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Vol. XI No. 1, 4 January 1947, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Real estate profiteers get 2 rent boosts, by Ruth Benson

• ’46 price rise highest since First World War
• Meeting will protest eviction of 2,234 families in Harlem, by Milton Richardson

Poll shows labor firm in demand for pay rise

• workers are not impressed by Wall Street propaganda
• 30% pay rise feasible, CIO figures show – committee cites increasing productivity
• Open the books! (cartoon), by Gray

French drive aims at crushing Indo-China’s fight for freedom

Capitalists press for law against portal back pay

Military Jim Crow challenged in court

SWP scored Paris police raid on Indo-China protest meeting

Labor Party campaign gains more support in Flint area

Opposition hits CP anti-socialism

Trade Union Notes

Curran brands Stalinist CMU as bar to unity, by C. Thomas

• Joseph Curran (photo

Solidarity won for St. Paul teachers (photo)

Most employers are opposed to escalator clause

Our Program

11 boilermakers face expulsion; led fight for union democracy, by Dan Roberts

Teachers win St. Paul strike

Unification announced by Trotskyist groups in Ceylon

Indo-China massacre backed by Stalinists and socialists

• Thorez (cartoon)

The lessons of the Nov. 10 elections in France and Italy – resolution of the International Secretariat of the Fourth International

RWP runs candidate for mayor of Toronto

German workers in U.S. zone display militancy in strikes

International Notes

[Editorials]

• The new Congress
• Hands off Puerto Rico
• ”Labor monopoly”
• Revealing contrast

“If only the workers would ..” (cartoon), by Gray

President Truman in the role of historian, by George Breitman

Workers’ Bookshelf

• Only Yesterday, by Frederick Lewis Allen, reviewed by Paul Schapiro
• Mathematician’s Delight, by W.W. Sawyer, reviewed by Larissa Reed

Unravelling the secret of your electric bill, by Joseph Hansen

Whitewashing “military justice”

Workers’ Forum

• Veteran wants his bond cashed, from A Purple Heart Veteran

• Letter to Truman on amnesty for COs, from Malcolm Walker

• Likes series on wages, prices, profits, from J.H.

• Baby’s death indicts capitalism, from Railroad Trainman

• The government and the mine strike, from H. Lamont

• Blaming labor for capitalist depressions, from Subscriber

• Wants Militant given to more workers now, from W.T.G. 2,430chalkedupinS.W.P.Funddrive;localhit12percentof2,430 chalked up in S.W.P. Fund drive; local hit 12 per cent of 2,430chalkedupinS.W.P.Funddrive;localhit12percentof20,000 goal, by William F. Warde

• $20,000 S.W.P. Fund (graphic)

• Scoreboard

The Militant Army

• Toledo branch elated as sub-drive scores rise

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Branches confident as FI sub campaign get underway [_sic_]

Newspaper guild striker speaks at forum in Phila., by C. Blake

Youth Activities

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• Winter Descends on the World

Generals spur drive to militarize youth

• [Reconstruction], by Schnurman F.P. [?]

Honor Tresca at two rallies on January 11

The Negro Struggle, by William E. Bohannon

• The Republican promises

Mourn Justus Ebert – devoted labor fighter

Police maul pickets (photo)

A scientific blow at Jim Crow, by Grace Carlson

Capitalist liberals set up new political organization

Threat of bribery exposure slackens drive to oust Bilbo

Notes of a Seaman, by C. Thomas

• The Committee for Maritime Unity

Vol. XI No. 2, January 11, 1947, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Congress renews war on labor

Chinese protest against U.S. role – demand end of intervention and withdrawal of troops

Bills against lynch, polltax [_sic_] reintroduced

The state of the union (cartoon), by Gray

Housing relief – for congressmen

Trotskyist paper reported banned in Indo-China

Compromise check Bilbo but he still gets full pay, by William E. Bohannon

Plot to swindle workers out of back portal pay

Labor-haters praise president’s message

Detroit SWP wins victory in fight to keep headquarters

Bill promises tax “relief” to rich

Lynch witness beaten in Georgia

Joseph Curran hits Stalinists in maritime, by C. Thomas

Trade Union Notes

“ Monopolist”: (cartoon), by Schnurman F.P.

Flint SWP refutes red-baiting slanders, by Jeanette Lane

• Woodard hits Red-baiters in Buick local

Dave Beck’s strikebreaking edict rejected by Los Angeles clerks, by Harry Thompson

Evictions hit peak in New York City

61% raise won by teachers in St. Paul strike, by Grace Carlson

Our Program

Crisis in Communist Party

• Answering a crude slander

How revolutionary party should act in waging election campaigns

French rules act to drown Indo-Chinese revolt in blood

• Indo-Chinese in France protest massacres

Japanese workers protest (photo)

The electoral policy of the French PCI

Revolt spreads in ranks of British Labor Party

International Notes

Trotskyist fined, scores English policy on POWs

4th International plans world congress

[Editorials]

• Time to fight
• Open the books
• Truth about Greece
• Warning on rents

“But don’t you have any striped or dotted mink? ...” (cartoon), by Gray

Haymarket martyr’s last letter to union, by Adolph Fischer

Workers’ Bookshelf

• The Cotton Mill Worker, by Herbert J. Lahne, reviewed by Ruth Benson
• Japan, Past and Present, by Edwin O. Raschauer, reviewed ny Larissa Reed

Two signs of the U.S. policy on Germany, by Eugene Shays

Congressmen at Work

• Republican Leaders in Spotlight

Workers’ Forum

• Asks sliding scale for federal workers, from J.M.
• Language no barrier to The Militant, from A.S.
• Mexican government’s strikebreaking role, from L. Miller
• Eyewitness account of postwar Manila, from H. Daniels
• 40-cent dollars, from Jarvis Dusenberry
  J. Pierpoint Moneybags says: “Wage raises mean inflation. What we need is _higher prices_”, by P. Mulhern
• “To be or not to be” in world question, from Robert H. Miller

Buffalo branch is first to complete quota in $20,000 national S.W.P. Fund campaign, by William F. Warde

• $20,000 S.W.P. Fund
• Scoreboard

The Militant Army

• Five SWP branches top Militant goals

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Milwaukee ACEWR bazaar nets $150 for relief, by Carol Andrews

Chicago youth guard organized, by Bill Stone

Youth Activities

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• Letter fFrom Lackawanna

Evictions in Harlem fought by tenants, by Evelyn Atwood

• New York tenants lead housing fight (photo)
• Bulletin

The Negro Struggle, by William E. Bohannon

• Wolves in Sheeps’ [_sic_] Clothing

Housing shortage goes back to pre-war years, by John Fredericks

Indo-China and Stalinism, by George Breitman

SWP convention featured in January Fourth International

Dunne analyzes labor’s tasks at Twin City Forum

Health and Welfare

Vol. XI No. 3, 18 January 1947, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Marshall choice reflects growth of officer caste, by Joseph Hansen

• General Marshall (photo)
• Marshall’s attitude to labor movement

Truman asks billions for war preparations, by Art Preis

• Some contrasts in the budget

Wall Street’s diplomacy (cartoon), by Gray

80th Congress begins assault against labor

Chicago SWP nominates two for city elections, by Robert L. Birchman

• UAW local names 3 to run for City Council in Chicago

Senators draft bill to demolish rent ceilings

Strike halts run of all but two French papers

Toronto Trotskyist gets 3,201 votes for mayor

• Murray Dowson (photo)

Green of AFL intervenes against strike in L.A., by Harry Thomspon [_sic_]

Conflict with Stalinist clique rocks NMU council; Curran threatens to carry fight to union ranks, by C. Thomas

• NMU aids guild strikers (photo)

Trade Union Notes

Harlem tenants insist city provide housing

Out-of-work New Dealers start 2 rival political organizations

Sliding scale works in Sweden

SWP launches new branch in Brooklyn, by Frank Marcazzo

Our Program

CIO veterans of New Jersey hit rent rises

Goodrich local says tax rich, not the poor

Slogans and perspectives of the revolutionary vanguard in Spain, resolution of the International Executive Committee of the Fourth International

What the French Press says about Indo-Chinese struggle

• Leon Blum (photo)

Japanese women win strike (photo)

Belgian labor shows militancy at convention

Troops used against London drivers strike

A letter of resignation from the C.P., from George Chamalou

International Notes

Brockway quits ILP in England

Correction

Crook’s agreement

[Editorials]

• Marshall appointment
• Blow to democracy
• Victory in Detroit
• For labor unity

“I’m sure if YOU were named ...” (cartoon), by Gray

“Economic report of the president”, by Art Preis

Workers’ Bookshelf

• The Russian Revolution, by Leon Trotsky, reviewed by Larissa Reed

Congressmen at Work

• Wall Street’s Washington lobby

The payments due you under Social Security, by Joseph Hansen

Workers’ Forum

• Asks for pledges against rent rises, from Subscriber
• Shows the gimmick in tax proposals, from A.L.
• Why laundry workers need minimum wage, from S.B.
• Augments police, cuts fire protection, from L.R.

One-quarter of quota contributed to date in $20,000 national S.W.P. Fund campaign, by William F. Warde

• $20,000 S.W.P. Fund (graphic)
• Scoreboard

The Militant Army

• Seattle SWP tops list for week’s sub-getting

Youth Activities

134 subs in first 3 weeks of Fourth International drive

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Buffalo raises $170 for relief, by Marie Crandall

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• The Man of God

Leninism means: break with Communist Party! by the Editors

Lenin, Liebknecht and Luxemburg (illustration)

The Negro Struggle, by William E. Bohannon

• The purpose of red-baiting

A dangerous weapon, by Grace Carlson

“Private industry” and the housing crisis, by John Fredericks

Notes From the News

Vol. XI No. 4, 25 January 1947, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

100 anti-labor bills in Congress, by Joseph Hansen

• A call to action! No retreat! Defend labor’s rights! by M. Stein
• Wake up! (cartoon), by Gray

Sentiment grows for pay raises, poll reveals

Chicago SWP candidate files nominating petitions, by Robert L. Birchman

• Homer Lewis (photo)

Oakland unions call for united political action, by Ed Davis

Flint labor party movement develops despite obstacles, by Sol Dollinger

Stalinists block vote by NMU rank-and-file

How your union is threatened

Trotskyists elected in Bolivia and Ceylon

Proposal for mass march on the state capitol made to delegates at Michigan EPC conference

Trade Union Notes

Birds of a feather (photo)

Robert A. Taft – kingpin of GOP Senate machine

• Taft (cartoon)

L.A. food clerks win strike despite Tobin-Green perfidy

Our Program

Crisis in Communist Party

• Dissidents hit election policy

Union activities bring jail term for CIO leader

What Zionist groups are doing in Palestine, by T. Cliff, from Socialist Appeal

British strikers jeer at troops (photo)

“Socialists” offer deal to Spanish generals

• Bulletin

London strikers return as government pledges action

Slogans and perspectives of the revolutionary vanguard in Spain, resolution of the International Executive Committee of the Fourth International

German worker sends thanks to ACEWR

14,000 Antwerp dockers on strike

International Notes

Cold intensifies misery, halts plants in Germany

[Editorials]

• End secret diplomacy
• The ranks must act
• Warning in Georgia
• ”Sanctity” of courts

“Oh dear – if the workers ...” (cartoon), by Gray

Food company heads gloomy about future, by John G. Wright

Workers’ Bookshelf

• The Natural History of Nonsense, by Bergen Evans, reviewed by Ethel Preis
• American Medicine Mobilizes, by James Rorty, reviewed by Ruth Benson

Some doubts on the Army-Navy “merger”, by George Breitman

Congressmen at Work

• Lobbyists on union pay rolls

Workers’ Forum

• “Safety-conscious” after death! from Subscriber
• Scarce jobs a sign of coming Depression, from Al Lynn
• Scores imperialism in Indo-China, from H.P.
• For government aid to worthy causes, from R.R.
• Gen. Marshall and army Jim Crow, from H.L.
  Editors’ Note

St. Louis joins Buffalo by reaching 100% in $20,000 national S.W.P. Fund campaign, by William F. Warde

• $20,000 S.W.P. Fund (graphic)
• Scoreboard

The Militant Army

• Persistent sub-getters boost score for Phila.

Youth Activities

Philadelphia union leaders address militant labor forum, by George Clement

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Pioneer Notes

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• “Man the whole world envies”

Harlem’s firetrap tenements of death, by George Clarke

Homeless veterans camp in park (photo)

The Negro Struggle, by William E. Bohannon

• A letter to Truman’s committee

Veterans’ Problems, by Alvin Berman

• Caught short on the campus

Notes from the News

Government does little in housing crisis, by John Fredericks

Vol. XI No. 5, 1 February 1947, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Bolivians elect 4 Trotskyists to parliament, by Juan Valverde

Senate speeds hearing on anti-labor measures, by Joseph Hansen

• Anti-labor laws (cartoon), by Gray
• Chicago labor united against Congress attack, by Robert L. Birchman
• SWP asks to speak at Senate hearing

”Get out of Indo-China!” cry pickets at consulate

• Why Stalinists refused to picket French consulate

An Editorial

• Labor must fight!

New rent order chops huge holes in ceilings; CIO issues warning

SWP names 2 candidates in Los Angeles elections, by Dave Dreiser

Philadelphia SWP issues emergency call to labor to fight city’s proposed transit fare increases, by Max Geldman

Trade Union Notes

Hands off Indo-China! (photo)

Ball – “good right arm” of Senate labor-haters

• Ball (cartoon)

Meat trust’s profits anger packing workers, by M. Limton

Oakland SWP urges labor candidates

Our Program

California SWP recorded gains in elections, by Al Lynn

Auto locals push campaign to build Flint labor party

Labor candidates discussed by Los Angeles CIO unions, by Al Lynn

How Stalinism tramples on Lenin’s work, by M. Stein

• Lenin (illustration)

Belgium’s biggest postwar strike won by 14,000 dock workers, by H. Vallin

What ACEWR means for gaunt European workers, by Margaret Worth

International Notes

Strikes in Spain are spreading

[Editorials]

• Aid the S.W.P. Fund
• Class government
• The war crooks
• Student of Hitler

“I don’t care what it costs ...” (cartoon), by Gray

When a Negro was Mississippi’s senator

Workers’ Bookshelf

• Casualty, by Robert Lowry, reviewed by George Breitman
• Slave and Citizen: The Negro in the Americas, by Frank Taannenbaum, reviewed by Ruth Benson

Democratic procedure and the Bilbo fight, by George Breitman

Congressmen at Work

• Streamlining didn’t last long

Workers’ Forum

• Rat hordes menace Akron families, from Milton Genecin
• First SWP meeting in Bedford-Stuyvesant, from H.R.
• Belgian reader wants U.S. correspondent, from A.C.
  Editors’ Note

New York and Boston lead banner week of $20,000 national S.W.P. Fund campaign, by William F. Warde

• $20,0000 S.W.P. Fund (graphic)
• Scoreboard

The Militant Army

• Flint SWP branch plan two-month campaign

Crimes against youth discussed at Philadelphia Militant forum

Film shown at Lenin meeting in Youngstown

Youth Activities

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Five SWP branches reach half-way mark in Fourth International sub campaign

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• Dagwood and His Boss

Fire deaths rouse tenants in Chicago, by Robert L. Birchman

• Where 4 children died (photo)

The Negro Struggle, by Henry Robinson

• Political solutions required

12,000,000 workers in dire need of homes, by John Fredericks

Meet the Chicago SWP candidates

• Michael Bartell
  (Photo)
• Homer Lewis
  (Photo)

“The Golden Door”, by Grace Carlson

150 Detroit project residents protest threatened evictions

Notes From the News

Vol. XI No. 6, 8 February 1947, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Union chiefs push ‘appeasement’

• Pleading instead of fighting (cartoon), by Gray
• Tobin (cartoon)
• Anti-labor law timetable stepped up by Senator Taft, by Joseph Hansen
• Sen. Ball hurls new anti-labor knife

Protests assault on PCI

Paper monopoly endangers free labor press

SWP rally opens Chicago campaign, by Robert L. Birchman

• Chicago CIO supports 3 labor candidates, by Eugene Varlin

Rent gougers push drive for 15 per cent increase

N.Y. SWP asks to be heard on election laws

Rubber workers to press demand for 26-cent raise, by Joseph Andrews

Briggs auto local militants fight against inclusion of Reutherite red-baiting plank in caucus program

Daily Worker slanders steel union militants

New York teachers picket (photo)

Smith – Prudential life’s congressional watchdog

• Senator Smith (cartoon)

Our Program

Crisis in Communist Party

• Line of CP dissidents on war

Events driving U.S. toward revolution

Lenin’s method, party, program important for workers of U.S., by M. Stein

• Lenin
• Stalin

First general strike in Japan broken by MacArthur’s order

• Poll reveals most Japanese are opposed to Yoshida government
• MacArthur (cartoon)

Italian strikers march (photo)

Drivers’ strike heralds upsurge of British labor, by J. Deane

Paris printers end strike aided by Trotskyists

International Notes

Marxist attitude to civil war in Poland

[Editorials]

• AFL unity proposal
• ”Withdrawal” in China
• Tax “relief”
• Encouraging signs

“Why the fuss about ...” (cartoon), by Gray

Hand-picked committee on youth consciption

Workers’ Bookshelf

• Thunder out of China, by Theodore H. White & Annalee Jacoby, reviewed by Larissa Reed
• Nana, by Emile Zola, reviewed by Paul Schapiro

Capitalist propaganda in AFL monthly organ

Congressmen at Work

• Cash payment on terminal bonds

Workers’ Forum

• Likes articles exposing Congress, from T.H.
• “Hand in glove” (cartoon), by Seaman
• Exposes capitalist press on fascism, from Grace Carlson
• Wake up in a hurry, from Subscriber

Youngstown joins 100 per centers; total hits 45% SWP $20,000 fund campaign, by William F. Warde

• $20,000 S.W.P. Fund (graphic)
• Scoreboard

The Militant Army

• Socialist competition steps up sub-getting

Akron tenants demand war on rats in federal housing, by Milton Genecin

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

St. Paul SWP exposes bosses’ man, labor-baiter

Youth Activities

When Housewives Dream, by Grace Carlson

Bosses invent new lies against wage increases, by Art Preis

New York tenants picket mayor (photo)

The Negro Struggle, by William E. Bohannon

• The kind of action we need

Stalinists try to sow division in NMU tanks, by C. Thomas

On the Railroads, by Henry Adams

• Can you spare a billion?

A program to meet the crisis in housing, by John Fredericks

• Arne Swabeck analyses housing shortage

Notes from the News

Vol. XI No. 7, 15 February 1947, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Judge reverses original ruling on portal claim

Sliding scale protects oil workers’ real wage, by Art Preis

• Oil workers vote on Western strike

New York SWP hits move for 10-cent fare

Monopolists hurl venom at labor in hearing on anti-union bills

• Robber yelling “thief” (cartoon), by Gray

Stalinists forced to dissolve fake maritime “unity” body, by C. Thomas

Truman and Congress cooking up deal to put through rent boost

SWP candidates speak in Chicago broadcast, by Robert L. Birchman

• Trotskyist candidate on Chicago ballot

Rubber workers urge Labor Party in Akron

Senator Ball admits aim of his anti-labor bills is to give bosses “the right to break a strike”

Trade Union Notes, by Art Preis

Chicago joint labor committee (photo)

Oakland strikers enter 4th month

Briggs Local 12 calls for united action to win FEPC in Michigan

Railroad clippings, by Henry Adams

Our Program

Crisis in Communist Party

• Aims of dissident leaders

Leon Sedov 1906–1938, by Joseph Hansen

Burmese hit deal in London, want full independence now, by Robert L. Birchman

Protest Yoshida rule (photo)

Crisis in the Spanish government-in-exile, by Pedro

French authorities violate pledge to hold Cochin China referendum

International Notes

After Poland’s elections, by N. Henri

Viet Namese have “remarkable army”

[Editorials]

• Words vs. actions
• What price capitalism
• Negro history week
• Not Trotskyists

“Just think ...” (cartoon), by Gray

More local unions join in united labor action

Workers’ Bookshelf

• The Concentration of Economic Power, by David Lynch, reviewed by Warren Creel
• Letters from Prison, by Rosa Luxemburg, reviewed by Larissa Reed

Paper monopoly threat to the free press

Congressmen at Work

• Congressional brain service

Wiley emergency plan for third world war

Workers’ Forum

• Greetings from Trieste, from E.B.
• Likes Militant and trial pamphlets, from H.A.
  Editors’ Note
• Minneapolis worker tells off Senator Ball, “The Bosses’ Man”, from Chester K. Johnson
  Ball (cartoon)
• Student of Marx asks questions, from P.M.
  Editors’ Note

Half-way mark passed by branches in $20,000 national SWP campaign, by William F. Warde

• $20,000 S.W.P. Fund (graphic)
• Scoreboard

The Militant Army

• Nine SWP branches top Militant goals

Bronx SWP backs protest against Jim Crow movie

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Youth Activities

Pioneer Notes

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• Letter to a Militant reader

N.Y. bankers push subway fare steal, by Joseph Hansen

New pamphlet by Cannon out in march

Picket for rent control (photo)

The Negro Struggle, by Joe Morgan

• Jim Crow in the capital

San Pedro police brutally beat, jail innocent Negro, by Louis Kisner

Local 212 hits new witch hunt in Michigan

Detroit cops force way into home, beat Negro, by R. Young

Cold Water Flat Available, by Joseph Hansen

Homer Lewis talk on housing

• Homer Lewis (photo)

Notes From the News

Bartell’s speech at rally

Vol. XI No. 8, 22 February 1947, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Harsh weather hastens British economic crisis, by John Saunders

White, Negro unionists in Southern mass march, by Art Preis

A “minor” operation (cartoon), by Gray

Rubber union rejects “Big 4” contract stall

Minneapolis union secures escalator clause

Oil walkout postponed after 22-cent offer

Chicago SWP candidate demands housing action from government

South Carolina Negro murdered by lynch gang

U.S. Steel pact on inequities stirs criticism, by Harry Braverman

National conference seeks consolidation of enginemen

“Caution” talk screens deadly anti-labor drive

Landlords handed “hardship relief”

N.Y. subway riders win round in battle to save 5-cent fare from assault of real estate interest, by Joseph Hansen

Trade Union Notes, by Art Preis

Winter eviction (photo)

Vandenberg – anti-labor Senate gavel-wielder

• Sen. Vandenberg (cartoon)

Our Program

A Philadelphia story – the career of J. David Stern: from liberal to red-baiter, by Max Geldman

Slanderous attack on L. Trotsky printed in Trygve Lie biography

10,000 workers attend rally called by Ceylon Trotskyists, by Robert Gunawardena

Left wingers quit CP in Germany

Demonstration in Athens (photo)

French cabinet shaken by new wage struggles – workers tart action to secure raises to offset price jumps

• CP prints scab paper to fight union on strike

Marxist literature in German wanted

International Notes

Police raid offices of India Stalinists

Correction

[Editorials]

• In “critical condition”
• Sliding scale pays off
• A bubble bursts
• Stop the lynchers!

“Of course we’re a hardship case ...”(cartoon), by Gray

Signs of saturation in retail market, by John G. Wright

Workers’ Bookshelf

• Southern Exposure, by Stetson Kennedy, reviewed by Edith Konikow
• A Bell for Adano, by John Hersey, reviewed by Paul Schapiro

Congressmen at Work

• The score up to now

Few who own America want to hang on, by Jeff Thorne

Workers’ Forum

• Likes Militant’s truth and conciseness, from Mili Adams
• Rubber workers draw lessons from survey, from A.D.
• 3-room apartment on Lower East Side, from Gladys Barker
• Answers P.M.’s letter in last week’s Forum, from J.H.
• Capitalist newspapers silent on real crimes, from Edith Landi

New York sets pace for rest of country in $20,000 SWP national fund campaign, by William F. Warde

• $20,000 S.W.P. Fund (graphic)
• Scoreboard

The Militant Army

• Flint and Connecticut tie for week’s subs

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Youth Activities

F.I. sub drive speeded for remaining month

Paper monopoly hits free press, CIO says

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• What can a man do?

School crisis imperils free public education, by Art Preis

Joint AFL, CIO picket line (photo)

The Negro Struggle, by William E. Bohannon

• Nothing wrong they can fix

N.Y. anti-labor election bills attacked by Clarke

Chicago labor candidates wage strong campaign

“Feminine Delinquency”, by Grace Carlson

SWP candidate defends Negro beaten by cops

SWP and CP picket meeting of Senator Ball, by Milton Genecin

Cleveland union forces hearing in gas breakdown, industry tieup, by Bill Foley

Notes From the News

Vol. XI No. 9, 1 March 1947, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

AFL, CIO protest anti-labor bills

• Loading up the hopper (cartoon), by Gray
• Portal-to-portal bills knife Fair Labor Act

British workers set up councils to meet crisis, by J. Kelly

Biggest school strike begins in Buffalo

Wall Street pushes drive to Prussianize the youth

British offer postpones Indian self-government, by Joseph Hansen

Oil workers win 20-cent increase

SWP candidate on the ballot in Los Angeles

Speculators, profiteers force prices skyward

OPA speeds up rent boosts before its final breakdown

A program for labor unity, by Art Preis

Trade Union Notes, by Art Preis

New York Governor Dewey bars housing marchers (photo)

Dewey order troopers to bar delegation on rent and housing, by Eugene Shays

Our Program

Reactionary role of the ACTU

Both imperialists and Stalinists oppose united socialist Europe

• “Europe’s economic unification is a life-and-death question”, resolution of Conference of Fourth International, April 1946

Defenseless unionists brutally shot down by Trinidad police

Effects of British coal crisis (photo)

Calcutta general strike against repressive law

Growing danger of deal with Spanish militarists, by Pedro

International Notes

[Editorial]

• Who was right about the war?

“Oh, goodness! Look at all those rats ...” (cartoon), by Gray

Lilienthal case shows witch hunters at work

Workers’ Bookshelf

• Impact of U.S. Economy on World Trade, by Harold H. Hutcheson, reviewed by William F. Warde
• Aging Successfully, by George Lawton, reviewed by Larissa Reed

How “Mr. John Rich” chisels on his taxes

Congressmen at Work

• Butler of Butler-Welch Grain

Two new bills in Senate to halt deportation of Indonesians

Workers’ Forum

• An appeal for aid to Trinidad strikers, from Rupert Hannibal
  Editors’ Note
• A telling letter on Ohio gas shortage, from B.K.
  [Letter], from Tony Pirc
• UAW-CIO Local 776 holds out for victory, from B.K.
• Replies to letter by “P.M. of Vermont”, from Bell Montague

San Diego is first West Coast branch to hit 100% in national fund campaign, by William F. Warde

• $20,000 S.W.P. Fund
• Scoreboard

The Militant Army

• New Lynn SWP branch sets record in renewals

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Youth Activities

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• Not for us!

White terrorists fire bullets at Negro home, by Robert L. Birchman

• Homer Lewis (photo)

Detroit teachers vote strike (photo)

“The vitamin craze”, by Grace Carlson

GM Fleetwood workers victimized by company

Socialist Workers Party backs seven labor candidates in L.A.

SWP in Detroit pays tribute to Negro leader, by Mary Baker

Veterans’ Problems, by Alvin Royce

• Make Wall Street pay for bonus

Mahoning Valley vets demand low-rent homes, by Harry Braverman

Detroit east side delegates plan drive for state FEPC

Notes from the News

Vol. XI No. 9, 8 March 1947, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Stalin’s guilt in Trotsky murder bared by ex-Daily Worker editor, by John G. Wright

• Guilty! (cartoon), by Gray
• Leon Trotsky (photo)
• How Stalin’s GPU gang organized slaying of Trotsky in Mexico, by Joseph Hansen
• Collapse of Stalin’s frame-up structure

An Editorial

• Why Stalinism uses terror in labor’s ranks

AFL leaders use issue of organic unity to block immediate joint action with CIO on anti-labor bills

• States push anti-labor laws (map)
• Why union bureaucrats weaken labor’s defense of its rights

Twin Cities net $250 for relief in Europe

• $270 netted in Tri-City Pennsylvania bazaar

Detroit FEPC parley urges demonstration

Our Program

V.R. Dunne hits Ball as tool of capitalists

Seattle boilermakers local fights for union democracy

SWP supports Negro candidate in Santa Monica

San Francisco to hold dinner

GPU hand in “great conspiracy” shown by its version of slaying

• Frank Jacson (photo)
• Siquieros (cartoon)

Louis Budenz – the career of a Trotskyist-baiter, by Art Preis

• Budenz (photo)

[Editorials]

• End of conscription?
• “Wait and see”
• Teacher strikes

“I love to work with my hands ...“ (cartoon), by Gray

What “Big Four” will discuss in Moscow

Workers’ Bookshelf

• A National Wage Policy for 1947, reviewed by Milton Genecin
• The Case of the Vanishing Paycheck, reviewed by Larissa Reed

U.S. grab in Pacific OK’d by Stalinists

Congressmen at Work

• Cancer can wait

Workers’ Forum

• Wants campaign to force taxes down, from D.C.
• Build a new world, says Detroit reader, from W.F. St. Clair
• Hits lack of letters in Workers’ Forum, from Forum Fan
• Gives up medicine for Marxist politics, from M. Perera
  [Letter to Pembroke Academy], from M. Perera
  Editors’ Note
• Flint sub-getter tells how she does it, from El Snyder
• Points out lesson of last election, from L.B.C.
• Pittsburgh landlords anticipate rent boost, from Morris Rand
• Red-baiting spreading into the schools, from S.T.

SWP national fund campaign reaches 71%; drive must be speeded up in next 2 weeks, by William F. Warde

• $20,000 S.W.P. Fund (graphic)
• Scoreboard

The Militant Army

• Militant dinner social held in San Francisco

Better housing conditions demanded by Bronx tenants

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Youth Activities

SWP branches prepare for final stage of drive to get Fourth International subs

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• Story of Margaret McNett

Washington agrees to save Greek king

Buffalo teachers strike wins salary increases, by Libby Jones

• Students, parents and local AFL and CIO unions rallied (photo)

The Negro Struggle, by William E. Bohannon

• The South is catching up

Labor political weakness shown in Chicago municipal elections

• First Chicago SWP candidate gets 113 votes, by Robert L. Birchman

“Advice” on making ends meet, by Grace Carlson

Newark CIO stewards map action program

Tenants organize for action to halt evictions in Detroit

All-white Louisiana jury acquits 5 identified lynch mob killers

• Harris (photo)

Notes from the News

Vol. XI No. 11, March 15, 1947, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Daily Worker silent about GPU exposure

Supreme Court upholds judicial strikebreaking, by Art Preis

• Wall Street’s verdict (cartoon), by Gray
• Lewis (photo)
• Lewis support of court helped disarm miners

Soaring prices hit 27-year record high

Millions of low-income tenants threatened with 15% rent boost

Monarchists in Greece hail Wall Street’s aid

An Editorial

• How to answer court’s ruling

Planned economy vs. capitalist chaos, by Joseph Hansen

AFL seafarers join CIO pickets

Our Program

GM demands drafted at Detroit UAW parley

What the Nathan Report reveals

Chicago jury scores owners of firetraps

Why the GPU ordered Budenz to keep silent in Reiss murder

Upsurge in Asia poses big threat to world imperialism

Effects of martial law in Palestine (photo)

French workers continued struggle for higher wages, by N. Henri

Zionism analyzed

International Notes

What I saw in Korea under American rule, by Bill Morgan

Three articles on Latin America in March Fourth International

[Editorials]

• Black-robe tactics
• By-passing the UN
• UMT gains steam
• Bittner’s testimony

“Of course the food here is abominable ...” (cartoon), by Gray

American policy in occupied countries, by A. Codin

Workers’ Bookshelf

• Stalinism and Bolshevism, by Leon Trotsky, reviewed by Larissa Reed
• Bernard Clare, by James T. Farrell, reviewed by Paul Schapiro

Union paper warns of danger in witch hunts

Unloading frozen garbage, by Joseph Hansen

Workers’ Forum

• School lunch prices raised in Detroit, from Esther Turner
  Eat the right food ... (cartoon), by R. Wilem (?)
• Congratulates Philadelphia S.W.P., from A.
• Appreciates address in Lenin’s memory, from B.N.
• No confidence in capitalist future, from Melvon C. Bennett
• Stalinists frantic at Budenz’s exposure, from Jeff Thorne
• Stalinists decide to read Militant, from Fred Martin
• Asks for exposure of drug trust profits, from Vitamin Addict

SWP national fund drive reaches $15,895 with one week to go before the deadline, by William F. Warde

• $20,000 S.W.P. Fund (graphic)
• Scoreboard

The Militant Army

• Three SWP branches top Militant goals

Boston ACEWR chapter nets $225 in successful dinner

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

59% of quota achieved in Fourth International drive

Youth Activities

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• The man who has some land

Upsets mark elections in Flint auto unions, by Jerry Kirk

Illustrations from The Vanishing Paycheck (cartoons)

The Negro Struggle, by William E. Bohannon

• Ready to storm new heights

Florence Ward: Dec. 24, 1915–Mar. 6, 1947 (obituary)

Veterans’ Problems, by Alvin Royce

• The essence of the “problem”

Campaign for Kisner rolls ahead in L.A.

• Kisner (photo)

Supreme Court edict denounced by Flint union

Notes From the News

Industrial explosion kills 15 in L.A. residential district, by Dave Dreiser

Vol. XI No. 12, 22 March 1947, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Truman’s foreign policy speeds war moves against Soviet Union

• Wall Street’s helping hand (cartoon), by Gray
• Congress is cautious on Truman plan
• Truman (cartoon)

Ask grand jury to investigate Trotsky murder

An Editorial

• A program of action to halt the war drive

New anti-red bills imperil civil rights

Anti-labor offensive linked to war drive

Joint statement on unification of the SWP and WP, signed by James P. Cannon and Max Shachtman

UAW Briggs Local 212 urges mass rally to start defense against anti-labor drive

Ohio Trotskyists set up state-wide organization

Veteran protest in Washington (photo)

Seattle boilermakers win restraining order

SWP forum in Flint hears NAACP leader

Maritime unions agree on joint defense action

Our Program

Three labor candidates to run in Flint election, by Douglas Snyder

The truth about Turkey and Greece, by George Lavan

• Which side are you on? (photos)

Stalinists find “bitter taste” in Truman’s sabre-rattling, by Joseph Hansen

U.S. imperialism climaxes series of Greek moves

[Editorials]

• Defend labor month
• The “Truman Doctrine”
• A real success!
• Anti-“red” laws

“I never COULD see why ...” (cartoon), by Gray

Dictatorships hail Truman’s new Axis

Workers’ Bookshelf

• This Is My Story, by Louis F. Budenz, reviewed by Art Preis

Mass of state laws menace labor unions

Congressmen at Work

• “A declaration of war”

Workers’ Forum

• Wishes Negroes could win rights, from Eddie R.
• Suggests song on Labor Party, from Manuel Sunshine
• Reports success in Conn. sub drive, from M.C.
• Praises Militant for exposing Stalin, from S.T.
  Stalin (cartoon)
• Send financial aid to Trinidad strikers, from L. Becker
• Lauds Robeson as great artist, from D.M. Steelquist
• Urges action to lick the anti-labor drive, from P.F.

SWP national fund reaches 97% of total in final week of campaign for $20,000, by William F. Warde

• $20,000 S.W.P. Fund (graphic)
• Scoreboard

The Militant Army

• Lynn and Boston branches launch Militant drive

Youth Activities

Campaign forces bread co. to hire Negroes in Chicago, by Robert L. Birchman

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

An item Truman left out, by Joseph Hansen

Detroit tenants demand city freeze all rents

CIO pickets defy arrests (photo)

The Negro Struggle, by William E. Bohannon

• Greece and the Negroes

Trotskyists commemorate revolt of Royal India Navy

Rubber union sets deadline for strike against “Big 4”, by Milton Genecin

The drive toward war, by George Breitman

Chicago SWP plans wind-up election rally

Meet the SWP candidate

• Louis Kisner
  (Photo)

Urge Mass. CIO to set up joint action committee

Notes from the News

Vol. XI No. 13, 29 March 1947, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Stalinist press still silent on Trotsky murder, by Evelyn Atwood

New war moves bring blows at civil rights, by George Breitman

• Truman edict means new witch-hunts, by Art Preis
• Still going where “they damn please”
• Korea – the next step

Piling on the load (cartoon), by Gray

Senate and House vote to knife wage-hour law

Red-baiting disrupts maritime joint action

Hits Michigan ballot restriction bill, by Linda McCauley

Stalinist press leads reactionary attack against sliding scale contract of CIO oil workers union

Trade Union Notes, by Art Preis

Police against picket (photo)

J.A. Sullivan deserts Stalinists in Canada

Our Program

Park Drop Forge men continue brave fight, by Bob Kingsley

Three main obstacles to Wall Street’s war plans, by George Breitman

Hearings in Congress open on Truman’s plan

• Truman doctrine testimony (photo)

Withdraw the occupation troops! Manifesto of the Austrian Trotskyists

French Stalinists back war against Indo-China

International Notes

Wallace sees another war in Truman’s foreign policy, by Joseph Hansen

Truman on “non-intervention”

[Editorials]

• Ruth Fischer and the Stalinists, by James P. Cannon
• Help the German workers

“Of course you’ll have to take ...” (cartoon), by Gray

Chiang massacres Formosan people

Movie Review

• The Best Years of Our Lives, reviewed by Eugene Shays

Stalin’s policies aid Soviet Union’s enemies

Congressmen at Work

• Truman Doctrine means war

Workers’ Forum

• Wants Mexican gov’t to extradite Budenz, from R. Oliver
  Budenz (photo)
• Stopped by sentence in Budenz review, from F.C.
• Explanation, by Art Preis
• Pickets press fight against Jim Crow, from Len Miller
• Raw deal for vets in garment industry, from L.R.

U.S. capitalism heading toward new crisis which cannot be averted, says economist, by Paul Schapiro

• War (cartoon), by Gray

The Militant Army

• Connecticut winds up with banners flying

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Late contributors augment total of S.W.P. Fund campaign

790 new readers gained at close of FI sub drive

Youth Activities

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• Speaking of operations

Flint progressives win in Chevrolet elections, by Sol Dollinger

• Local 659’s new president issues statement on policy

Unionization firm in Panama Canal (photo)

The Negro Struggle, by William E. Bohannon

• Marshall defines democracy

Bartell hits war plans in address over radio, by Michael Bartell

• M. Bartell (photo)

Number One Killer, by Grace Carlson

New Jersey SWP runs candidates for convention

Merger of relief committees will aid needy Europeans

Notes from the News

SWP calls for labor unity against red-baiting in L.A.

Santa Monica City Council vote shows Carter, Mireles strength, by J. Hawkins

Vol. XI No. 14, 5 April 1947, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Mine stoppage mourns 111 dead – government failed to enforce safety code at Centralia

• James A, Kruf (photo)
• Waiting for the rescue squads to bring up the miners’ bodies, by George Lavan

Brewster links Middle East oil with war move, by Joseph Hansen

The Truman Doctrine (cartoon)

An Editorial

• End the mine murders!

Greek monarchy continued terror against workers, by Jean Paul Martin

Liberals back Pepper-Taylor bill as “alternative” to Truman Plan

• Survey shows people oppose Truman Plan

120,000 German workers protest hunger under Allies

Centralia miners worked under sentence of death for more than one year, appeals for action show, by George Lavan

• Body of one of the 111 dead miners (photo)
• Mine operators paid Republicans to “forget” code

Briggs meeting scores cliquism

Bay Area SWP hits Red drive

Our Program

Cavalcade of California vets demands state build homes

Strength of minority shown in Los Angeles area voting

The correct way to fight Stalinism, by James P. Cannon

• Full text of statement sent by Ruth Fischer
• [James P. Cannon] (photo)

[Editorials]

• The “loyalty” decree
• Defend civil liberties
• Two more crimes
• Truman and the UN

“Don’t you just love this ...” (cartoon), by Gray

MacArthur prepares more anti-labor edicts

Workers’ Bookshelf

• The Great Prisoners, edited by Elizabeth Abramowitz, reviewed by Winifred Nelson
• The Best of Art Young, reviewed by Al Lynn

Full freedom not won in Dutch-Indonesia Pact

Congressmen at Work

• Righting a Great Injustice

10,000 slain for asking self-rule in Formosa

Workers’ Forum

• Holds gov’t violates Clayton anti-trust act, from D.M. Steelquist
• Wall Street (cartoon)
• Holds over-population is cause of misery, from Ross W. Gilbert
• Thinks Lenin would like Militant edit, from Genora Dollinger
• Rain fails to stop Phila. distribution, from R. Oliver
• Considers heckling with frozen peas, from J.H.
• Campus Red-baiting impression corrected, from S.T.
• Salutes Militant for courage, honesty, from George R. Stryker

Diplomatic haggling at Moscow conference forces more secret Allied deals into open, by Joseph Hansen

• Churchill (cartoon
• Stalin (cartoon)
• Roosevelt

The Militant Army

• Pittsburgh’s success in six-week sub drive

Youth Activities

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

ACEWR asks for donations of food, clothing, cigarettes

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• The Dream They Gave Us

Weak FEPC legislation introduced in Congress, by William E. Bohannon

Grief-stricken widow of miner (photo)

The Threat of Germ Warfare, by Grace Carlson

Rubber workers union gets wage settlement, by Milton Genecin

Apprehension in Wall Street, by John G. Wright

Minnesota legislature forced to retreat on anti-Red bill

Issue in the New Jersey constitutional convention, by Alan Kohlman

Notes From the News

”Surprises” listed for World War III

Vol. XI No. 15, April 12, 1947, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Miners and phone workers fight in defense of labor’s standards –

Telephone system shut down in first nation-wide strike, by Alan Kohlman

• N.J. telephone workers defy state seizure

Memorial for dead extends into battle for safer mines

• Murder for profit! (cartoon), by Gray
• Shutdown of 518 mines confirms Krug’s guilt, by George Lavan

Steel union strike possible in May

Dollars for Greece part of “oil grab”

Senate foreign committee backs first step of Truman war policy

Indo-Chinese send thanks for help in their struggle

• [Letter of Vietnamese prime minister], from P.N. Thach

Accepting the challenge of the AT&T empire, by B. Anders

Why the Truman “doctrine” will come to grief, by George Clarke

Three demands raised on mine safety issue, by George Lavan

• Accuses mine owners and state (photo)
• Mine owners know “little or nothing”

Our Program

The potentiality of physical harm

Franco makes open bid for deal with monarchy

American Stalinism and anti-Stalinism, by James P. Cannon

• 2. Communist Party and the Red-baiters

British atrocities in Palestine

Greek monarchy a “difficult client” declares Krock

Washington “explains” United Nations by-pass, by Joseph Hansen

International Notes

[Editorials]

• Build a Labor Party!
• The real power
• Stalinists and Rome
• Get out of China!

̶o;But of course you’ll ...” (cartoon), by Gray

Bigger army sought to enforce Truman Plan

Workers’ Bookshelf

• A Star Pointed North, by Edmund Fuller, reviewed by John Fredericks
• Of Time and the River, by Thomas Wolfe, reviewed by Robert Bates

Easter sales flop alarms retail trade

Congressmen at Work

• A Congresswoman Buys Groceries

Workers’ Forum

• Opposes cutting down population, from T.N.
• How the workers in my shop reacted to recruiting blurb, from Ruth Goldman
• Why I decided to join the SWP, from Al Johnson
• Explains why Robeson supports Stalinism, from E.J. Carmona

Government to blame for mine dangers, Lawrence miners tell Militant reporters, by Eloise Gordon & Justine Lang

• How miners turn out for John Mitchell Day, by Eloise Gordon

The rising cost of living (graphic)

The Militant Army

• March sub total highest since September

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Youth Activities

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• A Great Many Centralias

SWP candidate in L.A. gets 4 percent of vote

• Monopolists fear victory of labor in Flint election

Telephone girls vote strike! (Photo)

The Negro Struggle, by William E. Bohannon

• The Aim of the Red-Baiters

NMU verdict on stack deals blow to Stalinism, by C. Thomas

The new Clare Luce, by Grace Carlson

Oakland workers rally against anti-labor bills, by Ed Davis

Labor’s rights involved in N.J. Constitution revision, by Alan Kohlman

Notes From the News

Vol. XI No. 16, 19 April 1947, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

9 more miners die in explosion at Exeter, Penn., by George Lavan

Phone strikers battle slave labor law in N.J.

• For a living wage! (cartoon), by Gray
• Mary Hanscom & Elizabeth Ryan (photo)
• Their strike too
• What they say about N.J. law

Dunne to file for mayor of Minneapolis

• V.R. Dunne (photo)

NFTW rejects Schwellenbach’s arbitration plan

An Editorial

• Expropriate the telephone trust

Sidelights on the anti-labor plot

Value of escalator contract proved by union experience

An unholy conspiracy against the phone strike, by Alan Kohlman

Heroic women teach lesson to all of labor, by George Breitman

• Why President Mary Hanscom is not afraid to go to jail
• Phone strikers tell off scab (photo)
• Click heels tap out “Solidarity” on phone operators’ picket line, by Mary Steele
• Monopoly and plunder: the Story of AT&T, by Dorothy Lessing
• “Until our entire membership has been locked up”

Our Program

American Stalinism and anti-Stalinism/p>

• 3. Why and how the Communist Party degenerated, by James P. Cannon

Survivors of mine explosion tell story to The Militant, by George Lavan

• U.S. mines most dangerous

Picket signs demand living wage (photo)

Flint Labor Party committee scores success in election, by Sol Dollinger

Meaning of the Truman Doctrine

[Editorials]

• “Criminals”
• The Workers’ Mood
• The price spiral
• A sample poll
• American Gestapo

“Imagine! I had to fly all this way ...̶i; (cartoon), by Gray

War Dept. considering factory military units

Workers’ Bookshelf

• Color Blind, by Margaret Halsey, reviewed by Norma Christiansen
• Stalinist on the Waterfront, by Art Preis, reviewed by Art Sharon

Truman plan sets off all-out war in Greece

Congressmen at Work

• Blueprint for World War III

Workers’ Forum

• Public opinion and the telephone strike
• Louis Kisner’s vote in Los Angeles
• Trinidad prisoners send thanks for aid
• Describes conditions in Pennsylvania mines
• Favors compulsory military training
• The real power

SWP candidate for mayor of Chicago hits vote fraud against minor political parties, by Hayden Perry

The Militant Army

• “Icebreakers” leading in Milwaukee campaign

Gains recorded in New York SWP city-wide convention

Youth Activities

Tragedy of Jews part of world crisis

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

New York unionists sponsor FEPC dance

Notebook of an Agitator

• A Letter to Elizabeth, by J.P.C.

Strike of 100,000 protests jailing of Trotskyist in India, by V. Karalasingham

Violence against Negro people flares in Flint, by Henry Robinson

New Jersey cops aid strikebreakers (photo)

Detroit union to hold rally against anti-labor drive

The Negro Struggle, by Larry Carter

• The Negro Worker’s New Status

Five labor candidates elected in So. St. Paul

6,000 Akron workers lead new strike wave, by Milton Genecin

State ownership of utilities urged for N.J. Constitution, by Alan Kohlman

A Case of Political Escapism, by George Breitman

Aid Indo-Chinese through boycott of French ships

“A little too radical”

Vol. XI No. 17, 26 April 1947, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Big rallies hit anti-labor bills

Workers’ world – or none! (cartoon)

Phone strikers standing firm in third week, by Alan Kohlman

• Picket AT & T meeting (photo)

An Editorial

• For a nation-wide 24-hour stoppage

May Day manifesto of the Socialist Workers Party

• Socialism – Fascism (cartoon)

Detroit workers respond to call for mass rally

15 cents an hour granted in new wage agreements

Our Program

American Stalinism and anti-Stalinism

• 4. The crimes and betrayals of American Stalinism, by James P. Cannon

Survivor of concentration camp kidnapped by GPU in Austria

Search for dead in Texas (photo)

How Hartley bill puts knife at American labor’s throat

[Editorials]

• ”Peacemongering”
• Distorting a poll
• ”Neutrality” revision
• Red-baiter in action
• Murder in Palestine

“With this omnibus labor bill ...” (cartoon), by Gray

May Day’s origin here in America, by Joseph Hansen

Workers’ Bookshelf

• The Coming American Revolution, by James P. Cannon, reviewed by Larissa Reed

Notebook of an Agitator

• What do they know about Jesus? by J.P.C.

Workers’ Forum

• Laura Gray cartoons saved for scrapbook, from Helen Holloway
• Disagrees with views expressed by Militant, from M.E.C.
  Editorial Note
• Protest may save two from Franco’s noose, from Fred Thompson
• Defends criticism of Robeson’s politics, by D.M. Steelquist

Public utilities extortions can be ended by nationalization under workers’ control, by Arthur Burch

The Militant Army

• Cleveland, Minneapolis launch sub campaigns

Letters to ACEWR portray dire need of Europeans

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• May Day, 1947

Capitalist greed blamed in Texas City disaster, by Evelyn Atwood

• Digging for bodies in Texas disaster (photo)

The Negro Struggle, by Larry Carter

• From the Cradle to the Grave

Dunne files as candidate for mayor of Minneapolis

May Day and the Children, by Grace Carlson

Chicago tenants rally support in eviction fight

Proportional representation and New Jersey convention, by Alan Kohlman

Notes From the News

SWP candidates are on ballot

Vol. XI No. 18, 3 May 1947, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Stalin’s guilt – Budenz book supplies link to GPU murder of Trotsky, by Natalia Sedov Trotsky

• Natalia Trotsky (photo

24-hour protest strike advocated by Flint CIO

• Urges calling nation-wide work haltage, by Henry Robinson
• How to put them on the run! (cartoon), by Gray
• united action needed to combat slave bills, by Farrell Dobbs
• Farrell Dobbs (photo)

500,000 join in Detroit protest against Congress

• Origin of Detroit rally

Greek-Turkish despots continue repressive acts

Release of jailed Indian Trotskyists demanded by SWP

Telephone strike in fourth week, by Alan Kohlman

Notebook of an Agitator

• Think it over, Mr. Dubinsky, by J.P.C.

After the 15¢ settlement, by George Clarke

Detroit workers rally against labor-haters (photo)

Demonstration in Newark protests slave-labor law, by Ruth Franklin

Our Program

Camden CIO and AFL rally behind telephone strikers, by Max Geldman

The Stalinist bureaucrats and the other bureaucrats, by James P. Cannon

100,000 workers protest arrest of Trotskyist leader in Madras, by Manickam

• C.S.S. Antony Pillai (drawing)

[Editorials]

• Detroit appeal
• Failure at Moscow
• Grooming Truman
• Palestine and the UN

“Six cents! Don’t you know ...” (cartoon), by Gray

Workers’ Bookshelf

• The Old Country, by Sholom Aleichem, reviewed by Paul Schapiro
• Architects of Ideas, by Ernest Tratiner, reviewed by Dick Carlson

Congressmen at Work

• The Senate Votes on Greece

Workers’ Forum

• A gruesome crime in Mississippi, from D. Cooper
• If I should die, by Subscriber (poem)
• Differ with M.E.C. on support of war, from Bob Carlson
• Sidelights of rally in Cadillac Square, from Chuck
• Praises Militant for telling truth, from Theo Heneke
  Editorial Note

Failure at Moscow conference underlines imperialist drive for another world war, by Jean Paul Martin

The Militant Army

• Report brisk sales on single copies

Why the Wallace program cannot bring lasting peace, by Joseph Hansen

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

New SWP branch in Lynn built on firm foundations, by S. Brooks

Youth Activities

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• The Secret of the Cities

Voters show left trend in ex-Axis countries, by George Breitman

Detroit strikebreaking cops slug phone workers (photo)

The Negro Struggle, by WIlliam E. Bohannon

• NAACP aims at a million

Police in San Francisco beat telephone strikers, by E. Chester

The Fountain of Youth, by Grace Carlson

New Jersey Constitution and the one-house legislature, by Alan Kohlman

Dunne stresses Labor Party as American workers’ need

Notes From the News

Vol. XI No. 19, 10 May 1947, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Senate speeds union-busting bill

• Senator Taft (cartoon)
• Ask CIO to call 24-hour strike to protest anti-labor bills

Militarists draft secret blueprint for a new war, by William F. Warde

Detroit’s gigantic rally against labor-haters (photo)

One-day strike urged by UAW foundry council

AFL-CIO unity discussed at Washington conference

Mid-West camp opens season on June 29

Telephone strikers stand firm despite AT&T’s split tactics, by Alan Kohlman

34,000 auto workers strike in France

Notebook of an Agitator

• The lynching of Monsieur Verdoux, by J.P.C.

The crucial issues at stake in AFL-CIO unity proposals, by George Breitman

New York rally to defend labor (photo)

Our Program

Angered by deal in Chicago phone strike

Militant picket line greets fascist Smith in Philadelphia, by John Haas

Is the Communist Party a workers’ organization? by James P. Cannon

Oust Stalinist ministers in France as Ramadier bids for Truman aid, by Joseph Hansen

British terror in Palestine recalls scenes under Hitler, by H. Vallin

• British troops search refugee (photo)

[Editorials]

• Rising fear of war
• They are all guilty
• Vote – for whom?
• Centralia whitewash

“To make good, Montgomery ...” (cartoon), by Gray

May Day celebrations throughout the world, by George Lavan

Workers’ Bookshelf

• The Purple Testament, edited by Don M. Wolfe, reviewed by H.L. Bentley
• The Last Time I Saw Paris, by Elliot Paul, reviewed by Jules Kramer

Greek workers honor martyrs on May Day

Workers’ Forum

• Telephone striker writes from Chicago, from E.P.
• An answer to M.E.C., from Subscriber
• Wants information about the South, from (Miss) L. Gwenneth King
• Complaint from a small landlord, from Pearl I. Hamilton

Postwar prosperity begins to fade away as first grim signs of Depression appear, by John G. Wright

• Retail prices hit all-time high

The Militant Army

• “Be the champ and go to camp”

Dunne praises phone strikers, scores mayor

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

First public hearing successful in Lynn, by S. Gordon

Phila. ACEWR nets $250 at benefit dinner

Detroit gives banquet to celebrate May Day

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• Career of a Clerk

General Motors fires 14 in reprisal for rally

Hartley union-busting bill (cartoon), by Fred Wright

Meeting protests arrests in India

• Political arrests of labor leaders continue in India

The Negro Struggle,

by William E. Bohannon

• Two Sides of the Same Coin

Oakland labor organizes to win in city election, by R. Chester

Notes From the News

The fight against Jim Crow at New Jersey convention, by Alan Kohlman

Akron CIO rally protests against anti-labor bills

Vol. XI No. 20, 17 May 1947, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Fighting policy adopted by CIO packing union, by Ted Selander

More union bodies join call for 24-hour strike

• Build a tank trap! (cartoon), by Gray
• Mahoning County CIO council urges stoppage, by Harry Frankel
• demand action against anti-labor legislation

Supreme Court ruling dooms Negro to chair, by William Charles

Demand release of jailed trade unionist in India

• Socialist Party leader arrested in Madras

Local settlements pave way for end of telephone strike, by Alan Kohlman

Bilbao strike disturbs Franco’s fascist rule

Hunger demonstrations sweep Germany

• ACEWR plans to cable packages

Minneapolis vote

Notebook of an Agitator

• The mad dog of the labor movement, by J.P.C.

UPWA call for a new party represents a big step forward, by George Breitman

Our Program

Meaning of attack on Henry Wallace

The prospects of American Stalinism, by James P. Cannon

Premier Ramadier’s new cabinet wins swift aid from Wall Street, by Joseph Hansen

Evicted into the rain (photo)

The Arab League vs. Arab masses in Middle East, by H. Vallin

International Notes

The nature of Stalinism

[Editorials]

• A vote for war
• Act now!
• Blow at civil rights
• Look at China

“Don’t use so much polish ...” (cartoon), by Morgan

Soviet co-ops become capitalist enterprises, by John G. Wright

Workers’ Bookshelf

• Marxism in the United States, by Leon Trotsky, reviewed by Larissa Reed

Communist Party outlawed in Brazil, by Charles Cornell

Diplomatic war goes on as Moscow conference fails, by Jean Paul Martin

French Trotskyists may face prosecution

Workers’ Forum

• Why we ballot as Trotskyists, from George Clarke
• Stalinist goons attack Militant distributor, from A Reader
• Public funds used to extend Jim Crow, from Adolph Kruger
• Criticizes editorial on British murders, from Dave Carpenter
  Editorial Note
• Dump surplus spuds while prices soar, from Abe Davi[s]

Seven-day strike forces Inland Steel Corp. to withdraw union-busting contract clauses, by J. Lyons

The Militant Army

• Special bulletin sparks Chicago sub campaign

Gala floor show to be featured at ACEWR ball

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Militant readers invited to the Mid-West camp

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• the Unknown Child

Building workers feel impact of depression, by Joseph Hansen

The big steal (graphic)

The Negro Struggle, by William E. Bohannon

• Against the Anti-Labor Bills

GM rehires 15 men but UAW suffers bad blow

Beating a Rent Gouger

Delegates urge Labor party at Pa. AFL parley

Dunne winds up campaign for mayor of Minneapolis, by Grace Carlson

Notes From the News

Vol. XI No. 21, 24 May 1947, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Slave labor bill veto demanded

• Strike it out! (cartoon), by Evelyn
• More unions join call for one-day protest strike
• Truman holds silence despite union appeals
• Truman (cartoon)
• CIO council in Newark urges 24-hour strike

Oakland labor scores victory in city election, by R. Chester

South Carolina lynch trial goes to jury

CIO Marine cooks raise demand for a new party

Arab-Jewish union in general strike

An Editorial

• Action they will heed

Threaten death penalty for German food demonstrators

Truman scorns plea to veto measure knifing portal pay

10 years after the memorial day massacre

• Scene of the 1937 mass acre [sic] (photo)

Notebook of an Agitator

• The treason of the intellectuals, by J.P.C.

Our Program

The working class fight against Stalinism, by James P. Cannon

Germany 1947: Four flags over a ruin, by Ernest Germain

Murdered by Stalin’s GPU (photo)

The Arab revolution and the Zionist labor movement, by H. Vallin

• Correction

[Editorials]

• An emergency appeal
• Oakland lessons
• Class legislation
• ”Freedom from fear”

“I’ve got my belly full ...” (cartoon), by Gray

Fear grips Wall St. as stocks nosedive, by John G. Wright

Workers’ Bookshelf

• There Once Was a Slave, by Shirley Graham, reviewed by John Fredericks

Fate of Europe now hinges on French working class, by Arthur Burch

Abortions this year will kill 15,000 women, by Leigh Ray

Workers’ Forum

• White-Negro unity in telephone strike, from A Western Electric Worker
• ”Southern justice .. [_sic_] (poem), by Eddie Dumaine
• Finds storekeeping is no easy life, from George Rock
• San Diego cops beat Negro war veteran, from A Reader
• Mayor of Havana sets worthy example, from Milton Genecin
• Union papers run ad for Ohio Bell Tel., from D. Cooper

The Militant Army

• New York finds spot mobilization a success

Hilding Swan Olson (obituary), by Daniel Roberts

Strikers defy injunction in Columbiana

Mid-West camp opens June 29

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Film shown at largest meeting of Akron SWP

Pioneer Notes

Ball Point Frankenstein, by Joseph Hansen

Thousands out of work in Rhode Island slump

AFL and CIO leaders discu ss [_sic_] unity (photo)

The Negro Struggle, by Larry Carter

• Plenty of Jobs – at Low Pay

Vote for Dunne shows rising interest in SWP, by Grace Carlson

Best of All Possible Worlds

Stalinists scored for failure to join anti-fascist action

The bi-partisan deal and N.J. constitutional convention, by Alan Kohlman

Notes From the News

Vol. XI No. 22, May 31, 1947, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Lynch mob of 28 set free by lily-white jury, by George Lavan

• Acquittal gives green light to more lynchings

24-hour strike demand mounts through nation

• Monster on the loose (cartoon)
• Truman weighs putting okay on slave labor bill
• AFL unions join CIO in call for nation-wide stoppage
• 10,000 protest anti-labor bills in San Francisco

Ramadier decrees military rule for 85,000 utilities workers

Landlords await rent hikes as Congress stalls

Call on labor of all lands to help the German workers

An Editorial

• The ranks want action!

CIO now organizing new phone workers international

Notebook of an Agitator

• A blood transfusion

Lynchers set free (photo)

Detroit UAW-CIO unions hit state anti-labor bill

Lynn AVC chapter pushes militant fight for housing

Our Program

Chicago tenants union halts mass eviction of 6 families, by Robert L. BIrchman

Northwest metal workers win victory after 2-day strike

Workers’ revolution and bureaucratic degeneration, by James P. Cannon

The Four Germanies, by Ernest Germain

Truman Doctrine in action (photo)

Revolutionary solution to Palestine question, by H. Vallin

[Editorials]

• Accept no substitutes!
• Stop the lynchers
• Arms for dictators
• In economy’s name

“But Senator, if we did away with ...” (cartoon), by Morgan

Wall Street tycoons run U.S. government

Workers’ Bookshelf

• Revolution, by Yüpsilon, reviewed by John Marshall
• Christ Stopped at Eboli, by Carlo Levi, reviewed by John Hudson

Capitalists bewildered about the depression, by John G. Wright

Congressmen at Work

• Wall Street and wool

Workers’ Forum

• Candy store reflects capitalist anarchy, from George Rock
• Everyone should see Monsieur Verdoux, from Belle Montague
• Adopt resolution for 24-hour strike, from M.R.
• Advocates joining Socialist Workers, from R.J.
• Proposes additions to program box, from A.W.H.

World labor experience new upsurge as resistance mounts against U.S. imperialism, by Arthur Burch

The Militant Army

• Detroit sub campaign starts with good score

How one vacationer viewed benefits of Mid-West camp

• Fun at Little Pleasant Lake (photo)

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Youth Activities

Columbiana strikers’ morale high despite vicious attack by court, by Art O’Brien

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• Murray and Memorial Day

Dump surplus potatoes as world goes hungry, by Joseph Hansen

Unemployment rises to half million in New York

Strikers against Camels (photo)

The Negro Struggle, by Larry Carter

• The case of Jackie Robinson

Dunne calls on unions to build a Labor Party

• V.R. Dunne (photo)

”Brothers Under the Skin,” by Grace Carlson

• [Grace Carlson] (photo)

SWP candidates wind up campaign for N.J. Constitution convention election, by Alan Kohlman

Notes From the News

Vol. XI No. 23, June 7, 1947, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Anti-labor law sure, says Taft

• Put the squeeze on! (cartoon)
• Time to organize powerful protest strike grows short
• Partial list of unions wanting 1-day strike
• Favor Labor Party and 24-hour strike

Greek Trotskyists face death as terror reigns

• Socialist Workers Party calls for picket line at consulate

Cabinet shifts in Italy, Hungary are Truman “doctrine” product, by Joseph Hansen

• Alcide de Gasperi (cartoon)
• General Marshall (photo)

New Jersey layoffs sound warning signal to unions, by A. Stevens

Michigan State CIO to meet at height of labor crisis

Senate votes passage of bill granting rent boosts of 15%

Supreme Court ruling hit by CIO

Notebook of an Agitator

• Farewell to a socialist pioneer, by J.P.C.

Joint labor victory in Oakland election points road for workers in other cities, by Ed Davis

I wouldn’t budge an inch for a camel (poster)

Stalinist grip on Buffalo UE shaken by militant caucus

Our Program

Chicago packing unions decide to cooperate

10,000 aircraft workers threaten strike in Seattle, by C. Kaye

Tri-State fabricators resist fringe demands in contract, by Art O’Brien

How German people are being “re-educated for democracy”, by Ernest Germain

Heroic record of Chinese Trotskyists during the war

Chen Chi-Chang (drawing), by E.A.

The position of Stalinism after the Renault strike, by Pierre Frank

International Notes

• New from India

[Editorials]

• Growing unemployment
• Make it a crime
• Why veterans join
• “Unanimous” report

“They really ought to be glad ...“ (cartoon), by Gray

Stalin’s fake concession on Russian death penalty, by Alan Kohlman

Workers’ Bookshelf

• A Room on the Route, by Godfrey Blunden, reviewed by Rose Karsner
• Correction

45 state legislatures legalize price gouging, by George Lavan

Congressmen at Work

• Terminal Leave Pay

Workers’ Forum

• Wants more articles on basic questions, from M.S.
• Takes lambasting but renews sub, from Mrs. Clarence Laws
  Editorial Note
• Wants material on Socialist Party, from Daniel Bell
• Agrees with article on CIO-AFL unity, from Milt Genecein
• Stalinists “aid” victim of police brutality, from David Page
• A worker’s answer to depression, from L.M.R.

ACEWR begins cabling relief packages to hunger stricken workers in Germany

The Militant Army

• Week at camp is Akron award for most subs

Chicago groups join fight against job discrimination

Mid-West vacation camp opens season on June 29

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Youth Activities

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• The Truth Will Out

Seven out on bail after lynch attempt in N.C.

Capitalist monopoly grows bigger (graphic), from Consumer Reports

The Negro Struggle, by William E. Bohannon

• Anger Is Not Enough

Secretary of war reveals real aim of UMT program, by Joseph Hansen

The Not-So-Happy Barefoot Boy, by Grace Carlson

Buffalo SWP steps up drive against pending sales tax, by Libby Jones

Pendergast machine scored in Kansas City vote fraud

Mass meeting in L.A. protests freeing of 28 lynch murderers

Notes From the News

Vol. XI No. 24, 14 June 1947, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Mine strikers protest Taft-Hartley slave bill

• Wall Street’s rubber stamps (cartoon), by Evelyn
• Bulletin
• Political expediency to decide Truman stand on anti-labor bill, by Joseph Hansen
  Truman (cartoon)
• 24-hour protest strike urged by union groups

Budenz reveals Trotsky murder facts to jur

Favor people’s referendum on war or peace

SWP chalks up 5% of vote in Essex County

Pickets protest Greek regime’s reign of terror

Attacks on India Trotskyists spread as strike continues

Nationwide strike paralyzes railway system in France

Notebook of an Agitator

• A rift in the Iron Curtain, by J.P.C.

N.Y. protest rally against slave-labor bill (photo)

Trade Union Notes, by Art Preis

Our Program

2 political wings of Wall St. vulture

Germany, 1947 – From Potsdam to Moscow, by Ernest Germain

Tense conflict over Hungary mirrors trend toward war, by William F. Warde

Picketing Greek consulate in New York (photo)

Mood of British workers shows rise in militancy, by T.J. Peters

Mass demonstrations rock bloody Kuomintang regime, by George Lavan

International Notes

[Editorials]

• An appeal for aid
• Green’s politics
• Pentagon conspiracy
• Double standard

“Oh yes! Don’t forget to invite our dear friends ...” (cartoon), by Gray

Making the world safe from atom bombs, by Art Preis

Workers’ Bookshelf

• Our Fair City, edited by Robert S. Allen, reviewed by Paul Schapiro

Spanish POUM moves farther to the right

Unions must adopt policies to fight cutbacks, layoffs, by John G. Wright

Workers’ Forum

• Voice of Trotskyism must reach workers, from J.G.B
• Holds J.P.C. erred in “Notebook” article on suspended cutters, from J.G.
• Lumberjacks picket for sixteen months, from Paul Kolinski
• ILGWU suspension wrong and dangerous, says J.P.C. in reply, from J.P.C.
• Criticizes “Militant” editorial on resisting lynch murder, from William H. Staton
  Editorial Note

Jim Crow – Anti-labor laws (cartoon)

The Militant Army

• Boosters send pledges to keep Militant going

Classes on important topics featured at Mid-West camp

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• A Leader of Men

British capitalists hail deal to chop up India, by Joseph Hansen

• Proposed dismemberment of India (map)

House censors publication on fascist activity

The Negro Struggle, by William E. Bohannon

• In Answer to Mr. Staton

Big rally in New York to protest Jim Crow

Oakland angered by brutal police, demand shakeup, by Ed Davis

Notes from the News

Warehousemen settle 3-day strike in San Francisco, by D. Rossa

Vol. XI No. 25, 21 June 1947, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Labor Party seen as vital need

• Aroused unionists swell caravan to Washington en route from West
• Taft-Hartley bill exposes Wall St. two-party system
• Toss ‘em in the ash-can! (cartoon), by Evelyn
• Defy anti-labor law
• SWP radio speaker flays anti-labor bill
• Why Big Business wants the slave-labor bill, by Art Preis

No ships move as CIO seamen await contract

New raid projected on treasury to finance reaction in Europe, by Joseph Hansen

Railway workers in France win smashing strike victory

How Stalinists “answer” Murray on Red-baiting

American Veterans committee holds national convention in Milwaukee

Trade Union Notes, by Art Preis

Keep the home fires burning! (cartoon), by Seaman, from Labor Reports

CIO president in Akron assails no-strike pledge

Our Program

Mood of American workers analyzed

• State of American economy surveyed in June magazine

Two-day picnic in Pennsylvania

N.Y. Negro freedom rally a fraudulent spectacle

Germany 1947 – The agony of life under the occupation, by Ernest Germain

Reports show existence of opposition in Soviet Union

Rail strike empties Paris station (photo)

How long will the new De Gasperi cabinet last?

• Italian elections postponed 6 months

Heroic record of A. Leon, leader of Belgian Trotskyists

Differences in ruling class over the Truman Doctrine, by Arthur Burch

International Notes

Egyptian Trotskyists publish manifesto against British

[Editorials]

• Stab in the back
• “Democrats” at home
• Fight rent boosts
• Veteran graduates

“After all, Baron, it’s only right ...” (cartoon), by Gray

Sliding scale of hours will prevent layoffs, by John G. Wright

Movie Review

• Kameradschaft, reviewed by Barbara Stern

Washington’s reasons for embracing Peron

Workers’ Bookshelf

• Kingsblood Royal, by Sinclair Lewis, reviewed by James Kersey

Workers’ Forum

• New Zealander tells how he became a Militant reader, from A. MacMahon, Sr.
• Demands real fight against slave bill, from Ross W. Gilbert
• “Man of the Street” takes over the mike, from Dorothy B.
• Sends $10 to help put out Militant, from A.C.D.

Floods take heavy toll in land and lives as profiteers prevent storage dam control, by George Lavan

The Militant Army

• Detroit sub campaign scores total of 233

ACEWR requests donations for health clinic in Italy

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Mid-West school and camp opens season on June 29

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• Springtime comes to Ames St.

Crushing tax burden remains on workers

CIO rally against slave-labor bill (photo)

The Negro Struggle, by William E. Bohannon

• Like building on quicksand

Tax bill seeks to smother political action by labor

• Senator Taft (cartoon)

New York SWP hits O’Dwyer move to raise subway fare, by George Clarke

Health for the Workers, by Grace Carlson

New Camel contract is being violated by Reynolds Co.

Notes From the News

Vol. XI No. 26, 28 June 1947, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Fight Wall Street’s slave law by building labor’s own party, by the Editors

• Truman gesture is bid for votes, by Joseph Hansen
• Baked to order (cartoon), by Evelyn
• Congress vote shows reactionary character of Democratic Party
• Appeasement policy paved way to labor defeat, by Art Preis

Fast-spreading walkout of miners demonstrates workers’ determination to fight anti-union law

• Motorcade to Washington (photo)
• How Trotskyists fought slave labor measure
• Taft-Hartley provisions inspired by Wall Street
• Union heads denounce law but offer no real program

Trade Union Notes, by Art Preis

Our Program

Germany 1947 – What the People Are Thinking About, by Ernest Germain

Liberals are busy peddling disguised Truman Doctrine, by M. Stein

• Truman (cartoon)

Escaped lynch mob (photo)

French Socialist Youth fight dissolution order

Trotskyist rally commemorates Paris Commune

International Notes

American Veterans Committee shows marked shift to right

Factory committees in Paris organize for general strike

[Editorials]

• Labor rewarded
• Dangerous illusion
• Damning admission
• Join the SWP!

“The next war will put us ...” (cartoon), by Gray

Flint auto local prints Labor Party pamphlet

Workers’ Bookshelf

• The First Freedom, by Morris L. Ernst, reviewed by Paul Schapiro

Notorious Nazis hold key posts under Allies

Congressmen at Work

• “You Can Crack a Filibuster”

Workers Forum

• Truck Drivers Enjoy Article on “Mad Dog”, from Grace Carlson
• Author appreciates J.P.C’s review of Moon Gaffney, from Harry Sylvester
• Debate over defense of lynch victims has reader “groggy”, from Joseph McNamee
• Ceylon student wants to correspond with Militant readers, from Mable Perera
  Editorial Note
• Considers publishing speeches of Debs, from Joseph W. Riley
• Asks for source of Lenin quote, from G.R.
• Calls for halt on rent gouging, from One of the People

Antoinette Konikow 1869–1946, by Evelyn Atwood

• [Antoinette Konikow] (drawing), by E.A.

The Militant Army

• $100 contribution sent to help The Militant

FE merger proposal causes heated dispute in UAW-CIO

How capitalists treat any law they don’t like

Fine fishing in Pleasant Lake at Mid-West vacation camp

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• Letter to a new subscriber

Michigan CIO delegates call for a new party, by Sol Dollinger

NMU gains contract concessions through union-wide job action

• End of CIO shipping tie-up (photo)

Like building on quicksand, by George Breitman

”The American Meddlers’ Association”, by Grace Carlson

Tax Wall Street to save the five-cent fare, by George Clarke

Georgia officials give Klansmen whitewash job

Notes from the News

Labor in Canada fights layoffs

Vol. XI No. 27, 5 July 1947, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Battle begins against slave law

• Union ranks want militant struggle and open defiance

Labor must build own party to combat Taft-Hartley Act, statement of National Committee of the Socialist Workers Party

• The way to do it (cartoon)

Strike spreads to 132,000 in shipyards

Akron labor urges nation-wide strike

Hi-jacking rent measure gets Truman’s signature, by Art Preis

• Rent hike, eviction drive on full blast

AFL PAINTERS IN New York OUST LOUIS WEINSTOCK [_sic_]

Miners hurl first challenge at new union-busting law

Notice on new publication date

We the people, by Marvel Scholl

Our Program

Germany 1947 – The Working-Class Parties in Germany, by Ernest Germain

Madras textile strike firm despite government attacks, by V. Karalasingham

• Antonipillai (drawing)

Three of a kind in labor-haters (photo)

Sentiment for new party shown by Wallace tour, by Arthur Burch

• Wallace (cartoon)

International Notes

How “unification” of Europe is used to cloak reaction, by John G. Wright

[Editorials]

• Make it boomerang
• Two years of the UN
• The witch hunt
• Death of our society

“Isn’t it grand to relax ...” (cartoon), by Morgan

Production curtailed by textile mills

Workers’ Bookshelf

• Revolutionary Marxism or Petty-Bourgeois Revisionism, reviewed by John Marshall

Rail moguls catch the gravy train

Congressmen at Work

• Orchids to Green and Murray

Filipino veterans cheated by Congress

Workers’ Forum

• An example of Nazi-like neutrality, from David Page
• The Transition (poem), by Jarvis Dusenberry
• No submission to war or slavery, from George R. Stryker
• Wishes success for our work, from Charles E. Johnson
• Praises good work of Labor Challenge, from B.J.
• Feel hard times approach in Montana, from J.B.
• Rotting tenements collapse in N.Y., from A Reader
• Appreciates articles on Negro struggle, from Neville Devanayana
• They act together against the workers, from J. Blake

Socialist Workers Party Youngstown local goes on the air in call for Labor Party

The Militant Army

• Excellent response from Southern strikers

First week of season begins at Mid-West camp

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Youth Activities

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• Another Letter to a New Subscriber

Rank and file sentiment felt at NAACP parley, by William Charles

CIO shipbuilders out on strike (photo)

Send Them Where They Belong, by Albert Parker

U.S. note to Indonesians backs Dutch colonial rule

”Made in Europe”, by Joseph Hansen

Uncover plot to establish French military dictatorship

Philadelphia SWP urges unions to run labor slates in elections

Notes from the News

Vol. XI No. 28, 14 July 1947, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Paris conference on Marshall Plan promotes war aims, by Joseph Hansen

• No hope offered ruined Europe in Kremlin line, by John G. Wright

Mine victory spurs fight on slave law, by Art Preis

• What miners won by their militancy

”This is protection–see!” (cartoon)

Mass resistance grows against 15% rent gouge

Trotskyists in Bolivia face Hertzog terror

An Editorial

• Clean the rascals out

Coal miners triumphant after four strikes in year

New publishing date and copy deadline

CP invents “plot” to swing NMU votes

It worked (photo)

Trade Union Notes, by Art Preis

Mine agreement (photo)

Coal Co. penalized $1000 for 11 dead

Our Program

Wallace program analyzed at Detroit meeting

Social Democrats whitewash Truman, oppose new party

Germany 1947 – First Steps on the Workers Road to Action, by Ernest Germain

Wall Street Western Bloc plan hailed by European capitalists, by Jean Paul Martin

Worse off than before (photo)

Stalin amends his criminal code

International Notes

Big wave of strikes sweeps through island of Ceylon, by Gamani Salgado

Greek monarchy jails 2,800 in “Red” raids

[Editorials]

• UN by-passed again
• ”Forgive and forget”
• An alarming health report
• Prices coming down?

“Should I unload my oil shares ...” (cartoon), by Gray

What happened to the building boom?

Workers’ Bookshelf

• End as a Man, by Calder Willingham & The End Is Not Yet, by Fritz von Unruh, reviewed by Evelyn Atwood

German paper charges deliberate starvation, by Eugene Shays

Congressmen at Work

• Call It Anything But That

Workers’ Forum

• Laura Gray recovering from serious illness, from L.N.
  Editorial Note
• “Shocked amazement” over Vallin article, from Jerry Spiegelman
• Vallin reply explains situation in Palestine, by H. Vallin

Lives, land, food destroyed as profiteers block flood control, _by Evelyn Atwood<_/p>

The Militant Army

• Chalk up 344 subs in Chicago campaign

Three phases of the Stalinist attitude to French strikes

Eight years of Spanish fascism

Vacationers enjoy first week at Mid-West camp, Michigan, by William F. Warde

First social of Lynn ACEWR is successful

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Youth Activities

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• Steve’s Week End

O’Dwyer responsible for 8-cent fare steal, by Charles Cornell

Most of South for anti-lynch law

• .... $lavery (cartoon), by thal

Speeches Are a Dime a Dozen, by William E. Bohannan

• [William E. Bohannon] (photo)

Robert Williams is SWP candidate for Senate

• Robert Williams (photo)

Horse-and-Buggy Medicine, by Grace Carlson

• [Grace Carlson]

White hoodlums attack homes belonging to Chicago Negroes, by Robert Birchman

Bolivia deputy introduced bill on sliding scale

Horsetrade politics behind re-passage of tax bill

Notes from the News

Vol. XI No. 29, 21 July 1947, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Profiteers renew price-gouging drive

• Living costs hit record despite high production
• All incomes rise but wage-earners’

CIO defies political ban in slave law

• Murray (photo)

More unions ban NLRB procedure, no-strike clause

”Unifying” Europe (cartoon), by thal

Shipyard strike holds firm in fourth week

Paris parley sharpens struggle over Europe, by Joseph Hansen

CIO demands Michigan state rent controls

Witch hunt and anti-labor bills are signed into law in Michigan

Rent-gougers open big eviction drive

Dutch despots press drive against Indonesian republic

‘Cops-and-robbers’ theory of politics, by Art Preis

We the people, by Marvel Scholl

No need for mass picketing (photo)

The Instinctive and Elemental Drive, by J.R. Johnson

Stalinist faction in NMU raises “unity” smokescreen, by C. Thomas

Our Program

Threat of price slash frightens canned good manufacturers

Germany 1947 – Strategy of the Fourth International, by Ernest Germain

Fill Greek concentration camps as terror reaches new height

• U.S. imperialist administrator (photo)

2nd convention of Trotskyists held in India

Three-power talks end in heightened tension, by Jean Paul Martin

International Notes

Government goes easy on French military plot

[Editorials]

• PAC’s registration drive
• Year Three of the atom age
• Open the doors of America
• Chiang Kai-shek yells for help

“We absolutely must put down the communists ...” (cartoon), by Gray

Most union bureaucrats opposed to Labor Party

Workers’ Bookshelf

• The Republic of Art, by Curt Sachs, reviewed by George Sanders

Court-martial debate evades main issue

Congressmen at Work

• Millionaire Envoy to Argentina

Workers’ Forum

• Hopes labor united for political action, from Chas J. Hitchcock
• Thinks Truman speech at NAACP was good, from L.F. Coles
• Gives source of quote ascribed to Lenin, from Reader
• Recalls how Wallace killed little pigs, from Mary Pope
• Sends $5 to help circulate Militant, from E.H.

Marshall and Wallace deceive people about U.S. imperialism, by Art Preis

• Wallace (cartoon)

The Militant Army

• Buffalo sub chart shows steady rise

Capitalist tycoon looks at labor bureaucrats, by Joseph Hansen

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Youth Activities

What the Joke Is, by John G. Wright

Eight Negroes murdered in Georgia prison-camp

• Killed in cold blood (photo)
• That’s what we like about the South

The Negro Struggle, by Albert Parker

• Politics and the NAACP

Seattle tenants organize action against bill to sell project homes

Insurance for the Doctor, by Grace Carlson

• [Grace Carlson] (photo)

Railroad fare raises hit by SWP candidate Williams

SWP candidate for City Council in Philadelphia

ACEWR urges aid be rushed to European anti-fascists

First day nets 1,800 signatures in drive

Notes From the News

Vol. XI No. 30, 28 July 1947, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

U.S. arms used in war on Indonesians

• Applying the “Atlantic Charter” (cartoon)
• Dutch imperialists launch blitzkrieg on young republic, by Joseph Hansen
• Socialist Workers Party protests use of U.S. planes, guns, in Indonesia

Price rises continue as profits soar

UPWA parley renews stand on political action

Elect union men, says state AFL

Western bloc squabbles over prize Ruhr area

Chicago tenants resist profiteering landlords

Goodrich strike vote backs national contract demand

Auto union calls for united labor conference

Housing, evictions crisis intensifies

All-white Georgia jury OKs massacre of eight Negroes

Washington concedes rise in unemployment

The elemental urge to socialism, by J.R. Johnson

Strikebreaking attempt fails (photo)

Trade Union Notes, by Art Preis

Union leaders now sing the blues about some old “friends of labor”

Warning to all labor – Tobin is on the loose

Our Program

Germany 1947 – It Can Happen to You Too, by Ernest Germain

Heroic Greek Trotskyists listed among royalist terror victims, by Jean Paul Martin

• Wall Street’s helping hand (cartoon)
• Athens dictators spread brazen lies as cover for their reign of terror

SWP pledges support of Indonesian republic

Call for unity of Jews and Arabs against British

Dutch Trotskyists defend Indonesian people’s cause

• Labor must aid freedom fighters!

International Notes

PCI conference backs Trotsky’s views on USSR

German workers heckle and boo Stalinist minister

[Editorials]

• ”There is no peace!”
• A law against thinking
• Lots of talk – but no action
• Wall St’s aid to Greece

“It’s such a problem to find something to invest ...” (cartoon), by Gray

Who is right about the housing shortage?

Congressmen at Work

• The specter haunting Congress

The sugar trust dips into your sugar bowl

The rich grow richer as the poor buy less

Workers’ Forum

• Predicts re-grouping of auto union ranks, from Auto Worker
• “Moralist” Eastman and Lenin’s testament, from Alexander Szostak
  Editorial Note
• Trotskyist in Germany reports on conditions, from A Trotskyist
• Words of Douglass still hold true, from J.A.B.
• What a mother finds in The Militant, from L.B.

Wall Street dons rosy spectacles; economic outlook remains grim, by John G. Wright

• Inflationary prices (cartoon), by P. Charles

The Militant Army

• Branches report plans on annual celebration

Record attendance at Mid-West camp

Auto union rejects FE-merger plan

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

AFL union urges labor candidate for U.S. president, by O. George

Youth Activities

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• An Accordion and Life in General

Robert Williams scores O’Dwyer’s strike breaking

• Robert Williams (photo)
• 3,200 signatures for R. Williams top legal quota

CIO bank clerks on picket line battle policy (photo)

The Negro Struggle, by Albert Parker

• Jim Crow and “Melodrama”

Plague of rats menaces families Phila. slums, by Max Geldman

In Memoriam: Homer Lewis 1910–1947 (obituary)

• Homer Lewis (photo)

Flays Jim Crow at Rockaway beach

Aspirin Won’t Cure “Bean Headache”, by Joseph Hansen

CIO railroad union wins PRR election

Notes From the News

Vol. XI No. 31, 4 August 1947, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Wall Street backs Dutch in Java war, by Joseph Hansen

80th Congress record shows need for a Labor Party now, by the Editors

Keeping the nag moving (cartoon), by Evelyn

Taft Hartley Act gets major test in Murray strike

PCI issues call for revolutionary unity in France

Neglect of mines adds 27 more to death-toll

Press silent about Marshall Plan while imperialists grab for Ruhr

Washington big-wigs linked to war graft

Negro death-camp inmates send out desperate plea

Steel price hikes will boost high living costs still higher

Signs of the times

The elemental urge to socialism, by J.R. Johnson

Fighting Jim Crow on New York beach (photo)

Trade Union Notes, by Art Preis

Narrow margin gives NMU post to Stalinists, by Art Sharon

Our Program

”King” Ryan – a success story, by Art Preis

4,500 Jews get another lesson in “democracy,” by Evelyn Atwood

• British seize refugee ship (photo)

Bloody suppression used against Ceylon strikers

• C.S.S. Antonipillai (drawing)

Burma assassinations are aid to reaction

Stalinist line shifts to right in Australia

Wall Street as a new program for the Ruhr, by Arthur Burch

Trotskyist editor latest victim of Bombay jailers

International Notes

PCI proposes fusion to French SP youth

[Editorials]

• Action needed on Labor Party
• Indonesia appeals to 1776
• Bureaucrats and cooperatives
• Stalinists and the Labor Party

“The Taft-Hartley Act will teach those workers ...” (cartoon),

by Gray

“All is confusion,” wails leading Wall St. organ

Movie Review

• Crossfire, reviewed by Eugene Sheays

What colonial peoples can expect from U.S.

Congressmen at Work

• A Job Well Done for Wall Street

Workers’ Forum

• Help the Indonesians with their freedom, from Mrs. M.
• Scores Stalinist betrayers in Ceylon, from Jayatissa Perera
• Spanish Trotskyist enjoys The Militant, from J.P.
• Wants The Militant better distributed, from G.D.
• Brisk pamphlet sales at Yorkville meeting, from E.A.
• Finds Coles wrong on Truman speech, _from Norman Johnstone<_/li>

Grief-stricken tenant shoots landlord for fire-death of 4, by Robert Birchman

• Where Hickman’s 4 children died (photo)

The Militant Army

• Los Angeles score for week is 49 subs

Pioneer Notes

Mid-West camp is host to contingent from N.J.

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Youth Activities

”Are polls fair to organized labor”, by Joseph Hansen

Detroit CIO body debates key issue of Labor Party

• Powerful base for labor’s own party

It pays to organize (photo)

”A Health Pattern for Labor”, by Grace Carlson

Williams petition drive passes signature quota

• R. Williams flays Jim Crow ruling

Federal withholding tax a racket for the bosses

Wall Street’s Epic Tuesday, by John G. Wright

NAACP and CIO council in Chicago fight rent hike

Hickman defense committee formed

Chicago comrades hold last rites for Homer Lewis

Vol. XI No. 32, 11 August 1947, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Price increases wipe out wage gains

• Inflation slices real incomes to levels of 1939
• ‘Whopping’ 84% rise in profits reported

Wall Street muscles into Indonesia

• UN “intervenes” after Dutch seize objectives, by John G. Wright
• Strike against firing pro-Indonesia worker

Philadelphia SWP files petitions for its candidate

• State Senate petitions submitted in New York

They’re both right! (cartoon), by Evelyn

Strike threat forces Ford to sign temporary “no penalty” agreement

Attlee tried to unload crisis burden on masses

• Attlee (photo)

U.S. Steel hikes prices despite $18-a-ton less production cost

BLF&E progressives fight Robertson’s machine-rule

Lynch mob set free in North Carolina

The Elemental Urge to Socialism, by J.R. Johnson

Congressional debris (photo)

SUP to fight for union hiring hall

We the People, by Marvel Scholl

Painters union gains wage rise in New York

GIs and “prosperity”

Fight the rent hogs

Our Program

Henry Wallace pulls a fast one, by Art Preis

Six months of Indo-China’s war

Berlin worker earns more by sleeping than by working

Pogroms sweep Palestine leap over to England

Wall Street sends arms for Chiang (photo)

De Gaulle propagandizes for dictatorial state

Greek tyrants arrest more Trotskyists

Latin American Notes

Dutch unionists advocate boycott on war material

Greek monarchy asks for U.S. troops

[Editorials]

• The crisis in England
• A crime against labor
• World-wide spy system
• Puerto-Rican tragedy

“I know it’s safer, but I’m so accustomed ...” (cartoon), by Gray

June exports sag as production slides down

Workers’ Bookshelf

• Fight the Slave Labor Law, reviewed by Evelyn Atwood

Job statistics show how liars can figure

New labor czar, Denham: the man and his record

Workers’ Forum

• Her eyes opened by Indonesia war, from Housewife and Worker
• Don’t cast your vote for the atomic bomb, from L.B. Courts
• Jobless family kicked from pillar to post, from Harry Thompson
• Questions analysis of economic trend, from J.V.
• Explanation offered, by John G. Wright
• Appreciated series by Ernest Germain, from S.G.
• Pins all his hopes on Henry Wallace, from David Noller

That’s where my money goes, by Albert Parker

The Militant Army

• Seattle nets 15 subs first week of campaign

Pioneer Notes

• A vital book on the Jewish question

Gratitude shown for ACEWR relief items

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Minneapolis SWP holds successful outdoor festival

Youth Activities

The Gentlemen Aren’t Kidding, by Evelyn Atwood

Hickman case victims tell tragic story to Militant, by Robert L. Birchman

Telephone paper says labor must build own party, by S. Foster

Survivors of mine tragedy (photo)

The Negro Struggle, by Albert Parker

• Political Uncle Tomfoolery

Angry tenants demand Philadelphia rent control

Unionists picket Dutch consulate in San Francisco

Little Thieves and Big Thieves, by Art Preis

New Jersey cops uphold Jim Crow

Anti-Jim Crow demonstrations have strong effect at Rockaway

Notes From the News

Fewer new homes in 157 key U.S. cities

Vol. XI No. 33, 18 August 1947, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

SWP flays Truman Indonesian policy

• State Dept. undertakes defense of U.S. aid to Dutch imperialists
• Text of protest made by SWP, signed by James P. Cannon
• Text of reply from State Dept., signed by Norman Armour
• J.P. Cannon’s answer to Armour, by James P. Cannon
• James P. Cannon (photo

Labor Party can sweep country, Tobin admits

Detroit SWP runs Lerner for mayor

Truman Doctrine – Dutch model (cartoon), by Evelyn

Clark promises “probe” of price conspirators

• Attention, Mr. Clark!

Akron Rubber bows before strike threat

The Elemental Urge to Socialism, by J.R. Johnson

Return to death mine (photo)

Greed trails mine victims to graves

Trade Union Notes, by Art Preis

Stalinists capture posts in NMU port elections, by Art Sharon

6 disappointed GIs kill selves

American labor after Taft-Hartley Act

Our Program

What Hughes scandal revealed, by Art Preis

The labor movement in Japan today, by Robert L. Birchman

German Trotskyists hold first post-war national conference

Socialist party has major split in Southern India, by M. Usman

Brazil workers fight fare rise (photo)

F.I. analyzes crisis of British imperialism

Rio conference forges U.S. imperialist links

Indo-Chinese Trotskyists discuss tasks in France

Washington wants Ruhr coal for Wall Street

International Notes

Laborite “lefts” wilt; retain Cabinet posts

[Editorials]

• State Dept. indicts itself
• Democracy and hypocrisy
• Fight against rent sharks
• Political bankruptcy

”They ought to be ashamed ...“ (cartoon), by Gray

Ruark’s exposé of Army life in Mediterranean

Workers’ Bookshelf

• America’s Needs & Resources, by J. Frederic Dewhurst & Associates, reviewed by Evelyn Atwood

Bank boosts loan rates: credit structure shaky

Experts hide real views on coming Depression

Workers’ Forum

• How much longer will we take it? from Mrs. P. Schlicher
• The State Department and Standard Oil, from B.H.
• Wants reviews of more movies, from L.G.H.
• The rights of small nations, from P.L.
• High prices shrink value of war bonds, from N.J.
• Like castor oil in childhood, from Joe

Mine operators incite race hate in move to put over speed-up

The Militant Army

• Tri-City Penn. picnic yields aid to Militant

Scene at West Coast camp (photo)

One week remains for fun at Mid-West camp

West Coast camp-school opens 3d season Sept. 6

Purpose of Marshall Plan explained in Fourth International

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

New friends gained at Los Angeles picnic

Youth Activities

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• The day the spell was broken

Troops will aid dictators in Greece, U.S. threatens, by John G. Wright

How prices have kept on soaring (graphic)

The Negro Struggle, by Albert Parker

• Admiration for the Indonesians

Labor and Negro groups in Chicago rally to defense of James Hickman

• James Hickman (photo)

Plan protest at Dutch consulate in Philadelphia

Health for All, by Grace Carlson

• [Grace Carlson] (photo)

Chicago NAACP plans mass action on housing crisis

Rockaway pickets score victory against Jim Crow at bath-house

Notes from the News

Vol. XI No. 34, 25 August 1947, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

“Probe” will not halt price-gougers

• High living costs to stay, admits President Truman, by Art Preis
• “Investigating” the price conspiracy (cartoon)
• Profiteers grab a bigger slice

Atomic bomb threat hurled at USSR

Youngstown unionist in council race – steel local endorses own labor candidate

Marshall presses Wal [_sic!_] Street’s war aims at conference in Brazil, by Joseph Hansen

Dutch continue slaughter of Java freedom-fighters

• NMU urges boycott of ships loading Dutch war cargo

Teamster convention held after 7 years, by Della Rossa

An Editorial

• Demand U.S. recall arms from Dutch!

We’ll never forget martyrdom of Sacco and Vanzetti in 1927, by James P. Cannon

• Demonstration in New York (photo)
• Working class martyrs (photo)

The Elemental Urge to Socialism, by J.R. Johnson

• Lenin (drawing)

Our Program

In memory of Leon Trotsky – 1879–1940

• Why GPU killed founder of Fourth International, by Pablo
• Heroic life of a fighter for socialist revolution, by Rose Karsner
• Revolutionary leader’s great contributions to the world struggle for Negro emancipation, by J.R. Johnson
• Trotsky appraised in Fourth International

[Editorials]

• Policy of the ostrich
• Conference on the Ruhr
• The struggle in Greece
• $1,000,000,000 “gift”

“Why should they worry about being laid off? ...” (cartoon)

The inevitable decline of the British Empire, by Leon Trotsky

• Editorial note

Workers’ Bookshelf

• Stalin Must Have Peace, by Edgar Snow, reviewed by John Fredericks

Why Truman atom-bombed Hiroshima

Workers’ Forum

• Finds evicted family but no apartment, from Betty Vincent
• Mid-West camp wins another fan, from I.N.
• Opposes cooperatives and sliding wages, from Norman Johnstone
  Editor’s Note
• They forget those who die in poverty, from Joe
• Calls attention to error in editorial, from W.N.

A visit in jail with mother of 6, by Winifred Nelson

• “Learn to relax” (cartoon)

The Militant Army

• Los Angeles scores 141 subs in July

Where you can buy Fourth International

Milwaukee SWP enjoys annual holiday picnic, by C. Andrews

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• The appeal that must be made

Our Labor Day, 1947, message: Workers, build your own party! by the Editors

Seafarers strike ties up Isthmian shipping line, by R. Bell

”Hands off Indonesia” (photo)

I Hate to Pay the Light Bill, by Joseph Hansen

• [Joseph Hansen] (photo)

Howard Lerner scores Detroit park area lease

UAW mass pickets halt scabs at Clinton, Mich.

Wall Street’s “internationalism”, by Art Preis

50 Negroes injured in Chicago as race haters incite violence, by Robert L. Birchman

Wisconsin union urges Labor Party, by O. George

Notes From the News

Denver unions elect 4 City Charter revisers

Vol. XI No. 35, 1 September 1947, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

SWP to run presidential candidate

• SWP candidate is challenged by Democrats – would ban party from Philadelphia ballot

Political action is needed to battle price-profiteers, by the Editors

• Labor must develop own political power, AFL paper warns

Wall Street at work (cartoon), by Morgan

AFL seafarers win demand in Isthmian strike

”Liberal” front sought for Greek puppet govt., by Joseph Hansen

• Begin the pay off on loan to Greece

Clear path of war

Workers feel crushing squeeze between living costs, slave law

Java asks aid of U.S. labor

Be the payment high or low, by J.R. Johnson

Waterborne pickets (photo)

Trade Union Notes, by Art Preis

N. Y. longshoremen rebel against Ryan’s sellout, by Forbes Peters

Our Program

The shocking case of the S.S. America, by Art Sharon

We the people, by Marvel Scholl

Phila. election board plans anti-CP terror

A report from the Indo-China front

Wall Street delegation crushes opposition at Petropolis parley, by Joseph Hansen

Dutch Trotskyists urge Indonesia aid

• Fires and misses (photo)

Greetings sent to Natalia Trotsky

Crisis of British economy affects many countries

Latin American Notes

Manifesto outlines program for Spain

German Trotskyists publish new paper

[Editorials]

• Griffith’s call for war
• A question for PAC leaders
• “The Exodus 1947”
• Italian oil and American GIs

“You heard me ...” (cartoon), by Gray

The Stalinist deceit about a “third party”

Workers’ Bookshelf

• Oil Across the World, by Charles Morrow Wilson, reviewed by John G. Wright

“Per capita” incomes another boss lie, by Jeff Thorne

No tears for Bilbo, by Art Preis

• Bilbo (photo)

Workers’ Forum

• What is your opinion on running serials in The Militant? from Harry Frankel
  Editorial Note
• Accuse white oil man of raping Negro girl, from D.R.
• Surprised to see home town, name in Militant Army, from J.E.U.
• Count it out in cents to show how much it costs the workers, from H.C.
• Tells about Budenz in Auto-Lite strike, from Paul Kolinski
• Comes to defense of Treasury Dept., from Bart Lanier Stafford, III
• Sorry pension slash prevents contribution, from J.M.B.

Why some mothers can’t stay home to take care of children

• Working mother (drawing), by E.A.

The Militant Army

• Harry of Los Angeles got 10 subs in half hour

The magnificent fighter (poem), by Barrie Barnarde

• [Trotsky] (drawing), by Thal.

Pioneer Notes

Youth Activities

Wall Street role in UN angers Egyptian relief

Flint unionists honor memory of Leon Trotsky

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

San Francisco SWP opens new quarters

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• “That Agony Is Our Triumph”

Drive to free James Hickman gains wide support in Chicago

• James Hickman (photo)

Mass picket line forces Michigan boss to sign up

Scabs on parade (photo)

The Negro Struggle, by Albert Parker

• Something New Must Be Added

Union advocates real Labor Party not “third” party

3,000 Chicago families face Jim Crow eviction

Little Orphan Annie, by Mary Wood

Detroit hospital overcrowding hit by Howard Lerner

New price peak (graphic)

Relief-for-landlords law opens flood of rent hikes

Notes From the News

• Liberal hopeful
• Name not proper
• Who spurs hopes
• Labor haters strike gold
• Unionists flogged
• Score capital Jim Crow
• Brass multiplies

Vol. XI No. 36, 8 September 1947, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Labor-Negro slate wins in Dayton

• Cite SWP nominee for “contempt”
• N. Y. state CIO board rejects attack on American Labor Party

People demand price relief but Washington talks war, by Art Preis

• Tipping the scales (cartoon
• Fortune poll shows 35% find it harder to make a living

Popular anger mounts against big profiteers

Military pact signed at Petropolis ties Latin America to war machine

Legion ignores veterans’ needs in rabid war-mongers confab

Non-operating rail workers get 15½-cent wage increase

A mighty Labor Day rally in Chicago

Trade Union Notes, by Art Preis

Workers in the revolutionary party, by J.R. Johnson

Corporate profits after taxes (graph)

Our Program

CCE resolution passed at BLF&E convention

AFL organizer cites need for Labor Party

Wall Street presses drive for domination of Europe

Truman administration shuffles quislings in Greek government, by Joseph Hansen

Refugees in floating cages (photo)

UNSCOP plan sets trap for Jews, Arabs alike

English miners strike as mass unrest rises

International Notes

• Kettle and pot
• Terror in Peru
• Want justice for fascists
• Stalin ratifies
• Real initiativ
• One out of two

Dutch despots spurn second “cease fire” order in war on Java

Majority of veterans need cash now

[Editorials]

• Bill of rights imperiled
• Wallace’s tricky formula
• Prepare for the boom-bust
• The Ruhr agreement

“But with the housing shortage ...” (cartoon), by Gray

Hemlines go down as dress prices go up, by Jeanne Morgan

Workers’ Bookshelf

• Literature and Morality, by James T. Farrell, reviewed by Paul Schapiro

War crime trial calls U.S. trusts innocent lambs,

by George Lavan

Does boom-bust lie ahead? by John G. Wright

Home-builders victims of new lumber racket

Workers’ Forum

• Welcomes proposal to print book serially, from Subscriber
• A miner’s chanty (poem), by Karl Miner
• Recommends 3 books on Sacco-Vanzetti, from Norman Johnstone
• What life is like in a mining camp, from D.N.
• Calls for action now on wages and prices, from L.C.McW.
• “Another rat is dead and probably frying”, from &8220;Happy for a While”
• “Free enterprise” and the housing crisis, from Veteran

It was necessary to disregard the president’s solemn advice, by Albert Parker

The Militant Army

• Warm response pleases subgetters in St. Paul

Canadian Stalinists bow to “Red” ban on ships

Dunne appraises role of Trotsky in Milwaukee

Ship workers strike enters eleventh week

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• The long hot spell

Cops assault and jail pickets for protesting against Jim Crow

• After brutal assault (photo)

N. Y. test case scores victory over Jim Crow

Labor Party need stressed in Labor Party rally, by O. George

The Negro Struggle, by Albert Parker

• A visit with Sister Jones

Police attack strikers at Detroit UAW plant

Tomatoes at 2¢ a pound, by Joseph Hansen

Carlson scores realty interests on shortage

Detroit SWP backs Negro to City Council

Canadian pickets aid Indonesian fight

Notes from the News

• Civil liberties decline
• Only two indicted
• Just a little late
• Legion stand hit
• Railroad profits zoom up
• Covenants to court

Labor Day speeches stress political action

Vol. XI No. 37, 15 September 1947, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Democracy is key issue at UE parley, by C. Thomas

Needs of people by-passed in plan for special session, by the Editors

• Key to the situation (cartoon), by Morgan
• Food profiteers run wild in gouging the poor

Organized labor target of “Red” deportation cases

CIO leaders act to halt Jim Crow school strike

UN bankrupts to meet in 2nd General Assembly

Taft Slave Labor law upheld in court test

Plot to bar SWP from ballot brought to court in Philadelphia

Something new in the mines, by J.R. Johnson

The fable of the fox and the bureaucrat, by Albert Parker

Cooking up new angles (photo)

Pope’s speech steps up reactionary intervention in Italian political life, by George Lavan

How to become a “friend” of labor, by Art Preis

Our Program

Broker answers $64 questions

Laud Washington envoys for shift in Greek regime

• Marshall’s advice on shuffling puppets

Attlee government hit by strike of 60,000 coal mine workers

• British Stalinists lead strikebreaking pack

Look over new domain (photo)

New note in Kremlin propaganda designed to frighten Wall Street, by Joseph Hansen

See more gold where the last came from

International Notes

• Middle East Oil
• Allied Slave Labor
• Mexican building bust
• Colombian CP
• Venezuelanns and Rio
• Three brass balls

Peru decree ends civil liberties, by Tomas Robles

[Editorials]

• Democracy in the unions
• Free James Hickman!
• Let “exodus” victims come here
• A Brass Hat for president?

“My husband says the unions ...” (cartoon), by Gray

The mysterious case of the displaced island, by Joseph Hansen

Workers’ Bookshelf

• Struggle for Germany, by Russell Hill, reviewed by Evelyn Atwood
• Medical Care and the Plight of the Negro, by W. Montague Cobb, reviewed by Albert Parker

Monopolies devour lion’s share of national income

Will export sag puncture the boom? by John G. Wright

Workers’ Forum

• Political action Labor Day keynote, from P.O.
• Offers to submit short movie reviews, from L.B.
  Editorial Note
• Controls (poem), by Jarvis Dusenberry
• Opposes attempt to abolish parks, from C.W.
• “I wept over Bilbo”, from Reader
• Rising prices break up homes, from Mother of Three
• Likes articles on women’s problems, from Joy Connors
• A request for old songs and poems, from John G. Wright

Are you losing any benefits owed to you in Social Security? by Evelyn Atwood

The Militant Army

• Los Angeles subgetters list gains of sub drive

Shipyard industry gripped by new post-war crisis, by R. Leonard

Youth Activities

N.Y. weekend camp is highly successful

Meeting honors Trotsky memory in St. Paul, by Winifred Nelson

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• The lucky guy

Fact and figures prove how meat profiteers gouge people, by Norma Christensen

• Just one year ago ... (photo montage)

The Negro Struggle, by Albert Parker

• Southern and European DPs

Robert Williams blasts conspiracy against PR

• Robert Williams (photo)

Defense committee asks state to free Hickman

Six Who Chose Death, by Mary Wood

SWP election drive stepped up in Detroit

Great majority now favor unions

Labor’s independent campaign off to good start in Youngstown

Notes From the News

• Freedom from Fear
• He’s a civilian
• Vets’ compensation
• Trigger-happy cop
• Mournful hope

Vol. XI No. 38, 22 September 1947, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

”Eat less” say capitalist politicians, by Art Preis

• Build a Labor Party NOW! (cartoon), by Morgan

$16,000 Militant fund drive opens, by Rose Karsner

SWP again demands US recall arms

Packing workers advocate sliding scale of wages

NMU progressives fight for Democratic unionism, by C. Thomas

An Editorial

• Kick out the profiteers!

Lewis blocks surrender move by AFL council

SWP councilmanic candidate sentenced by Philadelphia judge

Which road for PAC – Dayton or Allentown? by Art Preis

Capitalist trusts, imperialist war – breeders of ravaging price inflation, by Arthur Burch

Another homeless family (photo)

Wallace’s tilt at trusts is just a demagogic pose, by Evelyn Atwood

• Wallace (cartoon)

Maritime convention to debate political action, foreign policy, by C. Thomas

Our Program

The rapid growth of the NAACP, by J.R. Johnson

U.S. delegates sharpen conflict with Moscow in UN Assembly

“We want to live” (photo)

Mass demonstrations sweep Italy as fascist danger alarms people, by Joseph Hansen

Resounding victory won by Grimethorpe miners

Flint unions asked to help covenant fight, by W.H. Yancey

International Notes

• Their master’s voice
• Chain reaction
• Stone U.S. consulate

Socialists in Poland face frame-up death

The spivs are in the City of London

[Editorials]

• Capitalism’s program: Eat less!
• Recall U.S. arms from Dutch!
• Santo and Obermeier cases
• Freedom train off the track

“Like Senator Taft said, ...” (cartoon), by Gray

Speculative orgy in coops as Kremlin’s “plan” flops, by John G. Wright

Workers’ Bookshelf

• Fascism in Action, reviewed by George Lavan

State Department again dodges on Indonesia

• From the Assistant Secretary of State, signed by Norman Armour
• Answer by SWP National Secretary, signed by James P. Cannon

How billionaire bankers pinch pennies nowadays, by Evelyn Atwood

Workers’ Forum

• Likes ideas of publishing serial, from P.B.
• Plugs Secret Life of Walter Mitty, from T.N.
• Keep on! (poem), by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• Reader asks for Marxist definitions, from A.W.
  Answer
• Finds the paper more readable now, from E.H.
• Apprecipates [sic] article by Albert Parker, from Belle Montague

An open letter to our readers, from Editorial Staff

The Militant Army

• Salled car a blessing to Los Angeles subgetter

Railroad strike ends but rules violations continue

Toledo labor and consumers plan fight on HCL

$16,000 Militant fund

Youth Activities

West Coast camp holds 9-day vacation school

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Take 11 children from disabled vet, wife, by Winifred Nelson

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• We cannot flee to freedom

Hickman needs you help, says novelist after interview in jail, by Willard Motley

• Chicago Hickman defense rally slated Sept. 28
• Before disaster struck (photo)

The Negro Struggle, by Albert Parker

• Along the Freedom Train Route

Trainor enters campaign for Boston school body

Good vs. Bad microbes, by Grace Carlson

Street rallies liven Detroit SWP drive

• Howard Lerner (photo)

Notes From the News

• Liberal double talk
• Auto tragedy
• Squeezed out
• Witch hunt speeded
• Safely broken laws
• Gary school strike over
• Speed-up rejected
• Worthy successor
• Total whitewash
• American standard of living

New York candidate calls for expropriation of food trusts

Vol. XI No. 39, 29 September 1947, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

An Editorial

• What a workers and farmers government would do about prices

Cost-of-living bonus demand is answer to rising prices, by Art Preis

• The giant-killer (cartoon), by Morgan
• Profits, not wage costs, boost prices

NLBR [_sic_] opens offensive to enforce slave law

Ball-bearing trust displays contempt for government suit

Rubber unionists to spurn NRLB [_sic_], by Joseph Andrews

Murray or Lewis for president in 1948, auto local urges

Ohio PAC groups run independent candidates

Lewis – his strength and his weakness, by Art Preis

• [John L. Lewis] (photo)

Trade Union Notes, by Art Preis

Lower wages sought by Senator (Eat Less) Taft, by Arthur Burch

• Taft (cartoon)

”Freedom Train” document (photo)

L.A. unionists arrested for picketing Taft, by Al Lynn

Our Program

One hundred years of The Communist Manifesto, by J.R. Johnson

Wall Street drive for new war touches off bitter fight in UN, by Joseph Hansen

• General Marshall (photo)

South African vets rap Franco (photo)

Coming – answers to your questions on England, by John G. Wright

Second anniversary of Viet Nam govt. hailed by SWP

International Notes

• Resist Allied destruction
• “Plot” in Czechoslovakia
• Next war’s battlefieldy
• Win 40-hour week

Ecuador palace revolt topples Ibarra regime, by J. Gomez

Unions in So. Africa face repressive law

Madras strike beaten after 100-day battle

Ferment in the Solomons

[Editorials]

• When the thieves fall out
• Tilting Wall Street’s bottle
• Join the SWP
• Another Wallace novelty

“Don’t those Russians know ...” (cartoon), by Gray

Wall St. expects a bust; so do all big profiteers, by John G. Wright

Workers’ Bookshelf

• History of the Labor Movement in the United States, by Philip S. Foner, reviewed by John Hudson

Profits – not wages – boost building costs

The truth about the LaGuardia record, by George Lavan

Workers’ Forum

• This veteran held out longer, from Veteran
• Atomic bomb makes Labor Party urgent, from L.B. Courts
• Martin’s eulogy on Freedom Train, from Norman Johnstone
• Dutch friend seeks correspondent, from M.P.
  Ed. Note
• Daily Mirror tip arouses readers’ ire, from Indignant
• Isn’t it time for a change here too? from A.F.C.

Militant fund drive begun by branches, by Rose Karsner

• Quotas for the Militant fund

The Militant Army

• St. Paul nets 15 subs in Sunday mobilization

Another letter to our readers, from Rose Karsner

West Coast camp ends successful vacation school

Pioneer Notes

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• The furnaces and the men

Flint UAW locals set up own grocery store to fight HCL, by Jerry Kirk

Detroit cops help scabs (photo)

Trainor opens Boston campaign on October 4

The Negro Struggle, by William E. Bohannan

• Your verdict on James Hickman

Lerner-for-mayor drive gains speed in Detroit

SWP labor secretary hits deportation drive as anti-union assault

• Vincent R. Dunne (photo)

Li’l Abner gagged, by George Lavan

Protest meeting held in Phila.

SWP wins right to use name on New York ballot

Notes From the News

• Same difference?
• Jim Crow ballots
• Lack of incentive
• Strange camp
• Land of free?

Food prices at all-time high (cartoon strip)

Vol. XI No. 40, October 6, 1947, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Price-gougers fear new wage drive

• The man for the job

Hickman’s freedom sought in Chicago

• Harold Russell hits Hickman case causes

Look who’s talking (cartoon), by Morgan

AFL group demands labor party

CP domination fought at CIO maritime convention

• Joseph Curran

A gold-dusted omelet

Members of Johnson Group resign from WP and join SWP, by William F. Warde

Truman echoes Taft “eat less” program

Local groups map new road for PAC-CIO

Can Democratic Party be reformed? by Art Preis

Bethlehem Steel leads opposition to settling of shipyard strike, by Bob Lowell

Food price gamblers lay stakes on empty cupboard, by Arne Swaback

Railway Express walkout (photo)

N.Y. Express pickets defy intimidation

Our Program

UE Stalinists seek to ban all opposition groups

Capitalist politics from the inside, by J.R. Johnson

Marshall Plan offers no hope to starving people of Europe

• What the Marshall Plan proposes to meet Europe’s postwar crisis

Rome steel workers strike (photo)

Did British workers gain by voting Labor ticket? by John G. Wright

40,000 down tools to protest speed-up in Polish textile mills

Tito calls on Stalinists to form people’s fronts

[Editorials]

• Fruit of PAC’s false policy
• Glaring omission
• Defend the Polish socialists
• UN spot commercials

“Wouldn’t help the food crisis ...” (cartoon), by Gray

Profiteers defended in Congress price “probe”

Workers’ Bookshelf

• Land of Plenty, by Walter Dorwin Teague, reviewed by Joseph Hansen

Senators slurp soup as school kids go without

SWP resolution on Johnson-Forest Group

Apply for membership in SWP

Workers’ Forum

• We are hoping for Hickman’s acquittal, from Mr. & Mrs. R.M.
• British fascists getting bolder, from Bernard Hanison
• Cloud of doubt about revolutionary victory, from Bart Lanier Stafford, III
  Ed. Note
• Friends abroad read the Militant avidly, from A Reader
• The European Jew (poem), by Giralda Forbes

Branches report good response to Militant fund drive, by Rose Karsner

• Quotas for the Militant fund
• A reader answers our open letter

The Militant Army

• Flint swings into action on fall sub campaign

Court hearing held on SWP, WP right to Philadelphia ballot

Cleveland HCL probe achieves nothing, by Almeda Kingsley

New York SWP urges workers to register

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• Will you sleep so well?

Detroit motorcade asks action on rent control and evictions

• Spirited Detroit mayor campaign moves to finish

Two baskets tell story (photo)

The Negro Struggle, by Albert Parker

• A crucial period ahead

Williams-for-Senate appeal issued in N.Y.

SWP candidate in San Francisco race

We Want Meat! by Grace Carlson

Many lessons n [_sic_] Jackie Robinson’s story, by George Lavan

Notes from the News

• Fitting choice
• Freedom of press
• Our way of life
• Child labor
• Doubling up
• Parochial schools
• “Freedom Train”
• Chicken coop eviction
• Play banned

Vol. XI No. 41, 13 October 1947, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

The fight inside the auto union, by the Editors

Wall St. beats war drums over Stalin’s new “bureau”, by Joseph Hansen

UAW urged to call for Labor Party

Made to measure by NAM (cartoon), by Morgan

Labor candidates show strength in Cleveland

Impressive gains by Trotskyists in Ceylon

Packing local votes to open fight for living-cost bonus

Hunger for workers, more for profiteers

AFL and CIO face crucial issue in Taft Act, by Art Preis

Hirohito visit is barred by union, from CIO News

NMU upholds union democracy in “outside influence” debate, by C. Thomas

Union combats high prices (photo)

Priests’ control over the ACTU exposed by Detroit Labor Party

Our Program

Can the Democratic Party be reformed Part 2, by Art Preis

• The Roosevelt myth

How Stalin wrecked Comintern built by Lenin and Trotsky

• Pioneer pamphlet on end of Comintern timely reading now

Resurrection of “People’s Front” is not a move toward revolution, by Joseph Hansen

• Stalin (cartoon)

Reich survivors honor comrades (photo)

What labor in Britain expected; what it got, by John G. Wright

The social ties in the factory, by J.R. Johnson

Inside a concentration camp in Greece, by A Trotskyist Exile

[Editorials]

• Resist slave labor law
• Another tax steal planned
• How about opening the books?
• A question for CP members

“Quick, doctor ...” (cartoon), by Gray

Forrestal lies about cause of modern war, by Arthur Burch

Workers’ Bookshelf

• Land of Plenty, by Walter Dorwin Teague, reviewed by Joseph Hansen

Why NAACP membership drive lags, by J. Blake

Workers’ Forum

• Truth, love, honor bartered over radio, from M.L.
• Warehouse workers fight high prices, from A Warehouse Worker
• Conditions (poem), by Jarvis Dusenbery
• Government siphons off old age fund, from Joe
• Recalls tragic death of Sanders family, from S. Taylor
• Reading The Militant helps school lessons, from H.C.

Fifteen percent mark reached in drive to finance Militant, by Rose Karsner

• Militant fund scoreboard

The Militant Army

• “Going to keep plugging” say Newark subgetters

Buffalo labor school opening fall sessions

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

N. Y. Marxist school opens

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• The experiment

Philadelphia SWP fights against corrupt boss political machines

• Irene LeCompte – a lifelong fighter for labor’s rights
• How to vote for Irene LeCompte in 7th District
• Philadelphia election program of Socialist Workers Party

Discussing Hickman case (photo)

The Negro Struggle, by Albert Parker

• Destruction or emancipation

Liberal labor figures come to aid of Hickman

Trainor speaks over the radio

Two generals whitewash another, by George Lavan

Notes from the News

• Book on Wallace
• Terrible crime
• Died in action
• Surprise!
• Hosiery workers
• “Socialist mayor”
• Step forward
• Still vindictive

Sunday forum season opened in Twin Cities

Vol. XI No. 42, 20 October 1947, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

AFL sets up own political league

CIO appeals for united labor action

• Urges joint battle in arena of politics, by Farrell Dobbs
• Right down the alley (cartoon), by Morgan

Youngstown PAC backs Ausnehmer

Administration opens new drive to boost rents

Don’t debase yourselves, Lewis tells AFL on “yellow-dog” oaths, by Art Preis

N.J. committee formed to aid Hickman defense

4th International exposes “Comintern revival” fraud

Arrested because he cut his prices

”Eat less” drive won’t lower prices

French Trotskyists in municipal voting

Practical steps in building the Labor Party, by the Political Committee of the Socialist Workers Party

NMU convention further loosens Stalinist machine’s paralyzing grip, by C. Thomas

Victim of shipyard scabs (photo)

Our Program

Who controls the Democratic Party? by Art Preis

The Social Thinking of the Workers, by J.R. Johnson

The real meaning of Belgrade “bureau” set up by the Kremlin, by the Political Committee of the Socialist Workers Party

Italian kids protest hunger (photo)

Why Laborite ministers follow imperialist policy, by John G. Wright

Ceylon elections showed masses moving leftward, by K. Tilak

Bolivian gov’t terror hits labor movement, by J. Gomez

British fascists are active again

[Editorials]

• Lewis and the Taft Act fight
• Democrats and Republicans beaten in Norwalk
• Stalinists strikebreaking under the Belgrade bureau
• We are against partition in Palestine

Meatless Tuesday (cartoon), by JM

Railroad labor paper peddles prize absurdity, by Joseph Hansen

Begining [_sic_] next week – story of Mother Jones

• Mother Jones (photo)

Gallup Poll reveals war disillusionment growing

Voice of Local 212 rips new labor board

Workers’ Bookshelf

• Jadie Greenway, by I.S. Young, reviewed by Charles Corsten

Workers’ Forum

• Labor Party action needed for housing, from Joe
• Bill of Rights doesn’t apply in 30 states, from E.C.
• Sorry she can’t help on the fund, from Mrs. P.S.
• Los Angeles mothers win school victory, from June Johnson

Steady pace kept by branches in collection of Militant fund, by Rose Karsner

• Scoreboard for $15,000 Militant fund

The Militant Army

• New York local sells 59 new subs in Harlem

Two rail unions on the road to merger, by James Montgomery

Herald Tribune gives readers the low down on The Militant

Dunne analyzes Truman’s “plan” at Twin City Sunday forum

Trainor scores texts used in Boston schools

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

No Truman-Burgers for Me! by Grace Carlson

4,500 ballots cast for Lerner in Detroit mayoralty primaries

• Howard Lerner (photo)

Three arrested for picketing fascist meeting

• Fascist picketed (photo)

The Negro Struggle, by Lois Saunders

• Authorities display hatred

Chicago fire disaster spurs public drive to enforce safety laws

Asks nation-wide aid for Hickman defense

Report from Never-Never Land, by Joseph Andrews

Barbaria is only labor man in mayoralty race

• Biography of Barbaria, Bay City SWP nominee
• Frank Barbaria (photo)

Notes From the News

• Circulation of weeklies
• 5% for Barbaria
• Deportation delirium
• Hates FEPC
• Court okays
• Stalinists again “betrayed”
• For critics
• Voluntary coercion
• Congress and FEPC

Vol. XI No. 43, 27 October 1947, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Fight the yellow-dog oaths! by the Editors

CIO & AFL conventions show need for political action

• AFL sets up own version of PAC, by Art Preis
  John L. Lewis (photo)
• CIO opens PAC drive for 1948, by Farrell Dobbs
• Hey – you left out the motor! (cartoon), by Morgan

AFL organizer says now is time for Labor Party

N.Y. building trades unions issue demands for escalator clause, by George Lavan

Truman pie – 1 crust for the price of 2, by Jeff Thorne

Factional heat grows fierce as convention of UAW nears

U.S. aids advance of French reaction

Internal conflicts at CIO convention, by Farrell Dobbs

• Murray greets militarist (photo)

Sidelights from Boston conclave

Rank-and-file discontent breaks to surface at CIO convention

• The gangster methods of Red-baiters

Our Program

What causes riots in India? by M. Naidu

Elections in Italy and France reveal rising danger of fascism in Europe, by Joseph Hansen

• De Gaulle (photo)

Byrnes’ new book part of Wall Street’s drive against Soviet Union

• Byrnes (photo)

Strikers are arrested in Canada (photo)

Calls for Trotskyist Party in Japan

Chile government launches all-out anti-labor drive

Europe goes hungry as U.S. decides to scrap German plants

Was it wrong for British workers to elect Attlee? by John G. Wright

• RCP leads the fight against the fascists

The class struggle in Argentine analyzed

I want a deal, admits Stalin

PCI co-operates with French socialist youth

{Editorials]

• Yes – it’s time for some serious thinking
• Witch hunt in Latin America
• Truman’s upside-down “police state”
• Mission to Moscow – then and now

The real criminals (cartoon), by M.

The autobiography of Mother Jones – Installment I

• [Mother Jones] (photo)

Lewis’s speech against the “yellow-dog” oath

Workers’ Bookshelf

• Star-spangled Mikado, by Frank Kelly & Cornelius Ryan, reviewed by George Lavan

Urges Labor Party to win FEPC law

Workers’ Forum

• Holds that Stafford’s opinion on abilities of workers is false, from Jack Meade
• tells Stafford about relation of “experts” to socialist movement, from Daniel Leroy
• reader’s ire aroused over Stafford’s views, from Indignant
• Stafford letter brings “old traps” to mind, from Jarvis Dusenbery

Nineteen years of the Militant, by Rose Karsner

• Scoreboard for $15,000 Militant fund

The Militant Army

• Branch mobilizations boost subs and bundles

Internal weaknesses slow membership drive of NAACP, by J. Blake

French longshoremen help Indo-Chinese

Swabeck’s article in FI is a must for unionists

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• What the future holds

4 more CIO councils support Hickman; trial begins Nov. 5

Sitdown strike in New York (photo)

The Negro Struggle, by George Clarke

• Jackie Robinson and Bob Williams

New Yorkers urged by SWP candidate to keep PR voting, by Robert Williams

• [Robert Williams] (photo)
• Hits brutality against Negroes by New York cops
• How to vote for SWP in New York

Burch speaks in Newark on Stalin’s new “bureau”

Demand action on Tresca murder case

• Carlo Tresca (photo)

Planned ignorance, by Grace Carlson

Chicago tenants fight rent-gouge practices

Trainor shows Boston youth are miseducated

Notes From the News

• Inflation answer
• Terminal leave pay
• Our protectors
• Capitalist consistency
• Where your money goes
• Unity in action
• Strip teasers

Vol. XI No. 44, 3 November 1947, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Congress special session won’t halt high prices or aid hungry Europeans, by Art Preis

• The chief client for “aid” (cartoon)
• ”Fortune” poll shows wide fear of future

An Editorial

• A labor program for Congress

Vigilantes break up New Jersey meeting of Communist Party

More wages a “must” states AFL’s survey

Landlords dominate local rent boards

De Gaulle threat mounts in France, by Joseph Hansen

• De Gaulle (photo)

Hickman defense getting nation-wide support

”Dangerous thoughts” in Hollywood probed by Red-baiting witch-hunters, by George Lavan

UAW Bell local urges progressive program

Profits, after taxes, of 5 food chain stores (graphic)

Truman issues storm warning on “boom-bust” in radio talk

Our Program

Labor candidate (photo)

Second series of N.Y. school to open on Nov. 17

Trusts seek L.A. transit control

Chicago opens forum series Nov. 23; “Labor’s march to power”

30 years after Russian Revolution – what remains for the great Bolshevik conquest under Lenin and Trotsky, by Joseph Hansen

• Lenon & Trotsky (photo of mural)
• Trotsky (photo)
• Lenin (photo)

Lenin had a “magic weapon”, by J.R. Johnson

[Editorials]

• Campaign NOW for labor candidates
• Save the factories in Germany
• What does Red-baiting lead to?
• Value of Roosevelt’s promises

High prices (cartoon), by Fred Wright

The autobiography of Mother Jones – Installment 2

Workers’ Bookshelf

• Critics and Crusaders, by Charles A. Madison, reviewed by John Hudson

Will Labor Party give same results here as in Britain? by John G. Wright

Workers’ Forum

• No funds for relief but plenty for war, from Joe
• What the revolution will offer “experts”, from D.P.
• Another sellout by a “friend of labor” in Cleveland, from M.L.
• What did we gain from imperialist war? from P.F.

Militant readers urged to help celebrate 19th anniversary, by Rose Karsner

• Scoreboard for $15,000 Militant fund

The Militant Army

• At 75, still gets around to sell plenty of subs

How NAACP can succeed in drive to make-it-a-million, by Jean Blake

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Princess Elizabeth’s Wedding, by Mary Wood

UN is given NAACP petition protesting Negro oppression

Organized against long skirts (photo)

Good vote seen for Barbaria in San Francisco

• Frank A. Barbaria (photo)

The Negro Struggle, by George Clarke

• Negroes and the Special Session

Labor needs its own party, says Trainor

• L.P. Trainor (photo)

Toward mental health, by Grace Carlson

Fight to save PR is vital in New York, by Robert Williams

• Robert Williams (photo)
• How to vote for SWP in New York

Notes From the News

• “Only way for labor”
• That’s different
• Mine leader dead
• Meat still higher
• Watch your tongue
• For united action
• Not a joke
• Travesty
• Sounds worthwhile
• Next attack

Vol. XI No. 45, 10 November 1947, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Big issues face UAW convention

American’s financial rules unmasked in U.S. indictment, by Art Preis

Hickman’s trial opens in Chicago

• Hickman defense is backed by 750,000
• James Hickman (photo)

Aid to the “hungry” (cartoon), by Morgan

Ausnehmer polls 20% vote in 4-way contest

An Editorial

• The de Gaulle threat

Auto delegates to debate Taft oath

How Youngstown CIO took its long step toward independent action in politics

Capitalism in war and peace (cartoon)

Stalinist machine loses control at Minnesota CIO convention, by V.R. Dunne

• V.R. Dunne

Our Program

Terbovich to speak at Twin City forum

Happy birthday Comrade Soderberg!

Christmas shoppers invited to bazaar

The Militant celebrates its 19 years of struggle, by James P. Cannon

• (Photo montage)
• James P. Cannon (photo)

With The Militant on the picket lines, by Art Preis

Landmarks in our fight for a better world, by Evelyn Atwood

• Militant front cover, 15 August 1945

Great obstacles Militant faced in 19 year fight, by Joseph Hansen

How “Militant” began battle for socialism, by George Lavan

• Our proud record in the Negro struggle

[Editorials]

• Labor cannot exist half slave and half free
• Truman Committee Report on Civil Right [sic]
• British Labor Party suffers setback
• Open the books of the landlords

The autobiography of Mother Jones – Installment 3

• [Mother Jones] (photo)

Evicted family of twelve move into vacant barn, by Winifred Nelson

• Housing – Truman style (photo)

Stalinists keep stranglehold on Minnesota farmers union, by Joe Simpson

Overpaid politicians and minimum wage

Workers’ Forum

• Reactionary nature of technocracy, inc., from Charles Grant
• Reader fed up with Truman Pie, from Mrs. Peter G.
• Lerner votes “vanish” in Detroit election, from Rose Young
• Don’t need managers, says Texas worker in chemical plant, from Bob Dallas
• Another worker answers Stafford, from Donald W. McKinnon

Competition in SWP grows keener in fund drive, by Rose Karsner

• Scoreboard for $15,000 Militant fund

The Military Army

• Subgetter’s devotion stirs wide enthusiasm

New York coalition politics brings PR defeat

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Carlson speaks at St. Paul public forum

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• Homecoming of the war dead

N.Y. building unions reaffirm escalator wage clause demand

• Basic commodities (graphic)

Cops aid company (photo)

Those who did not die in vain, by Evelyn Atwood

Philadelphia PCA rally disrupted by hoodlums, by C. Blake

Roused Chicago tenants fight 15% rent gouge

Elsa Maxwell and Karl Marx, by Ben Stone

Escalator clause pays off at Michigan Tank

Sample of labor’s “rights” under Taft-Hartley Act

Laxity in Tresca murder inquiry hit by committee

Rocking the cradle – Jim Crow style

Notes From the News

• PCA? What’s that?
• The house I live in
• Champion of truth
• Nurses kill Jim Crow

Vol. XI No. 46, 17 November 1947, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Red-baiters sweep UAW convention, by Art Preis

• Bulletin

Labor needs to check up on Congress, by Farrell Dobbs

Chicago Tribune attacks Carlson for Nov. 7 talk

The machine that never pays off (cartoon), by Morgan

Trial of James Hickman nears climax in Chicago

Greek puppet gov’t outlaws free press

Reutherite faction gives up struggle on yellow-dog oath

FBI and hoodlums spur red hysteria

• Part of the mob ... (photo

UAW opposition fights against Taft-Hartley Act

• UAW convention to be discussed in Newark

Truman in a quandary (photo)

Our Program

Jobless insurance millions returned to the employers

How can USA be converted into land of plenty?

• Confidence in capitalism justified, Walter Dorwin Teague maintains
• Only revolutionary socialism can open the road to better world, by Joseph Hansen

How long Latin American miners must toil to earn their clothing

French cops charge strikers (photo)

Fined for spreading Marxist literature

[Editorials]

• The need for a Congress of labor
• Wall Street cracks the whip in Chile
• Growing assault on civil liberties
• Amnesty for the CO’s by Christmas

Rip! (cartoon), by Fred Wright

The autobiography of Mother Jones – Installment 4

Bankrupt policy continued in French CP’s new turn, by T.J. Peters

Harriman and the housing situation

Workers’ Forum

• The real murderer isn’t James Hickman, from Josephine Sweeney
• Calls swamp couple in $13 a week offer, from M.W.
• Advocates marriage for church hierarchs, from Anna K. Sager
• Worked for 45 years and still has no savings for old age, from Joe
• Holds it is possible to capture machine of Democratic Party, from Samuel B. Shapiro

Militant fund at halfway mark with less then [_sic_] a month to go, by Rose Karsner

• Scoreboard for $15,000 Militant fund

The Militant Army

• Sub drives gain ground and street sales rise

German workers resist dismantling of factories

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Twin City forum topic: “Menace of fascism”

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• Revolution is a natural thing

Elections this year emphasize need for Labor Party in 1948

4,850 votes cast for Trainor in Boston elections

• L.P. Trainor (photo)

Condemned to eviction (photo)

Careful with those adjectives! by Albert Parker

PR defeat followed by drive to raise 5¢ fare, by George Clarke

Reactions to an SWP campaign, by Frank Barbaria

Protest trend in New Haven vote, by F. Nelson

Encouraging vote for San Francisco SWP

Notes From the News

• Support Hickman
• Anything but an independent
• Marbles in mouth
• But will they vote?
• Anything goes
• Hit anti-red hysteria
• Ship strike ended
• Poll taxers helped
• No surprise
• Business picking up
• Favor discrimination

Vol. XI No. 47, 24 November 1947, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Washington offers no price relief

Reuther out to crush all opposition, by Art Preis

• B.J. Thomas (photo)

Mass upsurge rocks France, Italy on eve of “Big Four” conference

Thanksgiving dinner – 1947 style (cartoon), by Morgan

Hickman jury disagrees new trial set for Jan. 5

• James Hickman (photo)

Vigilantes break up C.P. gathering in Bridgeport

• Vigilantes threaten Los Angeles meeting

Steel union, trainmen reject Taft Act oath

U.S. officers to direct Greek troops

New UAW officers (photo)

Today’s social crisis will bring political explosion, by Farrell Dobbs

Our Program

War hysteria rises on eve of London conference, by Joseph Hansen

• Marshall (photo)
• Bevin (photo)
• Molotov (photo)

Labor movement in Japan on the rise, by Ria Stone

Strike wave forces collapse of Ramadier regime

Italy shaken by nation-wide demonstrations, by Joseph Hansen

• De Gasperi (cartoon)

Correction

Noblesse oblige

[Editorials]

• Preparing for the 1948 elections
• Thanksgiving Day
• Some Photographs From Greece
• Continue Hickman’s Defense

Hmmm! (cartoon), by Fred Wright

The autobiography of Mother Jones – Installment 5

Workers’ Bookshelf

• Lonely Crusade, by Chester Himes, reviewed by Martin Harvey
• The Wayward Bus, by John Steinbeck, reviewed by Norma Christensen

Victor Serge dies

Workers’ Forum

• After 40 years holds it’s time for labor to build own party, from L.B.C.
• To the Russian workers (poem), by Jack Hughes
• Three who taught me why we must fight for a socialist world, from Lee Ryan
• suggests cartoonist portray dummies on Wall Street’s knee, from D.W.M.
• thinks rich men will rule under socialism, from A Reader

SWP branches confident of fulfilling Militant fund goal, by Rose Karsner

• Scoreboard for $15,000 Militant Fund

The Militant Army

• Militant boosters tell how they obtains subs

Small vote for SWP in New York

19th anniversary of The Militant celebrated in Twin Cities SWP

Warm response to Militant affair of Newark SWP

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

N. Y. Marxist school begins its fall series

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• A kid named Frankie

Brass Hat corruption is bared in Senate probe of Gen. Meyers, by George Lavan

Cost-of-living bonus sought by UAW militants

Steel workers in business (photo)

The Negro Struggle, by Albert Parker

• How to use the Truman Report

UAW Convention Sidelights, by Art Preis

Strike vote by 3 railroad unions

Congress geared for drive on building trades unions, by Raymond Rice

Notes From the News

• Postponed?
• Censored
• Against fee gouge
• Got Hitler medal
• Southern justice
• Fights restrictive covenants

Vol. XI No. 48, 1 December 1947, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Special session won’t act on prices

• Longer hours, shorter pay urged by Eccles

Strikes show French workers’ might, by Joseph Hansen

Real wages near 1939 low levels

The men on horseback (cartoon), by Morgan

Fake independence bill precipitates crisis in Ceylon, by K. Mukerji

Striking Chicago printers spearhead Taft Act fight

Army brass covered up Meyers for years, now forced to act, by George Lavan

Labor political action – the bosses’ biggest fear, by Art Preis

Labor Party issue hotly debated by California CIO, by J. Blake

Meter’s mansion (photo)

Stalinophobia and UAW convention, by George Breitman

• Big Business press hails Reuther control of UAW

Vigilantes attack Democrat meeting in Los Angeles, by Dave Dreiser

Our Program

Santa Monica Sears picketed by NAACP, by Al Lynn

C.O. amnesty petition signed by 480 citizens

Against the dismantling of the plants in Germany! by the International Secretariat of the Fourth International

• German Trotskyists call for solidarity against dismantling 682 German plants
• What Germany can expect from U.S. imperialists and the Kremlin, by Ernest Germain

London cops attack strike leader (photo)

”I saw the new French Stalinist line in action”, by Jack Daniels

• Left wing formed in French Socialist Party
• French PCI Congress debates vital issues

Chiang stuffs ballot boxes Tammany style

International Notes

Danish group asks to join 4th International

[Editorials]

• Thought control in Hollywood
• Brass Hat “explanation” on Meyers
• The “Freedom Train” down South
• Stalinists are always “betrayed”

Republican big wigs map strategy (photo)

The autobiography of Mother Jones

Workers’ Bookshelf

• The Hidden Damage, by James Stern, reviewed by Paul Schapiro

Congressmen at Work

• Tuning up the war drums

Workers’ Forum

• Birthday greetings from Greek comrades, from G. Dalas
• Explains to Shapira why “Trojan Horse” theory won’t work, from Harold Gold
• Cites EPIC failure to capture machine of Democratic Party, from D. Swenson
• Father of nine kills self when job ends, from Josephine Joyce
• Thinks 500 lb. cake is too extravagant for times like now, from Joe

Branches step up collections to meet goal on Militant fund, by Rose Karsner

• Scoreboard for $15,000 Militant fund

The Militant Army

• Groundwork laid at co-op for large newsstand sales

New Militant office opened in Watts, L.A., by Ed Smith

Building trades unions sign pre-fabs contract, by Raymond Rice

Good program featured at Milwaukee affair

New York SWP Militant affair features skit

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

San Francisco ACEWR to hold Xmas bazaar

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• A royal wedding

Hickman’s vindication at trial spurs broader defense drive

• Hickman committee set up in California

Arrest CIO pickets in Chicago (photo)

The Negro Struggle, by Albert Parker

• The Supreme Court and covenants

Chicago tenants fight against rent increases

Shock treatment, by Grace Carlson

How they staged the first big red scare, by George Lavan

Notes from the News

• Your pal
• Red-baiting paytriot
• Front folds
• Church ban
• Fitting background
• Unity delayed
• Almost 100%
• Sound reasons
• Standards dropping

Vol. XI No. 49, 8 December 1947, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

The new situation in the unions, by James P. Cannon

• [James P. Cannon] (photo)

Fascist threat mounts as crisis grips France

• A fight to the finish (cartoon), by Morgan

Dairy strikers win cost-of-living bonus in Toledo

Cold War too cool for Walter Lippman

Palestine partition incites Arabs against the Jews, by Irving Dale

NLRB tightens slave law noose around organized labor’s throat

CIO will seek wage raises, leaders say

Toronto Trotskyists run candidates

Sliding wage scale – fighting slogan of millions, by Art Preis

Wall Street moves pawns on chessboard of Europe

Real issue in France and Italy is who shall run the country? by Joseph Hansen

• No school in Paris (photo)
• General de Gaulle (photo)

French Trotskyists call for workers government, by Ria Stone

• Trotsky’s book Whither France gives key to situation of today, by Evelyn Atwood

International Notes

Big Four spokesmen jockey for position in next war

Hint U.S. troops to stay in Italy

[Editorials]

• ”Austerity” program faces American people
• Christmas spirit, capitalist style
• Sealed train in Indonesia
• Miners tell gov’t “hands off!”

“So what if you did give ...“ (cartoon), by Gray

The autobiography of Mother Jones

The role of the Stalinists in the CIO auto workers, by Art Preis

Atomic scientists and the warmakers, by John G. Wright

Workers’ Forum

• “Good reading in the paper”, from Mrs. A. Cortez
• Objects to printing Mother Jones serial, from D.L.
  Ed. Note
• Technocrat pamphlet lauding the fascists, from Don Barry
• Dislikes review of Steinbeck book, from Norman Johnstone
  Ed. Note
• The greedy must have fat profits, from H.G.

$15,000 Militant fund drive draws to a successful finish, by Rose Karsner

• Scoreboard for $15,000 Militant fund

The Militant Army

• Readers take extra copies for their fellow workers

The Marshall Plan and the American seamen

Militant affair best ever held in San Francisco

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• The case of Marty Kernahan

Labor fakers boost capitalist politicians for election in 1948

Truman pardons another crooked boss politican [_sic_]

Increase in profits, after taxes, 50 companies, 1946–47 (graphic)

The Negro Struggle, by Albert Parker

• Here lies the NNC

Conscription law will be pushed in January

Big bargains offered at N.Y. bazaar

Medical fraud! by Grace Carlson

How 1919–21 red scare smashed labor, by George Lavan

Notes From the News

• Starvation’s bright side
• Dent in Jim Crow
• “Friend of labor”
• Frenzied finance

Vol. XI No. 50, 15 December 1947, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

NLRB threatens rights of millions

• Lays down T-H law to NLRB employees

Justice Dept. issues political blacklist, by Art Preis

• Tom Clark (photo)

Strike struggle in France knifed by Stalinist leaders, by Joseph Hansen

• Trotskyists arrested

Decorating the constitution (cartoon), by Morgan

”Death-to-strikers” law passed by Greek regime

Protest throttling of press in Greece

NAM launches drive to end overtime pay

New upsurge of wage struggles is coming

What trade unions leaders are doing about the Taft Act, by Art Preis

Shape of things to come (photo)

CIO and AFL peddlers of Wall Street’s plans, by Arthur Burch

• James Carey (photo)

4,000 scramble for 1,000 jobs in New York

Who are the subversives?

Our Program

Billionaire Ford pays a visit to Reuther

Nation-wide strike wave rocks capitalist France

• Head of French capitalist gov’t (photo)
• Leon Jouhaux

Bitter conflict flares over Palestine division, by I. Dale

International Notes

A page from Trotsky’s works, by Evelyn Atwood

[Editorials]

• The SWP is loyal to the working class
• Lovett gives the tip off
• French workers demand sliding scale
• Cheers from Taft law supporters

“For heaven’s sake ...” (cartoon), by Gray

The autobiography of Mother Jones

Workers’ Bookshelf

• The Stoic, by Theodor Dreiser, reviewed by Norman Johnston

Congressmen at Work

• The “Aid-Europe” debate

Workers’ Forum

• Who are the real “subversives” in U.S.? from George R. Stryker
• The troubles of a government worker, from “Gag and Padlock”
• Criticizes UAW convention article, from E.S.
• Indignant about the nature of U.S. “relief”, from Joe

Militant fund goes to $16,000, exceeds quota before deadline, by Rose Karsner

• Scoreboard for $15,000 Militant fund

The Militant Army

• Direct subs and renewals supplement branch sales

Need for independent candidates debated at Connecticut CIO parley, by Alvin Royce

SWP denounces Tammany Hall’s move against CP

U.S. oil rationing and Marshall Plan, by John Fredericks

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Red-baiters run wild at CIO state convention in New Jersey

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• The class

Unions with 15 millions members set up political action groups

CIO wage parley (photo)

The Negro Struggle

• Politics and the ‘48 elections, by Albert Parker

Hickman defense chairman outlines committee’s plans

Mass protest movement is only way to defeat fare rise in N.Y., by George Clarke

A silk hat for Santa, by Mary Wood

Red scare couldn’t stop formation of CIO, by George Lavan

Notes from the News

• Housing sabotaged
• Right hand, left hand
• Negro sheriff ousted
• A million each
• Progressive back
• Equality of sacrifice
• Evictions

Vol. XI No. 51, 22 December 1947, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Hickman is saved; free on probation

• James Hickman (photo)
• Committee hails Hickman victory
• Detroit unions backed Hickman

”Big 4” end conference in blow-up

Democrats, Republicans pass the buck on prices

Police violence against Rome strikers (photo)

Blood-thirst whetted by Taft-Hartley law

Economic crisis forces Moscow to devalue ruble, by John G. Wright

• Stalin (cartoon)

Lewis silent about this program as miners withdraw from AFL

Pauley case lifts lid on govt. food speculators, by George Lavan

Wallace still angling for deal with the Democrats

• Wallace (cartoon)

Hits discrimination (photo)

140,000 sign petition for California I.P.P., by Al Lynn

Youngstown SWP honors Militant at celebration

Stalinists betray heroic Italian workers struggle, by Joseph Hansen

• Rattle U.S. arms over heads of Italian workers

ACEWR statement on Clark’s blacklist

Moscow’s latest “trials” in Eastern Europe, by K. Manfred

San Francisco to hold New Year’s celebration

• Newark invites readers for New Year’s Eve

The Militant Army

• “Renew my sub,” writes former reader

One way to make a living

[Editorials]

• Note to our readers
• “Expanding” the Bill of Rights
• U.S. imperialism in Panama
• Negro Unemployment Rising

Total figure raised is $17,000 as Militant fund campaign ends, by Rose Karsner

• $15,000 Militant fund final scoreboard

Trotskyist youth expose militarism

Workers’ Forum

• Editor’s Note
• Hitler, Wallace and Foster, from A Railroad Worker
• How Trotskyism came to Australia, from N. Origlass
• No wonder SWP is on blacklist, from S.T.

Reutherites push for local compliance with Taft Act

Activities of ... the Socialist Workers Party

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• The Christmas Spirit

Murray pleads for joint action as Taft Act deals double blow

Prices UP, wages up (graphic)

The Negro Struggle, by Albert Parker

• Let us subvert Jim Crow

CIO and liberal groups hit government blacklist

Tuberculosis: The dread killer, by Grace Carlson

Milwaukee SWP runs J. Boulton for mayor

Need for Labor Party debated in Cleveland, by George Tobin

Did you get your $3,458? by Art Preis

Hansen to tour Midwest on Struggle for Europe

• Joseph Hansen (photo)

Vol. XI No. 52, 29 December 1947, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

17 billions demanded to chain Europe, by George Breitman

1947 – year of setbacks for American labor, by Albert Parker

Truman accused of covering up food speculators

Headlines in the news (photomontage)

What a court!

Five Flint GM locals initiate drive for 25¢ wage boost

4,000 attend mass rally of IPP in Los Angeles, by Al Lynn

Stop waste of funds, NMU leaders insist

Briggs local backs Flint wage program

Gravy train hitched onto Marshall Plan

NAM spends 3 millions for new union-busting campaign

Like asking hogs to give up swill

Great decisions in France still to come, by T.J. Peters

• Thorez (cartoon)

Publishers spearhead union-busting offensive, by Arthur Burch

Same old company tune (photo)

Joseph Hansen to begin tour on January 3

Santa Monica NAACP gains support in fight against Jim Crow hiring

New Britain New Year’s Eve to be gala event

Workers’ Forum

• Some Negro leaders benefit from Jim Crow, from Reader
• Chinese readers asks for help, from Three Friends
  Ed. Note
• How Stalinists slander the Arabs, from Al Lynn

****The Militant Army**

• Branches getting more sub renewals

[Editorials]

• Sowing the wind
• Labor lieutenants of capitalism
• Socialist U.S. of Europe

Colonial and civil wars shake capitalist world during 1947, by Joseph Hansen

Japanese labor on the march (photo)

Hansen to speak in Cleveland on Jan. 8

Activities of ... the Socialist Workers Party

Akron SWP to hold New Year’s cabaret

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• New Year’s Day, 1948

Buick local votes to comply to avoid Reuther “administrator”, by Emmett Moore

Flint UAW official offers wage plan to meet inflation

Pauley admits grain tradings (photo)

The Negro Struggle, by Albert Parker

• Little progress recorded this year

All SWP locals meet fund quotas

Christmas comes to the mines, by Morgan West

Good affair held by Lynn ACEWR chapter

Readers invited to hear Hansen in Youngstown

AFL and CIO officials reject Wallace

• Wallace (cartoon)

Purge at River Rouge

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