The Militant - Contents by Issue (1945) (original) (raw)

Vol. IX No. 1, 6 January 1945, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Allies Foist New Puppet on Greece, by Joseph Hansen

Blessings of Allied Liberation (cartoon), by Gray

“Welcome Home” Mass Meeting Planned for 12

Militant Yearly Subscription Rate Cut from 2to2 to 2to1

Roosevelt’s “Seizure” Order Halts Spreading Ward Strikes, by Art Preis

• CIO Mass Meeting Backs Strike, by John Saunders

Tresca Meeting

Union-Busting Charged Against Navy Officers

Cut-Back Lay-Offs Provoke Walkouts, by Roy Weston

War Surpluses Racket Exposed

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• Stalinist Finks in the Ward Strikes

Youngstown Branch Leads SWP Campaign to Raise $18,000 Party Expansion, by Rose Karsner

• Full steam ahead: Scoreboard

Comrade Harry Kanter

Trotskyist Youth Group Formed in New York City

Militant Army

Railway Bosses Swindle Workers from Puerto Rico

Pioneer Notes

Twin Cities Hold Sunday forums

ELAS Defeats British-Backed EDES Forces, by Wells Thurber

• Socialist Appeal: Hands Off Greece (reproduction of leaflet)
• Young ELAS Fighters in Piraeus

An Open Letter to R.J. Thomas, by Perley P. McManus, from Voice of Local 212

SWP Convention Articles Featured in December F.I.

One Year After the 18 Entered Prison, by Paul Abbott

• Trotskyist Leaders Just Before Imprisonment (photo)
• Scene at Christmas Party for Children of Minneapolis Prisoners

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

Roosevelt Uses Executive Power to Regiment the Labor Movement, by C. Thomas

10 Years Ago in The Militant

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• Athens and Georgia

Repeat performance (cartoon), by Gray

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

Stalinist Machine Blocks CIO Council Aid to Ward Strikers

Pioneers Paragraphs

• Lenin and Trotsky – Leaders of the Russian Revolution, from From Lenin to Stalin, by Victor Serge

[Editorials]

• Join Us in Fighting for —
• Voice of Imperialism
• Profits of War
• Third World War

Workers’ Forum

• Praises Morale of Ward Pickets, from E. Logan
• Reader Finds Our Paper Enlightening, from C.F.A.
• Ed. Note
• An Old Socialist, from P.B.C.
• Wants Records, I.W.

How British and American Corporations Armed the Nazis

Huge Death Toll in Mines Due to Lust for Profits

International Notes

• Bulgaria
• Italy
• France

Anti-Fascist Hero

Aluminum Corporation Blocks Power Project

Vol. IX No. 2, 13 January 1945, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Labor Leaders Will Speak at Meeting for 12

• CRDC Fund Drive Goes Over Top

Roosevelt Demands Slave Labor Bill in First Congress Message

• Calls for Immediate Action of Forced Labor Measures, by C. Thomas
• First Act of New Congress Revives Dies Committee, by R. Bell
• Congress Hoists Its Flag (cartoon), by Gray

New York Local Phone Operators Vote to Strike

Greek Premier Follows Allied Policy of Counter-Revolution, by Joseph Hansen

Negroes Denied War Jobs Despite Labor “Shortage”, by R. Chester

Government Uses Ward Case to Aid Anti-Strike Power, by Art Preis

American Army Officer Attacks French Union

Soviet Prisoners of War Hail Rising Revolution in Europe

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• Battlelines Form in UAW Referendum

Socialist Workers Party Branches Speed Contributions Toward $18,000 fund

• Full steam ahead: Scoreboard

Militant Army

Oscar Shoenfeld Will Address New York Forum

Pioneer Notes

Youth Speaker Opposes War

The 18 and Their Jailers, by Ruth Johnson

The Four Freedoms as Seen in India (cartoon), from Indian Log

Workers’ Bookshelf

• American Workers Need a Labor Party, by Joseph Hansen, reviewed by C. Andrews

More Kindly Words (poem), by Roger Service, from British Tribune

Ambassador’s Cable Proves Allies Provoked Greek War

Mexican Workers Fight High Prices

Cynical Bureaucrats

Liebknecht and Luxemburg – Heroic Martyrs in the Worker’s Struggle for Socialism, by Martha Murray

• Rosa Luxemburg (photo)
• Karl Liebknecht (photo)

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

“It Takes Guts to Run This Country” (cartoon), by Gray

UAW East Coast Committee Fights No-Strike Pledge

Open-Shopper Reports on European Problems, by Louis Bonn

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• The Truth in Dixie

Army “Seizure” at Ward’s (photo)

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

Pioneers Paragraphs

• Bolshevism Gave Greatest Example of Real Democracy, from From Lenin to Stalin, by Victor Serge

10 Years Ago in The Militant

[Editorials]

• Join Us in Fighting for —
• Labor Solidarity
• Militarism
• Fiction and Fact

Workers’ Forum

• Christmas Work, from Dan Dreiser
• Marshall Field, from A Reader
• Ed. Note
• A Real Contributor, from H.C.

No Faith in Roosevelt’s Wage and Job Promises

Where the Carrion Lies the Vultures Hover

International Notes

• Spain
• Belgium
• Yugoslavia

“Liberation”

Federal Court Goes Easy on Corporation Criminals

Vol. IX No. 3, 20 January 1945, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Forced Labor Laws Endanger Unions, by C. Thomas

• “The Greatest Liberal of Them All” (cartoon), by Gray

Anti-Labor Front Aids UAW “No-Strike” Group, by Art Preis

• Auto Militants Make Gains in Fight to Scrap Pledge

Discrimination Exposes Manpower Shortage

Allies Protect Italian Fascists

Released Trotskyist Leaders to Address New York Meeting

Budget Report Shows Staggering War Costs

Biddle Accused of Helping Trust Laws Violators

Allies Imposed “Truce” in War on Greek People, by Joseph Hansen

Mae Postal (obituary)

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• Two UAW-CIO Specialists in Deceit

SWP Branches Boost Fund Drive Totals as Date of Release for Comrades Nears, by Rose Karsner

• Full steam ahead: Scoreboard

Comrade James Powell (obituary)

Militant Army

N.Y. Forum Hears Talk on “What is Trotskyism?”

Pioneer Notes

Socialist Youth Forum Expands

How Lenin Spoke on the Platform, by Leon Trotsky

• V.I. Lenin (1870–1924) (lithograph)

Big Business and the “New Deal”, by R. Bell

Tobin Pays Off to Stassen for Aid Against 544-CIO

• Tobin (cartoon)

Who Told the Truth About Second World War? by Ruth Johnson

All Quiet on the Athens Front (cartoon), by Gray

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

How Britain Established the Monarchs in Greece, by Joseph Hansen

“We Will Return”

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• Tasks of the Negro Workers in the UAW

Carlo Tresca, Labor Martyr, Is Honored Internationally on Anniversary of Death

• Unveiling Bust of Carlo Tresca (photo)
• Socialist Workers Party Message to Carlo Tresca Memorial Meeting

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

10 Years Ago in The Militant

Pioneer Paragraphs

• 1934 Minneapolis Strikes Showed Way to All Labor, from History of American Trotskyism, by James P. Cannon

[Editorials]

• Join Us in Fighting for —
• The Living Lenin
• Class War
• Exile for Millions

Workers’ Forum

• Mass Lay-Offs and the Labor Draft, from A Diesel Worker
• The Monopolists, from M. Freed
• Ed. Note

Returned Soldiers Display Union Militancy in Plants

Monopolies Protected by Roosevelt Regime

International Notes

• England
• Italy
• Germany
• France
• Belgium

The Prospects for Jobs under “Free Enterprise”

Vol. IX No. 4, 27 January 1945, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

12 Trotskyist Leaders Released After Imprisonment of 13 Months, by Larissa Reed

• Natalia Trotsky Greets 12

Churchill Blames His Victims for Greek Slaughter, by Joseph Hansen

• The Unholy Alliance Against Trotskyism

Roosevelt Rejects AFL-CIO Demand to Raise Wages, by R. Bell

Clear the Road! (cartoon), by Gray

Murray Intervenes to Bolster No-Strike Policy in UAW Poll, by Art Preis

Roosevelt Breaks Cleveland Strike

Flint CIO Council Scores Allied Policy in Europe

Roosevelt, Brass Hats Speed Forced Labor, by C. Thomas

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• Punitive Measures Against Union Militants

Release of 12 Prisoners Spurs SWP Expansion Fund Drive, by Rose Karsner

• Full steam ahead: Scoreboard

New York SWP Local Holds Lenin Meeting

Militant Army

Pioneer Notes

Speed-Up Hits Rubber Workers, by Joseph Andrews

• Condemn Dalrymple

How Stalinism Rules Bulgaria, by Paul Abbott

Released Trotskyist Prisoners (photo)

Lynn Case Appeal Rejected Again by Supreme Court

• Winfred Lynn (photo)

Stalinist Fink Clause in ILWU Contract

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

Of Course, THEY Like It! (cartoon), by John Baer, from Labor

Auto Militants Rally to Fight No-Strike Pledge, by Jerry Kirk

Rankin Speaks on Negro slavery

Longshoremen Given Wage Run-Around as Bridges Hobnobs with Shipowners, by Robert Chester

• Bridges (cartoon)

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• Get into the Union Struggle

“Hunger with Dignity” in Italy (cartoon), by Gray

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

Pioneer Paragraphs

• How Trotskyism Transforms Militants into Bolsheviks, from History of American Trotskyism, by James P. Cannon

10 Years Ago in The Militant

[Editorials]

• Join Us in Fighting for —
• Greetings to the 12
• Roosevelt Deceit
• The War Criminals

Workers’ Forum

• Terrorism and Zionism, from Henry Hill
• British Workers and UAW Militants, from S.H.
• Wants Definitions, from L.O.L.

Supreme Court Juggles Words on Child Labor

Capitalist Judge Shows “Impartiality” – Almost

International Notes

• West Indies
• France
• Belgium

The Revealing Leaflet American Legion Withdrew

Vol. IX No. 5, 3 February 1945, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

UAW demands withdrawal from WLB, by Art Preis

Ward “seizure” by government ruled illegal

• Army suspends WLB orders in Ward case

The homecoming of the twelve, by Larissa Reed

• Released Trotskyists on Minneapolis arrival (photo)
• Albert Goldman greeted at CRDC Chicago meeting

Roosevelt puts on pressure for forced labor measures, by Joseph Keller

Extra! WLB bucks big corporation

British Trotskyist runs for parliament

Auto militants broadcast strong appeal for revocation of the no-strike pledge, by J. Kirk & R. Weston

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• Textile wage case conspiracy

Socialist Workers Party fund drive tops $15,000 mark on release of comrades, by Rose Karsner

• Full steam ahead: Scoreboard

Uruguay Trotskyists hounded by reaction

Militant Army

Meetings of SWP branches commemorate Lenin’s work

• Youth group holds forum

Pioneer Notes

We carry on Lenin’s fight today, by M. Stein

Servant of Big Business (photo)

Allies censor news on Greece, by Joseph Hansen

What Wallace-Jones dispute really means, by Paul Abbott

Economic chaos intensifies woes of Italian people

Twin cities hold banquet in honor of 12, by Barbara Bruce

• Back home with their comrades (photo)

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

The life and work of Lenin commemorated in January FI

10 Years Ago in The Militant

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• Another Brownskin bites the dust

Taking a leaf of out of Hitler’s book, by Gray (cartoon)

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

Pioneer Paragraphs

• How Marxists approach all organizational questions, from History of American Trotskyism, by James P. Cannon

[Editorials]

• Join us in fighting for —
• Lessons of Greece
• The price of murder
• Big Steal formula

Workers’ Forum

• Tresca meeting, from M. Freed
• Flag-waver, from A.C.
• Ideas and reality, R.H.M.
• Technocrats and labor conscription, from J.T.

General Electric accused of ties with Nazi cartel

War or peace – corporation patent “rights” respected

International Notes

• Italy
• Canada
• France
• Hungary

Why the RFC is called “relief for capitalists”

Vol. IX No. 6, 10 February 1945, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Slave labor bill adopted by House

• Stalinist union traitors urge forced labor, by Joseph Keller

12 released Trotskyists honored at meeting, by Art Preis

Cleveland auto militants fight no-strike pledge

“Big Three” conference, by Gray (cartoon)

The “Big Three” conference: secret diplomacy in action, by Harry Martell

‘Freedom from want’

Los Angeles SWP runs candidate for mayor, by J. Simons

• Myra Tanner Weiss (photo)

Writer exposes deliberate provocation in brutal massacre of Greek workers, by Larissa Reed

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• Telephone workers
• UAW and WLB
• Westinghouse
• Secretary Addes

More branches top their quotas in SWP $18,000 fund campaign, by Rose Karsner

• Full steam ahead: Scoreboard

Militant Army

Pertinent questions

Pioneer Notes

Colonial policy is forum topic

[Mass Meeting in New York]

• James P. Cannon’s message
• Speech of Albert Goldman
• Speech of Farrell Dobbs
• Speech of Felix Morrow
• Resolution

The Moyne case and its meaning, by Norman Daniels

Sidney Hillman boasts “I am a banker also,” by Louis Jordan

• “Us bankers”, by Gray (cartoon)

Separatists are British catspaws in ruined Sicily, by Ruth Johnson

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

• What price power?
• “Four freedoms” (cartoon)

GI housing bill is benefit mainly to realty sharks

10 Years Ago in The Militant

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• The Chicago Defender’s “New Course”

Scene at CRDC mass meeting (photo)

• Party greetings to 12
• Labor greetings to released 12

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

Pioneer Paragraphs

• What a labor party means to the oppressed Negroes, from American Workers Need a Labor Party, by Joseph Hansen

[Editorials]

• Join us in fighting for —
• Time for action
• Welcome for the 12
• 12 years of Nazism

Workers’ Forum

• Stalinism, from J. Span
  Ed. Note
• Negro nurses, from R.N.
• Labor lobby fraud, from J.K.
• Where rascals are, from L.B. Courts

War! It’s wonderful – for American bankers

What most people think about capitalist politics

International Notes

• Germany
• France
• Strike wave

“Shortage” is smokescreen for tire price-steal

Vol. IX No. 7, 17 February 1945, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

AFL interviews SWP candidate in Los Angeles

Secret Allied conference at Yalta designs plans to dominate Europe, by William F. Warde

One more scrap of paper, by Gray (cartoon)

Soldier receives life sentence for socialist views

Brass Hats raise fake “morale” issue in drive to put over slave labor law, by C. Thomas

Allied leaders fear European revolution

Strikes, mass actions topple Pierlot rule, by Frank Lawrence

Released Trotskyists send thanks to CRDC for aid

• Farrell Dobbs (photo)

Celler exposes Stalinist lobby for forced labor

Angry packing house workers strike, protest wage stall

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• Wage “rollback”
• Paid holidays
• Forced work transfers
• Miners’ demands
• For workers fund

SWP $18,000 expansion fund campaign near goal with 92 p.c. of quota fulfilled, by Rose Karsner

• Full steam ahead: Scoreboard

Genaro Gomez, by Oscar Fisher

Pioneer Notes

Militant Army

“Labor draft bill” and “socialism” are topics at New York forums

Few gains in steel wage “victory,” by Ed Conti

• U.S. Steel salts away huge hidden profits

Who was it that won the elections?

How it all adds up by Gray (cartoon)

Textile barons laud OPA heads

Grace Carlson gives talk on crisis in Europe

What forced labor means for the Negro people

Steelworkers hold caucus in Dist. 26 to support Beck

Flint unionists urge creation of Labor Party, by Jeff Thorne

Masses demonstrate against Pierlot (photo)

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

“Let them eat cake”

Citrine slanders ELAS, whitewashes Churchill

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• Jackson meeting in Buffalo

Secret diplomacy (cartoon), by Gray

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

“What’s to become of me?”, by Bill Horton & Louise Jordan

Pioneer Paragraphs

• Fascist movements develop out of monopoly capitalism, from Fascism and Big Business, by Daniel Guerin

10 Years Ago in The Militant

[Editorials]

• Join us in fighting for —
• CIO-PAC policy
• World labor parley
• U.S. Constitution

Workers’ Forum

• “Blame the CIO”, from T.S.
• Wants exposures in The Militant, from P. North
• A socialist fighter for over 40 years, from R.A.C.
• WLB runaround, from C.B.

How to get to Congress – according to an authority

Company-store prices boosted by OPA order

International Notes

• West Indies
• Germany
• Italy
• Soviet Union

Senate hearings reveal war surplus speculation

Vol. IX No. 8, 24 February 1945, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Union heads back forced labor plan, by C. Thomas

Allies impose harsh “peace” on Greek ELAS, by Larissa Reed

Trying to hold down the iron lid, by Gray (cartoon)

UAW referendum on strike policy nears conclusion

Campaign begins for 10,000 Militant readers

Real aims united the Allies at secret Crimea conference, by William F. Warde

Helen Judd (obituary)

SWP candidate files nominating petitions

Beating the gun on forced labor

WLB chairman Davis gives whitewash excuse for board’s stalling policies, by Art Preis

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• Gang up on miners
• UMW and AFL
• Not out yet!
• NLRB strike polls
• Employment decline $18,000 party expansion fund campaign total goes over top ahead of deadline, by Rose Karsner Full steam ahead: Scoreboard Workers laid off despite ‘shortage’ New York local welcomes return of Grace Carlson Militant Army New York forum to hear address on Yalta parley Pioneer Notes New SWP hall in San Pedro A report from France on what workers want French Trotskyist call to action (facsimile) French Trotskyist call to revolutionary action

Why we supported “EAM-ELAS” struggles, by M. Morrison

Myra Tanner Weiss (photo)

“Might is right,” by Covington Hall (song)

Leon Sedov: Brave revolutionary fighter, by Leon Trotsky

• 1906 – Leon Sedov – 1938 (photo)

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

Bosses launch attack on Briggs UAW local, by Jeanette Lane

Vicious lies spread about Greek ELAS

Protests compel reduction of court-martial sentence

“The Four Freedoms” (cartoon)

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• The Army comes through

Graveyard of grievances, by Gray (cartoon)

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

Unrest mounting inside Germany

Real aims that united Allies at Yalta parley

Pioneer Paragraphs

• Trotskyism offers fighting program for youth, women, from The Founding Conference of the Fourth International

What the real score was in Greece

10 Years Ago in The Militant

[Editorials]

• Join us in fighting for —
• Stalinists in Greece
• End of isolationism
• Betrayal technique

Workers’ Forum

• The Weber case, from H.C.
• Fascist activities, from Mike Warren
• There is more than one Hitler, from Ernest Bradshaw
• For the poor, from Andy Molander

_The Militant_’s Question-Box

• [Question], from L.J. Sims
• Editor’s Answer

International Notes

• Belgium
• Greece
• Italy
• France

Vol. IX No. 9, 3 March 1945, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Textile union ends no-strike pledge, by Art Preis

• It’s beginning to break! by Gray (cartoon)

Vigilante terror aimed at Japanese-Americans, by Ralph Graham

• Trotskyist candidate hits vigilante raids

Forced labor plan advanced by Senate military committee, by C. Thomas

Little Steel formula upheld by “impartial” WLB members

A tough argument

Terror fails to halt strikes in Germany, _by Harry Martel_l

Fund campaign sets high record

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• U.S. Steel Contract
• Army and Ward ‘seizure’
• Auto barons assail UAW
• CIO Newspaper Guild and Bridges

SWP branches obtain 1,526 new readers in first day of Militant sub campaign, by Reba Aubrey

• Sub scoreboard
• Branch reports

Akron workers hear talk on situation in Europe

“War is hell!”

Militant Army

Greet released 12 at San Francisco CRDC meeting

• Goldman extends thanks to CRDC

Pioneer Notes

Dollar patriots get fat Nazi dividend

N.Y. forum on Jewish question

$18,000 party expansion fund final score

Fighting record of Trotskyists inside France

• Trotskyist European underground papers (photomontage)

Reign of terror renewed in Greece following “peace”

The reparations issue and a socialist Europe, by M. Morrison

Churchill armed fascist forces to massacre the Greek workers, by Larissa Reed

Low wages, bloated profits in textile

• Pay is lowest in all industry
• War profiteers multiply wealth
• Pattern in textiles – 1945, by Gray (cartoon)
• Inside the textile mills (photos)

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

Steelworkers election reveals militant trend, by Jack Wilson

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• Big Business leader speaks

Vigilantes burn Japanese-American home (photo)

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

Plan to pillage Germany means ruin for Europe, by John G. Wright

• Stalin will fight German revolution

Pioneer Paragraphs

• What Russian Revolution taught world proletariat, fromThe Russian Revolution, by James P. Cannon

10 Years Ago in The Militant

[Editorials]

• Join us in fighting for —
• Vote Trotskyist!
• Capitalist program
• Menace of Stalinism

Workers’ Forum

• Seeks information about Trotskyism, from S.H.
• Small business-men and the unions, from M.A.W.
• Italian aristocrats play both sides, from A. Rico
• Our millionaires, from L.B.C.
• Question-box, from Mike Warren

Private working capital greatest in all history

FHA bars Negro workers from Texas housing units

International Notes

• France
• Belgium
• Italy

“Millionaires Amendment” to limit taxes on rich

Vol. IX No. 10, 10 March 1945, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Workers oppose WMC draft plan in New Bedford, by C. Thomas

Detroit CIO auto workers strike against anti-union provocations, by John Saunders

• Bulletin

Negro Seabees protest Jim-Crow by hunger strike, by Henry Jordan

Roosevelt’s trained seals, by Gray (cartoon)

“Tyrants War”

Vinson tightens wage freeze in ruling on ‘fringe’ demands

WLB denies UAW CIO wage raise

SWP candidate speaks at enthusiastic rally

• Myra Tanner Weiss (photo)

Mine union opens negotiation for substantial pay increases

Election platform of Trotskyist candidate for Los Angeles mayor

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• Murray “fights” back
• Telephone pay
• Unionism grows
• 55 cent minimum IF —

Branches obtain over 2,000 subscriptions in first two weeks of Militant campaign, by Reba Aubrey

• Scoreboard
• From the branches
• Pace-setters

Employers plan drive to bust labor unions, by R. Bell

Militant Army

Akron contender challenges all new members

Pioneer Notes

Roosevelt and the Middle-East kings, by Frank Lawrence

• Three kings bearing gifts, by Gray (cartoon)

Report gives real opinion of German people on Nazism

Canadians fight draft roundup, by E. Johnson

Nazi officials retained in conquered territory, by John G. Wright

International Notes

• France
• Philippines
• Germany
• Greece

Talk in Newark on Yalta parley

Tribute to Helen Judd – revolutionary fighter, by Art Preis

• Helen Judd (photo)

The glorious traditions and history of International Women’s Day, March 8, by Ruth Johnson

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

What “Liberation” meant to Antwerp, by M. Warren

Report discloses intent to limit Jewish dentists, by Don Shelton

Three articles on Greece featured in February F.I.

Forum to hear Ruth Johnson

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• Another minority attacked

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

Stalinist finks aid Detroit auto barons

“Transfusion? – Free!”, by Seaman, from Justice (cartoon)

Pioneer Paragraphs

• The crimes of Big Business profiteers during war-time, from War-time Crimes of Big Business, by George Breitman

“Get off the War Labor Board,” demands Flint council

10 Years Ago in The Militant

[Editorials]

• Join us in fighting for –
• U.S. role in Greece
• Duping UAW ranks
• Wage-freeze fight

Wall Street’s “relief” for Europe, by Gray (cartoon)

OPA chief admits profits are highest in history

Workers’ Forum

• The rich and poor in ‘liberated’ Europe, from F.W.
• Relies on “prayer”, from C.P. McLaughlin
• Make your choice, from M.M.
• Militant goes into the Deep South, from Louise R.
• Transit strike, from H.T. (poem)

What Little Steel formula has done to real wages

Price ceiling violations boost cost-of-living

Question Box

Vol. IX No. 11, 17 March 1945, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Wage-freeze chiefs gain promotions, by R. Bell

• Graduation day at wage-freeze institute, by Gray (cartoon)

Race on terrorism on West Coast goes unchecked, by Ralph Graham

Insurgent masses fight Hitlerism inside Germany, by Harry Martell

“Escape” of fascist general rocks Bonomi regime in Italy, by John G. Wright

In the News

• Let freedom ring!
• War for democracy
• Right the first time
• Social error
• It’s contagious

Los Angeles SWP election rallies feature campaign

Briggs workers vote to end 10-day strike, by Jeanette Lane

UAW-CIO international board meets as auto crisis grows, by Art Preis

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• Treason to labor
• Knifing the miners
• Phone strike vote
• Textile strike vote
• Lockout in Detroit
• Where was PAC?

Branches maintain over 1,000-per-week pace in Militant subscription campaign, by Reba Aubrey

• Scoreboard
• From the branches
• Pace-setters

Senate bill embodies forced labor scheme, by C. Thomas

Militant Army

Paris Commune is forum topic

N.Y. local plans masquerade ball

Pioneer Notes

Program published by the Italian Trotskyist Party

• Italian Trotskyist papers (photomontage)

Anglo-American masters grant a “concession”, by M. Morrison

Letter from an Italian peasant

• Rome workers demonstrate against Bonomi regime (photo)

International Notes

• France
• Austria
• England
• Greece

The 62nd anniversary of Karl Marx’s death, by Friedrich Engels

• 1818 – Karl Marx – 1883 (photo)

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

Behind the Stalinist campaign of slander, by Joseph Keller

“Learn to relax by cultivating hobby” is radio advice to overworked mothers, by Grace Carlson

• “Learn to relax ...”, by RW (cartoon)

Reading unionists urge Labor Party

The Negro Struggle, Charles Jackson

• When black and white look alike

Costs: One trillion dollars, by Gray (cartoon)

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

Pioneer Paragraphs

• What defense of the USSR signifies for Trotskyists, from In Defense of Marxism, by Leon Trotsky

10 Years Ago in The Militant

• Join us in fighting for —
• Kremlin and Greece
• Nationalize mines
• Navy Jim-Crow

Slave labor – before Yalta and after, by Gray (cartoon)

What leading capitalists think of job prospects

Radio networks spread anti-labor propaganda

Workers’ Forum

• Answers Churchill’s attack on Greeks, from Milton L. Babin
• Negro workers, from I. Cope
• More comment on the Question Box, from Angus McQueen

Press blackout hides profiteers’ war crimes

Question Box

Vol. IX No. 12, 24 March 1945, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

War profiteers seek to smash price controls, by Henry Jordan

• “One meat ball”, by RW (cartoon)

Mass resistance to Hitler regime reported growing inside Germany, by Harry Martell

Detroit strikers fight mass firing of union leaders, by Jerry Kirk

The open-shopper’s lament, by Gray (cartoon)

CIO leaders vote to continue their policy of retreat, by C. Thomas

Powerful minority vote cast against UAW no-strike policy, by Art Preis

In the News

• No silk shirts
• All news fit to print?
• The vultures hover
• Heil Harvard!
• Italy’s “New Order”

Trotskyist candidate begins radio campaign, by Myra Tanner Weiss

• Myra Tanner Weiss (photo)
• Bulletin

Packinghouse units call for “holiday”, by Barbara Bruce

Major demands of coal miners rejected by greedy operators, by Joseph Keller

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• Textile Strike Poll
• UAW Dues Decline
• Hush-Hush in Auto
• AFL Asks 11% Boost
• Philadelphia Aftermath

Branches near half-way mark in campaign for 10,000 new Militant subscribers, by Reba Aubrey

• Scoreboard
• From the branches
• From our subscribers
• Pace-setters

Militant conference plans 8-page weekly

Militant Army

New York forum to hear lecture on German events

N.Y. local to hold masquerade ball

Pioneer Notes

Socialist youth forum is held

Youngstown accepts challenge of Akron contender

British accused of assisting fascist Roatta’s escape; masses indignant at close of collaborationists’ trial, by Larissa Reed

• Demonstration in Rome (photo)

The road to freedom for people op [sic] Poland, by M. Morrisson

Militant’s trailblazers send first report on work

International Notes

• Belgium
• Ecuador
• Egypt
• Yugoslavia
• Philippines

Reaction of soldiers to hate-propaganda

Shop talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

Paris Commune: first workers government, by Ruth Johnson

• Marx hailed Paris Commune (woodcut)

Billionaires Club membership up with war profits

• Billionaires’ Club, by RW (cartoon)

Best medical care given Fala’s pups while infants of poor suffer neglect, by Grace Carlson

• Fala, by RW (cartoon)

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• Browder shows his colors

What miners are fighting to win, by Evelyn Atwood

• HE: “Imagine those miners asking for more money while WE’RE fighting this war”, by Gray (cartoon)

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

Pioneer Paragraphs

• Fate of the Soviet Union linked to world revolution, from Whither France? by Leon Trotsky

10 Years Ago in The Militant

[Editorials]

• Join us in fighting for —
• German workers
• Smith-Connally Act
• The main task

Guardian of reaction, by Gray (cartoon)

OPA gives profiteers another helping hand

Workers’ Forum

• Polish readers, from D.L.
• Milwaukee socialists, from Jack O’Connell
• More ‘spicy’ articles, from J.M
• Negro blood, from I.C.
• Aystem denies right to trial by jury, from Arthur Penn

NAM advice on how to win friends inside Congress

Grain speculators coin millions from ‘leaks’

Question Box

Vol. IX No. 13, 31 March 1945, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Administration aids meat profiteers, by Art Preis

• “Equality of sacrifice”, by Gray (cartoon)

Documents show British bribe Greek royalists

• British deport 15,000 Greeks to N. Africa

Wacs [_sic_] protesting Jim-Crow given hard labor terms

$5,000 reward in Tresca murder posted by police

Anti-Stalinist militants gain strength in Ford Local 600, by Roy Weston

In the News

• Taking no chances?
• Labor, gas shortages?
• Army of democracy
• Labor ‘friend’ pays off
• The real communism

West Coast Stalinists seek to suppress SWP

Why Roosevelt promises ‘study’ of annual wage, by C. Thomas

Myra Weiss issues election statement

• Myra Tanner Weiss (photo)

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• UAW convention
• Quislings in labor
• Avery carries on
• Terror at Weirton
• Shipyard layoffs

Over 5,600 new subscriptions obtained in first month of Militant campaign, by Reba Aubrey

• Scoreboard
• From the branches
• From our subscribers
• Pace-setters

“Trailblazers” visit miners, steel workers

Notice to subscribers

Militant Army

Heritage of Marx is forum topic at N.Y. school

Pioneer Notes

Newark forum hears C. Thomas

Toledo entry challenges Akron and Youngstown

Belgian Trotskyists call for workers government

• Belgian Trotskyist paper (photo)

“Legal” intervention in Latin America, by M. Morrison

British Trotskyists enter election race

• Jock Haston (photo)

March F.I. analyzes role of Stalinism

Kremlin upholds capitalist rule inside Rumania

International Notes

• India
• Japan
• Finland
• Great Britain

“Vote for Socialism!” says SWP candidate, by Myra Tanner Weiss

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

Poorly-housed workers long for “Dream Home”, by Grace Carlson

• Dream House in the country, by R. Wilson (cartoon)

Flint Chevrolet paper publishes reply of SWP organizer to Clayton Fountain, by Arthur Burch

Imperialists compete in cynical phrases

J. Pierpoint Moneybags says: “ I am certainly 100% behind the no-strike pledge”, by R. Wilson (cartoon)

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• Powell, the political contortionist

Why miners should get a “royalty,” by Larissa Reed

• “Give workers an annual wage and they’ll never do an honest day’s work again”, by Gray (cartoon)

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

Bosses’ reconversion plans are cutbacks, unemployment, by R. Bell

Pioneer Paragraphs

• Food shortage made worse by ruthless profiteering, from Your Standard of Living – What’s Happening to It?, by C. Charles

10 Years Ago in The Militant

Cost-plus magic, by R. Wilson (cartoon)

[Editorials]

• Join us in fighting for —
• Role of Stalinism
• Forced labor drive
• Churchill’s speech

The same old racket, by Gray (cartoon)

Latest report on social season at Palm Beach

Workers’ Forum

• “Sick of lies”, from R.O.Z.
• His toughest fights with union haters, from A.C.
• In the fight for 45 years, from Robert H. Miller
• Tells the story of her husband, from Mrs. W.H. Wood
• Security Vouncil and League of Nation [_sic_], from M.A.

Nazis protected profits of Harvester Corporation

Manufacturers association blasts at price controls

Question Box

Vol. IX No. 14, 7 April 1945, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Miners display fighting spirit in strike vote

Big Business hails “peace charter” signed by CIO and AFL leaders, by C. Thomas

• Changing the leopard’s spots, by Gray (cartoon)

Los Angeles SWP local backs Negro candidate

• Bulletin

In the News

• Can it be war profits?
• No aid to their morale!
• Nazis’ 1,000-year rule
• Bad news for Bilbo
• Mercy – for big thieves
• This year in Rome

An Editorial

• Fight censorship!

Indian Trotskyist leader dying in colonial prison

Flint AC plant auto workers strike against provocations, by Jeff Thorne

Struggles of Belgian miners supported by Trotskyist Party

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• Addes and Thomas
• Recognize foremen
• More Stalinist finkery
• Telephone strike poll
• Prisoner-of-war labor

1,800 new Militant readers in one week sets record for subscription campaign, by Reba Aubrey

• Scoreboard
• ‘Trailblazers’ obtain 301 new subscriptions
• From the branches
• From our subscribers
• Pace-setters

Jackson speaks at Toledo meeting on Negro struggle

Militant Army

Hold Militant sub drive party

Pioneer Notes

N.Y. forum hears speech on Marx

Spanish Trotskyist group issues ringing call to action, from Lucha de Clases

• First issue of Spanish Trotskyist paper (facsimile)

Social-Democrats back imperialists in Greece, by M. Morrison

International Notes

• Austria
• Puerto Rico
• Nigeria

‘The story’s true’

SWP candidate exposes American fascists, by Myra Tanner Weiss

• Trotskyist Campüaigner (facsimile)

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

Hoodlums assault Jewish children in Minneapolis

NAACP demands Youngstown chief of police removed

• J. Pierpoint Moneybags says: “Wage raises mean inflation. What we need is _higher prices_”, by R. Wilson (cartoon)

Wartime graft

• 50 billion dollars by R. Wilson (cartoon)

Children suffer from “hidden hunger” because workers can’t buy decent food, by Grace Carlson

• Eat the right food to help you keep fit, by R. Wilson (cartoon)

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• Black Boy packs a wallop

“Roosevelt’s right – we need a labor draft to put those loafers to work!” by Gray (cartoon)

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

Gompers’ “Peace Pact” – its lessons for labor

• How a contemporary crtoonist viewed the capitalist-labor “peace pact” of 1901 (facsimile)
• Report of love feast which preceded the employer drive against labor (facsimile)

Pioneer Paragraphs

• Profiteering food trusts cause food price inflation, from Your Standard of Living – What’s Happening to it? by C. Charles

10 Years Ago in The Militant

[Editorials]

• Join us in fighting for —
• Freedom from want
• Exposing a fraud
• Food profiteers

Laying it on the table! by Gray (cartoon)

Why Allied bombs ‘miss’ some plants in Germany

Workers’ Forum

• Steel workers send Congressman wire, from Steel Worker
• A real “Mac”, from B.L.
• Anti-Semitic poison, from Jean Martin
• Cost-plus contract, from A. Davis
• Ives-Quinn bill, a small concession, from R. Murdoch

War boosts profiteering to new record heights

War food administration blamed for shortages

Question Box

Vol. IX No. 15, 14 April 1945, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Bosses press for anti-strike laws, by Art Preis

SWP election campaign closes in Los Angeles

Fattening the hog, by Gray (cartoon)

Roosevelt report demands extension of wage freeze, by C. Thomas

Meat profiteers line pockets with government funds

Widespread coal strikes show miners really mean business, by Joseph Keller

• A generous proposal

In the News

• On one meat ball, too!
• Fox-hole or brass-hat?
• Tough, ain’t it?
• Let them eat gilt!
• More bull than bullish

Greek reaction ousts Plastiras in new shift, by Harry Martell

18 thank 600 unions for help in defense

Trotskyists arrested in Belgian dock strike

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• Auto workers fear move to scuttle convention
• Seamen back miners
• Father of heroes – fired!
• Annual wage “study”
• Severance pay
• Peacetime militarism

Branches maintain 1,200 weekly average in campaign for new Militant readers, by Reba Aubrey

• Scoreboard
• ‘Trailblazers’ report on latest successes
• From the branches
• From our subscribers
• Militant pace-setters

Militant Army

Pioneer Notes

Lecture series on World War II

My life in a mining town – a first-hand account of the struggles of those who toil in the pits, by a former miner

• Miners casting strike vote (photo)

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

Marc Dauber, by Felix Morrow (obituary)

How to get needed rest puzzles ulcer patients, by Grace Carlson

• “He’s following the doctor’s prescription – one hour of complete relaxation after each meal”, by R. Wilson (cartoon)

Foremen in Akron rubber plant go on first strike

Los Angeles SWP fights radio censorship

What is holding back the German Revolution? by M. Morrison

Wartime growth of organized labour (graphic)

Urge labor inquiry of Stalinist slanders

Nurses arrested for acts of kindliness

Union-busting drive continues at Briggs, by Jeanette Lane

International Notes

• Greece
• Great Britain
• Italy
• Germany
• Albania

Hits the jackpot

• American-Hawaiian S.S., by RW (cartoon)

Notice to subscribers

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• Significance of the Gibson Report

“Mrs. Roosevelt is right – it certainly pays to buy good clothes”, by Gray (cartoon)

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

The real price policy of the A and P stores

• J. Pierpoint Moneybags says: “Raise prices – that’s the way to beat the black market”, by RW (cartoon)

Pioneer Paragraphs

• Useless capitalist class prevents social progress, from Your Standard of Living – What’s Happening to It? by C. Charles

10 Years Ago in The Militant

Mickey Rooney’s war performance, a note from V. Grey

[Editorials]

• Join us in fighting for —
• Austria’s future
• Prepare for battle
• Blows at Jim-Crow

One Mickey Finn – Coming Up! by Gray (cartoon)

‘Good Neighbor’ policy of United Fruit Company

Workers’ Forum

• Praise articles by Grace Carlson, from Pauline & Esther
• Labor shortage? from Shipyard Worker
• What one student learned in college, from L.C.
• Lockheed workers take strike vote, from H.T.
• Some results of mass protest, from R.B.

Officer court-martialed for defending Mexican

Question Box

Veterans discover jokers in promises about loans

Vol. IX No. 16, April 21, 1945, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Mine operators forced to yield wage increases

Government censorship conceals widespread productions cutbacks, by C. Thomas

Trotskyist leader reported released from Ceylon jail

Camouflaging the big gun, by Gray (cartoon)

‘Big wages’ a myth veterans discover

Propose higher prices to ‘fight’ black market

Bosses push open-shop drive despite CIO-AFL “peace pact”, by Art Preis

In the News

• For honest black market
• Incentive pay?
• Better hurry, fellows!
• United Nations
• Rules too strict

Goodyear workers strike against speed-up program, by Joseph Andrews

What can labor expect of Truman? by Joseph Keller

• Byrnes (photo)
• Truman (photo)

Militant expands to 8 pages beginning with May Day issue

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• UE militants expelled
• White collar workers
• State anti-labor laws
• Two kinds of justice
• Double-talk on WLB

10,000 quota exceeded in seventh week of campaign for new Militant readers, by Reba Aubrey

• Scoreboard
• “Trailblazers” record highest weekly total
• From the branches
• From our subscribers
• Militant pace-setters

Militant Army

Pioneer Notes

Chicago forced labor plan used to lower wages, by L. Ray

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

N.Y. phone strike voted 25 to 1

SWP candidate gives analysis of election

Steel corporation fosters race hate weaken union, by Mary Steele

The gravy train

• $350,000, by RW (cartoon)

Egyptian socialist front enters election

The Allied conference at San Francisco, by M. Morrison

Myth ... and reality! (facsimile)

Stalinist betrayal of Belgian masses shown by record

“Penny an hour” for Indian women

J. Pierpoint Moneybags says: “Wall Street’s worried. Peace may break out”, by RW (cartoon)

Notice

International Notes

• Italy
• England
• Greece

Belgian miners blast imperialists

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• Answering a Powell supporter

Why fraternization is prohibited, by Henry Martell

“There wouldn’t be any food shortage if people didn’t overeat”, by Gray (cartoon)

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

Anarchist leaders face persecution in Great Britain

Poverty robs many women of right to health and beauty, by Grace Carlson

• The Ritz Beauty Salon, by R. Wilson (cartoon)

10 Years Ago in The Militant

Pioneer Paragraphs

• Capitalist manipulations cause rise in food prices, from YourStandard of Living – What’s Happening to It? by C. Charles

[Editorials]

• Join us in fighting for —
• Argentina
• Two methods
• CIO and “peace pact”

Growth of unionism in the U.S. (diagram)

Profiteers scuttle OPA plan for cheaper clothing

Workers’ Forum

• Greeting from young Scottish socialist, from S.J.
• Wants program for veterans, from Arthur Endicott
• Stalinists sanction capital-labor pact, from B.K.
• Revolutionary heroes, from H. Newell

Westinghouse Electric linked to Nazi cartels

How government aids the aluminum monopoly

Question Box

Vol. IX No. 17, 28 April 1945, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Big Willow Run plant to shut down, by C. Thomas

German, French workers battle class enemies

May Day 1945, by Gray (cartoon)

Meat profiteers handed gift of larger subsidies

• J. Pierpoint Moneybags says: “Cutbacks don’t harm me – the gov’t guarantees my profits”, by RW (cartoon)

Socialist Workers Party manifesto: a May Day call to American Labor

Our martyrs

16,000 Goodrich rubber workers strike in Akron

Lockheed workers ask strike poll, by Buddy Lens

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• Union conventions
• Not closed – yet!
• Suspend best unionists
• Railway express strike

Telephone union leader gives operators’ story, by Evelyn Atwood

• They showed the way (photo)

NMU heads offer ‘unity’ scheme to offset bonus cut, by Art Sharon

Company provokes second walkout at Kelsey-Hayes, by Jerry Kirk

• Bulletin

Thomas De Lorenzo tells how Brass Hats use Army draft in attempt to ‘get𔃻 him, by Larissa Reed

• Thomas De Lorenzo (photo)

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

Stalinists defeated in Ford 600 election, by Roy Weston

Negro officers protest Jim Crow, 101 under arrest

Los Angeles SWP calls on unions to support two Negro candidates

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• Big Business anti-Negroism unmasked

Press weeps over “hungry” heiress; suppresses news of ill-fed workers, by Grace Carlson

• Poor little rich girl: “Brother, can you spare me a dime?” by RW (cartoon)

Lenin on May Day

Pioneer Paragraphs

• New social system is goal of Fourth International, from Manifesto of the Fourth International on the Imperialist War and the Proletarian Revolution

What was Roosevelt’s real role? – A Marxist evaluation, by Felix Morrow

Stalin’s denunciation of Soviet-Japan Pact, by M. Morrison

Famous 1886 Haymarket demonstration (illustration)

European crisis analyzed in April issue of the F.I.

May Day had its origin in 8-hour day struggle, by Larissa Reed

Tobin is haunted by case of the 18 he helped frame

The sky’s the limit

• War profits, by RW (cartoon)

May Days during the First World War, by Ruth Johnson

• Pre-war May Day issues of The Militant (photomontage)
• How May Days were celebrated under Lenin – and under Stalin, by Grace Carlson

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

International Notes

• Greece
• Great Britain
• France

10 Years ago in The Militant

Lessons for labor in Detroit election, by John Saunders

Militant gains 11,860 new subscribers as campaign hits 116 per cent of quota, by Reba Aubrey

• Scoreboard
• ‘Trailblazers’ report success in Rochester
• From the branches
• From our subscribers
• Militant pace-setters

Militant Army

Columnist V. Grey speaks in Toledo

Pioneer Notes

[Editorials]

• Voice of the future
• No idle factories!
• The new Militant

“But with the housing shortage this is the best I could do!” by Gray (cartoon)

Briggs union answers boss lies to soldiers

Workers’ Forum

• “The clink of golden dollars”, from Eddie Shen
• Anti-labor interests spread anti-Semitism, from B.G.
• The workers want to read the truth, from R.A. Alloggia
• Still time to die, from F.B.

Wartime advertising pays in lower corporate taxes

Question Box

Dump government plants in ocean, say monopolists

Vol. IX No. 18, 5 May 1945, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Huge uprising sweeps North Italy, by Harry Martell

• Italian masses settle accounts with Mussolini (photo)

More cutbacks layoffs speeded by government

Company retreats after two strikes at Kelsey-Hayes

Strong protest wins release of Negro officers

Conference at San Francisco will not ensure future for the people, by Li Fu-jen

In the News

• Their “post-war plan”
• Hurrah! – We’re unemployed
• Too hot to handle
• Health note

Big aircraft layoffs hit Buffalo workers, by Bill Gray

Real aim of campaign around atrocities

Result of elections in UAW-CIO locals reveal [_sic_] sharp discontent of auto workers, by E. Kennedy

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• Phone girls OK contract
• Less take-home pay
• Six-to-one for strike
• Textile local sued
• What – no peace pact?

Pamphlet bares Navy frame-up of Negroes, by Grace Carlson

• New NAACP pamphlet (photo)

Army Brass Hats burn Wright’s book

Negro workers give evidence on Jim Crow in boilermakers

Auto profiteers’ spokesman calls union “vultures”

A review of the UAW referendum, from Hi-Flyer

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

Shipowners plan post-war military control of seamen, by Art Sharon

• Preparing “post-war plan” for seamen, by Bernard, from Seafarers’ Log (cartoon)

Chicago Buick Local 6 votes for strike poll, by Mike Bartell

It pay to advertise

Cleveland diesel Local 207 turns down GM contract, by B. Kingsley

Workers answer provocations by five strikes in Allentown

J. Pierpoint Moneybags says: “Jobs for everyone? Why, that’7 socialistic’, by RW (cartoon)

Did Roosevelt curb monopolists? by Felix Morrow

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• What about the colonial workers?

Big bankroll provides best immunity to the dread scourge of tuberculosis, by Grace Carlson

• Ancient History: Tuberculosis in 1945, by RW (cartoon)

Hawaiian trade unions win important victory, by Nadine Collins

Any different from Nazi atrocities?

Pioneer Paragraphs

• The workers’ next job is to build the labor party, from American Workers Need a Labor Party, by Joseph Hansen

10 Years Ago in The Militant

3 anti-fascists railroaded to prison in London

British documents, long withheld from the public, show German people first victims of atrocities, by Joseph Hansen

On Italian slogan: “For the republic”, by M. Morrison

Revealing sidelights on Golden Gate parley

• Putting on the show, by Gray (cartoon)
• “Four freedoms”

International Notes

• Albania
• Japan
• Soviet Union

Allied censorship is world-wide, by Ralph Graham

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

Italian partisan action (photo)

Profits of oil and war

• [Dollar gusher], by R.W. (cartoon)

The difference between blue blood and red, by Bill Morgan

• [Luxury care], by RW (cartoon)

Labor-management committees aid bosses, by an Auto Worker

13,497 new subscribers to Militant as campaign reaches 132 per cent mark, by Reba Aubrey

• Scoreboard
• “Trailblazers” report on visit to mine town
• From the branches
• Two new trailblazer teams report inspiring success
• From our subscribers
• Militant pace-setters

Militant Army

Pioneer Notes

[Editorials]

• Mussolini’s end
• Program for jobs
• Miners show way

“These peace repports are very upsetting”, by Gray (cartoon)

The most tragic victims of the imperialist war

Workers’ Forum

• Indian woman likes Militant, from R.D.
• Masters – or slaves, from J.L.
• New inventions under capitalism, William C. Crane
• Italian prisoners hear of Trotskyism, from Militant reader
• London conference, from A. Williams

Industrial accidents take huge wartime toll

Lawyers, bankers, editors predominate in Congress

Question Box

Vol. IX No. 19, 12 May 1945, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Mass lay-offs speeded as war ends in Europe

• All is “expendable” – except profits!

Allied powers prepared to impose harsh “peace” upon ruined Europe, by Ralph Graham

Hard coal miners remain on strike despite ‘seizure’

The approaching tornado, by Gray (cartoon)

Book by Cannon to be serialized in The Militant

Walter Held, seized by GPU, disappears in Soviet Union

In the News

• Same old gang
• Not welcome now
• Number one enemy
• Rights of small nations

Backstage deals at San Francisco parley, by Li Fu-jen

Meat profiteers claim prices not high enough

How workers celebrated May Day at Buchenwald

Auto union paper tells how corporations scorn ‘peace charter’ signed by the CIO, by Art Preis

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• Union-busting pretext
• Cutbacks and pay cuts
• “A family affair”

Increase in profits (diagram)

Employment prospects are slim in Buffalo, by Bill Gray

Maritime War Board order slash in seamen’s bonuses, by Art Sharon

Seattle Negroes organize to gain rights in union

Cramp shipyard workers resist wage-cut ruling

Group established to fight Jim Crow in armed forces

Rubber locals repel boss attacks

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

Poor mothers advised to patch, darn and sew, by Grace Carlson

• Patch, save & wear out! by RW (cartoon)

Youngstown CIO adopts program to aid veterans

Edward Stettinius & Nelson Rockefeller (photo)

Small gain in new contract for CIO steel union ranks, by Jack Wilson

Lay-offs spread in Ohio cities

Nazis hounded the Trotskyists as mortal foe

• Demonstration against fascism in February 1939 (photo)

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• From the frying pan into the fire

Held’s defense of Soviet Union

The role of Roosevelt: Did Roosevelt solve the agricultural crisis in America? by Felix Morrow

How Hitler regime came to power, by Joseph Hansen

• Birds of a feather at Munich (photo)
• Friends and admirers of fascist dictators
• American Big Business aided ruling class in Nazi Germany

Trotsky was first to warn of Nazism

• The Militant fought Nazism from the start (photomontage)

Armed partisans finish fascists in North Italy

International Notes

• Austria
• France

Capitalist system is responsible for atrocities, declares Albert Goldman in address on May Day, by Albert Goldman

• Albert Goldman at May Day rally (photo)

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

New York SWP holds large May Day rally, by Larissa Reed

May Day inspires European workers

SWP celebrates May Day in many cities

15,169 new readers of “the Militant” as campaign soars to 149 per cent mark, by Reba Aubrey

• Trailblazers report on Pittsburgh work
• Scoreboard
• From the branches
• Militant pace-setters

Vincent R. Dunne addresses Chicago SWP May Day rally

Militant Army

Pioneer Notes

Fight for this program

10 Years Ago in The Militant

[Editorials]

• The fall of Nazism
• We told the truth
• Our slogan
• Truman’s message

The same old stew, by Gray (cartoon)

U.S. monopolies protect their German interests

Workers’ Forum

• How to feed starving Europe, from M. Morando
• Railroad workers get a forum, from Railroad Worker
• Wall Street loans to the fascists, from Milton L. Babin
• Haymarket affair, from P. Davidson
• Young Trotskyist gets subscriptions, from Rose Brandt
• Friendly criticism, from Jean Martin

Both capitalist parties join against FEPC bill

War department abandons Canadian oil project

Question Box

Vol. IX No. 20, 19 May 1945, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Mass lay-offs, pay cuts announced, by Art Preis

• A sign of the times, by Gray (cartoon)

Veterans bitter over fraudulent “bill of rights,” by Larissa Reed

Hard coal miners continue strike into third week

Negro battalion herded onto ship by armed guards

Greek dictatorship continues brutal terror against people, by Joseph Hansen

In the News

• Pattern not yet past
• Double standard
• No danger for whom?
• Grateful recognition
• Millionaire martyr

Nazis saves Morgan interests in France

Government assures price tax ‘relief’ to profiteers

Ford Local 600 rally calls for end of no-strike policy, by Roy Weston

CIO newsmen’s guild is target of attack by labor-hating publishers association, by Dave Jeffries

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• Mine union affiliation
• How not to win
• Rieve retreats
• Auto firms fire vets

Skyscraper scrubwomen fight vile conditions, by Elizabeth Atwood

• Empire State scrubwomen vote strike! (Photo)
• Two portraits, by E. (drawings)

Seamen’s pay cut while operators rake in profits, by Art Sharon

“Peace pact” is smokescreen for anti-union drive, by Joseph Keller

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

It pays to monopolize!

• Alcoa – first in profits, by RW (cartoon)

St. Paul ward workers need militant program, by Jack Pearson

Newark carmen’s demands turned down by the WLB

Mistreatment of sick veterans charged, by Grace Carlson

• Negro plasma segregation traced to Army Jim Crow
• Veterans’ Hospital, by RW /cartoon)

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• Hitler’s race hatred is not dead!

Labor spy confesses boss plot to smash Ohio union, from Lorain (Ohio) Labor Leader

A tribute to Theodore Debs, sincere socialist

What did Roosevelt do for labor? by Felix Morrow

Exploding lies of the Jew-baiter, by Dan Shelton

• Scotch that snake! from 338 News (cartoon)

Trotsky’s warning about World War II

Why the duke left his post in the Bahamas

U.S. Brass Hats teach a lesson in etiquette, by Bill Morgan

• Field Marshal von Runstedt, by RW (cartoon)

International Notes

• Bulgaria
• Soviet Union
• Greece

Poll tax – ballot box (cartoon)

Big Business domination over the American Press, by Paul Abbott

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

Child labor (graphic)

Elections show French people want socialism, by Albert Goldman

Reader angrily protests anti-Japanese atrocities, from Belle Montague

Pioneer Paragraphs

• How industrialists organize anti-labor fascist gangs, from Fascism – what it is, how to fight it

16,283 subscriptions pour into Militant office as campaign enters last 2 weeks, by Reba Aubrey

• Trailblazers visit steelworker area
• Scoreboard
• From the branches
• Militantpace-setters

Stalinist ranks aid French Trotskyists, from La Verité

Militant Army

Fight for this program

Pioneer Notes

10 Years Ago in The Militant

[Editorials]

• Walter Held’s fate
• Pacific war
• Program for jobs
• Withdraw the troops!

That old familiar feeling, by Trane, from Spicer Unit News (cartoon)

The bigger the war – the greater the profits

Workers’ Forum

• Must Newark be a slum city? from Joe Ford
• Fascist poison, from L.T.
• “Liberated” Italians, A.P.
• For slave labor, from C. Peters

Government takes good care of big corporations

German workers were main victim of atrocities

Question Box

Vol. IX No. 21, 26 May 1945, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Mine strikers win $1.37 daily wage increase

Labor leaders denounce Vinson’s fraudulent “reconversion” report, by Art Preis

• Capitalism in war and peace, by Gray (cartoon)

Veterans discover jobs hard to get, wages too low, by Larissa Reed

Army discharge plan discriminates against Negroes

International rivalries grow following defeat of Germany, by Li Fu-jen

In the News

• Philippine ‘independence’
• Real cause of the war
• “Peace” hits England
• Not anxious

Strike wave sweeps over Western Europe, by Henry Martell

Propose fatter profits to “end” food shortage

Trotskyist candidate sues radio station

Bethlehem steel workers at Lackawanna, N.Y., strike against threat of layoffs

• What the future holds, by RW (cartoon)

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• Thomas’ bright idea
• “Work or quit” order
• How low can they go?
• What price “Peace”?

Postwar job prospect in railroad industry, by John Russo

War-profits and layoffs

• War profits, by RW (cartoon)

Exploited cleaning women strike for five-cent raise, by Evelyn Atwood

NMU leaders squawk at exposure, by Art Sharon

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

An Editorial

• A picture – and its lessons
• Brewster “sit-in” – June, 1944

Stalinist slander campaign in Chicago CIO council rebuffed

Discussions on Soviet Union in May Fourth International

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• Jewish officer’s stand against Jim Crow

“No meat – no work!” say miners in West Virginia, by Grace Carlson

• Just a dream, by RW (cartoon)

Wall Street agents to govern Germany

• Murphy (photo)

Outcome of Roosevelt’s New Deal, by Felix Morrow

Allies impose barbarous rule on German people, by Joseph Hansen

Stalinist repression of masses in Poland, by Albert Goldman

Stalin’s machine-gun assault on Trotsky, by Paul Abbott

• Murdered by Stalin’s GPU (photo)
• Siquieros, from Excelsior (cartoon)

What is the fate of Walter Held?

Stalinists attempt frameup against French Trotskyists

International Notes

• Algeria
• Syria

James P. Cannon’s History of American Trotskyism – I

• James P. Cannon (photo)

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

Rankin seeks whitewash in vets’ hospital probe, by Grace Carlson

Two ways to handle fascists – cases of Goering and Mussolini, by Bill Morgan

• Mussolini hung by heels! by Wilson (cartoon)

Pioneer Paragraphs

• Conditions for the victory of proletarian revolution, from Manifesto of the 4th International on the Imperialist War and the Proletarian Revolution

17,855 new Militant subscribers gained as campaign enters in wind-up period, by Reba Aubrey

• “Trailblazers” make their final report
• Scoreboard
• From the branches
• Trailblazer team from Youngstown visits Newcastle
• Militant pace-setters

Midwest vacation school open July 1

Militant Army

Pioneer Notes

Fight for this program

10 Years Ago in The Militant

[Editorials]

• Colonial freedom
• Double standard
• Trieste – a warning
• Biddle conspiracy

Dumping them on the scrapheap, by Gray (cartoon)

How monopolies profit from the sick and dying

Workers’ Forum

• Hotel workers, from D.B.
• Benefits to woman of nursery schools, from J.H.
• “Virtual slaves”, from John B. Nomland
• Britisher on India, from New Reader
• Contributes poem, from June Doyle

No freezing of salaries for corporation big-shots

Defective planes cause death to thousands

Question Box

Vol. IX No. 22, 2 June 1945, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

450,000 face lay-offs in aircraft, by Art Preis

• “That for you – and THIS for me!” by Gray (cartoon)

Stalinists paving way for new shift in line, by Felix Morrow

• New factors in relations between Allies and Kremlin, by Li Fu-jen

American troops fire on German anti-Nazi rally

Bell Aircraft workers protest lay-offs with plant “sit-in”

In the News

• Civil War didn’t end this
• An appeal to his pals
• Same job, better men
• Experts give up

To the unknown soldier on Memorial Day – 1945, by Theodore Kovalesky

Syrian people fight troops of French colonial rulers

Rankin blocks investigation on care of wounded veterans, by Grace Carlson

Negro boilermakers in Los Angeles fight against Jim-Crow policy of union heads, by C. Thomas

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• Pent-house blues
• A plan for Willow Run
• Propaganda back-fires

A four-star mother speaks for her sons, by Evelyn Atwood

War mother, by E. (illustration)

Lockheed aircraft local vote two to one for strike, by B. Lens

Ford 600 unit commends miners for their fight, by Roy Weston

Poll-tax Bourbons block FEPC bill

Shipping trust plans to scrap war-time merchant fleet, by Frank Laurence

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

Atrocity in America – Memorial Day 1937 (photo)

Fruehauf trailer strike of 1,500 enters 4th week, by Jerry Kirk

Wage freeze? Depends on what job you hold, by Bill Morgan

• [Fat-cat] (cartoon)

Fables for our time

• Labor lion and capitalist tiger (cartoon)

How attorney General Biddle violated civil liberties during World War II, by Joseph Hansen

• Biddle (photo)

Study in contrasts – how a millionaire and a tenement dweller lived and died, by Grace Carlson

• For rent: $75,000 a year, by RW (cartoon)

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• The San Francisco fraud

An exchange of opinion on problems of Latin America

• [Criticism], by S. Ryan
• [Reply], by M. Morrison

“Why, daddy?” – 3-year-old tosses some tough question, by Robert Kendall

• Why don’t you get more money, daddy? by RW (cartoon)

Pioneer Paragraphs

• Soviet Union endangered by Stalinist bureaucracy, from The End of the Comintern, by James P. Cannon

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

British workers break coalition with Churchill, by Ralph Graham

• Cut loose from Churchill’s apron-strings, by Gray (cartoon)

Indo-China CP majority join 4th International

Why does FBI refuse to aid in Tresca case?

• Carlo Tresca (photo)

Historic film Czar to Lenin shown in Toledo

Build the labor party! (cartoon)

How German prisoners are treated

International Notes

• India
• France
• Burma
• Belgium
• Norway

Minimum wage (map)

Women workers suffer double exploitation, by Antoinette Konikow

German miners struggled unceasingly against Nazism

The History of American Trotskyism, Part 2, by James P. Cannon

• Leaders and policies of the pioneer communist movement in United States

22,437 subscriptions rolled up in smashing climax to Militant’s 3-month campaign for new readers, by Reba Aubrey

• Scoreboard
• Leading pace-setter relates experiences, by Mike Warren
• Militant pace-setters
• Branch pace-setters

Militant Army

10 Years Ago in The Militant

Pioneer Notes

Fight for this program

[Editorials]

• To our new readers
• Nenni’s arrest
• Seeking scapegoat
• The Japanese people

“I can’t understand why there’s so much criticism of the San Francisco Conference ...”, by Gray (cartoon)

Capitalist postwar plan includes “riot” drills

Workers’ Forum

• Plain people pay, from B.N.D.
• Slip of the pen, from Chao Pao-tien
• How the rich live in France, from R.R.
• “Pay – or perish in your garbage”, from J.B.

Most women workers need jobs to maintain families

Steel price rise means $80 million more profits

Question Box

Vol. IX No. 23, 9 June 1945, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Stalinists make official change in their policy, by Felix Morrow

Coal miner railroaded to jail under Smith-Connally slave law, by Art Preis

• William Patterson (photo)
• Imprisoned miner has long record of union struggle, by Art Preis

The pay-off is the lay-off, by Gray (cartoon)

Imperialist shysters

Grim future for unemployed revealed in Truman program

In the News

• Siamese twins
• Interim balance sheet
• What do privates get?
• Freedom from want

Arab masses repulse De Gaullist enslavers, by Alfredo Martinez

“Women in Prison” subject of Carlson national tour

Trotskyists in France jailed; La Verité banned, Bulletin

Los Angeles U.A.W. Council hits Jim Crow job policies

Youngstown Steel workers protest changes schedule

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• Real score on Stalinists
• Just a “mistake”!
• “Muzzle not the ox ...”

Re vote no-strike pledge! by RW (cartoon)

Akron rubber workers vote strike 3 to 1

Detroit auto men back housing plan

Willow Run workers picket WMC office, by Roy Weston

Rankin whitewash blocked in veteran care inquiry, by Grace Carlson

• [Fat-cat] (cartoon)

Veil of silence in Tresca case

Black market prices “hold very firm”

Fables for our time

• How the small animals won (cartoon)

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

Union brothers solidly behind Wm. Patterson, by Art Preis

• Miners casting strike vote (photo)
• Coal miners blaze trail for entire labor movement)
• Rise in mine deaths due to owners’ greed

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• Einstein confounds race-haters

Why millions of women workers don’t have “that American look”, by Grace Carlson

• Cherish that American look!, by RW (cartoon)

Hunger paralyzes Greece as Allies hold down relief

Pioneer Paragraphs

• Trotskyists support fight for liberation of colonies, from Manifesto of the 4th International on the Imperialist War and the Proletarian Revolution

Hoover used food as weapon to subdue European peoples, by Bill Morgan

A correction in railroad figures

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

French bombs hit 10,000 victims in Algiers revolt

• French “democracy’ in Syria, by Gray (cartoon)

Workers in Milan disarmed; called thugs, “fascists,” by Paul Abbott

U.S. Big Business chiefs take charge of Germany, by Harry Martell

Market scene in British India

Typhus strikes in “liberated” France

“Sit-in” wins concessions for Bell Aircraft workers

10 Years Ago in The Militant

A correction, from Milton L. Rabin

Tokyo bombings kill millions of civilians, by Joseph Hanson

Blame an inhuman system not the “inhuman rats”!

• The letter, from R.F. Magnuson
• Comments, by The Militant

Angry veterans raid Paris clothing stores

The History of American Trotskyism, by James P. Cannon

• The deadly virus of ultra-leftism in American Communism’s early days

Workers’ Forum

• Wage cuts, from L.T.
• Army ‘democracy’, from B. Kingsley
• Militant readers, from M.A.
• Protests slaughter, from J.G.
• Appreciation, from M.R.
• Union lesson, from 100 Per Cent Unionist
• US labor needs its own party, from R.A. Robninson
• The Internationale, from M.M.
• “Is crew behaving?” from A Seaman

Grace Carlson one of the 18 in Minneapolis labor case

• Carlson Tour Schedule

Militant Army

Twin Cities mark successful end of Militant drive

Boston SWP opens new headquarters

Pioneer Notes

[Editorials]

• Strikebreaker Tobin
• French “democracy”
• Peacetime censorship
• Stalinist cynicism

“Poor Fifi ...” by Gray (cartoon)

Surpluses in peace and war under capitalism

International Notes

• Germany
• Paraguay
• Egypt

How bigger and better scarcities are made

Agricultural barons work to undermine Wagner Act

Question Box

Vol. IX No. 24, 16 June 1945, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Real meaning of latest shift in tactical line of American Stalinist, statement of the National Committee of the Socialist Workers Party

Union leaders fail to fight for effective jobs program, by Joseph Keller

• From words – to deeds! by Gray (cartoon)

Union war vets protest terrorism against Nisei

First anti-strike law victim appeals to labor from prison, by Art Preis

• William Patterson (photo)

In the News

• Sad – ain’t it?
• Segregated in death
• Slave labor
• Buy an apple, mister?
• Shh – don’t talk
• Vote “right,” or else ...

Farrell Dobbs, Militant editor, runs for mayor of New York City

• Trotskyist candidate for mayor (photo)

New York meeting to launch tour of Grace Carlson

Packinghouse workers fight no-strike policy, by Barbara Bruce

Truman’s double standard (photomontage)

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• Now they’re ‘slackers’
• No union conventions
• Avery rides again

Buffalo workers face increasing lay-offs

• Jobless Buffalo workers (photo)

Stalinists lose in elections at Ford Local 600, by Roy Weston

Fables for today

• A wolf among the foxes (cartoon)

Negro boilermakers gain legal victory in San Pedro

Oregon CIO council assails race terror

Carlson exposes San Francisco parley as fraud

• James P. Cannon (photo)
• Grace Carlson (photo)

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

Encouraged by farcical trial, by J. Blake

Pioneer Notes

Hines fired as vets’ head in hospital investigation

How war perils end race hatred

Stalinism in France

The fearful cost of World War II

Allied power divide Germany in 4 spheres, by Felix Morrow

An inside story – conditions of women in American jails, by Grace Carlson

• Stone walls do not a prison make ..., by RW (cartoon)

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• Henry Ford and the Ecorse Project

Churchill attacks socialism in battle for re-election

• [Churchill] (cartoon)

Pioneer Paragraphs

• The workers must prepare for a great social crisis, from Resolutions of the Eleventh Convention of the American Trotskyist Movement

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

10 Years Ago in The Militant

Arrested Puerto Rican nationalist leader opposed Wall St. imperialism, by Evelyn Atwood

• Julio Pinto Gandia (drawing)

Big Business militarists push for peacetime conscription, by Joseph Hansen

• Out of their own mouths

The History of American Trotskyism, by James P. Cannon

• The great positive contributions of the pioneer communist movement

Workers’ Forum

• White prejudice, from Chalmers Alexander
• Einstein’s views, from Jeanne & Peter Morgan
• Food shortage, from Mrs. Beatrice Janosco
• War’s aftermath, from F.M. (poem)
• The veterans, from J.P.
• Entering the army, from H.F.
• Attack on Negroes, from Pete Morgan
• The best paper, from M.E.
• The Japanese people, from R.F. Magnuson

Stalinist shift analyzed in June issue of the F.I.

Ex-premiers voice “protest” against Greek reign of terror

Chile workers denounce film

Boss drives car into picket line

Vacation school to open July 1 in Michigan camp

Fight for this program

Militant Army

[Editorials]

• Free Patterson!
• Syrian independence
• Truth will out
• Another demagogue

“Servants are so independent these days ...” by Gray (Cartoon)

What Big Corporations have made out of the war

International Notes

• India
• Lidice
• Spain
• Anti-fascists go on trial in Rome
• Czechoslovakia
• Italy

OPA opposes black market with leaflet campaign

How Standard Oil trust protected Nazi partners

Question Box

Vol. IX No. 25, 23 June 1945, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Auto conference urges strike vote, by John Saunders

First-Hand Report: Class conflict in Italy today

European peoples ready for socialism

Wall Street’s “peace” plan (cartoon)

20,000 Goodyear rubber workers strike in Akron, by Joseph Andrews

Reaction hounds the Trotskyists thruout [_sic_] Europe

Brass hats push legislation to militarize American youth, by Joseph Hansen

In the News

• For ‘fair’ price-gouging
• The two big questions
• “Let’s Have It In”
• Between wars
• No discrimination – but

New York SWP issues statement on election

• SWP candidate for N.Y. City Council (photo)

Chicago drivers walk out, defy Army strikebreaking

Housing project bars Negro vets

Text of Detroit UAW conference resolution

Pleads with plutocrat (photo)

Bell Aircraft fires unionists for sit-in protest

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• Open-shop victory
• Scandal of Willow Run
• Truman’s plant ‘seizures’

Only make ‘peace’ with labor-haters

Rubber workers call Stalinists ‘unknown wreckers’

Steelworkers hit double standard

10 Years Ago in The Militant

Trotsky’s prediction on Stalinist shifts

• It’s still the same answer, by Gray (cartoon)

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

Shift foreseen in wage policy of NMU leaders

Unions united to elect new Minneapolis mayor, by Barbara Bruce

Will a “baby bonus” safeguard child victims of profit system? by Grace Carlson

• [Family] (cartoon)

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• The bitter and the sweet

Rising living costs rob railroad workers of meager wage gains while owners reap enormous war profits, by Jack Pearson

• Rail worker submits union program for discussion, by C.D.

Use race slander in hospital probe, by Grace Carlson

• Grace Carlson’s tour schedule

Pioneer Paragraphs

• The imperialist struggle for mastery of Far East, from The Founding Conference of the Fourth International

Two points of view on deliberate mass slaughter of civilian worker and peasant millions in Japan

• Favors mass killings, from H.G.
• Reply, by Joseph Hansen

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

Suppressed Belgian Trotskyist paper (facsimile)

• Stalinist birds of a feather

German C.P. leader admits false policy toward Nazis, by Paul Abbott

Mass demonstration in Rome (photo)

The History of American Trotskyism, by James P. Cannon

• How a new militant leadership arose in the pioneer communist movement

Workers’ Forum

• Advertisements in socialist papers, from W. Moore
• Germany today, from C.L.
• Living in style, from Hotel Waitress
• An achievement, from J. Russell Evans
• Stalinist switch, from Milton Alvin
• A tragic story, from M.G.
• Seen in India, from A.A.
• Somewhere in Germany, from A.C.
• Disclaimer, from Felix Morrow
• Fill a need, from M.P.
• Chinese arithmetic, from H.P.
• Urges brevity, from Rev. J. Westburgh
• Bombing of Japan, from Belle Montague

Lumber workers take strike vote, by Charles Hughes

Militant Army

Pioneer Notes

Fight for this program

[Editorials]

• Reaction in Belgium
• Poll tax
• Patterson case
• A class difference

“I don’t know why they complain ...” by Gray (cartoon)

How maritime commission aided ship-owner profits

International Notes

• Italy
• Soviet Union
• Germany
• Greece
• Great Britain

Weirton Steel indicted in war materials fraud

Florida union-busters use race-hate technique

Question Box

Vol. IX No. 26, 30 June 1945, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

RCP candidate in Wales wins wide support

• Jock Haston (photo)

Trotskyist party in France resists repressive acts

Wall Street interests push Senate bill to smash unions, by Art Preis

• Sharpening the axe for labor (cartoon)

England’s workers protest layoffs

Soldiers forced to drive trucks in Chicago strike, by Tod Wilkinson

• Bulletin

Goodyear strikers defy WLB ultimatum to return to work, by Joseph Andrews

Large mass meeting in New York launches Carlson national tour, by Larissa Reed

• Frace Carlson (photo)
• Resolution in support of William Patterson

In the News

• Big-heatred profiteer
• Still fights Civil War
• Not serious for bosses
• No horror pictures now

Allies foist new cabinet on Italy, by Paul Abbott

Hoodlum gang assaults Briggs local militants

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• Annual wage – how?
• Tobin’s latest outburst
• “Go on back home!”

Protesting Willow Run shut-down (photo)

Truman’s answer

Seamen’s bonus cut by Maritime Board

Marvelous!

10 Years Ago in The Militant

Rubber workers too busy to read, by Gray (cartoon)

Simpson bids youth enter into politics

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

Dobbs blasts boss parties in election, by Farrell Dobbs

Mexican workers exploited, herded like bondslaves, by Bill Morgan

Summer school opens July first in Michigan

• Vacation school planned on coast

Grace Carlson’s Tour Schedule

SWP branch activities

Soldiers protest anti-Nisei terror

Professor wants barracks for college youth in U.S., by Dave Jeffries

Negro newspapers united to combat Jim Crow policies, by Jean Simon

Negro soldiers expose Rankin’s racial lies, by Joseph Hansen

• L.A. Trotskyists call for united anti-fascist action

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• FEPC, a political football

Furriers in Newark learn from strike, by Harry Robinson

More facts revealed by Press reporter

Pioneer paragraphs

• Trotskyism is based upon workers’ internationalism, from Third International after Lenin, [by L.D. Trotsky]

Pioneer Notes

4,000 UAW members conduct 11-day breeze corp. Strike

200,000 burned alive in Hamburg, from Baseler Nachrichten

• [Bombs falling], by R.W. (cartoon)
• Hamburg horror confirmed

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

Canadian CCF party shows voting power

British renew fraudulent offer rejected by India three years ago, by Felix Morrow

• Sir Stafford Cripps (photo)

Capitalist ruin of British coal industry

Nailing the lie of German “guilt”

Hunting down fascists in Italy (photo)

Stalinists, socialists conduct sham fight against monarchy, by Albert Goldman

The History of American Trotskyism, by James P. Cannon

• How Stalinist degeneration affected the faction fight in the American C.P.

Workers’ Forum

• Keep on reading! from A.K.
  Editor’s note
• From a seaman, from J.T.
• On cosmetics, from A.C. Booth
• A hard task, from L.B. Couris
• Insult to injury, from H. Newell
• Technocracy, from E.C.
  Editor’s note
• Changing ways, from C.B.
  Editor’s note
• Freedom from want! from B.H.
• Again on Japan, from T.H. Reichart
  Editor’s note
• The veterans, from J. Dow
• Like an axe, from Harry Robinson

Sailor’s family out on the street (photo)

Militant Army

Fight for this program

[Editorials]

• Withdraw the troops!
• Scrapped in action
• Stalin’s scapegoat
• Bridges case

“They simply can’t take King Leopold’s throne away! ...” by Gray (cartoon)

Surplus property board favors big monopolies

International Notes

• Greece
• Congo
• Algeria
• Puerto Rico

Why the cartel interests sneer at anti-trust laws

How a soldier who died would answer Gen. Patton

Question Box

New band-wagon, from London Express News Service

Vol. IX No. 27, July 7, 1945, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Stalinist party opposes Soviets for Germany, by Paul Abbott

Great upsurge of labor militancy shown in nation-wide strike wave – workers resist pay cuts, layoffs with picket lines

• 32,000 on strike in Akron rubber plants; Firestone shut down tight, by Joseph Andrews
  Bulletin
• 48,000 workers strike in Detroit for equal wages, by Albert Cummings
• Western Electric workers cast big vote for strike
• UAW victor over Budd open ship

“Peace” by force! by Gray(cartoon)

C.P. heads admit treacherous role in Greek struggle

How United Nations charter covers up imperialist deals, by Joseph Hansen

In the News

• ‘Suckers’ – of class pals?
• The good old days
• Too many marshals
• Aiding the ‘little man’

No salary freeze for Big Business

An Editorial

• The real solution for Willow Run

NAACP protests naming of Byrnes

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• Which side is he on?
• The same old crap
• Scrao of paper
• Rankin’s last rash

Tear-gassing peaceful pickets (photo)

Goodrich local raises demand for 30-hour week

Scrap of paper

NMU officials evade fight on bonus slash

Buffalo UAW supports Detroit strike motion, by Bill Grey

10 Years Ago in The Militant

Northwest Ohio auto local ask 30-hour week, by Maggie McGowan

Willow Run – symbol of American capitalism (photo)

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

Fords still happy

Judge gags union’s paper to muzzle attack on Avery

Buffalo UAW-CIO resolution supporting William Patterson

• Ohio auto parley backs Patterson

Southern Bourbons filibuster in Senate against FEPC bill, by Larissa Reed

Negro boys in chains (photo)

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• Why Trotskyists fight for Negro rights

Workers’ Bookshelf

• Coming home, reviewed by Joseph Hansen

A correction

Fellow Countrymen, by L.A. (poem)

Reading outdoor meeting hears address by Dunne, by Jack Miller

Pioneer Paragraphs

• Revolutionary character of the epoch we live in, from Third International After Lenin, by L.D. Trotsky

SWP branch activities

Milwaukee CRDC holds gay outing

Pioneer Notes

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

Tailing in cotton fields, from fresco painting by A.J.T. (illustration)

Millions receive less than subsistence pay

CPA leader admits party anti-democratic: but proposed cure won’t change anything

High level fraternization

N. Y. Trotskyist candidates unmask Stalinist switch on O’Dwyer, termed a “fascist” by CP in 1941

• Farrell Dobbs (photo)
• Louise Simpson (photo)

Bearers of the four freedoms

Carlson reports on success in Rochester during her tour, by Grace Carlson

• Boston gathering greets Carlson
• Grace Carlson’s tour schedule

Summer school opened July 1 in Michigan

Signs of the times

The History of American Trotskyism, by James P. Cannon

• Why the Stalinists hid the documents of the Trotskyist left opposition

Workers’ Forum

• A word to our correspondents, by The Editor
• Ranting Rankin, from Mrs. Celia Sayles
• Guilty of what? from Belle Montague
• Hurting the people, from Mrs. F. Barnett
• Frame-up defined, from Harry Martell
• 60 million jobs, from R.H.M.
• Not impressed, From Winifred Nelson
• Grace Carlson, from R.C.
• Rare information, from C.S.
• Seeking understanding, from C.B
  Editor’s note
• Republic Steel, from Nancy Black
• Stalinists in NMU, from G.D.

Patterson expresses appreciation, from William Patterson

Militant Army

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[Editorials]

• Support Patterson!
• Britain’s lackeys
• Words and deeds
• Socialism nowhere

“Why – farm work isn’t hard ...” by Gray (cartoon)

Public utility hijacks New York City consumers

International Notes

• Egypt
• Algeria
• England
• France
• Italy
• Martinique
• Haiti

NAM expends big dough in anti-labor campaign

Hitlerite ideas taught in U.S. Army study course

Question Box

Vol. IX No. 28, July 14, 1945, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

An Editorial

• What Akron strike means for labor

American tanks threaten workers in Milan strike against hunger

• Allied “democracy” in Milan, by Gray (cartoon)

Akron rubber strikers fight drive to crush their union, by Joseph Andrews

• Where is Boyer?
• Briggs union backs Akron rubber strike

Printing trades strike continues against Donnelley

NMU forces “unanimous” convention vote for “pledge”, by M. Stevenson

In the News

• Not in the newsreels
• Congress is “busy”
• Four Freedoms in India
• V-U ‘Unemployment Day’
• A “minor” exception ...

Negro machinists resist Jim Crow

Greek reaction plots to restore monarchy, by Paul Abbott

Youngstown Steel locals elect militant officers

Berlin black market thrives under Allies

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• ODT’s “sophistication”
• Avery scores again
• NLRB strike polls
• Talk is cheap

Goodyear’s operator

• On the picket line in Akron (photos)

Local auto union heads demand UAW convention

URW heads betray rubber unionists

Build the labor party! (cartoon)

NMU officials evade read struggle against seamen’s bonus slash

• NMU convention sidelights

Trampled in the dust! (cartoon)

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

Reconversion – I: Government aids profiteers; ignores workers’ vital needs, by Art Preis

Layoffs spread in Los Angeles

Stalinists attack Trotskyists at Milwaukee picnic

Huge small-arms plant shutdown in St. Louis

10 Years Ago in The Militant

4,250 signatures gathered on petition to put Trotskyists on ballot in N. Y.

• N.Y. Trotskyist candidates (photo)

Worker praises vacation school in opening week, by Joe Morgan

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• Negroes and the Stalinist movement

But he’ll ‘get along’

Grace Carlson tells about visit in Akron, by Grace Carlson

• Grace Carlson’s tour schedule
• Grace Carlson’s tour greeted with enthusiasm in 3 cities
• Buffalo audience hears Grace Carlson
• Grace Carlson (photo)
• Carlson addresses Rochester meeting

Pioneer Notes

SWP branch activities

Pioneer Paragraphs

• Without correct leadership the revolution can be lost, from Third International After Lenin, [by L.D. Trotsky]

Worker on strike describes vile conditions provoking newspaper delivery stoppage in New York City, by Evelyn Atwood

• Harry Cantor, by E. (drawing)

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

Los Angeles Trotskyists call for struggle against fascists

• Fascist Demagogue (photo)

Klement, 1938 victim of Stalinist killer

• Rudolf Klement (photo)

Negro-hating congressmen wave flag in campaign to kill FEPC

8,000 auto workers strike at Mack plants, by Paul Mason

How the masses destroyed the Bastille in Great French Revolution of 1789–93, by Joseph Hansen

• Storming of the Bastille, engraving by Helman after original by Monet

Allied powers looting machinery in Germany

Trotskyists active in Ireland

The History of American Trotskyism, by James P. Cannon

• How Trotsky’s criticism of Stalinism reached the American C.P. leaders

Workers’ Forum

• A word to our correspondents, by The Editor
• Forbidden to speak, from H.G.
• Stalinist traitors pilloried in letter, from Nelle Montague
  Letter to Daily Worker, from The Montague Family
• What kind of party? from Al Lyon
• Lies about Germans, from A.V.
• Models degraded, from L.K.
• Vet’s problems, from Just a Pfc
• Contrast in Mexico, from R.J.
• Allentown layoffs, from A Reader
• The baldheads, from H.B.
  Editor’s Note
• A rebuke, from Mary E. Ingerson

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Youngstown CIO supports Akron rubber strikers

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[Editorials]

• Halt the fascists!
• True to form
• Withdraw the troops!
• Truth about Germany

“But why can’t I take Fifi? ...” by Gray (cartoon)

Tax “relief” bill gives billions to corporations

International Notes

• Holland
• Belgium
• Britain
• France
• Palestine
• India

Soldiers shipped to coast in vermin-ridden coaches

Auto industry reserves provides [_sic_] 15 years’ profits

Question Box

Vol. IX No. 29, July 21, 1945, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

British despots in Nigeria ban native papers

• Persecuted Nigerian editor appeals to U.S. labor and Negro organizations for support

Trotskyist runs for parliament in Chile election, by Henriques

New York News delivery strikers check union-busting assault, by John Locke

• Bulletin
• Dobbs blasts role of LaGuardia in newspaper strike

Congressional lynchers at work, by Gray (cartoon)

In the News

• Lies at any price
• Cost of capitalist war
• ‘Free enterprise’
• Life begins for Goering
• Solidarity forever
• Sign of the times

Southern Bourbon spokesmen success in lynching F.E.P.C., by Joseph Hansen

• Bilbo incites race riots in Detroit

SWP starts fund for Trotskyists in Europe, by Farrell Dobbs

Los Angeles CIO combats fascists

GPU in Italy spreads vile frame-up slander

Simpson hits FEPC foes

N.Y. News strikers welcome Militant on picket lines, by Ruth Johnson

• Publishers fight newspaper unions all over country
• Sinister Wall Street forces in attack on the newspaper unions

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• Want militant action
• Union-busting layoffs
• ‘Overwhelming victory’
• An injury to one ...

Chevrolet unit calls for strike vote

Breeze CIO auto locals win gains in new contract

Goodrich layoffs violate contract with local union

SWP branch activities

St. Paul union demands pardon for Patterson

Stalinists tighten stranglehold on NMU; force delegates to O.K. policy of betrayal

• Curran (cartoon)
• Shipping commission offices picketed by maritime unions

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

Rubber strike ended to avoid “seizure”, by Joseph Andrews

Reconversion – II: Monopoly profit interests sabotage full production, by Art Preis

10 Years Ago in The Militant

Bilbo (photo)

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• An open letter to Negro Communists

Trotskyists predicted the fate of the FEPC

Midwest vacation school students learn Marxism, enjoy happy time

• Open-air lakeside class at vacation school (photo)

Modern welding and the welder

Pioneer Notes

Plan Militant picnic in eastern Pennsylvania

Pioneer Paragraphs

• Fascism used middle class to establish its mass base, from Fascism and Big Business, by Daniel Guerin

Socialist Workers Party’s fighting platform for the election campaign in New York City

• Preamble
• Ten-point platform of the Trotskyist candidates
• N.Y. Trotskyist candidates (photo)

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

International Solidarity Fund

• Scoreboard

Grace Carlson on tour (photo)

• Ohio-Michigan audiences hear Carlson prison talk
• Successful meeting held in Cleveland
• Soungstown workers hear Grace Carlson
• Carlson talks to audience in Toledo
• Grace Carlson’;s Tour Schedule

Carlson notes SWP growth at her meeting in Detroit, by Grace Carlson

Hungry prisoners

Successful meeting held in Cleveland

Carlson talks to audience in Toledo

Youngstown workers hear Grace Carlson

Grace Carlson’s tour schedule

The History of American Trotskyism, by James P. Cannon

• How the pioneer Trotskyists fought expulsion from the Communist Party

Workers’ Forum

• A word to our correspondents, by The Editor
• Hayek’s book, from B. Greggson
• Vet flays Riesel, from Navy Vet
• Race hatred, from Victor A. Howell
  Eastland (photo)
• Japanese imperialism, from Dorothy Cheng
  Editor’s Note
• Treatment of vets, from J.T.
• Vacation school – 1, from Patrick O’Connor
• Vacation school – 2, from K. Zellon
• German Stalinists, from A Comrade
  Ediroe'8217;s Note

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Arbitrator backs anti-union firings at Bell Aircraft

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[Editorials]

• A warning to labor
• Liar Eastland
• Big Three meeting
• A good beginning

“The cook threatened to strike ...” by Gray (cartoon)

Congress shows no hurry to assist unemployed

International Notes

• Italy
• Sweden
• Germany
• France
• Algeria

DuPont, national lead in cartel conspiracy

OPA admits black markets steal billions annually

Question Box

Vol. IX No. 30, July 28, 1945, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Crisis in Italy sharpens under Parri cabinet

• Premier Parris (cartoon)
• Premier demands return of fascist empire’s colonies

Workers in Argentina denounce Wall St.

14,000 jam protest rally against California fascists

• CIO takes lead in united front against fascists, by Lois Sanders
• Fascist Demagogue (photo)

Peace scare hits stock market, by Gray (cartoon)

• Wall St. Peace-lovers horrified

Trotskyists speed aid to European comrades, by Farrell Dobbs

Wright workers take protest action as grievances pile up

• Irish aircraft workers want jobs

In the News

• ‘Socialism’ for monarchs
• Is that news?
• War’s hardships
• So there!

CPA-Tammany deal scored by Simpson

S.W.P. protests British role in Nigerian strike

• [West Africa] (map)

John Potts, fired shop steward, tells how Wright Aero mistreats union men, by Evelyn Atwood

• John Edward Potts, by EA (drawing)

N. Y. newspaper delivers’ union thanks SWP for aiding in strike (facsimile)

Trade Union Notes, by V. Grey

• They’re looking ahead
• N.Y. steward’s meeting
• Thomas’ empty bombast
• Calling in Freud

Ration-starved workers strike for decent meals

Homes of farm workers menaced by government

Rankin insults veteran; then orders his arrest

• Ranting Rankin (photo)

Textile union boost wages in 20 plants

SWP branch activities

AFL blacksmiths ask full pardon for Patterson

Shipowners drive wedge in union hiring system of San Francisco longshoremen

• Bridges concedes drastic revision of 1934 gains, by Robert Chester
• Briges (cartoon)
• Five maritime unions insist on wage rise for seamen
• Old time stevedores score Harry Bridges, by E. Harris

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

Reconversion – III: UAW leaders and the program they “forgot”, by Art Preis

10 Years Ago in The Militant

Nailing another anti-German lie

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• Unemployment benefits denied to women

Trotskyist youth in L.A., by Gene Jimenez

Why the Stalinist officialdom permits ranks to “discuss,” by Albert Goldman

L.A. police break up anti-fascist meeting

Pioneer Paragraphs

• The party is the decisive instrument of the struggle, from Lessons of October, by L.D. Trotsky

Bethlehem workers are invited to Penn. picnic, by H. Newell

Pioneer Notes

Economic crisis brings misery to Austrian workers

Build the Labor Party! (cartoon)

Reign of terror of Greece continues unabated; thousands of workers deported to Ethiopia, by Paul Abbott

• 250 Trotskyists were killed by Greek Stalinists

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

The Big Three meet again, by Gray (cartoon)

Barbadians duped, robbed by Phillips Packing Corp.

Trieste and Venice paralyzed by strike

Navy Brass hats encourage vicious Jim Crow practices

Queues unpopular in Great Britain

Michigan summer school appreciated by workers, by William F. Warde

• Scene at vacation school (photo)

Mid-west workers hear Grace Carlson, by Jack O’Connell

• Grace Carlson (photo)
• Grace Carlson’s Tour Schedule

International Solidarity Fund

• Scoreboard

6,400 names needed to put Dobbs on ballot

British want West Indian Federation to block U.S.

The History of American Trotskyism, by James. P. Cannon

• How genuine Marxism was re-born and took root throughout the world

Workers’ Forum

• A word to our correspondents, by The Editor
• From England, from A. Russell
• War’s vile fruit, from M.I.
• Reconversion, from B.G.
• Likes summer school, from Leigh Ray
• Success story, from A Reader
• World charter, Earnest Bradshaw
• Spellbound, from B.N.D.
• Prisoner in Germany, from A Private
• Lausche of Ohio, from B.H.

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Selective Service is agency for breaking strikes

Militant Army

Fruehauf trailer company incites Detroit workers

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Flint Spark Plug union casts vote for strike action, by Jeff Thorne

Poems of revolt, from D.S.

• War, by Percy Bysshe Shelley (excerpts)

[Editorials]

• “Peace” pact pay-off
• Browder and Foster
• Capitalist generosity
• Seeds of war

“If you can’t send hamburger ...” by Gray (cartoon)

Shoddy goods conceal skyrocketing price rise

International Notes

• India
• France
• China
• Yugoslavia

Republic Steel grabs sixty percent more!

Question Box

“Raise workers’ taxes,” Wall Street’s battle-cry

Vol. IX No. 31, August 4, 1945, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

British workers vote labor to power, by Ralph Graham

• Giving him the boot, by Gray (cartoon)
• Attlee (photo)
• Churchill

SWP demands job guarantees

Wright Aero local decides to end seven-day strike

• Bulletin

General MacArthur represses Filipino guerrilla fighters, by Li Fu-jen

Negroes prefer death to Camp Dix brutality

In the News

• Man the dikes!
• Top priority
• The shape of things
• Allowed – or told?
• What kind of victory?

Tammany-Stalinist deal unshaken, says Simpson

• 5,000 signatures still needed for Dobbs

Negro writer relates facts in Nigeria strike, by George Padmore, from London Tribune

European misery saddens troops

PM solves unemployment – gives vets free want-ads

“Go back to sweatshop and home” bosses, WMC tell women workers, by V. Grey

End to shortage of feed sought by boilermakers

Trade Union Notes, by V. Grey

• Methods and methods
• Those meat points
• Subject: Deficits
• Maybe their chance
• Didn’t make a name
• Big business watches

Detroit auto militants reject Lewis as possible head of UAW, by H. Mason

• Lewis (cartoon)

Cramp shipyard workers protest arbitrary lay-offs in Philadelphia

White and Negro workers protest Toledo Jim Crow

SWP branch activities

Newcastle Steel union local forces rehiring of Negro, by Fred Rayburn

Congressmen at work, by Joseph Hansen

Reconversion – IV: Trotskyists offer a fighting program, by Art Preis

• [Workers in the rain], by RW (cartoon)

LaGuardia orders police force to suppress beggars

• LaGuardia (photo)

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

Detroit unionist hold protest rally on unemployment, by Phillip North

Degeneration of Comintern is analyzed in July F.I.

Maritime commission to give ships away

A workers’ government, by RW (cartoon)

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• Negro publishers close ranks

World-wide reactions to British election

• Greece
• Turkey
• Belgium
• England
• United States
• Mexico
• Argentina
• India
• Italy
• Spain
• France
• Sweden
• Central Europe
• Soviet Union

10th anniversary of call for F.I.

Maj. Dove wants Jim Crow set-up in Purple Hearts

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

Gen. Douglas MacArthur (cartoon)

Revealing pictures of horrors under imperialist rule

• South Africa
• India

Overthrow of Winston Churchill shakes fascist regime in Spain, by Felix Morrow

• Franco (photo)

Buffalo fills its quota in solidarity fund drive, by Farrell Dobbs

• Scoreboard: International 1solidarity Drive

Veteran Trotskyist describes school, by George Collins

• V.R. Dunne (photo)

Detroit SWP supports Frankensteen for mayor, by Jerry Kirk

Colonial workers jailed by France

Eastern Penn. workers invited to join picnic

Chicago trade unionists hear lecture on women in prison, by Grace Carlson

• Grace Carlson (photo)
• Grace Carlson’s tour schedule

The History of American Trotskyism, by James P. Cannon

• Tough, bitter struggles were fought to get a hearing for the truth

Workers’ Forum

• Trotskyist fighter, from B.B.
• Working mothers, from W.K. Nelson
• Vacation school, from H. Burns
• Bombing civilians, from Belle Montague
• The Stalinists, from Joseph McNamee
• March on Washington, Victor A. Howell
• Steel sell-out, from R.A.A.
• Phony argument, from Tom Duffy
• Recommends book, from P.G. Hollinger
• Sectarianism, from Mike Ross

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Union-hating cop made police chief in Minneapolis, by Barbara Bruce

Militant Army

Andrews analyzes strike struggle in Akron Rubber

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Pioneer Notes

[Editorials]

• An inspiring victory
• The Wright strike
• “Discussion” ends
• A dangerous proposal

“But you don’t need that costume yet ...” by Gray (cartoon)

Problems facing war veterans, by Charles Carsten

• Re-employment and seniority rights of ex-servicemen

International Notes

• China
• Japan
• Chile
• Venezuela

Story of jeeps reveals waste of capitalist war

Question Box

Ickes plots use of coal to stem revolt in Europe

Vol. IX No. 32, August 11, 1945, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Atomic bombs imperil future of humanity

• New imperialist weapon razes an entire city, by Li Fu-jen
• City of 344,000 obliterated by fiendish bomb
• [Mother and child during bombing] (cartoon)

Allies dismember Germany, by Ralph Graham

• Dividing up the booty, by Gray (cartoon)

Miners strike against filth in company town

British Labor victory spurs Senate hearing on job bill, by Art Preis

In the News

• Land of opportunity
• Nervous bankers
• “I’m too smart!”
• God and Stalin
• Unfit to print

Cudahy workers gain victory in four-day strike

New York SWP nears petition drive goal

Over 400 hear Cannon analyze C. P. “turn”

• Wall Street knows

Bell militants push fight for genuine Labor Party

Tuberculosis is bred in the soil of poverty, by Bill Gray

• Disease hovers here (photo)

War plant graft illustrates waste of capitalist war, by Jack Pearson

Trade Union Notes, by V. Grey

• Important precedent
• Vacation with pay
• Unionism spreading
• Strike sentiment grows
• Complaint by Tobin
• Hits nail on head
• An apt memorial
• Spiking labor’s guns

Ships and seamen due for junk-pile

• $15 billions [_sic_] invested in government shipping

Small-business group aids anti-labor forces

Devers spikes lie of the kept press

SWP branch activities

Fables for today

• [Man clubbing saber-tooth tiger], by RW (cartoon)
• How to fight a beast

Nazi big-shots robbed treasury

Congress debates $2-per-annum relief for millions of children doomed to suffer, by Ruth Johnson

• Rich children (photo)
• ... And poor (photo)

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

Bonus march of 1932 is grim warning to World War II vets, by Felix Morrow

• Remember this atrocity! (photo)

No equal opportunities under profit system, by Frank Brown

Unionist gives views on Legion, by Evelyn Atwood

• [Sailor on crutches looks in garbage can] (cartoon)

Sailor gets glimpse of colonial slavery, by A Seaman

Miners thank SWP for support to Wm. Patterson

• Briggs local aids railroaded miner
• William Patterson (photo)

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• Negroes need a Labor Party

FEPC folds up in Deep South

Workers’ Bookshelf

• Report on the Russians, reviewed by Chris Andrews

Dobbs hails victory of British Labor

• Farrell Dobbs (photo)

Boss parties run “circus,” says Simpson

• Louise Simpson (photo)

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

It’s still the same answer, by Gray (cartoon)

Native fascism – I, by Joseph Hansen

• Reynolds – rich candidate for America’s “Fuehrer”
• Reynolds, by Jaf (cartoon)

Congressmen at Work, by Joseph Hansen

SWP international solidarity fund campaign forging ahead, by Farrell Dobbs

• Scoreboard: International Solidarity Fund

Carlson tells workers: “Organize Labor Party–

• Grace Carlson (photo)
• Unionists hear Grace Carlson in San Pedro
• Grace Carlson’s tour schedule

First-hand report on victory of British Labor in elections

• Attlee (photo)

Vote Trotskyist!

West Coast vacation school enrolls Militant readers

The History of American Trotskyism, by James P. Cannon

• How the Communist left opposition was organized in the United States

Workers’ Forum

• A word to our correspondents, by The Editor
• Letter from England, from G.H.I.
• What liberalism is, from S. Ryan
• Negro soldiers, from EWT
  Letter in Yank, T/Sgt. Willie Jones
• Likes accuracy, from J.D.
• Veterans and fascism, from George Storen
• Vacation school, from H.A.
• Prices and wages, George F.Young

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Pioneer Notes

Militant Army

Trotskyist youth hold lively forum

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Paper seeks to turn vets against unions

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[Editorials]

• Army strikebreaking
• British elections
• Just a mouthpiece
• An awful warning

“I’d just like to try it on for size ...” by Gray (cartoon)

Problems facing war veterans, by Charles Carsten

• Seniority for veterans seeking new employment

International Notes

• France
• India
• England
• China
• Greece
• Australia

Ford spouts some more crack-pot predictions

Question Box

OPA admits profiteers laugh at “price-control”

Vol. IX No. 33, August 18, 1945, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

There is no peace! Manifesto of the National Committee of the Socialist Workers Party

• The only victor, by Gray (cartoon)

Wall Street imperialists cynically describe atomic bombings as “humanitarian” acts

“Freedom from want” – France, 1945 (photo)

World-wide commentaries on the use of atomic bomb

• United States
• England
• The Vatican
• USSR

Atomic energy: its nature and properties, by V. Grey

• Atomic energy won’t serve man under capitalism

9,000 East Chicago inland steel workers strike against firing of union militants

• Bulletin
• Youngstown CIO mobilizes support for steel strike

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodor Kovalesky

N.Y. Trotskyists reach election petition goal

• Trotskyist candidates in N.Y. elections (photo)

Frankensteen is victor in Detroit city primaries

In the News

• We’ll take socialism
• Singing another tune
• Not shaving boss lawns
• Love for love’s sake
• Watch your pockets!

French imperialists fear for Indo-China colony

Build the Labor Party (cartoon)

Wright aircraft workers laid off on V-J Day eve, by Dinah Sanders

Fifth anniversary of Trotsky’s death

• Leon Trotsky November 7, 1879 – August 21, 1940 (drawing)
• Trotsky memorial meetings

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• There is none so blind ...
• No severance pay
• Army Strikebreaking
• Tobin’s courage
• Class consciousness
• End of a career

End of Pacific War looses an avalanche of layoffs, by Art Preis

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

Native fascism – II, by Joseph Hansen

• American Big Business finances fascist scum
• Coughlin (photo)

Atomic bomb wipes out defenseless civilians in the city of Nagasaki

• Made in U.S.A.

SWP branch activities

International fund drive passes half-way mark, by Farrell Dobbs

• Scoreboard: International Solidarity Fund

Food – a world problem (graphic)

Carlson describes progress of Trotskyism on West Coast, by Grace Carlson

• Grace Carlson (photo)

Conquerors wine and dine at Potsdam like barbaric despoilers of antiquity, by Bill Morgan

The History of American Trotskyism, by James P. Cannon

• How the pioneer Trotskyists solved key question of “what to do next?”

Workers’ Forum

• Urges Negroes to cast votes for Trotskyists, from V.H.
• De Leon and the SLP, from R.S.
• Ball-Burton-Hatch anti-labor bill, from Art Preis
• On discrimination, from M.M.
• Coal for Europe, from Henry Martin
  Editor’s note
• War criminals, from George Storen
• Two presidents, from L.B. Courts
• The rationing system, from Disgusted Housewife
• “Wartime tragedy”, from Mary Clarke

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News deliverers gain concessions in WLB decision

Militant Army

Lie of German guilt

Patterson’s wife expresses thanks

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Race hate flares in New Zealand

Pioneer Notes

[Editorials]

• Japan’s defeat
• Voice of capitalism
• Detroit points way
• Still against strikes

“But don’t you think ...” by Gray (cartoon)

Problems facing war veterans, by Charles Carsten

• Pending legislation on veteran employment

International Notes

• France
• Italy
• Austria
• Algeria
• Germany

Big war profiteer poses as a “philanthropist”

Question Box

Vol. IX No. 34, August 25, 1945, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Hands off China! Halt American intervention!

• Significance of Chiang’s fight with Stalinists, by the Editors
• U.S. aids Kuomintang in Chinese civil war

Jobs bill is big fraud, by Art Preis

• The layoff is the payoff (photo)
• Truman orders retention of curbs on labor

Inland Steel strike forces corporation to reinstate fired union committeemen, by J. Lyons

In the News

• No atom bomb cutbacks!
• Bosses’ post-war plans
• Highly beneficial, but —
• Just around the corner

An Editorial

• The unions’ duty

Tammany challenges election petitions of S.W.P. candidate

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• ‘Suitable employment’
• Union conventions
• ‘We will not budge’
• Hunger wages
• Back to ‘normalcy’
• Ward ‘seizure’

Soldiers of the Chinese 8th Route Army (photo)

Brewers in Milwaukee strike for contract

Reconversion head sees 8 million jobless soon

• No help wanted (cartoon)

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

Truman’s wage policy, from Los Angeles Tribune

Report on layoffs

• Detroit
• New York City
• New York State
• Buffalo
• Philadelphia
• Baltimore
• Pittsburgh
• Bridgeport, Conn.
• New Jersey
• Ohio
• Cleveland
• Chicago
• Los Angeles
• United States

End of no-strike pledge announced by auto union

Price gougers receive presidential “go” sign

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• Labor says “Free the 50”

Laid-off wright workers stand hours for payoff; women faint, by Jerry Baker

Toledo CIO denounces strikebreaking bill

Union control over government-owned merchant marine is answer to layoffs

British election stirs Labor Party move in Houston

Victimized Italian longshoreman tells his story to Militant staff reporter, by Evelyn Atwood

• Raffaele Panzarino, by EA (drawing)

Postwar Notes for Seamen

• [Sailor on crutches looks into garbage can] (cartoon)

Native fascism – III, by Joseph Hansen

• American fascist organizations collaborate in spreading poison
• G.L.K. Smith (cartoon)

Illinois bosses boast of killing all labor bills, by Leigh Roy

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

Scientific study shows Europe on starvation diet, by Mary Kane

Children’t aid – for the poor and the rich

• [Poor child] (photo)

Women in war industry quickly learn unionism, by Mary Steele

Cleveland auto union supports Smith Act victim

• William Patterson (photo)

Who really gains from the myth of race superiority?

SWP receives urgent appeal for aid from impoverished comrades in Italy, by Farrell Dobbs

• Scoreboard: International Solidarity Fund

French Trotskyists defy DeGaulle

• Censored, by Gray (cartoon)

Grace Carlson notes SWP growth in Seattle area, by Grace Carlson

• Grace Carlson (photo)
• Good turn-out at Seattle meeting
• Portland meeting on “V-J Day”, by C.M. Hesser
• Carlson speaks to Tacoma audience

The History of American Trotskyism, by James P. Cannon

• Main task of Communist left opposition was propaganda rather than agitation

Workers’ Forum

• Peace, by K.F. Ziska, from Diesel Worker
• Detects fear in Hoover’s speech, from H.T.
• Excess profits “tax”, from Gilbert Nelson
• Truman’s appointees, from Robert H. Miller
• Atomic bomb, from M. McGowan
• The postwar world, from Victor A. Howell
• Los Angeles after V-J Day, from Al Lynn

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Pioneer Notes

Militant Army

Build the Labor Party (cartoon)

Carlson meeting in San Francisco

Embracing Hitler’s backers

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Question Box

SWP branch activities

[Editorials]

• Beware of them!
• Stalin and Japan
• Tammany trickery

“But won’t the ‘problems of peace’ happen ...?“ by Gray (cartoon)

Problems facing war veterans, by Charles Carsten

• Where are the jobs they promised the veterans?

The only road

Two million New Yorkers in run-down tenements

Vol. IX No. 35, September 1, 1945, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Kremlin betrays Chinese masses by Chiang deal

• Chiang Kai-shek (cartoon)

Murray tells Senate demand rises for government to operate plants, by Art Preis

• The fruits of “free enterprise” (photo)
• Truman prepares new machinery to curb labor
  Murray (cartoon)
• 7,000 demonstrate in Chicago loop as layoffs sweep gigantic war plants, by Mike Bartell
• Detroit labor seethes; layoffs hit 350,000

Soldiers petition Congress to halt Pacific transfers

In the News

• OK with warning? by Norman Thomas, in The Call
• How to keep friends
• No Christmas spirit
• Situation “normal”
• What’s in a name? from Business Week
• Just a museum “peace”

Wall St. cracks whip by ending Lend-Lease, by Felix Morrow

• Attlee (cartoon)

SWP wins legal fight to get on N.Y. ballot, by C. Thomas

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• Guild scraps pledge
• Skids under no-strike
• Cleveland unions act
• Premium pay
• Lewis gets appeal

10,000 laid off daily in Massachusetts area

• Boston USES office swamped (photo)

Youngstown Steel at half capacity

• No help wanted (cartoon)

50 per cent unemployed seen for General Motors in Flint, by Jerry Kirk

5,000 jobs in Buffalo for 50,000 jobless

Kill and be blessed

On-the-spot reports of the nation-wide layoffs

• Philadelphia jobless reach 70,000 total
• Fired workers protest to WLB (photo)
• Fired workers in N. Y. midtown demonstration, by Dinah Sanders
• Plant shutdowns affect 175,000 in North Jersey
• 52,000 due to lose jobs in Twin Cities, by Barbara Bruce
• Seattle layoffs strike women, Negroes hardest
• Layoff plague hits Toledo with coming of “peace”
• 200,000 seen fired in Los Angeles
• Kaiser disregards seniority in heavy Portland layoffs, by C.M. Hesser

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

Shipyard local for Labor Party

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• Advice from a veteran
• Los Angeles Tribune reprints column

Soldier exposes anti-German lies, by V. Grey

• Hard-hearted Germans?

Maritime board moves to cut Pacific bonus

Toledo unionists battle Chevrolet Jim-Crow policy

Postwar Notes for Seamen

• Ghost fleet
• Post-war “expansion”
• New efficiency
• Manpower problem
• Blissful ignorance
• Bad hangover

Toledo SWP holds open forum on job program

August FI dedicated to memory of Trotsky

No cause to complain

A new Versailles

Native fascism – IV, by Joseph Hansen

• Hearst joins Smith-Reynolds in peddling fascist poison to the youth of America
• Torrey Johnson (cartoon)

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

Dobbs denounces Tammany plot, by Farrell Dobbs (speech)

• New York Trotskyist candidates (photo)

Simpson talks at Leon Trotsky memorial rally

Build the Labor Party (cartoon)

International fund drive tops three-quarter mark, by Farrell Dobbs

• International Solidarity Fund: Scoreboard

Japanese still dying by tens of thousands from radio-activity effects of atom bomb

• Priceless gem of liberal thought, by Bruce Bliven, in The New Republic

London students open fund to help Nigerian strikers

Speech by Grace Carlson stirs Montana audience

• Grace Carlson (photo)

The History of American Trotskyism, by James P. Cannon

• Pioneer Trotskyists persevered despite attacks and isolation

Workers’ Forum

• A letter to Negro children, from Victor Howell
• Chaos as workers seek Detroit jobs forcing women out of industry, from E. Logan
  [Workers in the rain, by RW (cartoon)
• The Dangerous Three, by Davis Dusenbery (poem)
• The outcast veteran, from A Soldier
• Navy point system, from A Sailor
• Independent in Akron elections, from Roy A. Cutright
• Profiteers’ trick, from J. Blake
• Thoughts on V-J Day, from H.T.

Gray cartoon contest closes

Pioneer Notes

Militant Army

A correction

Fight for this program

SWP branch activities

[Editorials]

• Time for action
• Plant “seizures”
• Hong Kong

“Why don’t they go to the USES ...” by Gray (cartoon)

Problems facing war veterans, by Charles Carsten

• SNAFU in the Veterans’ Administration

International Notes

• Soviet Union
• Germany
• Spain
• Great Britain

High cost of living irks Wall Street men in Paris

Question Box

Vol. IX No. 36, September 8, 1945, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Congress faces growing jobs crisis

• 25,000 workers in Camden rally protest layoffs, by George Clement
• Huge job demonstration in Manhattan (photo)
• Big Business tools scheme to scuttle unemployed aid, by Art Preis

Trotskyist gains reported from all over Europe

• Leon LeSoil (photo)
• Belgian Trotskyists redouble activity
• Repo9rts from Buchenwald prisoners
• German Section is being formed
• HGolland section reestablished

John G. Wright starts national lecture tour

Nigerian strikers win demands

Detroit CIO marchers raise call for labor’s own party

In the News

• Ghost towns – 1945
• Their master’s voice
• Free to starve, from The Progressive
• No war millionaires?
• Who won the war
• The same difference
• Wtch this rat!

50,000 demonstrate in New York for jobs, by Bill Morgan

Wall Street the real victor in 2nd world-wide slaughter

Dobbs and Simpson demand jobs for New York workers

How I pounded the pavements of New York City looking for one of those “sixty million jobs”, by Dinah Sanders

• Demonstrating in Chicago Loop for jobs (photo)

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• Lumber strike vote
• Axing no-strike pledge
• USES wage-cutting
• UAW 10th anniversary

Seamen’s wages fixed way below war level

Build the Labor Party (cartoon)

United strike ties up three St. Louis dailies

• Don’t need the boss press

Socialist Workers Party holds nation-wide meetings to honor memory of Leon Trotsky

• New York
• Milwaukee
• Twin Cities
• Boston
• Leon Trotsky (photo)
• Los Angeles
• Buffalo
• N.Y. Trotsky Memorial Meeting message to Natalia Trotsky
• Youngstown
• Detroit
• Flint
• Newark

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

Comrade Marcel Hic (obituary)

Dobbs and Simpson demand jobs for New York workers (continued from Page 1)

“The downfall of Browder”, by James P. Cannon

• James P. Cannon (photo)

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• Nigerian workers set the tune

Native Fascism – V, by Joseph Hansen

• How fascist demagogues hope to ensnare war veterans for assault upon labor
• Homer Maertz /cartoon)
• Maertz “investigate” Socialist Workers Party

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

Billings applies for civil rights

• Warren K. Billings with George N0vack(photo)

Stalinist “success” in cultural work

Eyewitness calls shattered Tokyo monument of ruin

Ruined Germany faces spread of epidemics

No help wanted (cartoon)

International solidarity fund near $5,000 goal, by Farrell Dobbs

• International Solidarity Fund: Scoreboard

Carlson gets warm welcome from audience in St. Paul, by Grace Carlson

Los Angeles SWP branches hold city conference

• Myra Tanner Weiss (photo)

SWP’s Nigeria protest receives brazen reply

Red Sunday drive scheduled for Jackson pamphlet

John G. Wright tour schedule

The History of American Trotskyism, by James P. Cannon

• communist left opposition sounded the alarm against rise of Hitler

Workers’ Forum

• A reply to Victor Howell, from Joseph Hansen
• Capitalist press distorts news, from M.L.
• Cast-off of capitalism, from H. Burns
• Likes The Militant for telling truth, from L.B. Courts
• Letter from Britain, from P.H.

The Tory is my shepherd, by A Neath Tin Worker, from Socialist Appeal (GB)

Pioneer to issue new edition of book by Trotsky

Militant Army

• [Workers reading The Militant (cartoon)

Goodrich Local 5 enforces contract for 36-hour wk.

SWP branch activities

Fight for this program

Pioneer Notes

• An immediate task
• Lend-lease
• Discrimination
• Foster’s line

“No, I don’t practice discrimination ...” by Gray (cartoon)

Problems facing war veterans, by Charles Carsten

• Super-seniority for veterans upheld by fewderal court judge

International Notes

• England
• France
• The Netherlands
• West Indies
• Dutch East Indies

Washington deaf to plea for aid against polio

Question Box

Vol. IX No. 37, September 15, 1945, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobs
MANAGING EDITOR:
George Breitman

Mass picketing halts Cleveland police terror, by George Grant

Truman’s Congressional message hailed by agents of Big Business

• “We can cut it to fit, Harry”, by Gray (cartoon)
• Gives no real answer to unemployed crisis, by Art Preis

New York police enforce Jim Crow in Harlem area, by Bill Morgan

John G. Wright to give lectures in Pennsylvania

11 Trotskyists freed in Ceylon

William Patterson faces loss of eighteen years seniority, by Eloise Gordon

In the News

• Never miss a trick, Lewis L. Schellbach
• Declaring “peace”
• If — if — if —, from N.Y. Times
• Easier for a camel, etc.
• Study in contrasts, from N.Y. Times

Organizer calls for Labor Party

Congress scuttles bill for $25 jobless relief

Filipinos fight return of despotic U.S. rule

Dobbs denied separate line of ballot in N. Y. election, by C. Thomas

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• Steel wage parley
• Take it out of profits
• Another blow at Negroes
• Joke of the month
• On Labor Day

Let’s go back to the old pioneer spirit, by Guernsey-Montgomery, for Economic Outlook, CIO

Flint Chevrolet local votes for strike action

Capitalist press distorts figures on jobs crisis, by M.A. Arder

• The real score on layoffs vs. jobs

CIO pickets help AFL strike in Hollywood, by Lois Saunders

Monroe workers print daily strike bulletin, by Joe White

Goodrich workers respect foremen’s picket line, by Joseph Andrews

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

Cleveland labor unity in action (photo)

30,000 San Francisco marchers demand jobs

Postwar Notes for Seamen

Jim Crow policy endangers S.I.U.

Signs on trains voice protests of Army troops, by Mary Kane

Reading unionists send program to Militant

Imported Jamaican workers suffer shocking conditions

4,753 pamphlets sold in one day

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• An open letter to white fellow workers

Negro artist tells how she fought Jim Crow in battle for success, by Evelyn Atwood

• Selma Burke (photo)

Government cuts appropriations for child care, by Irene James

Congressmen at Work

• [Congressman] (cartoon)

Youngstown women suffer in layoffs, by Mary Steele

Shipyard strike won by workers in Australia

Congress tour studies gay spots of Europe

• What Congressmen didn’t see in France (photo)

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

Raging inflation heightens misery in Shanghai

Fourth International founded 7 years ago, by George Collins

De Gaulle promised big loans from Wall Street imperialists, by Felix Morrow

SWP branches top $5,000 quota for international solidarity fund, by Farrell Dobbs

• International Solidarity Fund: Scoreboards

Only labor can defeat fascism, meeting told

Woman party leader tells impressive gains of SWP, by Grace Carlson

• Grace Carlson (photo)

John G. Wright tour schedule

The History of American Trotskyism, by James P. Cannon

• Hitler’s 1933 victory demonstrated hopeless bankruptcy of Comintern

Workers’ Forum

• What “termination” really means, from A.B.
• Cancer kills a worker’s mother, from Ruth Franklin
• Workers angry, officials jittery, from Leigh Ray
• Expelled from YPSL, from Henry Braun
• World socialism – or nothing! from Don Roberts
• “Like 1918”, from Beernard N. Dugan
• Army persecution of Negro prisoners, from L.G.
• Enjoys lecture on “women in prison”, from O.G.B.
• American capitalists admit war guilt, from Al Forbes

“The four freedoms”, by Seman, from Justice (cartoon)

Militant Army

Weiss lectures on British Labor Party victory

Fight for this program

Pioneer Notes

SWP branch activities

[Editorials]

• Congress of labor
• Native fascism
• Italy’s colonies
• Labor in Canada

“I’ve always said a woman’s place ...” by Gray (cartoon)

Problems facing war veterans, by Charles Carsten

• Baruch’s proposals are not a solution to the veteran problem

International Notes

• Freece
• Yugoslavia
• Canada

Children fleeing torture hunted with shotguns

Question Box

Vol. IX No. 38, September 22, 1945, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobs
MANAGING EDITOR:
George Breitman

Chilean workers win great strike victory, by Diego Henriquez

Detroit UAW heads demand convention

Auto workers prepare for show-down battle

Pamphlet against Jim Crow warmly received in Harlem

First union head sees vital need for Labor Party, by Jerry Kirk

Wall Street theme song, by Gray (cartoon)

UAW national GM conference calls for Congress of labor, by Howard Smith

John G. Wright speaks at Boston on British Labor

In the News

• Their fat, labor’s blood
• Why millions diued
• His side of teh fence
• With red flags flying
• Soviet people please note

Indo-Chinese revolt against French rule, by Joseph Hansen

Goodrich lockout attempts to break foremen’s strike, by Joseph Andrews

Simpson bares rule of police in Harlem, by Louise Simpson

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• One down, one to go
• Unemployed committees
• Union conventions
• UAW test case
• Green ends pledge
• Organizing union vets

Jobs demonstration in Camden (photo)

Akron unionist open 30-hour week campaign

5,000,000 launch wage offensive

GM conference resolution for a Congress of labor

MacArthur retains Japanese despotism in Korea as independence movement voices angry protest

• MacArthur (cartoon)

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

Chile section prints SWP manifesto

Great Northern foists blame for wreck on crew members, by C. Gustafson

Algerian Trotskyists fight imperialist rule

Truman secretly knifes measure for jobless aid

]

[Editorials

• Time for show-down
• Withdraw the troops!
• Women and industry

“Isn’t it dangerous for us to drive all the Japanese ...” by Gray (cartoon)

Problems facing war veterans, by Charles Carsten

• Broad program needed to provide for disabled veterans

International Notes

• Greece
• India
• Germany
• Italy

Why the big corporations can afford higher wages

Question Box

Workers’ Forum

• A soldier’s report on “divide and rule”, from J.H.
• His family lived in Hiroshima, from R. Murdoch
• What have workers gained? from Ray Tucker
• “Let labor be boss”, from Sam Brown
• The power of thought, from F.B.
• “Hands off South America!” from R.S.
• Rotten system and a veteran’s tragedy, from L.K.
  [Sailor look in trash can] (cartoon)
• Atomic bomb and “laws of war”, from Stephen Kraus
  Ed. Note
• Religion supports capitalist system, from J.D.
• Union bureaucrat aids the boss, from A New Reader

Winner announced in Gray cartoon contest

Militant Army

Fight for this program

SWP branch activities

Pioneer Notes

All SWP branches meet full quota in inspiring finish to campaign for $5,000 international solidarity fund, by Farrell Dobbs

• International Solidarity Fund: Scoreboard

Grace Carlson addresses meeting in Kansas City

• Grace Carlson (photo)
• 200 hear Carlson in Twin Cities

Jackson pamphlet against Jim Crow completely sold out in three weeks

Hungary decrees death penalty as inflation spreads

John G. Wright tour schedule

The History of American Trotskyism, by James P. Cannon

• How pioneer Trotskyist movement completed preparations for mass work

The heritage of Leon Trotsky and the tasks of his disciples, by James P. Cannon

• Leon Trotsky (photo)

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• Fruits of “victory”

Congressmen at Work

• [Congressman] (cartoon)

Unemployment is all in the head, says capitalist, by Jack O’Connell

Union militants picket UAW officials meeting

• Protesting UAW board’s strikebreaking (photo)

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

Build the Labor Party (cartoon)

Billings’ petition for civil rights upheld by judge

Nursery closures hit Minneapolis mothers, by Mary Kane

Race discrimination scored by St. Paul trade unions, by Dorothy Schultz

Postwar Notes for Seamen

Wall Street Journal gloats over decline in railway jobs, by Henry Adams

Vol. IX No. 39, September 29, 1945, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobs
MANAGING EDITOR:
George Breitman

Huge peacetime Army planned by Congress, by Joseph Hansen

• How Foster fights U.S. Imperialism
• Bring him back home! by Gray (cartoon)

UAW ranks force strike vote in auto industry

• In the dawn’s early light (photo)
• Workers show fighting mood in walkouts, by Kay O’Brien

Fascist vermin renew activities in New York City, by Farrell Dobbs & Louise Simpson

• Farrell Dobbs (photo)

Striking CIO oil workers demand “52–40 or fight”, by Mike Bartoli

In the News

• Just fine – for capitalists
• Imperialist peril
• Rewards loyal ‘worker’
• Saving Wall Street’s dough
• What the Nazis get, by Raymond Daniels, in N.Y. Times
• And what the Nazi victims get

Angry letter protesting delay in discharges flood congressmen

Packed hall hears Wright lecture, by M. Garberi

Senate action leaves unemployed to starve, by Art Preis

Stalinists slander Militant with lies invented by bosses

Veterans’ wives fight closure of Phil. nurseries, by John Haas

Bills aim to give government ships to private owners, by F.J. Lang

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• Uniformed vets picket
• Lumber strike looms
• Ward “seizure” aftermath
• Talked too soon
• Lickspittle unionism
• Afterthoughts on pledge

Striking Ford workers in Canada (photo)

Stalinists betray strike of New York painters, by Bill Morgan

Flint Buick Local 599 proposes Labor Party

Our Martyrs

• France
• Belgium

25,000 workers in Ceylon strike for better conditions

International Notes

• France
• Nigeria
• Germany
• Mexico
• Italy

La lutte du trotskystes (facsimile)

C.C.F. spokesman fights in parliament for labor

British officials order deportation of Pierre Frank

[Editorials]

• United labor action
• Spoils of war
• Witch-hunt

“I really don’t see how ...” by Gray (cartoon)

Problems facing war veterans, by Charles Carsten

• Educational “benefits” must be made more than an empty gesture

Workers’ Bookshelf

• Jons for all!, reviewed by Bill Morgan

Congressmen at Work

• [Congressman] (cartoon)

How billionaire Ford did business with Nazis

Workers’ Forum

• Elated over West Coast vocation school, from Walter Patrick
• A letter to Victor Howell, from F.W.
• Seeing through “jaybird Bilbo”, from Lumber Worker
  Bilbo (photo)
• No Militants on Wall Street, from A Reader
• Du Pont rights to atom bomb, from Don Roberts
• Navy discharges, for officers and men, from A Detroit Sailor

Worker in Italy writes of frightful conditions, from A Reader

Pioneer Notes

Militant Army

Build the Labor Party

Question Box

Fight for this program

West Coast vacation school opens with large enrollment, by J. Blake

Reading unionists hear J.G. Wright

• John G. Wright tour schedule

The History of American Trotskyism, by James P. Cannon

• How the Trotskyists started mass work

How ruthless Allied imperialist deliberately planned the fire-bombing of working-class homes in Japan

• ][Mother and child under falling bombs (cartoon)

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• Origin and significance of “race”

Welcome home Joe (cartoon)

Trotskyists defy police attempt to wall off Harlem, by Bill Morgan

Sydney workers aid Indonesians

SWP branch activities

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

CIO oil strikers in Toledo back fight for 30% raise, by Ted Reading

• Texas oil strikers (photo)

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

Boston mothers urge nurseries, by J. Kitting

• Figures reveal need for nurseries

“We need depressions” says capitalist writer

Postwar Notes for Seamen

16,000 stage sitdown in shipyard at Camden, by Susana Hill

Red Sunday called by SWP to sell jobs pamphlet

Vol. IX No. 40, October 6, 1945, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobs
MANAGING EDITOR:
George Breitman

Indo-Chinese battle imperialist despots, by Joseph Hansen

• Hands off Indo-China, by Gray (cartoon)
• Socialists Workers Party protests use of U. S. troops in Indo-China

1,000 Detroit workers picket fascist meeting, by Kay O’Brien

• Slugged by police (photo)

Zionist protest mass rally held in New York City, by Ben Joseph

New York labor shows power in backing elevator strike, by Bill Morgan

• Bulletin

In the News

• Hard work and brains
• Job “opportunities”
• Investment counselors
• One-man world
• Not enough butchery
• Smothered in oil

250 hear Wright speak in New York

House buries jobless bills in vicious attack on labor, by Art Preis

Louise Simpson answers a Republican slanderer

Harlem ghetto arrest protested by SWP

Westinghouse “White Collar” workers demonstrate militant methods of labor struggle in strike, by Eloise Black

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• The “inside-dope” boys
• Rewriting history
• UAW and Smith Act
• Cotton pickers swindled

Extension of oil walkout authorized by union board

• Fighting the oil barons for 30% raise (photo)

UMW Local 2399 takes action on Patterson Case

Urge N.Y. police to solve murder of Carlo Tresca

Flint auto local votes 30-day strike deadline, by Jerry Kirk

Mine workers unpaid for atomic bomb ore

Australian dock strike supports Indonesian battle for freedom, by Robert L. Birchman

• [Southeast Asia] (map

International Notes

• Italy
• Japan
• Kore
• France
• India

Allied rule tightens over German people

• Foraging for coal (photo)

New Zealanders protest delays in discharges

SWP protest cabled to Attlee

Guerilla bands fight Franco rule

Trotskyists in Chile forge steadily ahead

Nigerian strike supported by Caribbean workers

[Editorials]

• Policy for labor
• Anti-Semitism
• For colonial freedom
• Sir Bernard Pares

“They’re so selfish ...” (cartoon), by Gray

Problems facing war veterans, by Charles Carsten

• Hershey’s campaign to divide veterans and non-veterans
• Wall Street gloats over ruling

Workers’ Bookshelf

• Fascism – what it is, how to fight it, by Leon Trotsky, reviewed by Ruth Johnson

Standard Oil’s battle to seal the pipelines

Congressmen at Work

Workers’ Forum

• British member of Y.C.L. sends correction on French martyrs, from English Reader
  Editor’s reply
• Railroad locals call for 36 hour week, from Jack Pearson
• Harvester company “explains” job loss to a seller, from Sailor’s Wife
  [Letter], from International Harvester
• Calvinist cant, from Joseph McNamee
• Capitalist press changes a line, from Jerry Baker
• A “great” world, from G. Cornell

Red Sunday mobilization

Welcome Home Joe – No help wanted (c rtoon)

Militant Army

Pioneer Notes

Our Program

Question Box

Socialist Workers Party Branch Activities

Militant opens drive for 10,000 new subs, by Justine Lang

High award for heroism to comrade Dauber

• Marc Dauber (photo)

Newark meeting well attended

Allentown hears John J. [_sic_] Wright, by John Fitch

John G. Wright tour schedule

The History of American Trotskyism, by James P. Cannon

• Our experiences in the N. Y. hotel strike

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• The true role of religion

Drive out the fascists! (facsimile of leaflet)

• G.L.K. Smith (cartoon)

The fight in Los Angeles against race segregation, by Jean Simon

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

14,000 workers in militant sitdown strike “hold the fort” at New Jersey shipyard, by Susana Hill

• Bulletin
• Sitdowners massed in Camden shipyard (photo)

Shop Talks on Socialism

Lumber workers walk out in fight for general wage raise

Theaters picketed in studio strike, by Lois Saunders

Urgent heed for child care centers

Vets criticize mechanical limbs

Montgomery Ward is heaven according to its job ads, by Jack Pearson

Postwar Notes for Seamen

Chicago social to feature skit

Vol. IX No. 41, October 13, 1945, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobs
MANAGING EDITOR:
George Breitman

Allies prepare slaughter in Java and Indo-China, by Joseph Hansen

S.W.P. issues call to black fascists

Labor strike upsurge reaches new heights

“Let’s negotiate, gentlemen” (cartoon), by Gray

The SWP’s stand on Benjamin Davis

Buffalo CIO votes action against Smith

Stalinists whitewash Detroit police terror

• Detroit police attack anti-fascists (photo)

New York longshoremen fight for safe loads, by F.J. Lang

In the News

• Relief for the greedy
• Agreed at last, from N.Y. Times
• Poor parasites
• Sacrifice profits, too?
• Need bigger drawers, from U.S. News
• War for “democracy”

Strikers resist union-busting of SKF trust, by M. Garberi

60,000 AFL lumber men out on strike

Kelsey-Hayes unit conducts courageous 6-week battle, by Kay O’Brien

Detroit SWP opens campaign for Frankensteen, by John Saunders & Art Preis

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• The “red” scare begins
• “Savior” of democracy
• Stalinist strikebreaking
• Peoria rail strike

Kelsey-Hayes strikers silence Thomas (photo)

Texas CIO oil strikers wage militant fight for 30% raise

Massed pickets halt huge standard plant, by John A. McClure

International Notes

• Czechoslovakia
• South Africa
• Belgium
• France
• Germany

Indonesian nationalists fight Dutch imperialism, by Ratna Soemanti

Our Martyrs

• Germany
• Greece

Vanquished ... “Victors” (photos)

Squabble over booty of war ends Big Five London parley, by Felix Morrow

[Editorials]

• Smash the fascists!
• Anti-Jewish slander
• Full employment

“I can’t understand ...” (cartoon), by Gray

Problems facing war veterans, by Charles Carsten

• The shabby treatment of disabled veterans

Workers’ Bookshelf

• Negroes in the Post-War World, by Albert Parker, reviewed by Bill Morgan

Trial reveals thievery by huge food monopoly

Congressmen at Work

Workers’ Forum

• False leaders hit in letter to Jackson, from F.J.
• It’s the rich who injure all, from W.J.
• Seaman exposes Standard Oil’s sales to Hitler, from Frank Ricco
• One job with a postwar prospect, from A Detroit Sailor
• “The bosses will lose ...”, from D.S.
• Militant makeup affects sales of newsstands, from B.P.
  Editor’s Note
• Regulate war? – or end capitalism, from Belle Montague
• American soldier in Naples sees picture of Leon Trotsky, from F.B.

Militant Army

Pioneer Notes

Question Box

Our Program

SWP set for action in Militant drive, by Justine Lang

Even tents in park denied homeless vets

• Welcome Home Joe – No vacancies (cartoon)

Workers in three Ohio cities to hear J.G. Wright this week

• John G. Wright tour schedule

Preis pamphlet sale totals 2,689 in day

Guerin article on fascism featured in September F.I.

The History of American Trotskyism, by James P. Cannon

• Trotskyist role in Minneapolis strikes

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• As a man thinketh ...

Capitalist legislation fosters race ghettos, by Jean Simons

• Jim Crow propaganda (facsimile>

CIO Red Caps raise demands for higher pay

Simpson scores anti-Negro role of Big Business

How sub campaigns mirror SWP growth, by Larissa Reed

Midwest vacation school inspires stirring report, by William F. Warde

Trotskyist runs for office in British election

Socialist Workers Party Branch Activities

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

Militia strikebreaking practice held in Chicago stockyards

Shop talks on Socialism

Giving a good tip to scabs (photo)

G.I. writers of protest letters may face Brass Hat reprisals

• Revealing figures on demobilization, from The Progressive

Militant strikes sweeping Jersey, by Harry Robinson

Postwar Notes for Seamen

Buffalo unions ask conference

New York SWP continued sales in Negro areas

Vol. IX No. 42, October 20, 1945, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

MANAGING EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Militarists plan new war, by Joseph Hansen

• Planning the Third World War (cartoon), by Gray

Greek Stalinists slay Trotskyists, by Paul G. Stevens

Stalinist editor Budenz deserts to the church, by Art Preis

SWP protests French arrest of Indo-Chinese

Lockheed union aids picketers in movie strike, by Lois Saunders

• Bulletin

Rank and file dock strikers demand own negotiating body, by F.J. Lang

• Bulletin

In the News

• Not out of job yet
• Heroes return
• See brighter Future, by Harold Hobson, from Christian Science Monitor
• Scientific “progress”
• Guess his decision!

“Relief for the rich” tax bill passed

SWP’s statement on Ben Davis exposes Stalinist trickery

Smith denied San Diego hall

Minneapolis union picket Gerald L.K. Smith meeting

Texas CIO oil militants determined to renew wage fight; denounce Truman’s strikebreaking

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• Steel negotiations
• Murray local wins
• Elevator strike
• Feels pretty gloomy
• Labor Party

N.Y. longshore strike rally (photo)

SKF strikers fight international trust, by M. Gerber

Los Angeles union vote to picket fascist rally

International Notes

• Greece
• Japan
• India

Biggest dock strike since 1926 sweeps harbors of Great Britain

Seamen picket Dutch consulate in San Francisco

• Picketing the Dutch consulate (photo)

The struggle against the Belgian monarchy, by Felix Morrow

Allies tightening grip on Far East

Belgian miners solidarize with German workers

Indonesia movement for independence has long tradition of militant struggle, by Ratna Soemanti

[Editorials]

• Pierre Frank
• Labor solidarity
• Bring them back home!
• Digging up a corpse

“It certainly is a revolutionary idea ...” (cartoon), by Gray

Problems facing war veterans, by Charles Carsten

• Plight of mentally disabled veterans

Workers Bookshelf

• Fascism and Socialism, by Daniel Guerin, in Fourth International, reviewed by Joseph Hansen

Government rehearses new ‘anti-trust’ farce

Congressmen at Work

Workers’ Forum

• Irish comrades report progress, from F.A.
• Welsh comrades read Militant, from J.J.
• Movie boosts the “good” collaborators! from M.
• “Hero Fund” hides neglect of veterans, from M. McGowan
• Capitalist schools breed prejudice, from W.C.
• Henry Ford still making tanks, from B.C.

A discussion on public opinion, by Andrew Michelson

• [Introduction], by George E. Cloutier, Jr.
• Editor’s Comment

Militant Army

Pioneer Notes

Question Box

Our Program

First day of Militant drive gains 1,064 new subscribers, by Justine Lang

• Scoreboard
• Militant Pace-Setters

John G. Wright talks in Buffalo on the British Labor victory

• John G. Wright tour schedule
• Youngstown workers appreciate lecture

Imperialists use food as weapon against revolt

West Coast vacation school inspires all

The History of American Trotskyism, by James P. Cannon

• How Trotskyists led Minneapolis strikes

No “secrets” in atomic bomb, say scientists; predict “world suicide” under present set up

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• Storm warning – prepare now

Louise Simpson fights for socialist society, by Grace Carlson

• Louise Simpson (photo)

New York fascists hold Queens rally

• Native fascist propaganda (facsimile)
• Homer Maertz (cartoon)

Socialist Workers Party Branch Activities

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

Foster continued Browder line of supporting “good” capitalists, by Felix Morrow

Shop talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

Police violence in Hollywood strike (photo)

Postwar Notes for Seamen

Vol. IX No. 43, October 27, 1945, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

MANAGING EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Soekarno govt. protests role of U.S. in Java, by Ratna Soemanti

20,000 workers in Los Angeles picket fascist Smith’s meeting, by Mac Patrick & J. Blake

• Picketing against the fascists (photo)

Hoodlum attacks arouse Detroit labor movement

GM head wants destruction of 40-hour week

Foster’s deal with Tammany Hall disappoints ranks of Stalinists, by C. Thomas

In the News

• Child life in America
• Actions speak loudest, from N.Y. Post
• “Dear Benito”
• Reverse demobilization
• Hazardous for whom?
• Apt comparisons

Why Detroit Trotskyists back labor candidates

Northwest lumber strike holds firm in 4th week

SWP supports Buffalo labor candidates

Dock strike undermined by Stalinist disruption, by F.J. Lang

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• Avery wins again
• They’re still finks
• Randolph’s warning
• Coming UAW strike

How the SWP helped mobilize anti-fascist picket in L. A., by James Dell

• Leaflet of Los Angeles SWP (facsimile)
• G.L.K. Smith (cartoon)

International Notes

• France
• Australia
• Greece
• Philippines
• Norway
• Japan
• Korea

British dock strike remains solid; 50,000 stevedores reported out

• Voting to stay on strike (photo)

The role of imperialism in the Argentine events, by Joseph Hansen

Trotskyists run candidates in French general election

[Editorials]

• Congress and the atom
• Where does he stand?
• Free Puerto Rico!
• A liar confesses
• Radio censorship
• Tax the rich!

“But why must I pay ... “ (cartoon), by Gray

Problems facing war veterans, by Charles Carsten

• The loan guarantee fraud

Workers’ Bookshelf

• Resolutions of the Eleventh Convention of the American Trotskyist Movement, reviewed by G. Lord

Big Business authored “industrial peace” bill

Congressmen at Work

Workers’ Forum

• Grateful for finding socialism, from C.P.
• Stalinists aid murder of Greek workers, from James White
• Union militant evaluates the Socialist Worker Party, from Ray Carney
• For better headlines, from H.N.
• Railroad workers begin struggle for 36-hour week, freom John Russo

From a young soldier’s mother, from A Reader

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Pioneer Notes

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1,207 new readers chalked up in The Militant sub campaign, by Justine Lang

• Scoreboard
• Militant Pace-Setters

Wright speaks on British labor before responsive Toledo Group, by Ted Reading

• Akron workers hear lecture
• John G. Wright tour schedule

Dutch rulers fight to hold their wealth in East Indies

The History of American Trotskyism, by James P. Cannon

• Lessons for labor in 1934 Minneapolis strikes

N.Y. labor leaders’ support of boss candidates is real cause of workers’ “apathy” to election

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• Hellish homecoming

Beaten by anti-union thugs (photo)

Trotskyist candidates fight vicious Jim Crow system, by Louise Simpson

• Louise Simpson (photo)

Socialist Workers Party Branch Activities

Mass meeting protests Chicago Jim Crow acts

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

Stalinist Party heads support capitalist candidates; find it difficult to explain to grumbling members, by Felix Morrow

Congress to the rescue! (cartoon), by Gray

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

Philadelphia labor supports militant SKF strikers, by M. Goldman

Postwar Notes for Seamen

Vol. IX No. 44, November 3, 1945, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Vote Trotskyist, Dobbs urges in radio address

• Simpson on radio attacks Jim Crow, by Louise Simpson
• Toledo SWP urges voters to elect Simmons
• “Vote Labor,” SWP says in Detroit

Profiteering auto and steel barons arrogantly reject wage demands, by Art Preis

Allies increase armed pressure on Indonesians, by Joseph Hansen

A graduation gift from Truman (cartoon), by Gray

SKF strikers resist brutal police terror, by Max Geldman

Union woman, beaten by thugs, blames attack on corporations, by Kay O’Brien

In the News

• Solves housing problem
• Why he qualified
• Jobs for all, from Seattle Post-Intelligencer
• Heaven can wait
• Let freedom ring!

New York Longshoremen force more concessions, by F.J. Lang

San Francisco machinists prepare for major battle, by Bob Chester

4,000 glass workers go out on strike in Toledo after two years of fruitless palaver with bosses, by Ted Reading

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• Most popular strike
• GM strike vote
• Detroit elections
• Why did Lewis do it?

Women strikers on the march (photo)

International Notes

• Philippines
• Italy
• Sweden

Indo-China head calls on Truman to end warfare

• May face firing squad (photo)

Landslide vote of French workers shows they want socialist society

• Deeds speak eloquently for French Trotskyists

Strike of British dockers spreads to all harbors

Javanese strike ships of Dutch in N.Y. port, by Robert Birchman

[Editorials]

• Our Program
• Wall St. militarism

“Have you heard those awful Trotskyist asndidates ...” (cartoon), by Gray

Problems facing war veterans, by Charles Carsten

• What happened to job promises?

Workers’ Bookshelf

• The Russian Revolution, by James P. Cannon, reviewed by Miriam Carter

Big electrical trusts in cartel conspiracy

Congressmen at Work

Workers’ Forum

• Misery increases for Italian people, from A Reader
• Exposing line of Brass Hats, from A Reader
• Reply to Hansen, by Victor Howell
• Soldier in India reports on officers and men, from A Subscriber
• Common people will build a new world, from Robert H. Miller
• A major looks to next war, from H.L.
• New horrors facing world, from Joseph McNamee

October Fourth International exposes war guilt in Pacific

Militant Army

Pioneer Notes

The scarcity plan, by Davis Dusenbery (poem)

Question Box

Our Program

Socialist Workers Party Branch Activities

Score of 2,162 new readers reached in 2nd week of Militant sub campaign, by Justine Lang

• Scoreboard
• Militant Pace-Setters

Timken bearing strikers battle to defend their union conditions

• 125 Detroit workers hear Wright on British labor, by Frank Brown
• John G. Wright tour schedule

The History of American Trotskyism, by James P. Cannon

• How Trotskyists worked for left-wing unity

1917 Russian Bolshevik revolution pointed the way for all workers, by Larissa Reed

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• Hear ye, Harlem

Louise Simpson interviewed (photo)

SWP candidate Dobbs has militant record, by Grace Carlson

• Farrell Dobbs (photo)

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

How American Stalinists support capitalist reaction under Foster, by Felix Morrow

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

Labor solidarity in movie strike (photo)

SWP answers radio attack by Detroit mayor

Auto workers in Baltimore resist union-busting move, by Dorothy Lessing

Postwar Notes for Seamen

Vol. IX No. 45, November 10, 1945, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Auto barons smear labor

3,000 picket meeting of fascist in Oakland, by Robert Chester & Della Rossa

Forging new chains (cartoon), by Gray

Civil war flares in Northern China

Veterans lead picket line in Timken walkout

Truman says labor must accept reduction of take-home wages

In the News

• Freedom to starve
• But it’s OK to shoot, from United Press
• Everything’s ‘oil’ right
• Short but “sweet’
• Food would also help

William Patterson ends prison term, by Eloise Gordon

Huge picket line against fascist meeting in L.A., by Lois Saunders

Machinists strike in San Francisco

British dock strikers agree to month truce

Enemies of labor incite Gary student race-hate, by Robert L. Birchman

SKF strikers in Philadelphia continue militant battle against policy terror, injunction threat, by Max Geldman

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• Where liberalism stops
• Fruits of oil seizure
• 30 hour week
• Afterthoughts on WLB

Mack truck workers block to strike poll (photo)

Police invade anti-Jim Crow church service

International Notes – Trotskyists forge ahead

• Germany
• Switzerland
• Holland
• Belgium
• France
• Greece
• Mexico

Indonesian people fight heroically against brutal imperialist assault, by Joseph Hansen

Allied rule savage in ruined Germany, by Eugene Varlin

• Misery in Germany (photo)

How Allies betrayed the Jewish refugees, by Dan Shelton

Trotskyist gains impressive in French election

Trotskyists lead fight against French fascists, from La Verité

[Editorials]

• Detroit election
• Two sliding scales
• Ship “bottleneck”
• “Ready for self-rule”

“Isn’t it wonderful ...” (cartoon), by Gray

Problem Facing War Veterans, by Charles Carsten

• Why demobilization is lagging

Movie Review, by Joseph Hansen

Navy officers accused of huge meat theft

Congressmen at Work

Workers’ Forum

• Letter to SKF ... refused publication by boss press, from SKF Worker
  Editor’s Note
• As answer to “Christian Front”, from Morris Zucker
• Woman’s interest inspires comrades, from A Reader
• New subscriber scores Rankin, from R. Johnson
• Three Stalinists buy The Militant, from Jake Cooper
• Workers defend Trotskyist speakers, from A. Davis
• “There is no peace,” says Allentown worker, from J. Doyle
• San Francisco comrade writes to Grace Carlson, from M.S.
• For quotations from the past, from Robert H. Miller

Militant Army

Pioneer Notes

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Question Box

3,666 new readers gained as Militant subscription drive gathers momentum, by Justine Lang

• Scoreboard
• Militant Pace-Setters

Flint workers appreciate lecture by J.G. Wright, by John Quinn

• John G. Wright Tour Schedule

The History of American Trotskyism, by James P. Cannon

• How Trotskyists negotiated unity with A.W.P.

What is behind the official silence in unsolved murder of Carlo Tresca?

• Carlo Tresca (photo)

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• No Negro struggle?

Labor, students, sailors make it hot for Smith

• SWP pickets at Oakland meeting

Socialist Workers Party Branch Activities

Workers gird for showdown with packers

Diary of a Steelworker, by T. Kovalesky

Criminal election policy of N.Y. Stalinists blocks step toward national Labor Party, by Felix Morrow

Veterans leading picket line (photo)

Shoptalks on Socialism, by V. Grey

Student groups hear Trotskyist youth speakers

Stalinists forget murder of Panto in wild effort to cover up O’Dwyer, by Mill Morgan

Postwar Notes for Seamen, by F.J. Lang

Vol. IX No. 46, November 17, 1945, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Trotskyist mayoralty candidates wins [_sic_] 4,267 votes in New York

Huge labor struggle looms as bosses scorn wage plea, by Art Preis

Open the books! (cartoon), by Gray

Hand of U.S. deep in China civil war

British dockers set up placards to mark ‘truce’

Withdraw troops from the Orient! by The Editors

In the News

• Innocents abroad
• The bigger the better
• “Dream” wages
• Need dose of strikes

Trend to socialism shown to French workers’ votes, by Paul G. Stevens

SKF seeks court aid against union, by Max Geldman

Huge auto barricade halts police move to smash Ford picket lines in Windsor, by Kay O’Brien

Comparison table of vote trend of minority parties in New York

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• Jumped too quickly
• UPWA-CIO strike poll
• “Lily white” policy
• Railway program
• Gentle reminder

Marshall Field strikers force wage concession

Voting for GM strike (photo)

U.S. role in China exposed by Fourth International

International Notes

• Japan
• India
• Greece
• France
• Korea

Mass slaughter launched in Java as Allies begin bombing civilians, by Joseph Hansen

Famine and death stalk people in German ruins

• Victims in war-torn Germany (photo)

How Allies betrayed the Jewish refugees, by Dan Shelton

Guerin article on Indo-China in next issue

Indonesians will fight to the death against Dutch despots, says seaman, by Evelyn Atwood

• Indonesian seaman (drawing)

[Editorials]

• Open their books!
• “Victors”
• Free enterprise
• The Italian armistice

“But why do they permit labor candidates ...” (cartoon), by Gray

Problems facing war veterans, by Charles Carsten

• Plight of Negro veterans

Workers’ Bookshelf

• American workers need a Labor Party, by Joseph Hansen, reviewed by C. Andrews

Nazi document reveals aid from Standard Oil

Congressmen at Work

Workers’ Forum

• Compares programs of SWP and SLP, from A.M.
• High school youth tells meaning of conscription, from Gloria Wall
• Wants book on socialist future, from A.O.R.
  Editor’ Note
• A request for more explanation about Stalin, from L.M.

Two letters on the recent New York longshore strike

• From L. Williams
• From J.F.
• Editor’s Note

Pioneer Notes

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Our Program

Question Box

5,457 new readers gained as Militant subscription drive hits halfway mark, by Justine Lang

• Scoreboard
• Militant Pace-Setters

Minneapolis workers appreciate speech on British Labor victory, by Barbara Bruce

• Milwaukee gathering hears lecture by John G. Wright, by K. Zellon
• John G. Wright tour schedule

The History of American Trotskyism, by James P. Cannon

• Trotskyists and American Workers Party fuse

Russian revolution – our appraisal, by James P. Cannon

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• Reply to Comrade Thomas

Socialist Workers Party Branch Activities

Diary of a Steelworker, by T. Kovalesky

Decline in American Labor Party’ vote due to its support of boss candidates, by Felix Morrow

Workers’ barricade – 1945 model (photo)

• Bulletin

Shoptalks on Socialism, by V. Grey

Boss press lies about ‘gay’ Harlem, by Jerry Baker

Stalinist goons rip up Militants, by Laura Falk

Postwar Notes for Seamen, by F.J. Lang

Vol. IX No. 47, November 24, 1945, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Manhattan Trotskyist receives 1,324 votes in council elections

Indonesian people fight heroically for freedom from Allied despots, by Joseph Hansen

• Bringing “four freedoms” to Indonesia (cartoon), by Gray
• Jackson to address protest rally on colonial slaughter

San Francisco machinists solid in strike, by Robert Chester

Yale and Towne strikers resist open shop drive

Giant auto union faces greatest strike battle

In the News

• Division of labor? from N.Y. Times
• Success at last
• Defending constitution
• Everybody’s pal

Militants gain in Akron rubber union elections

Withdraw troops from the Far East! by The Editors

U.S. troops fire in China civil war, by Charles Carsten

• Chiang Kai-shek (cartoon)

Mine local foils attempt to victimize Patterson

Big vote for Detroit labor’s mayoralty candidate spurs movement for an independent labor party, by Arthur Burch

Trade Union Notes, by Bill Morgan

• What “mandate”?
• Right to strike
• Inspiring struggle
• GM’s gravy train
• New labor shackles

Striking West Coast machinists (photo)

Comrade John Travis (obituary)

15,000 Jersey shipyard men stage walkout, by A. Williams

Detroit SWP opens new hall

International Notes

• England
  Charles Martinson (photo)
• Japan
• Nigeria
• Poland

Indo-Chinese battle for freedom against imperialist rule of France, by Daniel Guerin, from Front Ouvrière

• Hands off Indo-China (cartoon), by Gray
• American ships carry French to Indo-China

Belgian reaction arms its bands for civil war, by E. Germain

Karl Marx’s indictment of Dutch colonial rule

• Karl Marx (woodcut)

[Editorials]

• Support the UAW!
• “Business secrets”
• Stalin and Indonesia
• Bandits’ agreement

“I’ve been thinking how much ...” (cartoon), by Gray

Problems facing war veterans, by Charles Carsten

• No place to come home to

Movie Review, by Joseph Hansen

Steel union exposes bosses’ ‘poverty’ plea

Congressmen at Work

Workers’ Forum

• Scores betrayers of working class, from L.C.
• Reconversion hits Negroes hardest, Victor A. Howell
• Pray and lose, by Davis Dusenbery (poem)
• Mother proud of Trotskyist daughter, by Mili Adams
• Cites weakness of craft unions, by W.R.
• Why workers seeks refuge in religion, from C.P.
• On the Stalinist support of O’Dwyer, from D.B.
• Exposes conditions in Philadelphia hospital, from A Reader

U.S. aims to use Japan against Soviet Union, says latest F.I.

Militant Army

Pioneer Notes

Veteran of World War II. writes on Armistice Day, from Ex-Sergeant, U.S. Army

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6,845 new readers of Militant gained; sub campaign hits 68 per cent of quota, by Justine Lang

• Scoreboard
• Militant Pace-Setters

J.P. Cannon speaks in Chicago on 1917 revolution anniversary

• Comrade Konikow speaks in Boston, by J. Killing
• Philadelphia hears William F. Warde, John Haas
• Mary Clark gives speech in Akron

John G. Wright addresses group in St. Paul

• John G. Wright tour schedule