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Vol. 14 No. 1, 2 January 1950
Labor Action
A Paper in the Interest of Socialism
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Hal Draper
ASSISTANT EDITORS:
Mary Bell
L.G. Smith

EDITORIAL BOARD:
Hal Draper
Emanuel Garrett
Albert Gates

BUSINESS MANAGER:
L.G. Smith

‘I Am a Partisan!’, by Leopold Wilhelm, from Die Neue Zeitung

Big Steel Gives Fakes Reasons to Up Prices

Anti-Jim Crow Mobilization Forms to Invade Wahsington, by Gordon Haskell

Four Freedoms for America! (cartoon), by Carlo

Arab States’ Intrigues Help Israel, by Al Findley

NAACP Head Says Truman’s Anti-Bias Directive Means Nothing Yet; FHA Refuses to Enforce It

Reuther OKs Acceptance of Witchhunt Contract, by Sam Adams

Closed Shop

AFL Says Pay Boost Is Due for 1950, by L.G. Smith

Labor ’Scope

Memo to Walter Reuther, from R. Fahan

Ohio Labor Notes

Curran’s ‘Confession’ Card in NMU

Readers of Labor Action Take the Floor

Not in the Headlines

Titoism and Independent Socialism – V

World Politics

The Militarization of America – III

Behind the Kostov Case: Factional Fight Among the National-Stalinists, by Philippe Richard

Model Banquet

Another Boost for Howe-Widdick

Labor Item

The World’s Children Are Starving, by Susan Green

Gates Speaks for ISL at Five-Way Forum on Welfare State Trends

Culture Note

Mexican Purge

Vignette

Middle Ages in Albania

Ukrainian Anti-Stalinist Paper Now Available in U.S.

Chiselers


Vol. 14 No. 2, 9 January 1950
Labor Action
A Paper in the Interest of Socialism
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Hal Draper
ASSISTANT EDITORS:
Mary Bell
L.G. Smith

EDITORIAL BOARD:
Hal Draper
Emanuel Garrett
Albert Gates

BUSINESS MANAGER:
L.G. Smith

Keep the Purgers Out of the Plants!

A Look at the State of the Union (cartoon)

Truman Message Sees Fair Deal in Year 2000 – What Does He Propose for Today? by Mary Bell

Notice to the FBI

What ECA ‘Integration’ Means: U.S. Vetoes British Oil Expansion Plans, by Sam Feliks

National Survey Shows Rent Gouge Followed Administration’s Decontrol, by L.G. Smith

Tresca Group Blasts D.A. for Failure to Solve Murder; Memorial Planned

Financier Says Wall Street Has Taken Over SEC; Coffee Scare Was ‘Rigged’

Labor ’Scope

Readers Take the Floor ...

Ike and Hot Dogs

Pegler Sued

Cleveland Workers Forced Back to Work by Court Injunction, by Joe Clark

IUE Gets Pension Plan at Philco, by Frank Harper

The Dynamite Plot Against UAW, by Walter Jason

Method in Madness

Ghost-Quieter

Titoism and Independent Socialism – VI

World Politics

Book Review

Fenner Brockway Gives Background of Bristish Provocation in Nigeria

Press Manager’s Press Action, by L.G. Smith

Negro Weekly, Saturday Review of Literature Praise Howe-Widick Book

Nehru Makes Peace with Capitalists; Hindu fascist Issue Splits Party

Indian Socialist Party Calls for Left Unity, by Yusuf Meherally

Congressional Tax Bill Hits Co-ops but Real Tax Dodgers Ignored

Free Enterprise

Gobbledygook

On the House


Vol. 14 No. 3, 16 January 1950
Labor Action
A Paper in the Interest of Socialism
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Hal Draper
ASSISTANT EDITORS:
Mary Bell
L.G. Smith

EDITORIAL BOARD:
Hal Draper
Emanuel Garrett
Albert Gates

BUSINESS MANAGER:
L.G. Smith

3 Chicago Corporations Initiate Plant Purge

FBI Claims Right to Break Law, Reveals FDR Approval

Truman Points to Becessity for Speedup in Production Rather Than Wage Increases, by Gordon Haskell

Spanish Labor’s Appeal: Stop U.S. Aid to Franco, by Wilebaldo Solano

Battle Over Formosa Ignores Formosa’s Right to Freedom, by Jack Brad

Japan CP Fires Pro-Cominformer, Break Reported

Not Big Enough

Ungrateful O’Dwyer Slaps N.Y. Labor Supporters

Child Labor

Another Refugee from Stalinland Tells the West, by Anton Ekhard, from British Socialist Leader

The Militarization of America – IV

S.F. Bay Area Notes

Joe Won’t Like It

Brookly Newspaper Hints at Solution to Tresca Mystery; D.A. Inaction Scored

Big Wind Due

Readers Take the Floor ...

Peron’s Hot Seat: Discontent Grows Apace with Crisis of Economy, by Juan Rey

World Politics

Polish Camarillas: ‘Russian Men’ Silently Purge CP ‘Country Men’, by A. Rudzienski

Not in the Headlines

“Free Press”? Wisconsin Editor Tells of ‘Canned Editorials’, by William Bechtel, from Labor

German Arms and Socialist Policy, by James M. Fenwick

Jamaica Gag

Feline Fair Deal

Not in the Headlines

With the Independent Socialist League

Press Manager’ Press Action, by L.G. Smith


Vol. 14 No. 4, 23 January 1950
Labor Action
A Paper in the Interest of Socialism
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Hal Draper
ASSISTANT EDITORS:
Mary Bell
L.G. Smith

EDITORIAL BOARD:
Hal Draper
Emanuel Garrett
Albert Gates

BUSINESS MANAGER:
L.G. Smith

Purge in the Plants: How Can Labor Stop It?

Hydrogen Bomb to Trigger Off New Arms Race

Stalin’s China Headache Linked to Japan CP Rift, by Jack Brad

Dewey Fact Board Soaks Buffalo Bell Workers; Union Men See Arbitration as company Trap

N.J. Supreme Court Kills State Loyalty Oath, by Ralph Stiles

Housing Expediter’s Figures Show Decontrol Unleashed Rent Boosts

UAW Sets Strike Date to End Chrysler Stall, by Walter Jason

Illinois Labor Notes

The Militarization of America – V

Anti-Murray Rumor

Two Billion More – to Squeeze Out Small Farmers and Keep Prices Up

DuPont Secret

Eddy the Laboring Man

MacArthur Formula

Readers of Labor Action Take the Floor ...

Titoism and Independent Socialism – VII

World Politics

Not in the Headlines

Socialist Policy and German Armament, by Eugene Keller

New York Sun Sets: Takes Last Swipe at Labor, Fires Staff Eithout Notice

Gobbledygook Defined

Shachtman, ACTU Speaker debate Socialism vs. Catholicism at College, by Max Martin


Vol. 14 No. 5, 30 January 1950
Labor Action
A Paper in the Interest of Socialism
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Company in New York City

EDITOR:
Hal Draper
ASSISTANT EDITORS:
Mary Bell
L.G. Smith

EDITORIAL BOARD:
Hal Draper
Emanuel Garrett
Albert Gates

BUSINESS MANAGER:
L.G. Smith

How Labor Support to Truman Pays Off!

U.S. Reverses Anti-Franco Line; Move Will Aid Spanish Fascists, by A. Michel

N.Y. to Flout Court Decisions

Maragon and Truman, by Chris Sikokis

France and Germany Vie over Saar, by Henry Judd

Can the New Trade-Union International End CP Influence on European Labor? by Pedro Bonet, from La Batalla

World Politics

Eisenhower Gets Dixiecrat Boost

N.J. Bans Play to Help Trenton 9

New Technique

Toward a Stalinist Thesaurus

The Militarization of America – VI

Readers Take the Floor ...

Threat

Democrat Did It

Press Manager’s Press Action, by L.G. Smith

Editorials

Hollywood’s Four Films on the Negro Question, by Susan Green

How the Russians Aid U.S. Reaction

Two Supreme Court Rulings Hit Civil Liberties, by Stan Grey

The Ageless Female

Best Wishes

Not in the Headlines

— and Justice for All

Books Received


Vol. 14 No. 6, 6 February 1950
Labor Action
A Paper in the Interest of Socialism
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Association in New York City

EDITOR:
Hal Draper
ASSISTANT EDITORS:
Mary Bell
L.G. Smith

EDITORIAL BOARD:
Hal Draper
Emanuel Garrett
Albert Gates

BUSINESS MANAGER:
L.G. Smith

Yank the CIO and AFL Out of the Snake Pit!

New NMU Group to Fight Curran and the CP; Reign of Terror Goes On, by N.R. Gaden

‘Never Such Hypocrisy’: Both Parties Vie to Shelve FEPC Pledges

Tito Clamps Tighter Police Control on Labor; Fake Reform Heralded, by Hal Draper

UAW Strikes Chrysler for Pension Demands, by Walter Jason

CIO Lifts Calif. Council Charter in Bureaucratic Move Against CP, by Scott Byer

Chicago Unionists Call for Rally to Oppose Stewart-Warner Purge

Shachtman to Debate Prof. Hayek on Socialism in Course of Tour

Miners’ Revolt Aimed at Coal Moguls, by Gerald McDermott

Labor ’Scope

Press Manager’s Press Action, by L.G. Smith

Readers Take the Floor ...

UAW Up Against Fact That Pension Issue Lacks Appeal for Men, by Walter Jason

No Progress

“Equal Rights” – Senate Votes to Add Rider to Amendment

Ukraine Partisans Organize ‘Commando’ Political rallies, by Vs.F.

The Militarization of America

‘States Rights’ Fails to Stop the Slaughter of the Innocents

B.C. Bennem (obituary)

Labor and Politics – Democracy and Classes, by Robert Lynd

Stalinists Licked at Student Meet, by Sam Feliks

Experienced Personnel

Tying Wages


Vol. 14 No. 7, 13 February 1950
Labor Action
A Paper in the Interest of Socialism
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Association in New York City

EDITOR:
Hal Draper
ASSISTANT EDITORS:
Mary Bell
L.G. Smith

EDITORIAL BOARD:
Hal Draper
Emanuel Garrett
Albert Gates

BUSINESS MANAGER:
L.G. Smith

It’s Love – On Both Sides

Truman clubs Miners with T-H in Fair Deal’s 8th Use of the Law, by Gordon Haskell

UAW Faces Tough Struggle in Strike Against Chrysler, by Walter Jason

NMU Ranks Vote Down Boss Curran in New Blow Against Dictatorship, by N.R. Gaden

3 Shachtman Meetings in Chicago Make a Hit; 300 Hear Hayek Debate

Line’s Changed

Anti-Franco Rally Protests Spanish Terror Regime

Oil to Russia

Oakland Gougers Seek Recall of Councilmen Who Backed Housing, by B. Arnold

Two Dilemmas of the Marshall Plan: ECA Conflicts Show Up in Economics, by Sam Feliks

Ohio Labor Notes

To Them That Have ...

Steel Bosses Say More Price Rises Are Coming, by Mary Bell

Latest on Profits

Readers of Labor Action Take the Floor ...

As Labor Faces Its Election: A Symposium

An Editorial

England Is Not Australia – But Will Vote Be Decisive? by William Barton

The ILP View: Weaknesses in Labor Party Record, by John McNair

LP Seeks Middle-Class Vote; Tories Fighting for Existence, by Henry Judd

‘Not Much to Choose Between Labor and Tories’, by D. Alexander

Labor and Politics – Democracy and Classes, by Robert Lynd

Not in the Headlines

Right Wing Socialist Groups Vote Merger

Operation Dixie

Scientists Weigh Witchhunt Rider to National Science Foundation Bill, by Frank Harper

Stalin and God

An Editorial


Vol. 14 No. 8, 20 February 1950
Labor Action
A Paper in the Interest of Socialism
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Association in New York City

EDITOR:
Hal Draper
ASSISTANT EDITORS:
Mary Bell
L.G. Smith

EDITORIAL BOARD:
Hal Draper
Emanuel Garrett
Albert Gates

BUSINESS MANAGER:
L.G. Smith

Next Week Labor Action Becomes an 8-Page Tabloid!

Miners Defy Truman’s T-H in Fight for All of Labor, by Gerald McDermott

Kutcher Starts Suit to Test Purge Program

UAW Broadens the Demands for New Contract with Chrysler, by Walter Jason

ISL Launches Fund Drive for Tenth Anniversary, by Albert Gates

Einstein Warns on H-Bomb: ‘General Annihilation Beckons’, by Mary Bell

Yugoslav ‘Decentralization Reforms’ Have Nothing to Do with Democracy, by Hal Draper

ISL Secretary Gates and WDL Secretary Blast Government Purges in N.Y. Forum

Shachtman Speaks in L.A. on Titoism

Cleveland UAW Strikes Pesco for Union Shop, by Joe Hauser

The Militarization of America

ISL Fund Drive Quotas

Stoolpigeon Test

Press Manager’s Press Action, by L.G. Smith

Psychology – See? Pundits Ponder Proble of Love’s Labor Lost, by Philip Coben

How A&P Chain Cheats You: ‘Losses’ Made Up by Gouging, by George Whitney

Tapping the Wall St. Wire

The ‘Free Press’ Rolls Over

‘Let ’Em Die’ – Medico Trust Limits Number of Doctors

Impressed?

League for Mutual Aid Announces Dinner, Musicale to Finance Work

Japanese CP in Quandary as Cominform Blast Seeks to Impose Suicidal Line-Toeing Course, by Taketo Yamabe

SPD’s ‘Ostbureau’

Jim Crow, D.C.


Vol. 14 No. 9, 27 February 1950
Labor Action
Independent Socialist Weekly
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Association in New York City

EDITOR:
Hal Draper
ASSISTANT EDITORS:
Mary Bell
L.G. Smith

BUSINESS MANAGER:
L.G. Smith

Why Are CIO Leaders Silent About Truman’s Strikebreaking Role Against the Miners? by Gerald McDermott

Justice Warns of Trend to Police State

NMU Girds to Defend Hiring Hall; Curran Goons Run Amuck in N.Y., by N.R. Gaden

Never Forget!

You’re Looking

Reuther Speaks on Pie in the Sky, by Walter Jason

Akron Cop Murders Negro Vet; Police Chief Isn’t Interested, by George Whitney

ISL Fund Drive Starts with a Bang, by Yetta Barsh

Japan’s Socialist Party Splits; Rightists Out, by Leo Del Monte

Israeli Ruling Parties in Dispute on Religious Schools, Polygamy, by Al Findley

Editorials

You and Science

Reading from Left to Right

Not in the Headlines

Youth and Student Corner

World Politics

L.A. Readers Take the Floor ...

The Strange Case of Noel Field, by A Former German Communist

ECA Demands More ‘Integration’ But Europe Resists U.S. Sway, by Sam Feliks

Shachtman Meet in Bay Area Packs the Hall

Judges in Uniform: Courts Click Their Heels, by Stan Grey

Did Capitalism Create Race Hate? SYL Forum Speaker Says It Did


Vol. 14 No. 10, 6 March 1950
Labor Action
Independent Socialist Weekly
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Association in New York City

EDITOR:
Hal Draper
ASSISTANT EDITORS:
Mary Bell
L.G. Smith

BUSINESS MANAGER:
L.G. Smith

British Labor Wins in Close Race, Holds Vote, but New Election Looms

If Labor Acts, Miners Can Win! Don’t Leave them in the Lurch! Statement by the Independent Socialist League

FEPC Ripped to Shreds; House Votes Mangled Bill, by Mary Bell

Miners’ Picket Caravans Shut Diggings Down Tight, by Gerald McDermott

Big UAW Locals Call for Help to Miners; Union Pays Medical Plan for Chrysler Men, by Walter Jason

Refuses to Suspend Cop Who Murdered Negro, by George Whitney

Ohio Labor Notes

IUE-CIO Swamps CP-Led Union in NLRB Vote at 5 GM Plants

Reuther Tells Program for GM Contract, by Ralph Stiles

Fund Drive Near 25% in Second Week, by Yetta Barsh

Editorials

Science and You

Reading from Left to Right

Not in the Headlines

American City – Finds Honest Politician: It Creates a Sensation, by George Whitney

World Politics

British Faced with Resistance Struggle by Gold Coast People

The Wallaceites Try It Again, by R.L. Ferguson

Latest CIO Expulsions Plus Similar Case in AFL Throw Spotlight on Purge System, by Gordon Haskell

The Militarization of America

Hot Potato Problem: The Consumer Gets Rooked Twice Over, by Jessie Kaaren

They Need your Help!


Vol. 14 No. 11, 13 March 1950
Labor Action
Independent Socialist Weekly
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Association in New York City

EDITOR:
Hal Draper
ASSISTANT EDITORS:
Mary Bell
L.G. Smith

BUSINESS MANAGER:
L.G. Smith

French Strikes Not Hatched by Stalinists, by Saul Berg

Forced Labor in U.S. Bared Before UN Body

Shachtman to Tour Midwest, East

Will Noel Field Turn Up Again?

Miners’s Great Fight Wins Victory After U.S. Court Case Collapses, by Gerald McDermott

Morale in Chrysler Strike Shoots Up as Miners Win, by Walter Jason

Labor ’Scope

Company Traps UAW Goodyear Local into Support of Loyalty Purge System in Plant, by George Whitney

Akron Press Tries to Hush Up Racism Issue in Murder Case, by George Whitney

Ukrainian Underground Presses Turn Out Anti-Stalin Propaganda, by Vs.F.

Wooing Nazis

Ideological Unity

Our Right – Your Duty, by Max Shachtman

Editorials

Science and You

Reading from Left to Right

You Can’t Outlaw the Stalinists Without Hittling Liberty for ALL, by Larry O’Connor

World Politics

Two Fingers Against the Wall, by Gordon Haskell

H-Bomb Over the Planet, by Mary Bell

U. of Calif. Faculty Fight Loyalty Oath, Wider Resistance Front Needed to Stop It, by A. Garber

House Votes Science Foundation Bill with FBI Man on Every Microscope, by Frank Harper

Justice à la GPU in Florida


Vol. 14 No. 12, 20 March 1950
Labor Action
Independent Socialist Weekly
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Association in New York City

EDITOR:
Hal Draper
ASSISTANT EDITORS:
Mary Bell
L.G. Smith

BUSINESS MANAGER:
L.G. Smith

GM Profit Set All-Time Record, but Workers Just Got Wage Cut

Lift the Lid on the FBI Loyalty Purge!

Democracy Gets the 1–2–3: Feinberg, Picasso, Gubitchev

Kafka in the U.S.: How the CIA Purges, by Mary Bell

Is Another Race Riot Nearing in Detroit? KKK Forces Mobilize Against Negro Housing, by Walter Jason

UAW Local President in Akron Opposes Company’s Purge Plan, by George Whitney

Grand Jury Keeps Hearings Closed on Fenner Murder Case, by George Whitney

Chrysler Strike Front Is Firm; UAW Heads on Spot, by Walter Jason

Guderian’s M-Day – Dictatorship Plan for U.S.: Nazi General Draws Up War [Plan]

Ohio Labor Notes

Chicago Pushes Fund Drive to 42%, by Yetta Barsh

Editorials

Youth and Student Corner

Reading from Left to Right

The Socialist Left and the British Labor Party, by D. Alexander

Not in the Headlines

World Politics

You’re Invited

How Not to Fight a Purge, by Robert Magnus

CP Youth Licked at Student Conference; Majority Plans Fight for Campus Rights, by Julius Falk

Ceylon’s Jim Crow

Definition

Bitter Pills

ISL Demands Public Housing in Berkeley, by Arlene Williams

Notes on Iron Curtain Culture: Or – How Prague Apes Moscow


Vol. 14 No. 13, 27 March 1950
Labor Action
Independent Socialist Weekly
Published weekly by the Labor Action Publishing Association in New York City

EDITOR:
Hal Draper
ASSISTANT EDITORS:
Mary Bell
L.G. Smith

BUSINESS MANAGER:
L.G. Smith

Lewis’ Victory and Proposals Create Ferment in Labor Ranks, by Walter Jason

Big Two Talk Peace – Brandish Big Stick

Loyalty Purge Gets Out of Hand – FBI Plots Mass Political Arrests, by Gordon Haskell

Young Socialists Answer Acheson in Street Rally

Labor ’Scope

Ohio Labor Notes

Chicago Dance Hall Jim Crow Challenged by Ex-CORE Students, by Dorothy Mallory

Arms and World Politics Discussed at N.Y. Forum

Detroit Housing Leader Ousted by Mayor Cobo, by Jimmie Little

Press Action, by L.G. Smith

Fund Drive Nears 50% with Six Weeks to Go, by Yetta Barsh

Editorials

You and Science

Reading from Left to Right

Tapping the Wall St. Wire

Not in the Headlines

Small Business: Giant Corporations Use Small Business Lobbies as Fronts, by Jessie Kaaren

World Politics

Labor Candidate in Chicago, by R.L. Ferguson

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