennies for Housing, Health, by Susan Green

How can Labor Advance, by Herman Benson

• Herman Benson (photo)

Will Carry Rader Appeal to State Supreme Court

New York WP Phone Number

Vol. 11 No. 43, 27 October 1947

Labor Action

A Paper in the Interests of Socialism
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Emanuel Garrett
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Albert Gates Henry Judd Irving Howe

Reuther Seen Winning UAW Delegate Vote, by Ken Hillyer

Bakery Profiteers Hike Bread Price One Cent!

The Capitalists Solve Our Problems (cartoon), by Carlo

Penn Supreme Court Rejects Rader Appeal

• Jack Rader (photo)

U.S., Russia Back Partition Plan, by Al Findley

Balk Landlord Strategy! by Irving Howe

Truman Finds Police State in “Price Control”, by Susan Green

Elections in France

News and Views from the Labor Front

• Sees Lesson for Labor in AFL Parley, by William Barton
• Notes on West Coast Labor Movement ..., by William Barton
• Finds Peonage Facts Worse Than Expected
• WDL Lawyers Hold Printers’ Stand Is Legal
• NMU Convention

Housewives Scoff at Truman Plan to “Save” Food

With the Workers Party

Had a Store Shave Lately?

Editorials

• The UAW Fight and the SWP
• Not for Food
• End of an Era

World Politics, by Henry Judd

Vishinsky: His “Discretion” Is Not Always a Virtue, by Max Shachtman

International Socialist Notes

• Indo-China

Conference Will Press Tresca Investigation

Which Caucus Should UAW Militants Support? by Walter Jason

Memorial to 6 Million Dead, by Eugene Keller

Newark Meeting Discusses Zionism

Vol. 11 No. 44, 3 November 1947

Labor Action

A Paper in the Interests of Socialism
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Emanuel Garrett
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Albert Gates Henry Judd Irving Howe

Local Elections Produce New Crisis in France, by Henry Judd

Will Special Session Act on Rising Prices?

Convention Marks New NMU Stage

Not Even a Decent Interval of Mourning! (cartoon), by Carlo

Ask Write-in Vote for Jack Raderin Philly District 5

Reuther Files $500,000 Suit Against Slanderers

UAW Issue

Form United Front to Protest Polish Arrests

News and Views from the Labor Front

• Map Housing Campaign in N.Y. East Side
• Profiteers Plan Steel Shortage, by Gerry McDermott
• Baltimore Budget Committee Refuses Funds for Interracial Art Center

With the Workers Party

Readers of Labor Action Take the Floor ...

• Pullman Rights on Freedom Train, from H.D. Coleman
• Says We Must Protect Liberties, from Mrs. Mary P. Hopkins
• Presents View on Partition, from E. Keller

Editorials

• Another Cent

World Politics

Off Limits, by James M. Fenwick

• How to Prepare a War

New York WP Asks Voters to Uphold PR, by R. Saunders

Attack on Labor Serves U.S., by A. Ferrarra

Exposes Plot to Capture Polish Political Emigration, by A. Rudzienski

• Mikolajczyk Reported in Flight from Poland, by Abe Stein

Movie Probing Bigots would Outlaw Freedom of Thought, by Carl Davis

Stalinists in CIO Get Vote to Back Jeffries, by Herman Benson

Local 86 Vote a Warning, by Fay Nelson & Sidney Carter

Vol. 11 No. 45, 10 November 1947

Labor Action

A Paper in the Interests of Socialism
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Emanuel Garrett
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Albert Gates Henry Judd Irving Howe

For a New Labor Offensive! by David Coolidge

It Just Doesn’t Make Any Sense (cartoon), [_by Carlo_]

Can Auto Labor Escape Politics? by Herman Benson

UAW Convention Issues Vital for all U.S. Labor, by Walter Jason

• Walter Reuther (photo)

More Than One Way to Appease Bosses

News and Views from the Labor Front

• Reuther, Fenster Debate in Cleveland, by Joe Hauser
• Figures Show Jim Crow Lines Bosses’ Pockets, by Gerry McDermott

OK, Now We Know That They Are Serious About It, from Cleveland Plain Dealer

If Mr. Vishinsky Wanted an Answer – Here It Is, signed by Norman Thomas, James T. Farrell & Jack Weber

With the Workers Party

Editorials

• Who Is Hit Most by High Prices? (chart)
• Civil rights

World Politics, by Henry Judd

• The Example of Korea
• The Example of Burma

Tapping the Wall Street Wire, by Jack Ranger

• Employment of Women and Children

Japanese Labor Is Restive, by Jack Brad

DeGaulle Election Successes Sharpening Class Relations in France

Vol. 11 No. 46, 17 November 1947

Labor Action

A Paper in the Interests of Socialism
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Emanuel Garrett
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Albert Gates Henry Judd Irving Howe

Reuther forces Sweep UAW

• In the UAW Tradition ...
• Reelected – Walter Reuther (photo)
• Delegates Want Fighting Program, by Special Correspondent
• Bulletin

Hoodlums Break Up Philly Rally

Coal Miners Offer Plan to Meet Car Shortage, by Gerald McDermott

Neither Washington, Nor Moscow! by Max Sterling

News and Views from the Labor Front

• What’s Wrong with the ford Pension Plan? by Robert Stiler
• Bazaar Proceeds in LA go to ACEWR
• Discusses Relation of Union Leaders to Labor’s Ranks, by William Barton
• Goodrich Local 5 Statement Condemns House Committee, by George Whitney
• Men in Mines Back Lewis on T-H Stand

With the Workers Party

Readers of Labor Action Take the Floor ...

• Hollywood Does a Back Flip, from Norman Johnstone

Editorials

• The Rise of European Reaction

World Politics, by Henry Judd

• Perspective of the Marshall Plan

Off Limits, by James M. Fenwick

• How Soon Is the War Coming?

Philippine Resistance Mounts, by Gerry McDermott

Shachtman Reviews Trend Towards War

GOP-Pew Machine Leaves Nothing to Chance in Philly

Benson Will Open N.Y. Forum with Lecture on UAW

Press for Action on Tresca Case

Schumacher Speeches Reveal Contradictions in His Policy, by Eugene Keller

Dear MJC: I Like My Job Because UAW Protects Me, by Joe Hauser

Holy Royal Matrimony, by K.L.

Wall Street Helps British Retrench in Africa, by R. Stone

Vol. 11 No. 47, 24 November 1947

Labor Action

A Paper in the Interests of Socialism
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Emanuel Garrett
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Albert Gates Henry Judd Irving Howe

SWP Minority Members Join Workers Party, by Max Shachtman

Price Curbs – Yes! Pay Freeze – No! by Emanuel Garrett

Sweep ’Em Out of the Leadership! (cartoon), [_by Carlo_]

5 CIO Sea Unions Meet to Map Fight, by N. Gaden

Auto Union Convention Results Hold Importance for All Labor, by David Coolidge

Let Us Secure These Rights ..., by Irving Howe

40,000 Lodz Workers Stage Silent Protest Against Stalinist Regime, by A.R.

News and Views from the Labor Front

• In the Auto Workers Union Tradition ...
• Will Alcatraz Try It Next?
• Comments on Nature of Addes Bloc as Shown at Convention, by Walter Jason
• Notes on West Coast Labor Movement ..., by William Barton

With the Workers Party

Mikolajczyk’s Flight Bares Weakness of Stalinist Rule, by A. Rudzienski

World Politics, by Henry Judd

• The Struggle over Kashmir
• UAW Report on Germany

Tapping the Wall Street Wire, by Jack Ranger

• How the Worker Is Robbed

Parker Tyler on Shoe Shine at N.Y. Forum

Statement of SWP Minority on Joining the Workers Party

• Also Join WP
• “WP Is Place for Revolutionists”, by Bernard Ross
• “Do Not Agree with SWP Role in Unity”, by Patricia Smith

Vol. 11 No. 48, 1 December 1947

Labor Action

A Paper in the Interests of Socialism
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Emanuel Garrett
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Albert Gates Henry Judd Irving Howe
BUSINESS MANAGER:
Paul Bern

General Finds Way to Turn Brass into Gold, by James M. Fennwick

Real Price Control, Wage Raises Rest on Aggressive Labor Action!

CIO Members Quit Detroit Rent Board, by M. Evans

Not to Be Confused with Red-Baiting! (cartoon), [_by Carlo_]

Big Business Propaganda Campaign Plays Down Profits, Asks Tax Mercy, by Susan Green

There Cannot Be Any Compromise with Stalinism! by David Coolidge

Notes from West Coast Labor Movement ..., by William Barton

With the Workers Party

World Politics, by Henry Judd

• Stalinism’s Crucial Campaign

The Old Man – In Memory of L.D. Trotsky, by Victor Serge

• Salute to a Soldier of the Revolution – Victor Serge, by Max Shachtman

Medical Care and the Plight of the Negro, by Katherine Leonard

“He Won’t Go Along with Us!” (cartoon), by E. Herron

“Our Decision Not Lightly Arrived At!” by Bill Johns & Pete Randall

Philly Gets Negro Judge, But ..., by J. Rader

Vol. 11 No. 49, 8 December 1947

Labor Action

A Paper in the Interests of Socialism
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Emanuel Garrett
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Albert Gates Henry Judd Irving Howe
BUSINESS MANAGER:
Paul Bern

Workers Party Launches $15,000 Fund Drive!

Palestine Partition Highlights Need for Arab-Jewish Unity, by Al Findley

French Gov’t Orders Army Against Strikers

Steel Industry Plans Shortage to Boost Profits; Fights Control, by Susan Green

Two Policies in UAW, by Max Shachtman

Quaker City Cops Shoot Two in Anti-Negro Drive, by Jack Rader

Meyers: The Fish That Got Hooked, by James M. Fenwick

Chicago Protest Meeting on Arrest of Polish Socialists Set for Dec. 16

One-Tenth of the Nation, by E.R. McKinney

• Prices in Harlem

WDL Expresses Hope “Dope” Story on Amnesty Is False

McKinney Opens Philly Forum Series

Readers of Labor Action Take the Floor ...

• Rate Increases and Friendship Train, from B.L.
• Justice: Blind or Obedient? from Hal Everett

World Politics, by Henry Judd

• France and the London Conference

Editorials

• French S.P.
• Movie Purge

Ask Truman to Grant Amnesty

Philly Council Plots New Tax Grab from Labor

Who Profited from Concentration Camps? by Irving Howe

Mexicans Are Freed from Struck Ranch

Vol. 11 No. 50, 15 December 1947

Labor Action

A Paper in the Interests of Socialism
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Emanuel Garrett
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Albert Gates Henry Judd Irving Howe
BUSINESS MANAGER:
Paul Bern

The Necessary Steps! (cartoon), by Carlo

CIO Plans Wage Demands to Offset High Living Costs

An Editorial

• Who Are the Subversives?

Workers Party Chairman Indicts Act as Sinister

Arab-Jewish Fratricidal War Grows in Palestine, by Al Findley

Tours Will Cover All WP Branches

• On Organization Tour – E.R. McKinney (photo)

French Unions End Strikes

O’Dwyer Proposes New York Fare Rises, by Eugene Keller

News and Views from the Labor Front

• Philadelphia WP Asks United Defense of Civil Rights, from J. Rader
• Notes on West Coast Labor Movement ...
• A First-Hand Account of the Strikes in France, by Max Sterling

Editorials

• Palestine Tragedy

World Politics, by Henry Judd

• Paris and London

Tapping the Wall Street Wire, by Jack Ranger

• The Pending Freight Rate Increase

Workers Party Welcomes New Pittsburgh Branch

International Socialist Notes

• Bolshevik-Leninist senator
• Detention of Mandekar
• Bolivian Repression
• PCI Militants Arrested

Important Notice

Two Policies in the Auto Workers Union – II, by Max Shachtman

First Returns Promise Successful WP Fund Drive, by Yetta Barsh

Vol. 11 No. 51, 22 December 1947

Labor Action

A Paper in the Interests of Socialism
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Emanuel Garrett
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Albert Gates Henry Judd Irving Howe
BUSINESS MANAGER:
Paul Bern

Garrett, Shachtman Tours Open January 8

Widening of U.S.-Russian Conflict Breaks Up Big Powers’ Conference

Peace on Earth (cartoon), by Carlo

Anti-Stalinist NMU Caucus Is Formed, by N. Gaden

UAW Board Meeting Plans Cut in Staff

“Cease Fire!” Is Palestine Need, by Al Findley

ITU Strike in Chicago Enters Second Month

Protest Greek Repression

To Our Readers

News and Views from the Labor Front

• Calif. IPP Avoids Labor Party Label
• Prices Up, Wages Up (chart)
• News on West Coast Labor Movement ..., by William Barton
• New Data Supports Labor Verdict on Pinkerton Role in Framing Molly Maguires, by Mary Howard
• Agricultural Department Urged to Halt Recruitment for Struck Ranch

Ain’t It Tough

Student Strikers Hit Jim-Crow Policies of Chicago University, by Don Harris

Editorials

• Russian Ruble
• Disaffiliates
• Do Your Share

World Politics, by Henry Judd

• Stalinism at Ease

Off Limits, by James M. Fenwick

• Gypped, by Gum, Gypped

Masses Oppose Roxas Regime, by J.B. Miles

Two Policies in the Auto Workers Union – III, by Max Shachtman

• What Is Red-Baiting?

Discuss “Socialism or Barbarism” at Philly Forum

Buffalo Tops Quota in Second Fund Drive Week, by Yetta Barsh

Vol. 11 No. 52, 29 December 1947

Labor Action

A Paper in the Interests of Socialism
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Emanuel Garrett
EDITORIAL BOARD:
Albert Gates Henry Judd Irving Howe
BUSINESS MANAGER:
Paul Bern

Wallace and the Third Party, by Irving Howe

Congress Anti-Inflation Bill Mocks the People’s Needs! by Susan Green

Let’s Get Going! (cartoon), by Carlo

Truman Presents $17 Billion Program for Europe Control

• Imperialist Plan Carries His Name – Sec. of State Marshall (cartoon), by Carlo

Pauley Speculations Shed Light on Grain Profiteering, by James M. Fenwick

New Jersey CIO Jolts Influence of Stalinists, by Steve Vetrano

Philadelphia Living Costs Highest of 32 U.S. Cities

Notes on West Coast Labor Movement ..., by William Barton

CCNY Students Protest Ban on Free Speech by Officials

Relief Committee Protests Listing by Att’y General

December New International Features Benson Article on UAW President

Editorials

• Scientist as Loot

World Politics, by Henry Judd

• Stalin and His Ruble

Are You Tired of Being Kicked About? by Gordon Haskell

Horse Players Want Bookie as Generous as the Government, by Paul Bern

Correction

What Too Much Vodka Won’t Do!

Two Policies in the Auto Workers Union – IV, by Max Shachtman

Buffalo, Seattle First Stops on National Speaking Tours

WP Fund Drive Approaches One Third Mark! by Yetta Barsh

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