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Volume X No. 1, 5 January 1946, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

MANAGING EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

GM profiteers defy investigation, by Art Preis

New robber deals mark secret Moscow meeting, by Joseph Hansen

The sound of brass (cartoon), by Gray

Flint pickets face renewed GM provocations, by Jerry Kirk

Marines in China protest being used to aid Chiang, by Charles Carsten

Detroit strike committee urges organizing GM office workers, by Kay O’Brien

In the News

• State of public mind
• Exccept for millions, from The Worker
• Made in the U.S.A.
• Pays to advertise, from Army Life

Operators’ greed hinders rescue

Big strike schedules at Western Electric, by Alan Braden

New year finds American labor on the march, by Mike Cort

City-wide strike set for Stamford

Mine disaster – murder for profit, by Evelyn Atwood

Detroit SWP organizer warns CIO auto workers against treacherous “fines for strikers” scheme, by Arthur Burch

Trade Union Notes, by Bill Morgan

• Solidarity in Toledo
• Brass Hats’ plan
• Stalinism in the NMU
• Stalinist Scabbery

Brass Hats’ strikebreaking (graphic)

Minister disproves Duluth “no discrimination” story, by Grace Carlson

5th Congress manifesto of Belgian Trotskyists

2. Towards genuine liberation

French Trotskyists combat growing threat of fascism

Indonesian youth demand independence (photo)

Trotskyists in Argentina launch monthly magazine

[Editorials]

• The Stalinists cheer
• Help them get home!
• Thomas complains

“Shame on you, Fifi ...” (cartoon), by Gray

Problems Facing War Veterans, by Charles Carsten

• Where are the jobs for veterans?

Workers’ Bookshelf

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

Ford’s billion or two sapped from workers, by Jeff Thorne

Congressmen at Work

Workers’ Forum

• “Back to sea – for what?” asks angry seaman, from James White
• Asks publication of Leon Trotsky’s book on Stalin, from Raymond L. Day
• Trotsky’s Dream (poem), by Sam Brown
• a soldier writes of U.S. role in “liberated” Korea, from A.C.
• United for the victory of labor! from Victor Howell
• On reading Trotsky’s History of the Russian Revolution, from Mike Ross

Marines bitter at U.S. intervention in China, from J.H.

Pioneer Notes

Militant Army

Akron workers back GM strike

Our Program

Senator says State Department suppressed report on Germany

• Eastland (photo)

Lessons of 1919 general strike given in Fourth International

Detroit branch announces two winter school classes

Impending visit of G.L.K. Smith makes Akron workers angry, by Milton Genecin

J.G. Wright winds up tour in Pittsburgh

Stalinists in Youngstown attack two Trotskyists

The History of American Trotskyism, by James P. Cannon

• Summary of our experiences in the S.P.

Detroit case of false arrest, police harassment symbolized the daily oppression of Negro people, by Ted Reading

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• “Try it at home”

Where mine owners’ greed brought disaster (photo)

Socialist Workers Party branch Activities

Diary of a Steelworker, by T. Kovalesky

Coroner’s inquest attempts to whitewash vigilante issue in the Fontana tragedy, by Jean Simon

GM strikers’ children have fun at picket line Christmas party, by M. Patrick

• Christmas party of GM picket line (photo)

Notes of a Seaman, by Art Sharon

• “Ships that never come in”

Paris Stalinists call the cops

Buffalo CIO wants formation of Labor Party

Court martial reveals prison camp brutality

Volume X No. 2, 12 January 1946, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

MANAGING EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

The upsurge of labor and its task ahead, by the Editors

Stamford AFL, CIO unite in city general strike, by Evelyn Atwood

Join the battle! (cartoon), by Gray

Western Electric workers defend picket lines, by Alan Braden

Youngstown Steel workers gird for gigantic national strike, by G.L. Weissman

• Steel workers urge no strike delay

In the News

• Scrounge or starve, from N.Y. Post
• Atomic ambition, from Time
• Stalinist “Logic”
• All comforts of home

AFL, CIO unity is pledged in packing strike, by Robert L. Birchman

Militant Detroit pickets repulse assault on line, by Kay O’Brien

Exclusive! Militant bares $6-billion ship steal, by Joseph Hansen

• $6-billion ship steal (cartoon), by Magin

How to fight injunctions in GM strike discussed by Detroit SWP organizer in address over radio, by Arthur Burch

Trade Union Notes, by Bill Morgan

• De Lorenzo jailed
• Cincinnati strike
• The nicer things ...
• Truman’s defender
• “Free enterprise”

Ford Local 400 denounces plan for strike fines

Allied troops halt uprising in Trieste

Indo-Chinese continue heroic fight against French imperialist rulers

Fighters for freedom (photo)

GI’s demonstrate in Manila, flay U.S. imperialism, by Mike Cort

Belgian regime bankrupt official figures show, by E. Germain

General strike near in Colombo say Trotskyists

100,000 workers stage Paris rally

[Editorials]

• Hail Stamford labor!
• Important evidence
• Manila trials
• An imperialist treaty

“You’ll simply have to postpone...” (cartoon), by Gray

Problems Facing War Veterans, by Charles Carsten

• Real defenders of veterans’ seniority

Workers’ Bookshelf

• Wartime Crimes of Big Business, by George Breitman, reviewed by Ruth Johnson

Congressmen at Work

“Billionaires’ Club” continues to thrive, by Jeff Thorne

“Working” for “peace”

“Lucky Strike” struck

Workers’ Forum

• Soldier in Manila describes protests, from A Reader
• Philadelphia incident shows Stalinists losing influence, from Robert Oliver
• Stamford boy learns early, from Pete Morgan
• More on socialism vs. nationalism for Negro people, from M.T.R.
• From a worker of the “old school”, from R.M.
• Requests poem by Ralph Chaplin, from Charles Fox
• GM office workers show respect for picket lines, from Rose Young
• Navy gold braid refuses transfer to old-time sailor, from A Reader
• GM worker writes on district five, from H.R.

J.G. Wright tells inspiring growth of SWP observed during tour, by John G. Wright

Militant Army

Mourn not the dead (poem), by Ralph Chaplin

Our Program

Pioneer Notes

The truth about man-days lost

Memorial meeting to honor Carlo Tresca, murdered anti-fascist fighter for labor, by Ruth Johnson

• Honored working class fighters (photo)

Koreans demonstrate against “Big 3” rule, by Charles Carsten

January Fourth International analyzes the role of Zionism

Gala New Year’s party held by Philadelphia SWP

Wisconsin workers protest firing of pro-labor teacher, by Jack O’Connell

Los Angeles SWP moves to larger headquarters

French strikers (photo)

Milwaukee SWP holds celebration

Reading branch celebration held, by James White

Truman’s “State of Union” speech is futile bid to halt labor crisis, by Art Preis

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• Gibson “gives” again

Magnificent labor solidarity in Stamford (photo)

Socialist Workers Party Branch Activities

Diary of a Steelworker, by T. Kovalesky

Flint CIO council calls on UAW board to “wash its hands” of company security, by Jerry Kirk

On to the picket lines! (photo)

Notes of a Seaman, by Art Sharon

Veterans shipped like cattle in crowded, unheated cars, by Winifred Nelson

Never satisfied

Volume X No. 3, 19 January 1946, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

MANAGING EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

World-wide GI demonstrations shout demand: “Get us home!” by Joseph Hansen

• Brass Hats lied about bottleneck in ships for GI’s

Truman pressure Murray into steel strike delay

Solidarity will win! (cartoon), by Gray

Labor! Back the GI protest! You fight in a common cause, by the Editors

GM delegates hotly debate UAW board wage proposal

Long lines phone workers back strike in 44 states, by Alan Braden

• Bulletin

Open the books! An answer to GM, by Art Preis

Lackawanna worker shut Bethlehem Steel plant to foil strikebreaking preparations

• Lackawanna steel workers don’t wait for Murray (photo)

GIs emulate labor at home

Mighty voice of the GIs as heard round the globe

• Philippines
• Guam
• Saipan
• Hawaii
• Alaska
• Japan
• China
• India
• Korea
• France
• Austria
• Germany
• Great Britain
• United States

World-wide protests of GIs hit Wall Street imperialism

• GIs demonstrating in Manila (photo)
   
• Brass Hats fear revolt in India; arm U.S. GIs
   
• Mazey, UAW militant helps lead GI protest
   
• Rank and file hit officer privileges
   
• Flood of mail to return GI’s hits Congress
   
• Militant was first to demand GIs’ return
   
• Typical scene of vets on picket lines (photo)

[Editorials]

• An inspiring example
• Democratic rights in the armed forces
• “Company security”
• Two Americas

“He’s really just a big child ...” (cartoon), by Gray

Problems Facing War Veterans, by Charles Carsten

• Terminal leaves show class system

Workers’ Bookshelf

• Five Years of War Profits, 1940–1944, Compared to Five Years of Peace Profits, 1935–1939, by CIO United Steel Workers of America, reviewed by Larissa Reed

Why the steel moguls act so arrogantly

Congressmen at Work

Workers’ Forum

• GM strikers in Flint eager for Militant, from F.B.
• Soldier tells why Japanese workers go on strike, from A. Bronson
• AFL machinists in solid strike at Gould & Eberhard, from R. Laurie
• The workers’ needs ... and Truman’s proposal, from G.H.R.
  Truman (photo)
• For more articles on veterans’ needs, from J. Roberts
• The sleeping giant of labor is stirring, from Joseph McNamee

GI’s letter tells troops’ anger at demobilization double cross, from A Reader

Militant Army

Our Program

Pioneer Notes

Lenin, international leader and teacher of labor, left rich heritage to aid U.S. workers’ struggles, by Ruth Johnson

• Nickolai Lenin 1870–1924 (woodcut)

Fire in Fontana “no accident,” declares expert, by Jean Simon

600 workers demand action in Tresca case

Chicago SWP joins militant demonstration against Jim-Crow policy at skating rink, by Clara Kaye

Nazi rule and Allied rule

Cable “grab” reveals sordid Allied war aims

Los Angeles CIO demands return home of China GIs, by Al Lynn

Chicago Stalinists in attack on distributors of Militant, by Clara Kaye & Florence Hayes

‘The Four Freedoms’ (cartoon)

World-wide protests climax long GI drive for prompt demobilization, by Charles Carsten

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• The anti-Negro pogrom in Manila

Picketing Western Union in Manhattan (photo)

Huge profits fatten up meat-packing barons, by Robert L. Birchman

High officials and generals maneuver against soldiers

Phone girls back strikers in Cincinnati, by J. Christianson

Baltimore phone girls support ACEW strikers

Socialist Workers Party Branch Activities

Diary of a Steelworker, by T. Kovalesky

Daily Worker smear of Flint militants boomerangs; repudiated by union officer, by Jerry Kirk

The line held firm! (photo)

Leading Stalinist deserts to bosses

Notes of a Seaman, by Art Sharon

1,000 Detroit veterans parade in solidarity with G.M. strikers, by Kay O’Brien

Briggs UAW local scores union-busting strike fines

Western Electric pickets cheered by phone strike

A GM Striker’s Story, by Grace Carlson

• Grace Carlson (photo)

Buffalo CIO sponsors new pro-labor veteran’s group

Volume X No. 4, 26 January 1946, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

MANAGING EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Paris meeting of GIs adopts “Magna Charta”, by Charles Carsten

800,000 steel workers strike for living wage, by Art Preis

• Steel workers in Pittsburgh strike solidly, by Eloise Gordon

Get off that money bag (cartoon), by Gray

Flint unionists hit red-scare as aid to GM

Chicago packinghouse strikers show fighting spirit on lines, by Robert L. Birchman

In the News

• Sign of the times
• All but the bars
• Heroes’ “Welcome”, from N.Y. World Telegram
• Safety in numbers
• Talked too soon

Civil liberties spokesmen protest La Verité ban

Militant action will win, by the Editors

Entire Jersey town aids UE strikers’ wage fight, by Alan Kohlman

On-the-spot reports from national strike fronts

• Youngstown steelmen out solid in strike, by George Weissman
   
• Mass picketing at Chicago stockyards (photo)
   
• On-the-spot reports from national strike fronts – no scab can slink past Lackawanna’s pickets!
   
• Mass picket lines clamped on U.S. Steel’s “Big Mill,”

GI protest meeting in Paris is described by eye-witness

One veteran’s reward (photo)

Belgium’s rulers fear Trotskyists

Labor unions back GI protests against demobilization delays

• High ranking Brass Hats live on fat of the land
   
• Akron CIO council adopts resolution supporting GIs, by Milton Genecin
   
• “Send us home!” (photo)

SWP organizer in Flint nails red-baiting smear, by Sol Dollinger

[Editorials]

• Labor unity
• Political actio
• The choice is clear
• Gangster methods

“I always say ...” (cartoon), by Gray

Problems Facing War Veterans, by Charles Carsten

• Buffalo points the way

Workers’ Bookshelf

• Maritime, by F.J. Lang, reviewed by Art Sharon

Congressmen at Work

Militant’s record in backing GIs’ demands

Workers’ Forum

• Soldier describes Army caste system, from C.C.
  [Letter], from Sgt. Norman L. Manuel
• For more articles on women’s problems, from A Housewife
  Editor’s Note
• Plan for hunger, from I.M.H.
• Scores poem about Trotsky, from Henry Martin
• “Royal runaround” described by vet, from Kent Darrow
• Harlem SWP invites workers to visit and join its ranks, from Victor A. Howell
• Wage increases and inflation, from D.L.

To All Readers of The Militant, from The Editors

Militant Army

Our Program

Pioneer Notes

Liebknecht-Luxemburg working-class martyrs, by Ruth Johnson

• Luxemburg (woodcut)
• Liebknecht (woodcut)

Stalinists slander Seattle progressives in attempt to block Labor Party movement

SWP meeting hits Fontana whitewash, by Jean Simon

• Victims of Fontana tragedy (photo)

Pickets protest at Jim-Crow rink, by Clara Kaye

UE girl pickets in Youngstown aided by husky steel workers

Seattle typos score great strike victory

Flint strikers hear talk by Charles Jackson

Chicago SWP to present play Trial by Fury, by Florence Hayes

New York meeting held in honor of V.I. Lenin

General Electric strikers in Lynn gain support of entire community, by Ann Anders

• UE strikers mass in Bloomfield (photo)
   
• UE strikers demonstrate in Newark center
   
• Lester UE strikers demonstrate solidarity at Westinghouse plant, by Robert Oliver

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• Saga of the Virgin plum

Ship workers convention marked by faction fight, by L. Williams

Labor saving device

Socialist Workers Party Branch Activities

Diary of a Steelworker, by T. Kovalesky

Thirteen more mine disaster victims die due to the negligence of greedy owners, by Evelyn Atwood

• More murder for profits (photo)
   
• The “bright” side of mine tragedy

Minnesota packinghouse workers firmly support national strike, by Barbara Bruce

Notes of a Seaman, by Art Sharon

Western Electric strikers fight injunction threats

What strikers must guard against, by the Editors

FEPC filibuster, by Joseph Keller

Baltimore UE shuts 6 plants

Volume X No. 5, 2 February 1946, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

MANAGING EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Steel workers climax 50-year struggle, close down entire industry, by Art Preis

CIO charges government finances strikebreaking

Ohio strikers demand state jobless aid

Smash it open! (cartoon), by Gray

Detroit Stalinists try to put ban on Militant, by Kay O’Brien

Police terror hurled against L.A. strikers, by M. Patrick

Ford, Chrysler agree to wage increases of 18¢, 18½¢ hourly

In the News

• The bigger the lie
• The war on labor?
• Too hot to hold
• Makes them see red
• His aim realized, from N.Y. Times

CIO meat packers return after resisting seizure, by Robert L. Birchman

GI describes how soldiers on Okinawa organized mass protest demonstrations

Big Business plot to smash unions

Steel strike climaxes 50-year tradition of struggle

• Homestead workers picket where martyrs of 1892 fought (photo)
   
• Indiana harbor veterans back steel workers picket lines
   
• Buffalo workers strike 40,000 strong; union plane tracks food flown to scabs
   
• Locked-in J. & L. bosses on reducing diet

An Editorial

• Stalinists “exception” to the GI demands

Shocking brutality exposed by GIs confined in U.S. Army guardhouse, by Charles Carsten

• A sample of GI protests (photo)
   
• U.S. troops bolster British rule in India
   
• “Go home!” shout students to American GIs in China
   
• Give new excuse for retaining GIs in China

February F.I. analyzes American labor upsurge

Sends message from Japan

Belgian Trotskyists launch new monthly magazine

[Editorials]

• Build a labor party
• Our program
• Pickets’ rights
• Damaging admission

“Goodness – another strike! ...” (cartoon), by Gray

Problems Facing War Veterans, by Charles Carsten

• Why vets support strikes
• Union supports GI demands

Workers’ Bookshelf

• Steelworkers Need $2-a-Day Increase, by Philip Murray, reviewed by Larissa Reed

Expose discrimination in New York schools

Congressmen at Work

Workers’ Forum

• A letter from Holland expresses confidence in Fourth International, from J.D.B.
• Returning GIs refuse to scab, from S.K.
• UE workers in N.Y. picket night and day, from Sandy Robertson
• The pickets (poem), by Eddie Dumaine
• Suggests program to interest women in political struggle, from Lillian M. Hostitler
• Open-shop spreads in garment industry, from Clara Raymond

GM Tag Day experiences told by SWP members

• UAW-CIO – 30% (cartoon), by Morgan
• Soldiers, civilians give to GM strike, from Kent Darrow
• Poorest give pennies, from Dan Shelton
• Veteran gives $10, from Sandy Robertson

Militant Army

Pioneer Notes

Our Program

New quarters for Toledo SWP

CIO tobacco workers wage bitter strike against sweat-shop pay, discrimination

Demonstrating workers in Tokyo, Japan (photo)

Glass workers end strike after thirteen weeks, by M. Walker

St. Louis police join AFL; defy warning of officials, by George Beck

Vets demonstrate to aid Western Union strikers, by John Fredericks

Steel plants shut tight in Reading, by James White

Philadelphia SWP holds successful Lenin meeting

Portland SWP protests murder of colonial people

4th Fontana fire victim dies; home burned after vigilante threats, by Jean Simon

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• Support the strikers

Postwar battlefront in Los Angeles (photo)

• Bosses knew what was coming

Steel striker shut down mammoth Bethlehem plant, by John Fitch

Socialist Workers Party branch Activities

Steel workers close plant in Pittsburgh, California

Diary of a Steelworker, by T. Kovalesky

Youngstown pickets keep vigilant guard, as locked-in scabs suffer malnutrition

Children join parents on the picket line (photo)

Notes of a Seaman, by Art Sharon

Buffalo CIO plans action on Smith

Striking machinists march on capitol in California

Vets begin to march, by Joseph Keller

Sparrows Point workers close Bethlehem plant

Same job, new boss

City Council votes strikers’ relief fun

Workers strike Seattle transit

Volume X No. 6, 9 February 1946, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

MANAGING EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Congress pushes anti-union bill

• Steel profiteers demand outrageous price boost
   
• A robber calling the cops! (cartoon), by Gray
   
• Steel foremen quit plant to join strikers

Chilean police machine-gun heroic union protest rally, by Diego Henriquez

Nigerian Union Congress thanks the SWP for aid

Cops of “labor friend” O’Dwyer assault Western Union pickets, by C. Thomas

In the News

• “Hardship” case, from Associated Press
• Democratizing Geermany, from Christian Science Monitor
• No danger to capitalism, from Christian Science Monitor
• Misquoted, from Scenic Highlands Sun

Striking veterans plan state march

Chicago pickets thwart GM move to break strike, by Nick Bradford

Senate ready to bow before foes of FEPC

The strike wave – its lessons, by the Editors

The strike wave and its lessons

• Man of steel on picket patrol (photo)
   
• Western Electric men hold firm in strike

U.S. Army abets POW slave traffic

• Royal Air Force takes up GI cry to speed return
   
• They want to go home, too! (photo)
   
• Why GIs in China refuse to back Chiang’s regime
   
• Cruelty to Lichfield GIs ordered by Army brass, by Charles Carsten
   
• “Get us home!” demand all soldiers in Hawaii

UNO and the fine art of camouflage, by Joseph Hansen

[Editorials]

• O’Dwyer and Stalinists
• Tax rebates
• Murray’s proposal
• Yalta robber deal

“It’s thrilling ...” (cartoon), by Gray

Problems Facing War Veterans, by Charles Carsten

• Unemployment compensation for vets

Workers’ Bookshelf

• The First Five Years of the Communist International, Vol. 1, by Leon Trotsky, reviewed by Larissa Reed

Corporation swindlers attempt huge tax steal

Congressmen at Work

Workers’ Forum

• Foreign-language articles needed, from Robert Brennan
• Open letter to Stalinist workers, from Francis B.
• British comrade describes rising militancy of workers, from E.W.
• Sammy Sawyer (poem), by Davis Dusenbery
• Zionism and the socialist future, from A.G.
• Meeting in Harlem hears report on two-party lynching of FEPC, from William Charles

Congressional lynchers at work (cartoon), by Gray

Militant Army

Youth Group Activities

Our Program

Pioneer Notes

Why Big Business profiteers are trying to blame inflation upon labor’s demand for living wages, by William F. Warde

Strike leader calls CP story “pack of lies”, by Grace Carlson

Demand action on compensation (photo)

Steel union pushes organizing campaign in Reading, Pa., area, by James White

• NAACP backs steel strike in Youngstown
   
• Labor holiday called to back Buffalo strikes

SWP leader tours coast to expose Fontana case, by Jean Simon

Allentown Mack strikers fight union-busting drive

Chicago union back picket lines protesting Jim Crow skating rink, by Robert L. Birchman

• A united blow at Jim Crow (photo)

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• Real meaning of the Big Blow

Buffalo CIO plans anti-Smith demonstration

Cleveland unionists demonstrate against meeting of G.L.K. Smith

Five join SWP at Akron meeting to honor Lenin

Newark SWP begins drive against anti-strike bill

Philadelphia opens new headquarters

Socialist Workers Party Branch Activities

Might set example

Diary of a Steelworker, by T. Kovalesky

“I came back from a Nazi prison camp to get tear-gassed on the picket line”, by A Vet

Veterans on the march (photo)

Notes of a Seaman, by Art Sharon

UAW offers $2,000 reward to catch thugs who beat woman

‘If necessary’ shoot GIs, says Brass Hat

2,000 Armour workers stage new stoppage, by Robert L. Birchman

Remember Fontana! by Evelyn Atwood

N.Y. draftsmen conduct their first walkout, by John Fredericks

Inland steel workers nail company lies

Scab complains “it’s a farce”

Volume X No. 7, 16 February 1946, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

MANAGING EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

SWP supports ALP candidate for Congress

1,500 Chicago workers picket G.L.K. Smith’s fascist meeting, by Robert L. Birchman

• Chicago police protect fascist spokesman (photo)

Truman yields to price demands of Big Business, by Art Preis

Stalinists deal a stab in back to GM strikers

General Motors continues stall in negotiations, by Grace Carlson

In the News

• Just keep it ‘decent’, from N.Y. Herald-Tribune
• The devil is a saint, from Daily Worker & N.Y. Times
• Didn’t read between the lines, from N.Y. Times
• Hard at work, from N.Y. Times

Tugmen resist O’Dwyer drive to break strike, by Art Sharon

Akron rubber unions vote strike for wage increases, by Milton Genecia

Negro GI brothers slain by Jim-Crow Freeport cop, by Bill Morgan

Chinese Trotskyist party survives Japanese terror

Red-baiting slander – Stalinist style, by the Editors

• What did we fight for? (photo)

In memoriam – Chen Chi-chang, by Li Fu-jen

• Chen Chi-chang (drawing), by E.A.

Nationwide general strike protests massacre in Chile, by Diego Henriquez

• Banner of their martyrs (photo)

Exclusive report on big strike of Paris printers

Nicola Di Bartolomeo (obituary), by Carlo

“Don’t break GIs’ bones,” Army officer tells guards, by Charles Carsten

Officers revelled while GIs sweated it out, says editor

Cairo police arrest Egyptian Trotskyists

Dutch Trotskyist Congress backs Javanese people

[Editorials]

• Case bill
• “Friend of labor”
• Secret diplomacy
• FEPC and Freeport

“I do hope the President ...” (cartoon), by Gray

Problems Facing War Veterans, by Charles Carsten

• The fight for decent housing

Workers’ Bookshelf

• Leon Sedov, Son, Friend, Fighter, by Leon Trotsky, reviewed by Ruth Johnson

Congressmen at Work

Widow, orphans suffer after mine disaster

Workers’ Forum

• Veteran calls on buddies to aid all striking workers, from Johnny Eager
• “There’s never a mine blown skyward”, from C.
  Labor (poem)
• Army hospital negligence revealed by wounded GI, from C.C.
• Praises article on Homestead Steel, from Eddie Duumaine
• Asks column on Stalinist role, from S.T.
• The worker speaks (poem), by Robert Rolland
• Capitalist propaganda methods and a labor-publicity program, from B.H.
• Audience hostile to Army propaganda, from A Vet
• Wall Street press urges intervention in Argentina, from H. Bronson

The capitalist lie machine (cartoon), by Gray

Militant Army

Youth Group Activities

Pioneer Notes

Our Program

In memory of Leon Sedov – heroic revolutionary fighter, by Leon Trotsky

• Leon Sedov (photo)

Bevin and Vyshinsky – a study of hypocrisy within the UNO, by Joseph Hansen

PAC-endorsed mayor vetoes CIO Tag Day

Boss courts hit strikers with flood of injunctions, by Jeff Thorne

4,000 Wilson meatpackers stage walkout, by Robert L. Birchman

Pauley nomination taps a gusher of oil-smeared Washington graft, by Evelyn Atwood

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• Why we must battle anti-semitism

Chicago fighters against Jim-Crow (photo)

Mass meeting demands attorney investigate Fontana death fire, by Lois Saunders

• IAM Aircraft lodge asks Fontana action

White City Rink asks injunction against pickets

Socialist Workers Party branch Activities

Stalinists fail to halt sale of Militant

Diary of a Steelworker, by T. Kovalesky

Strikers at Detroit transmission welcome Militant despite leaders’ attempted ban

Typical of strikers’ wives (photo)

Notes of a Seaman, by Art Sharon

Striking Youngstown vets parade in campaign for unemployed aid, by George Weissman

• Bulletin

Legion head smears GIs in speech

Funeral in Peoria, by Clara Kaye

AFL-CIO masses pickets defy Alameda injunction, by J. Marshall

Back-to-work move halted by strikers’ wives, by Jerry Kirk

FEPC-supporter assaulted by Stalinist goon

Volume X No. 8, 23 February 1946, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

MANAGING EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Fire of struggle tempers victorious unions, by the Editors

Fighting steel workers triumph, by Art Preis

Strikebreaking order closes down New York, by Art Sharon

Transit strike wins gains in Philadelphia, by Max Goldman

Truman ignores oil bribe charge in pressing Pauley nomination, by Evelyn Atwood

• Another oil scandal gushes (cartoon), by Gray

G.M. strikers hold the line for full terms, by Grace Carlson

Corporate heads secretly plotted to crush unions

Release Trotsky’s biography of Stalin

Protest meetings assail Jim-Crow murder of vets

Heroic Indian people defy guns of British, by Charles Carsten

Western Electric, Westinghouse workers in Jersey defy injunctions, continue their mass picketing, by Alan Kohlman

You can’t keep these steel workers down (photo)

Chicago strikers hear E.R. Frank

French Trotskyists win libel suit against Stalinists

Worthington strikers vote “no admission” into plant, by Ruth Laurie

Gouin government inherits crisis

• Gouin (cartoon)

Widow of Bartolomeo writes on his death, by Rose Gaudino

Trotskyists in vanguard of Indian peoples’ fight

• Fighting for India’s independence (photo)
   
• Indian National Army men regarded as loyal patriots
   
• Famine in India threatens lives of ten million
   
• India people hate British overlords
   
• Indian troops join anti-British fight
   
• Censors curtain facts on India

Paris printers give novel reply to Stalinist lies

Stockholders not “the public”

Rich get richer

[Editorials]

• Lynch law
• Truman’s record
• Secret deal at Yalta
• Veterans and unions

“I don’t know where those women ...” (cartoon)

Problems Facing War Veterans, by Charles Carsten

• Disability payments

Workers’ Bookshelf

• Mutiny in January, by Carl Van Doren, reviewed by Joseph Bowen

Senate’s sham fight over the FEPC bill

Congressmen at Work

Workers’ Forum

• Steel strikers like Gray cartoon, from Ruth Franklin
• Some suggestions for the Militant, from D.M.
• Capitalism boasts of slashed production, from A.L.
• Don’t call me a scab! (poem), by Thomas Tarigian
• Veteran describes UE march for unemployment pay, from A Veteran
• Farmers changing views on labor, from J.E.
• A letter from a Texas worker weighs labor and management, from J.S.
  [Letter], from W.W. Lyles, in Caller

The ends of the same chain (cartoon), by Gray

Militant Army

Youth Group Activities

Our Program

Pioneer Notes

Browder – a Wall Street agent 16 years on Stalin’s payroll, by Joseph Hansen

• Stalinist agent of Wall Street (photo)

West Coast longshoremen call strike referendum

Stalinists settle Western Union walkout with no assured gains

Newark workers hear lecture on strike wave

Pioneer growth shown by new issue of catalog

Ferguson kin in plea for justice tell tragic story to The Militant, by William S. Farrell

• The four Ferguson brothers (drawing), by Evelyn Atwood

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• Mr. Rockefeller and his Negro colleges

Anti-fascist pickets face frameup in L.A., by William Van

Striking Indiana veterans put governor on the spot

SWP organizer calls for action in Fontana vigilante fire case

• “Fontana” (poem), by Eddie Dumaine

Socialist Workers Party Branch Activities

Diary of a Steelworker, by T. Kovalesky

• Letter to another steelworker

Lancaster AFL calls city general strike to halt police terror in transit walkout, by Robert Oliver

Wives join transport pickets (photo)

Notes of a Seaman, by Art Sharon

U.S. military police back British despots

Timken strikers solid as company ruses fail

Two Kinds of Justice, by Grace Carlson

Columnist admits Brass Hat policy fostered cruelty

CIO packing workers delay acceptance of wage terms

Volume X No. 9, 2 March 1946, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

MANAGING EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Freedom revolt flares in India, by Joseph Hansen

GM strike leaders appeal for aid, by Grace Carlson

• All-out aid to GM strike! by the Editors

Mass protest meeting in Harlem demands justice in Freeport murder of Negro vets, by William S. Farrell

• Lynch law in Freeport (cartoon), by Gray
   
• Grand jury whitewashes killer of Ferguson boys, by William S. Farrell

O’Dwyer plans strikebreaking in transit fight

French ministry orders attack on La Verité

In the News

• Expert testimony
• Some nerve!
• Atom Age Bible
• Thanks benefactors

NAM launches offensive to shatter price controls, by Art Preis

Jubilant Bethlehem Steel workers in Lackawanna demonstrate might in great strike victory parade, by William Flynn

• Steel strike victory parade

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• National phone strike scheduled March 7
• Aid to GM strike
• ILG gives $500,000 GM strike aid
• GM office workers

Second Pittsburgh power strike looms as workers press demands, by Eloise Gordon

• Bulletin

200 Jones foundry pickets arrested by Chicago cops, by Robert L. Birchman

Westinghouse strikers defy ban on mass picket lines, by Alan Kohlman

French Canadians reject CIO splitter, by Paul Robert

Freedom revolt flares in India

• The Four Freedoms as seen in India (cartoon), from Log
   
• Indian worker (photo)
   
• Trotskyists offer only program that can win India’s freedom
   
• Labor traitors pursue Tory policy on India

Cairo uprising seeks freedom from British, by Charles Carsten

• Witness relates British brutality in Cairo streets

Philippine peasants battle Army MPs

Celebes joins Java in heroic fight for independence

Indian magazine says Trotskyists are in Viet Minh

Trotskyists in Denmark survive terror of Nazis

[Editorials]

• Hands off India!
• “Don’t browbeat Ford”
• Tammany Tiger
• Millions are ready

“I do think this Russian model is ...” (cartoon)

Problems Facing War Veterans, by Charles Carsten

• Sick and disabled vets victimized, from Gram

Workers’ Bookshelf

• If He Hollers Let Him Go, by Chester B. Himes, reviewed by N. Lyons

Congressmen at Work

Nazi files reveal link with U.S. Steel, by Jeff Thorne

Workers’ Forum

• For a rising scale of wages to meet rising living costs, from Edith Landi
• The Zionist question, from Len Miller
• Soliloquy of a Militant reader, by W. Spear
• A working student estimates The Militant, from David Kraus
• Agony and insults were reward of Negro people in imperialist war, from Victor A. Howell
• Murder of civilians exposed by American Marine in China, from J.H.
• Women’s problems and capitalism, from Anna Hurstwood

Stock market report – 1946 (cartoon)

Pioneer Notes

Militant Army

Our Program

Youth Group Activities

Stalin’s speech reflects fear of World War III; shifts line on character of imperialist conflicts, by Joseph Hansen

• Stalin (cartoon)

Dutch Trotskyists greet Socialist Workers Party, from Sol Santen

Memorial march for murdered union men (photo)

SWP endorses F.B. Davis for Seattle Council

Homeless vets seize Vancouver hotel

Los Angeles CIO organizes for strike defense, by M. Patrick

Article on current strikes is featured in latest F.I.

Court biased against pickets of Smith rally, by William Van

Buffalo unionists picket meeting of fascist Rev. Gerald L.K. Smith

• Picketing fascists meeting in Buffalo (photo)

The Negro Struggle by Charles Jackson

• To the side of fighting India!

Jim-Crow rink seeks injunction against pickets

Portland meeting demands probe of Fontana deaths

Harlem protest meeting demands justice against Freeport killer

• Another vet slain by Jim-Crow cop

Lucky Strike radio broadcast picketed in L.A., by William Van

Socialist Workers Party branch Activities

Dividing the pie

No war millionaires?

Diary of a Steelworker, by T. Kovalesky

Lancaster AFL wins “Battle of Bulls Run” as general strike halts police terrorism, by Robert Oliver

Trotskyists aid fight against anti-strike bill

Victims of police terror (photo)

Pal of G.L.K. Smith faces recall in L.A., by Gordon Bailey

Notes of a Seaman, by Art Sharon

GIs ask people to help them get back home

Pauley oil scandal smears top Washington officials, by Evelyn Atwood

Nailing Imperialist Lie, by Paul Abbott

Demobilization slowdown

Volume X No. 10, 9 March 1946, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

MANAGING EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

General Motors continues its arrogant stand, by Grace Carlson

• Bulletin

Philadelphia CIO pickets battle police terrorism, by Robert Oliver

The mighty arm of solidarity (cartoon), by Gray

Navy exonerates wounded brother in Ferguson case, by William S. Farrell

Truman policy paves way for big price rises

Americans cable protest against La Verité ban

State troopers, armed lynch mob unleash bloody warfare against Negro community, by Evelyn Atwood

• On Nazi model
   
• SWP protests anti-Negro atrocities in Tennessee, by James P. Cannon

In the News

• ‘Crime’ and punishment
• What about British machine guns? by Mohandas K. Gandhi
• Too big a risk
• Make anybody sick

Tighten the ranks, by the Editors

New revolts carry on fight for independence of India

Stalinist leaders of CIO transport workers union capitulate to strikebreaking threats of O’Dwyer, by Art Sharon

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• New big strikes loom
• Chrysler contract

Police terror in Philadelphia (photo)

Ancient British “riot act” used in Jersey strike,by Alan Kohlman

Reading union hits Case Bill

Capitalist politics

Philadelphia SWP holds gay social

Dinner opens new Toledo quarters

Belgian Trotskyists gain in election

• Belgian Stalinists and “socialists” block election victory of workers, by E. Germain
   
• Leon Lesoil (photo)

Militant action wins Japanese union demand

• Japanese workers line up for food (photo)

Brass Hats exile U.A.W. militant to Okinawa

Call nation-wide strike in fight to free Egypt, by Charles Carsten

The good old days, from the British Economist

I saw them die in Calcutta’s street, by John Frederick Muehl, abridged from Asia and the Americas

• Typical street scene in India (photo)

[Editorials]

• Keep up the fight
• Imperialist censors
• Freedom from fear?
• Change of mind

“Those strikers think they’ve got us ...” (cartoon), by Gray

Problems Facing War Veterans, by Charles Carsten

• What happened to postwar promises?
• Equal opportunity?
• Freedom from fear?

Workers’ Bookshelf

• Manifesto of the Fourth International to the Workers of India, reviewed by Larissa Reed

Rich interests fight veterans’ housing bill

Congressmen at Work

Workers’ Forum

• Says Trotskyists are genuine, from Belle Montague
• On unemployment pay to jobless veterans, from World War Veteran
• Pine (poem), by Eddie Dumaine
• Police beat Negro for boarding bus, from Florence Hayes
• Corruption grips Nassau County, scene of Ferguson murder case, from J.R.
• For a larger old-age pension, from E.E. Hague
• Reader condemns doles, wants full production, from Frank Simpson
• USES forces veterans into low pay jobs, from R.O.
• Reader approves praise for S.W.P., from P.N.

Mink coat for her dog (photo)

Pioneer Notes

Militant Army

Got a diving suit? by A.W. Weinberg, from New Republic

Youth Group Activities

Our Program

Concentration of wealth

Workers’ debts grow

Wall Street threatens another war – spokesmen of Big Business launch attack on U.S.S.R., by Joseph Hansen

Radio speaker refutes slander against Militant

Jim Crow atrocity in Tennessee (photo)

Myra Weiss continues tour on Fontana vigilante case

• Portland youth hear talk on Fontana case, by Joyce Hesser

Stalinist AYD expels students for Trotskyism

14,000 Timken workers hold firm despite company’s union-busting

Truman signs phony bill on jobs as unemployment rapidly mounts, by Ruth Johnson

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• Origin and significance of “race”

Demand FEPC in California (photo)

Jim-Crow rink denied injunction against pickets, by Robert L. Birchman

WLB record shows why labor should get off the new board, by Jeff Thorne

Union heads flay Case Bill as revival of “blacklists”

Socialist Workers Party Branch Activities

FEPC meeting hears plan for capitol march

Diary of a Steelworker, by T. Kovalesky

Huge labor demonstration in Houston halts strikebreaking attempts by city officials

• Cheering Houston strike victory! (photo)

Notes of a Seaman, by Art Sharon

Why ALP nominee lost election in New York East Side district, by Lou Cooper

SWP holds Ferguson meeting despite Hague intimidation

Western Electric strikers await phone tie-up aid

Three Growing Boys, by Grace Carlson

Volume X No. 11, 16 March 1946, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

MANAGING EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Wall Street threatens new war, by Joseph Hansen

• Preparing for World War III (cartoon), by Gray

$15,000 Militant fund campaign starts Mar. 15, by Evelyn Atwood

SWP protests French arrests of Trotskyists

Washington hikes prices on food, clothes, housing

Auto locals start drive to elect Reuther as next UAW president, by Grace Carlson

Generals purge Army editors for “crime” of being in CIO, by Charles Carsten

In the News

• “Lost” – on purpose
• Might give him radical ideas, from Chicago Daily News
• Subversive word, from Associalted Press
• Quill flunks history

CIO rubber workers win outstanding victory, by Joseph Andrews

Release of 101 jailed Negroes won by protests

NMU head bares Stalinist misrule, by Art Sharon

A New York subway worker’s story, by William Charles

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• Have you contributed to aid the GM strike?
• A stab-in-the-back to the GM strike
• Labor solidarity

To avenge murdered pickets (photo)

The Ford contract – a danger signal

Union strikes against firing of Negro workers

Not even nylons can lure women past picket line

How du Ponts fleece workers

French arms move against Indo-China

Indian independence revolt spreads despite gun fire of British rulers

• Heroic fighters against British imperialism

Spanish unions ask help to end Franco regime

Fontana deputy sheriff resigns

Mexican Stalinist demands end to CP bribe taking

Fighters for Free Egypt cry “down with England”

Charming India – British style

British censors relax, OK letter after 3 years

How imperialist rulers process news reports

“Independence” Day

$55,000 per casualty

[Editorials]

• “Third Party” or a real labor party?
• Ship steal
• Food is a weapon
• Rubber union’s victory

“Quick, doctor —” (cartoon), by Gray

Problems Facing War Veterans, by Charles Carsten

• What happened to “full employment”
• Only the unions fight for GIs

Workers’ Bookshelf

• The Injustice of Military Justice, by Walter Wilson, reviewed by Larissa Reed

Insurance bribe case lobbyist heads RFC, by Jeff Thorne

Congressmen at Work

Workers’ Forum

• Auto worker exposes boss scheme to divide Negroes and whites, from A.B.
• Bureaucrat “forgets” socialist principles, from A. Poland
• Indian famine took 10 million lives, from L. Scott
• Brass Hat hypocrisy hits new high in call for Negro GIs, from Sam Taylor
• Strikes equalize all workers, from Anna Sager
• Freeport’s Jim-Crow ghetto – A scene of squalor and filth, from W.R.
• Challenges Red Cross to aid GM workers, from Richard McCoy
• Veteran calls for mass protests against atom bomb “experiment”, from J. Eager
• Movie reviews by Marxists needed, from M. Leeds

Welcome Home Joe (cartoon)

Pioneer Notes

Militant Army

Youth Group Activities

Our Program

SWP branches greet Militant fund drive with enthusiasm, campaign director reports, by Justine Lang

• To all readers of The Militant, from The Editors
   
• UAW-CIO – 30% (cartoon), by Morgan
   
• Longshoremen in San Pedro learn about Militant, by Ray Burn
   
• Branch quotas
   
• UAW worker calls Militant “most worthwhile,” offers aid
   
• Support The Militant (cartoon)

Letter from the strike fronts testify to Militant’s picket-line popularity

• Youngstown
• Pittsburgh
• New York
• Toledo
• Flint
• Newark
• Baltimore
• Akron
• Milwaukee
• Lancaster, Pa.

Minneapolis Stalinists attack distributors of The Militant

Only Militant warned “there is no peace!”

• We alone told the truth! (facsimile)

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• Terror in Tennessee

SWP opposes election bill in New Jersey

Lenin, Trotsky always warned capitalist system breeds war

Socialist Workers Party Branch Activities

How Stalinism has betrayed the struggle for socialism

Diary of a Steelworker, by T. Kovalesky

Telephone workers force AT&T to yield; Western Electric strike ends in victory, by Alan Kohlman

For freedom from police clubs! (photo)

Notes of a Seaman, by Art Sharon

New York local of SWP holds inspiring two-day convention

Los Angeles SWP aids campaign for state FEPC, by J. Blake

Truman pulls double-cross on 300,000 steel strikers

Workers quit Stalinists, by Paul Abbott

Stalinist goons attack Militant distributors

Strike threat ends meat barons’ chiseling, by Leigh Ray

Volume X No. 12, 23 March 1946, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

MANAGING EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Issues before UAW delegates at convention, by the Editors

Heroic GM strikers win after 113-day struggle

• A tribute to a real fighter (cartoon), by Gray
   
• Salute to GM strikers!

Ford council opposes several contract clauses, by Roy Weston

Wall Street continues drive for new war; hurls reactionary barrage at Soviet Union, by Charles Carsten

In the News

• Heroes’ “reward”
• Labor got stuck
• Splitting the atomists, from N.Y. Daily Mirror
• Beastly manners
• ‘Good Neighbor’ policy

American seamen defy order to scab on Filipino strike, by Art Sharon

Paris Trotskyist meeting raided by Gouin police

Fund drive gets good start, by Evelyn Atwood

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• Capitalist press and sour grapes
• Judases in search of a market

As GM strikers win (photo)

Greek Trotskyists slain by Stalinists

• Nikos Aravantinos (drawing), by E.A.
• Demosthenes Voursoukes (drawing), by E.A.

Another war will doom civilization, analysis of World War II reveals, by Eugene Varlin

Italian police shoot down jobless workers (photo)

Dutch troops pour into Java; new battles flare, by Mike Cort

Italian farm workers stage huge demonstration at Apulia

• Alcide Gasperi (cartoon)

British shoot down Malayan workers striking for food

Trotskyists in Norway survive Nazi invasion

[Editorials]

• CIO political action
• Stalin’s policy
• Help The Militant!
• Boosting prices

“I really don’t see why people ...” (cartoon), by Gray

Problems Facing War Veterans, by Charles Carsten

• Brass Hats press for conscription
• Patterned after Prussian model
• Workers want no more war

Workers’ Bookshelf

• The Living Thoughts of Karl Marx, reviewed by Larissa Reed

Wall Street bankers milk railroad systems

Congressmen at Work

Workers’ Forum

• Activities of Philadelphia police, from F.B.
• A subscriber lauds The Militant, from Wayne LaGrange
• Wants pamphlet on socialism, from Melvon C. Bennett
• Slow starvation for workers under wage-slave system, from J.H. Bard
• Woman’s contribution to society, from Lillian L. Hostetter

French trade-unionists express solidarity with U.S. strikers, from M. Cidone

• Resolution on colonial struggles
• Resolution on labor unity

Wall Street’s “peace” plan (cartoon), by Gray

Militant Army

Pioneer Notes

Chicago workers picket banquet for G.L.K. Smith

Our Program

Youth Group Activities

Campaign director reports enthusiastic response to appeal for $15,000 Militant sustaining fund, by Justine Lang

• Ring the bell! (graphic)
   
• Scoreboard
   
• Why youth should support Militant fund campaign, by Laura Falk
   
• Steel worker sends first contribution to fund, from George Lengel

Red-baiters fail in election bid at Flint local, by Jerry Kirk

Arkansas group calls for aid to indicted strikers

Cleveland CIO pickets meeting of fascist group

Fight against Jim-Crow rink won in Chicago

Seattle SWP supports Davis

What Karl Marx’s teachings mean for the American working class, by Larissa Reed

• Karl Marx (photo)

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• Who won in Tennessee?

SWP speaker flays Fontana case secrecy

Revere workers in Chicago hold firm in strike

Some facts the Michigan PAC leaders ‘forgot’ about Stassen, by Roger Kent

Local Activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Bronx SWP has housewarming

Diary of a Steelworker, by T. Kovalesky

UMW negotiators indict coal operators for million casualties in mine disasters

• Murder for profits (photo)

Notes of a Seaman, by Art Sharon

Flint Chevrolet local asks UAW to launch Labor Party drive

Deal with Chiang wins French foothold in North Indo-China

Vets Housing Crisis, by John Fredericks

SWP pushes FEPC petition in Los Angeles

Freeport case protested by Buffalo CIO

Volume X No. 13, 30 March 1946, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

MANAGING EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

UAW delegates face key issues, by Art Preis

• General Motors still tied up on local issues

Administration urges Congress to extend draft

Wounded veterans put in ship’s hold

“It’s your turn now” (cartoon), by Gray

Veterans picket realty board in New York City

Wall Street wields Iranian issue to promote anti-Soviet war drive, by Charles Carsten

• Wall Street war-monger

In the News

• He maketh glad the Nazi heart, from The New Yorker
• 15 servants enough? from N.Y. Times
• Unanimous for Wall St., from N.Y. Post
• Except for India, Egypt, Malaya, Palestine etc., by Winston Churchill

Brass Hats scheme to keep control of atomic energy, by Felix Morrow

Big Business speeds assault on price control, by Evelyn Atwood

San Francisco machinists end bitter four-month strike, by J. Marshall

Paris rally scores attacks on Fourth Internationalists

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• Small Steel locals still out on strike
• Some Stalinist fakery about the GM strike
• “Incentive Pay” comes home to roost

The next task (cartoon)

“To the men and women of G.M. ...” (poem), by Eddie Dumaine

“Pioneer” display attracts UAW convention delegates

No city safe from new air weapons, by Eugene Varlin

Famine strikes Chinese farmers; 10,000,000 eat grass and clay, by Mike Cort

• Imperialists use food as weapon to aid reaction
   
• The heritage of imperialist war – starvation (photo)
   
• Indian people will die like flies
   
• Imperialist plan starvation for Japanese people
   
• Starvation and disease scourge of all Europe
   
• Aid to the starving, by the Editors

Our martyrs

A Dutch worker’s letter to Militant, from Nol Bose

[Editorials]

• Time for action
• Army reform
• Role of UNO
• Strikebreaker O’Dwyer

“I just got the most wonderful idea ...” (cartoon), by Gray

Problems Facing War Veterans, by Charles Carsten

• Packing union forms vet committee
• Step in right direction

Workers’ Bookshelf

• The Paris Commune, by V.I. Lenin, reviewed by Ruth Johnson

CIO demands action on Tennessee terror

Congressmen at Work

Workers’ Forum

• As seen in a Follansbee, West Virginia, picket shanty (poem)
• Soldier describes misery in Germany, from A Soldier
• Offers suggestions to improve Militant, from L. Miller
• Socialism and initiative which capitalism now stifles, from A Reader
• Southern Negro tells of terror, from A Subscriber
• Brooklyn youth stabbed in attack by anti-Semites, from P. Carlton

Issue is Stalinism, not Browderism, says ex-Communist Party member, from Murray Burns

• Stalin (cartoon)

Militant Army

Pioneer Notes

Our Program

Youth Group Activities

Militant fund goes up to $1,617 in week – reach ten percent of $15,000 goal

• Ring the bell!
   
• Scoreboard
   
• A Southern reader tells how she subscribed to Militant, from I.J.

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

• Why we should study Marxism
   
• Equality Under Primitive Communism

Bronx meeting protests murder of Fergusons

• Youth crowd Harlem meeting to protest Ferguson murders
   
• Newark meeting hits murder of Ferguson boys, by Bob Blaine

Negro candidate in Seattle receives impressive vote

Tacoma SWP branch formed

Thousands fired as packers plot to raise prices, by Leigh Ray

Why War Department seeks easing of terrorism against the Nisei, by William Van

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• Spotlight on Fontana

Victims of terror in Fontana (pamphlet cover), designed by Seaman

Introductory subscription campaign launched by Fourth International

• How campaign will be conducted, by Connie Locke

Local Activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Diary of a Steelworker, by T. Kovalesky

War Department picks “Board of Inquiry” to whitewash own military caste system, by Harold Josephs

Flint UAW locals accept GM contract with reservations, by Jerry Kirk

GM Fisher body workers vote to extend strike, by D. Lands

Must 17 Million Die? by Larissa Reed

Volume X No. 14, 6 April 1946, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

MANAGING EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

UAW convention marks new stage for auto union, by Art Preis

Wall Street uses UNO in preparing new war, by John G. Wright

• Hatched in the imperialist incubator (cartoon), by Gray

Virginia uses state draft to bar strike

Big Business demands end of price controls, by Evelyn Atwood

400,000 bituminous coal miners go on strike for union demands

In the News

• Big Three “unity”, by Drew Pearson, from N.Y. Mirror
• Lifetime disguise, from U.P.
• 1946 version, from PM
• Still on “relief”
• Who won the war?
• REst in peace

The real aims behind spy scare in Canada, by George Martell

• Washington joins in spy scare

Mass meeting wins reversal in Ferguson case conviction, by William S. Farrell

Victory near in the fight for legalization of La Verité

Pioneer publishers bring something new to boardwalk (photo)

Auto industry is nation’s largest

Disease, germs–a new war weapon, by Eugene Varlin

Stimson statement confirms Marxist analysis of Roosevelt’s war plans, by Charles Carsten

• American imperialists garrison the world (graphic)
   
• Stimson (photo)

League of Nations and the UNO: Important lessons from history

Wall Street men rule Army GHQ in Philippines

• MacArthur (cartoon)

German workers demonstrate against Allied hunger policy

Starvation, disease ravage Italy; food rations cut further

[Editorials]

• Let the people vote on war!
• Look at the record
• Bring them home!
• Who told the truth?

“How to these people expect to get anywhere? ...” (cartoon), by Gray

Problems Facing War Veterans, by Charles Carsten

• Banking forces mobilize

Workers’ Bookshelf

• Vigilante Terror in Fontana, by Myra Tanner Weiss, reviewed by Ruth Johnson

Corporation tax-steals used to fight unions

Congressmen at Work

Workers’ Forum

• Survey shows vets know the score, from S.T.
• Dutch reader praises Militant for realism, from B.M.
• Officer-caste lives in luxury while GIs must “sweat it out”, from D. Kirks
• Open letter to Lynn Bomar, from William Van
• Wants action-slogans on unemployment, from L. Ray
• The beggar (poem), by Eddie Dumaine
• A talented Negro crushed by capitalism, from Frank Mele

Veteran’s reward (photo)

Officers shrug as unemployment rises in Germany

Militant Army

Pioneer Notes

Our Program

Youth Group Activities

Fourth International opens campaign for 500 new subs

Over $1,000 contributed last week brings Militant fund up to $2,618, by Justine Lang

• $15,000 – Ring the bell! (diagram)
   
• Pensioner sends $5 to “best paper I ever read”
   
• Workers give dollars to aid Militant fund
   
• Scoreboard

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

• How factories were born
• Capitalism only a few centuries old

Philadelphia protest meeting hears Edward Ferguson speak

Buffalo CIO reports 10 new vet committees

USSR faces internal crisis, declares April issue of F.I.

N.Y. painters hit Ferguson murder

Stalinist record shows who served shipowners throughout the war, by Art Sharon

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• You and The Militant

Police brutality halted in Stamford (photo)

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Diary of a Steelworker, by T. Kovalesky

Cleveland unionist describes how his local handles scabs during machinists’ strike, by H.R.

UAW convention in session (photo)

Allis-Chalmers workers confident in 3-week strike at Cincinnati, by J. Christianson

Notes of a Seaman, by Art Sharon

Textile profiteers get a handout

Bitter 55-day strike won by Timken steel workers

Veteran tells why Brass Hats and Wall Street demand draft, from Kent Darrow

Report From Florida, by Larissa Reed

Volume X No. 15, 13 April 1946, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

MANAGING EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Truman urges militarist policy, by Art Preis

Strikers fight Westinghouse union-busting

Protectors of plutocracy (cartoon), by Gray

Labor press hit as monopolists grab newsprint

Atomic energy remains under military control, by Charles Carsten

Harassed veteran writes congressman

Senate passes death sentence on 65-cent minimum wage bill, by Larissa Reed

In the News

• Atom bomb a day keeps doctor away
• Studying technique
• Vanishing act
• What’s in a name?
• Iranian victory, from N.Y. Times

House group votes bill to help boost prices

New York veterans’ group pushes housing program, Evelyn Atwood

Expose Army plot to clear Lichfield torture officers, by Mike Cort

Scandalous housing crisis exposed

• Detroit veterans seeks homes in vain, by Jim Ross
   
• Chicago vets demand housing (photo)
   
• “Medals don’t mean a thing” to landlords, veterans find, by R. Egan
   
• Ex-GI dreamed of home, can’t find one now
   
• Wife of St. Paul vet tells housing plight
   
• Vets’ families in Portland get squalid shacks
   
• Chicago veterans demonstrate to demand immediate housing, by Nick Bradford

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• The bigger the lie ...
• Doing the dirty work for the bureaucrats
• Rail Arbitration gives bitter fruit
• Goodrich Local 5 sets record straight

Veterans plead for decent wage

Atomic destruction and World War III, by Eugene Varlin

Control of oil land in Middle East involved in UNO dispute over Iran

• Wall Street’s man Byrnes (cartoon)

Threaten death sentence for leading Bulgarian Trotskyists

Sugar barons plunder Puerto Rican people

Report first strike in USSR in 20 years

Freedom from want – Greece, 1946

Trotskyist jailed in Egypt as reaction attacks masses

Imperialist terror in Greece – background of the elections

[Editorials]

• War-making powers
• Minimum wage
• Food relief policy
• Free press

“You coward! For heaven’s sake ...” (cartoon)

Problems Facing War Veterans, by Charles Carsten

• What minimum wage fight means to vets
• Why War Department objects

Movie Review

• Open City, directed by Roberto Rosselini, reviewed by Ruth Johnson

UAW convention assails Jim Crow, race hatreds

Congressmen at Work

Workers’ Forum

• Exposes Red Cross as political weapon of imperialism, from Fred Biggs
• Indonesia (poem), by Eddie Dumaine
• Overseas 3 years drafted for more, from Laura Falk
• We’ll all be free or all be slaves, from R.B.
• Ex-sailor exposes privileges enjoyed by Navy gold braid, from A Reader
• Submits poem on war slogans, from Jack Miller
  Slogans (poem)
• The privileged people and workers in the Soviet Union, from Sam Taylor
• A correction on piecework in UAW, from David Lands
• Steel worker’s wife sends news stories, from Mrs. K.S.
• New reader praises Militant reporting, from New Subscriber

Scab murders union head of family (photo)

Pioneer Notes

Militant Army

Our Program

Youth Group Activities

Militant fund score rises to $3,969, by Justine Lang

• &15,000 – Ring the bell! (diagram)
• Scoreboard
• Wisconsin students give to Militant sustaining fund

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

• How the factory worker was born

Flint NAACP protest rally hears talk by SWP speaker, by Jerry Kirk

• St. Paul meeting protests terror against Negroes

City payroll tax opposed at polls by Toledo labor, by M. Walker

Anglo-American imperialists haggle over crumbs for starving millions, by Felix Morrow

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• A letter from “home”

Detroit transit workers vote strike (photo)

Brooklyn rally lashes murder of Fergusons

Workers drawn to Tacoma SWP at first meeting

CIO and AFL support Detroit transit strike, by John Saunders

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Wright speaks in Philadelphia

Diary of a Steelworker, by T. Kovalesky

“The miners will not forget their dead!” writes West Virginia striker to Militant, by Gus Nikolias

• Where mine owners’ greed brought disaster (photo)

Westinghouse strikers parade around Philadelphia City Hall

Notes of a Seaman, by Art Sharon

Reading rail shop crafts men protest undemocratic policy

Success Story, by William F. Warde

Volume X No. 16, 20 April 1946, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

MANAGING EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

OPA wrecks many price ceilings, by Art Preis

Striking miners stand firm for social demands, by Joseph Keller

Wall Street and the wonderful lamp (cartoon), by Gray

Filipinos demand U.S. imperialism get out entirely

Secret clause bars all news of atomic data

W.Va. strikers halt operations at strip mines, by Gus Nickolias

Japanese workers raise demand for control over production, by Charles Carsten

In the News

• Cultural influence
• Except the books!
• Guess who’s lying

Old “gag” law used to indict Phila. CIO head

New relief committee aids destitute Europeans workers, by Evelyn Atwood

West Coast longshore strike is called off

O’Dwyer sales tax scheme denounced by SWP local

Packing barons sabotage meat supplies to force big price increases through organized scarcity, by J. Rever

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• 900 strikes planned withing next 30 days
• CIO utility workers hold first convention
• Time marches back for Luce publications
• Disabled veterans get UAW support

Scabherding in Pittsburgh (photo)

DFL convention in Minnesota shows friction

CIO veterans in Buffalo plan big rally

How Westinghouse fared in war

31-day struggle wins gains for Chicago Revere workers

New war will doom our civilization, by Eugene Varlin

• Atom bombs cost million a day

Former OWI director now beats drums for war on Soviet Union, by Charles Carsten

Demonstrating workers in Tokyo, Japan (photo)

Big Brass covers guilt of Lichfield officers

• Veteran tells of atrocities at Lichfield

Wealthy feast as poor starve in Hungary

Rose Karsner (drawing), by E.A.

Joseph Raffin-Dugens, old revolutionist, dies

A letter of appreciation from a worker in Holland

[Editorials]

• Fighting high prices
• Workers’ control
• Two-party system
• Draft extension

“Isn’t that child wearing ...” (cartoon), by Gray

Problems Facing War Veterans, by Charles Carsten

• Government agencies foster Jim Crow
• USES won’t send Negro applicants
• Training not given minorities

Workers’ Bookshelf

• The New African

Vets’ “reconversion” from heroes to “bums”

Congressmen at Work

Workers’ Forum

• Navy Gold Braid privileges reigned even in combat, from Ed Davis
• Another generation (poem), by Eddie Dumaine
• Reprisals by Army brass for all who forget salute, from J.E.
• Suggests campaign against imperialist atomic bomb race, from A Subscriber

Protests bring indictment of scabs (photo)

Pioneer Notes

Militant Army

Our Program

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Youth Group Activities

Over one-third of $15,000 goal is reached in fourth week of Militant fund campaign, by Justine Lang

• $15,000 – Ring the bell! (diagram)
• Scoreboard
• Vet sends $2 to Militant, from S.C.

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

• The things we make
   
• What the Difference Is

New Lackawanna SWP branch holds first public meeting

Imperialist-controlled agencies haggle as starvation spreads, by Felix Morrow

New Belgian government shaky, by E. Germain

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• Ku Klux rides again

Greek masses starve while rich fatten

Revival of Ku Klux Klan (photo)

Diary of a Steelworker, by T. Kovalesky

Thousands of Minneapolis vets homeless; forced to sleep on floors, eat in relays, by Nora Scott

• Chicken-coops become 1946 “apartments” (photo)
   
• Many families broken up by housing crisis

Notes of a Seaman, by Art Sharon

‘Labor statesmen’ don’t impress rail wage arbitration boards, by John Russo

Scourges of Mankind, by Larissa Reed

Modern Gulliver Travels sees Lilliputian Congress, by William Gulliver

“Labor must fight draft,” CIO vet writes Militant, from H.N.

Volume X No. 17, 27 April 1946, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

MANAGING EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Halt the war-makers! Unite on May Day against the imperialists! – May Day manifesto of National Committee, Socialist Workers Party of United States

May Day – 1946 (cartoon),

House demolishes OPA control; price-gougers get green light, by Art Preis

Mine strikers fight to halt vile conditions, by Evelyn Atwood

Fourth Internationalists hold world conference

• Ban lifted on La Verité, French Trotskyist paper

In the News

• Passed by mistake
• Still royal open shop
• Cut out of the will
• Books to burn

Packers create meat shortages

Slain Ferguson brother is exonerated by Army, by William S. Farrell

Big Brass seeks whitewash for Lichfield atrocities

Kremlin’s policy inside Germany

Rule of U.S. imperialism brings starvation to people of Germany, by Eugene Varlin

Austrian Trotskyist groups send report to outside world

Starvation in Hungary (photo)

Trotskyists are reported active in Indonesia

Further details on conference

‘Could teach the Gestapo,’ soldier says of Lichfield

Trotskyist policy in Greek election

F.I. subscription campaign gets off to splendid start

Spanish POUM members seized, face execution

Protests ban on Algerian party

Election returns

[Editorials]

• World conference of 4th International
• Truman’s famine diet
• CIO-PAC policy

“I’m so glad you’ve explained ...” (cartoon), by Gray

Problems Facing War Veterans, by Charles Carsten

• The Militant and the veterans
• Supported GI demonstrations

Workers’ Bookshelf

• One World or None, reviewed by Larissa Reed

Congressmen at Work

GE monopoly blocks new cure for cancer

Workers’ Forum

• New reader applauds V. Grey series on study of Marxism, from E.R.
• Housing crisis in Milwaukee is greatest problem to vets, from Marie Gregory
• Army Brass Hats never lose sight of privileges, from Howard Zucker
• Discrimination against Negro GI was Army “accepted procedure”, from Ted Rust
• Monopolists bury inventions as “military secrets”, from A.L.
• Army caste system imposes social barriers against GIs, from

The Negro soldier’s bitterest enemy (cartoon)

Militant Army

Pioneer Notes

Our Program

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Youth Group Activities

Militant sustaining fund campaign reaches 40 pct. of quota in fifth week, by Justine Lang

• $15,000 – Ring the bell! (diagram)
• Greek comrade greets first Militant received in years, from A Friend
• Greet Militant on May Day, from Stephen & Timothy
• Scoreboard

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

• What is a commodity?
   
• Two-fold Nature of Value

“Investigation” on Fontana conceals vigilante terror, by Lois Saunders

Baltimore SWP meeting recruits new members

May Day born in labor struggles, by Ruth Johnson

• Haymarket demonstration scene (photo)

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• “On Whitman Avenue – U.S.A.”

Milwaukee SWP aids relief fund

Stalinists and May Day

Diary of a Steelworker, by T. Kovalesky

Will Stalinist “one big union” conference promote genuine unity of maritime unions? by Art Sharon

CIO packinghouse union protests layoffs (photo)

Notes of a Seaman, by Art Sharon

Westinghouse strikers resist legal move to halt picketing

Cleveland strike at Fisher Body in sixth month, by David Lands

Disease stalks the world

Volume X No. 18, 4 May 1946, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

MANAGING EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Southern drive of CIO faces bitter struggle, by Art Preis

12 more miners killed by greed of operators, by George Weissman

• What mine owners call “trivia” (cartoon)
   
• My Daddy’s in the mine (photo)
   
• “How Green Was My Valley” – where 12 dead miners sleep, by Mike Farrell
   
• McCoy miners in recent strike on safety issue

Leon Trotsky’s book on Stalin, finally released

U.S. Army courts-martial system flayed in sweeping denunciation, by George Breitman

In the News

• Famine diet
• More truth than advertising
• The “peace makers”, by Ann O’Hare McCormick, from N.Y. Times

New Jersey SWP launches elections campaign

• George Breitman (photo)

Justice for the miners! by the Editors

McCoy miners’ widows tell plight, by Mike Farrell

• The last mile (photo)
   
• McCoy mine small, death record big
   
• From McCoy mine (photo)
   
• Pacifico tells Militant of need for welfare fund
   
• Miners demand safe conditions, not medals!
   
• To the grave (photo)

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• How press buried McCoy disaster news
• Rail unions seek bigger pay award
• Westinghouse strike passes 100-day mark
• Women strikes ask maternity leave clause

May 1 in Greece – its significance, by S. Stypos

Wall Street continues to prepare for World War III against USSR, by Charles Carsten

• The cost of imperialist war (photo)

PCI publishes first issue of legalized organ

UNRRA food on black market

India famine fostered by imperialist policies, by Eugene Varlin

British soldier in Singapore writes about oppressive rule

Palestine Arabs, Jews unite in strike actions

Protest arrest of Indonesian fighter

Wall Street sabotages Philippine independence, by Mike Cort

General asks food or troops

[Editorials]

• Capitalist criminals made the famine
• Wages and prices
• “Fair Tennessee”
• Action on prices

“Fifi’s so smart! ...” (cartoon), by Gray

Problems Facing War Veterans, by Charles Carsten

• Vets’ pensions and price boosts
• Thousands in same boat

Workers’ Bookshelf

• La Lutte Anticolonialiste

GE mouthpiece relates strikebreaking tactics

Congressmen at Work

Workers’ Forum

• Another day in a working woman’s life, from Dan Dreiser
• Texas worker describes veterans’ housing plight, from Bob Dallas
• Unemployment and hunger in Oregon require action now, from Joyce Hesser
• People must ask “what is wrong?” from Paul J. Kollinski
• Letter of UMW official answers attacks on mine strike demands, from A Reader
  [Letter], from George J. Titler, in Raleigh Register
• Philadelphia reader tells why he joined the S.W.P., from S.V.L.

They are fatherless now (photo)

Militant Army

Pioneer Notes

Our Program

Youth Group Activities

Militant sustaining fund goes over half-way quota; total hits $7,638, by Justine Lang

• $15,000 – Ring the bell (diagram)
• Singapore reader praises program of The Militant
• Scoreboard
• Workers tells why he aids The Militant

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

• Use value cannot be measured

Latest F.I. features review of strike wave

Packers create meat famine, say farmers union officers, by Barbara Bruce

Lichfield G.I. guard imprisoned for brutality ordered by his officers

• Strictly for the birds ..., by Maj. Gen. Thomas H. Green

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• May Day and the minorities

While vets go homeless (photo)

New York SWP demands inquiry in Ferguson case

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

GIs protest imperialist role in Philippines

Heroic sacrifice in Indo-China

Diary of a Steelworker, by T. Kovalesky

CIO veterans in Buffalo hold mass rally to protest housing crisis, unemployment

• “Homes for vets – now!” (photo)

Packing workers demand action in meat crisis, by L. Ray

• Charges packers “just not buying”

Inflation brings chaos in Hungary

Notes of a Seaman, by Art Sharon

Toledo man uncovers lynching in Arkansas, by Harold Josephs

3-month FE-CIO strike ends with wage boost, by Joe Davis

Shortages Affect Babies, by Grace Carlson

Nationwide railroad strike voted by engineers, trainmen

Puerto Ricans seek amnesty

Insanity no bar

Volume X No. 19, 11 May 1946, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

MANAGING EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Only victorious socialist revolutions can prevent the third world war! – Manifesto of the Fourth International

Smashing the chains of world capitalism (cartoon), by Gray

World-wide voice of Fourth International (photomontage)

Millions march in big May Day demonstrations, by Ruth Johnson

• Colorful May Day rally held by New York SWP

Truman leads vicious drive against UMW, by Art Preis

Paris “peace” conference haggles over spoils of war, by Charles Carsten

A job coal operators never have to do (photo)

Operators ignored safety rules at McCoy mine where 12 died

Detroit workers demonstrate against fascist G.L.K. Smith, by Kay O’Brien

New Jersey SWP opens campaign

Ford 600’s Flying Squadron aids Vultee plant strikers, by Roy Weston

Why the Lichfield trials? by George Breitman

[Editorials]

• May Day in Japan
• Aid The Militant!
• While millions starve
• A perfidious slogan

“Isn’t it interesting ...” (cartoon), by Gray

Problems Facing War Veterans, by Charles Carsten

• The Atlantic City outrage
• “Pork barrel politics”
• Government indifferent

Workers’ Bookshelf

• The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International, reviewed by Larissa Reed

One-third of nation are still ill-housed

Congressmen at Work

Workers’ Forum

• Combat veteran contributes $500 to the Militant fund, from H. Lamont
• Billions spent on A-bombs while cancer victims die, from Joe Donalds

“Militant” sustaining fund drive hits $8,987 in seventh week, by Justine Lang

• $15,000 – Ring the bell! (diagram)
• Scoreboard

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• Legalized lynching in Lamberton

Youth Group Activities

Our Program

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Diary of a Steelworker, by T. Kovalesky

Ship-load of food burned and destroyed by government as irate workers look on, by C. Blake

Vets demand homes in Illinois (photo)

New quarters for Los Angeles SWP

Notes of a Seaman, by Art Sharon

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

• Can exchange value be measured?

Militant UAW strikers shutdown Mack plants

Leon Trotsky (photo)

An historic conference, by the Editors

What the 4th International accomplished at conference

• D. Vousoukis (drawing), by E.A.
• N. Aravantios (drawing), by E.A.

Great fighters participate in FI conference

Leon Sedov (photo)

Our martyrs in fight for world socialism

• Leon Lesoil (photo)

Leon Trotsky – founder of 4th International

World conferences that marked progress of Fourth International

Volume X No. 20, 18 May 1946, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

MANAGING EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Attack on miners hits all labor, by Joseph Keller

• Buffalo CIO backs miners

U.S. imperialism steps up drive toward war, by Charles Carsten

• Shadow over Latin America (cartoon), by Gray

Open the books, say Los Angeles transit strikers

Black market price levels sought on meat, by Evelyn Atwood

2,000 steel worker delegates face key issues at convention, by Art Preis

In the News

• How Wall St. views the famine victims
• Let them eat cake!
• For imperialism’s sake
• “Four freedoms”

Largest Ford 600 unit repudiates E.L. Hester

Korean labor pleads for aid against brutal American rule

The Nuremberg Trial and the Moscow Trials, statement by the National Committee of the Socialist Workers Party

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• Mine strike endorsed by William Green
• No agreement on rail wage issues
• Textile workers heading south
• Stalinist chickens come home to roost

Youngstown CIO supports miners

Miners’ families mourn dead (photo)

San Diego aircraft workers fight strikebreaking tactics, by Jerome Williams

This is dynamite!

115-day Westinghouse strike wins 18 cents an hour raise

Belgian workers face wage freeze, by E. Germain

• Trotskyists in Belgium attacked

Trotsky’s biography of Stalin – the meaning of the attacks upon it, by John G. Wright

Food shipments dwindle as famine sweeps world, by Charles Carsten

• Starvation in China (photo)

Opposition group in Dutch CP challenges Stalinist leaders

Arabs and Jews display solidarity as strike wave sweeps Palestine, by T. Cliff

French Trotskyist policy on constitution ballot

[Editorials]

• The capitalist world a year after V-E Day
• Wages and prices

“Why Yvette – how can you DREAM ...” (cartoon), by Gray

Problems Facing War Veterans, by Charles Carsten

• Buffalo CIO program for vets
• CIO veterans’ program

Workers’ Bookshelf

• Terror in Tennessee, reviewed by Larissa Reed

How GM made profits despite 113-day strike

Congressmen at Work

Workers’ Forum

• Chicago reader urges aid to European workers, from E.L.
  Editor’s note
• How one family suffers in St. Paul’s housing crisis, from Winifred Nelson
• Civilian unemployment hounds GIs persecuted by Brass Hats, from C. Blake
• Veterans express support of Los Angeles transport strikes, from A.L.
• Crippled vets find “nothing to live for”, from A.L.
• Stalinist leaders incite ranks to assault on Trotskyists, from B.G.

How “averages” affect workers and their families (diagram)

Militant Army

Pioneer Notes

Our Program

Youth Group Activities

$10,006 reached in Militant fund as campaign does into eighth week, by Justine Lang

• $15,000 – Ring the bell! (diagram)
• Windsor worker aids Militant, from Auto Worker
• Collection lists aid fund drive of Militant
• Scoreboard

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

• How value is created

SWP in many cities reports inspiring May Day meetings

• Twin Cities holds meeting, by Barabar Bruce
• Worker joins SWP at Akron meeting, by Patrick O’Connor
• Genora Dollinger speaks in Toledo
• Large meeting in Saan Francisco, by R. Davis
• Seattle holds lively meeting
• Calumet meeting recruits worker, by S. Priner
• Buffalo Rally enthusiastic
• Boston workers hear Geldman, by F. Daniels
• Overflow crowd in Los Angeles
• Farrell Dobbs addresses Detrois May Day meeting
• Chicago meets in new headquarters

American Legion fails to halt May Day meeting in San Diego

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• The Negroes’ secret weapon

Lenin, Trotsky and Kamenev (photo)

Generous response to appeal for European workers relief

F.I. subscription campaign hits 60 per cent of quota, by Constance Locke

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

The Forgotten Women, by Grace Carlson

Diary of a Steelworker, by T. Kovalesky

4,000 transit workers in Los Angeles strike for more wages, oppose fare rise, by Al Lynn

Midwest vacation school opens for third season on June 30

• Scene at Mid-West vacation school (photo)

Notes of a Seaman, by Art Sharon

Women lead first strike at Toledo champion, by Harold Josephs

Thousands face eviction in Twin Cities, by Winifred Nelson

On the Railroads, by Henry Adams

Buffalo CIO hits policy of militarization

Volume X No. 21, 25 May 1946, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

MANAGING EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Steel convention upholds union democracy, by Art Preis

Rail, mine workers face fierce anti-union attack, by William F. Warde

New wage raise demand voted by packing locals, by Barbara Bruce

Putting Humpty Dumpty together again (cartoon), by Gray

Murray fails to support miners

Food profiteers and speculators fatten on misery, by Evelyn Atwood

Truman lifts conscription age in latest war preparation move

In the News

• Fruits of peace
• Facing the worst
• Slightly startling, cable to N.Y. Times
• Steel barons are never embarrassed, from N.Y. Times

Goldman asks to question Nazi defendants, by Albert Goldman

Los Angeles KKK burns cross at Negro home, by Lois Saunders

Stalinist leadership incites attacks on Militant agents

Statement of Trotsky’s widow on his biography of Stalin

Steel strike victory parade (photo)

Goodyear rubber workers strike in Los Angeles, by Dave Dreiser

Correction

Death and burial of the Comintern, by C. Ermatte, from La Lutte Ouvrière

Trinidad workers protest Jim-Crow reign of terror in Columbia Tenn.

• [Facsimile of leaflet]
   
• Full text of the leaflet is as follows
   
• Trinidad working class leader hails Militant, from Rupert Hannibal

Spokesman for Indo-Chinese describes freedom struggle

Philippine peasants wage civil war against rulers, by Mike Cort

Chiang’s war on Chinese people armed by U.S.

Important lessons of strike wave in Palestine, by T. Cliff

[Editorials]

• Stalinist gangsterism
• Paris conference
• Restrictions on relief
• Stop the Klan!

“What with the grain shortage ...” (cartoon), by Gray

Problems Facing War Veterans, by Charles Carsten

• Legion heads fight labor posts

Workers’ Bookshelf

• I Chose Freedom, by Victor Kravchenko, reviewed by Larissa Reed

How capitalism misuses mechanized cotton picker

Congressmen at Work

Workers’ Forum

• Report on AFL Pennsylvania state convention, from Joe Donalds
• Tells need for immediate aid to suffering workers abroad, from David Kraus
  Editor’s note
• Victim of terror in Tennessee describes hours in Columbia jail, from A Reader
• Readers invited to join New York Militant chores, from M. Jackson

Capitalist-inspired terror in Georgia (photo)

Militant Army

Youth Group Activities

Election petition campaign pushed by Jersey SWP

Our Program

Militant fund drive hits $11,102, by Justine Lang

• $15,000 – Ring the bell!
• Scoreboard
• Turn indignation into action by aiding Militant campaign, by Grace Carlson

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

• The profitless poker game

Jim Crow rink fails in trick to evade law

Mid-West vacation camp and school plans

• At the Mid-West vacation camp and school (photo)

Art Preis speaks in Philadelphia, by C. Blake

Most monstrous purges in history exposed falsity of Moscow Trials, by Joseph Hansen

• Leon Trotsky

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• [Role of the Negro in the class struggle in America]

Extent of purges in USSR during the pact with Hitler, by John G. Wright

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Diary of a Steelworker, by T. Kovalesky

Ranks cheer strike deadline announcement at CIO maritime conference on West Coast, by R. Chester

Butter-hungry thousands wait hours in vain, by C. Blake

Police aid scabs (photo)

Pioneer publishers mark 15th anniversary in May

Notes of a Seaman, by F. Lang

On the Railroads, by C. Gustafson

Volume X No. 22, 1 June 1946, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

MANAGING EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Truman calls for savage laws in big business war upon labor

• The road labor must follow for victory, by The Editors
   
• Wall Street’s strike-breaking agency (cartoon), by Gray
   
• Truman leads vicious attack on rail unions, by Art Preis

Twin City rail strikers show militancy, by C. Gustafsen

• Bulletin

Federal troops used as miners defy “strikebreaking” seizure

In the News

• Imperalism spreads its beneficent rays, from N.Y. Times
• High cost of dying
• A word to the wise
• Thumb bums, from N.Y. World-Telegram

National Committee of SWP meets in N.Y.

Why Browder embarked on his “Mission to Moscow”, by Joseph Hansen

SWP calls for labor’s aid to halt Stalinist hooliganism

Trade Union Notes, by Joseph Keller

• Murray’: complaints about Congress
• Big Ford Local 600 backs miners
• CIO organizing atom-bomb plant

Steel union convention backs their plea (photo)

Railway workers still forced to fight for eight-hour day

Railroad labor struggles of the past, by Larissa Reed

How reaction facilitated Stalin’s rise to power, by John G. Wright

• Stalin (cartoon)

French Trotskyists launch inspiring election campaign

First Issue of German Trotskyist paper (facsimile)

Real meaning of May 5 referendum in France

Nazi connections of big business bared in Paris

Viet Nam delegates greeted by huge crowds at Marseilles

“Why don’t they just phone?” (cartoon), by Gray

Problems Facing War Veterans

• Tax profits for soldier bonus
• Workers must support demands

Workers’ Bookshelf

• Fourth International, reviewed by Ruth Johnson

Statement of National Committee of the Socialist Workers Party

Congressmen at Work

Workers’ Forum

• Stalinists thwart picket of May Quinn, from A.R.
• London readers says workers grow more conscious, from Val Morris
  Editor’s Note
• Housewife denounces profiteers who create high living costs, from Ruth Massey
• To all revolutionary martyrs (poem), by Val Morris
• Vet Hospitable unforgettable revelation of broken lives, from T. Rust
• Philadelphia vets get runaround, from C. Blake

Why the South must be organized, (diagram) by Chan, from Economic Outlook, CIO

Militant Army

Pioneer Notes

Our Program

Youth Group Activities

$12,294 reached in Militant fund as drive forges ahead of schedule, by Justine Lang

• $15,000 – Ring the bell!
• Scoreboard
• Readers spur fund by mailing coupon

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

• The parent without a child

Chicago groups fight policy of discrimination in hiring, by Robert L. Birchman

Mid-West vacation camp and school is ideal place for summer holiday, by Justine Lang

• Funs at Mid-West school (photo)

Why Stalin inflicted purges on revolutionary Soviet workers, by Joseph Hansen

• Lenin (photo)

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• What a fascist thinks

American Legion top brass hit by labor Legionnaires

SWP candidates score Truman’s strikebreaking

Typical “officer and gentleman”, by George Breitman

Local activities of teh Socialist Workers Party

Vienna strikers demand control of production

Diary of a Steelworker, by Thomas Kovalesky

“WE are not afraid,” says Negro couple after KKK cross is burned before home, by Myra Tanner Weiss

• Ku Klux Klan atrocity in Los Angeles (photos)

New York vets picket City Hall, demand action in housing crisis, by A. Royce

Notes of a Seaman, by F. Lang

Phila. Workers at Westinghouse vote to return, by C. Blake

6 AFL maritime unions meet in San Francisco, by R. Chester

Cleveland Fisher Body union wins after 173-day strike

Calories are not enough, by Grace Carlson

Volume X No. 23, 8 June 1946, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

MANAGING EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Coal miners triumph after defying “seizure”, by Art Preis

United labor conference urged by UAW officers, by Joseph Keller

• Only answer to the labor-haters (cartoon), by Gray
   
• All support to the UAW call for united labor conference! by the Editors

Labor-haters push bills to crush unions, by Ruth Johnson

PAC endorsees support Truman slave labor act, by Jeff Thorne

U.S. militarists plan frightful “germ” warfare, by Ralph Graham

What Roosevelt said on the labor draft

Indonesian league protests U.S. deportation round-ups

Akron union advocates sliding scale of wages

Government’s anti-labor offensive underlines need for a labor party, by George Clarke

• Akron unions begin labor unity drive
   
• Buffalo unions aroused by Truman’s moves
   
• 35,000 N.Y. workers hits Truman’s attack on labor
   
• Entire labor movement flays Truman’s anti-union program
   
• “Build a labor party!” say Flint unionists, by Jack Rockwell

Army protects scabs (photo)

Another Briggs militant victim of thug-assault

Pantelis Pouliopoulos, revolutionary martyr

• [Execution] (drawing)

French Trotskyists conduct energetic campaign

• Thorez (cartoon)

French invade Siam in drive to win empire, by Mike Cort

• Daily Worker silent on plea of Siam for help

Annamese battlers for freedom (photo)

Brazilian Stalinist “knight of hope” offers aid to reactionary regime, by Charles Carsten

• Prestez (cartoon)

Italy before the June elections, by Rosa Di Bartolomeo

[Editorials]

• Labor’s answer to rising prices
• End the war!
• Withdraw all troops!
• Unbridled militarism

“And of course you’ll use the atomic bomb ...” (cartoon)

Problems Facing War Veterans, by Charles Carsten

• [Critical housing situation]
• Tenements and slums

Workers’ Bookshelf

• Neuer Spartakus

3,000 COs still held in concentration camps

Congressmen at Work

Workers’ Forum

• Wholesalers cheats on meat weight, from R.F.
• Brothers (poem), by Walt Whitman
• Louisiana sawmill workers picketing in company town, from D.S.
• Workers condemn Truman’s assault on railroad strikers, from John Russo
  Truman (cartoon)
• Housewife describes shopping problems faced by millions, from Rosa Riggs
• Cleveland workers supported rail strike, from Tom Black
• Newspapers use children in attempt to break strike, from R.O.
• Philadelphia vets can’t find jobs, from C. Blake
• Akron rail worker tells his story, from M. Carter

Rally against Truman’s strike-breaking (photo)

Militant Army

Detroit SWP asks for books for library

Pioneer Notes

Our Program

Youth Group Activities

Militant fund drive reaches 88% of goal with $13,192 collected in first 11 weeks, by Justine Lang

• $15,000 – Ring the bell! (diagram)
• Scoreboard

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

• Labor and labor power

Antoinette Konikow urges aid to European workers

• Militant readers donate food, clothing for relief
   
• Antoinette Konikow (drawing), by E.A.

New York SWP announces gala Militant ball

Impressions of Theodore Kovalesky at Mid-West vacation camp and school, by Theodore Kovalesky

Newark SWP files petitions for elections

Westinghouse local backs miners’ fight

Kremlin prosecutors at Nuremburg [sic] come to court with unclean hands, by Joseph Hansen

• Gregory Zinoviev (drawing, by E.A.

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• Governor of a different (?) color

Trotsky’s new book reveals Stalin as a traitor to Bolshevism, by John G. Wright

• Trotsky (photo)

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

F.I. subscription drive nears 500 goal, by Constance Locke

• Scoreboard

Diary of a Steelworker, by T. Kovalesky

Army releases two reports calculated to whitewash criticism of cost system

• Jim Crow units endorsed by Gillem report, by Charles Carsten
   
• Doolittle board advocates policy of limited reforms, by George Breitman

Rochester AFL and CIO unite in general strike

• General strike freed them (photo)

Notes of a Seaman, by F.J. Lang

NMU membership rejects Stalinist wage sell-out plan

On the Railroads, by John Russo

Volume X No. 24, 15 June 1946, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

MANAGING EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Labor ranks urge united action, by Art Preis

• Strike a hammer-blow! (cartoon)
   
• Buffalo CIO says “build a labor party’
   
• Newark rally supports plan for joint action
   
• Santa Cruz AFL campaigns for a labor party

The only way to control atomic energy, by the Editors

Unions denounce Truman threat to smash any maritime strike

• AFL seamen warn Truman on strikebreaking, by F.J. Lang

In the News

• Let them eat cake, from N.Y. Times
• Humble apologies to Strikebreaker No. :1
• Like jailing strikers?
• Author’s postscript on Atlantic Charter
• The final answer of Wall Street

Franco broadcast praises Truman

Trotskyists receive 44,915 votes in French elections

Akron rubber workers raise new wage demand

Bread famine imposed on American workers

What Do You Say?

Labor needs its own party, not a third capitalist party, by George Clarke

Trade Union Notes, by Art Preis

• How not to defeat anti-labor drive
• Surrender labor’ economic weapons
• Surrender labor’s political weapons
• New backdoor deals with ‘friends of labor’

Union veterans denounce Truman (photo)

Akron labor holds meetings to mobilize united action

• Flint local endorses call for conference, by Jerry Kirk
   
• Joint labor meeting held in Los Angeles, by Lois Saunders
   
• Emergency rally in South Jersey

N.Y. vets demand housing program, by Evelyn Atwood

Where Is the Soviet Union Going? 1 by Ernest Germain

• U.S. imperialism is encircling the USSR

Stormy outbreaks due in France as workers demand wage raises

• Thorez (cartoon)

Bevin provides homes and jobs for fascists

• Bevin (cartoon)

French and Italian June elections record slight shift to right, by George Breitman

Defense organized against deportation of Indonesians

• Indonesian seaman (drawing)

Stalinists squabble over national borders

Troops sent against strikers in Holland

Critics of opportunism expelled from Greek CP

German workers seize food

[Editorials]

• Against the draft!
• For maritime unity
• New strike wave
• Withdraw all troops!

“We’ll show these strikers ...” (cartoon)

Problems Facing War Veterans, by Alvin Royce

• The AVC convention
• Must choose sides

Workers’ Bookshelf

• Breaking the Building Blockade, by Robert Lasch, reviewed by Larissa Reed
• The Good Soldier Schweik, by Jaroslav Hasek, reviewed by George Breitman

Navy throws away food while millions starve

Congressmen at Work

Workers’ Forum

• Bread and butter is a luxury even in farm areas, from Mrs. W.N.
• “Contrast ...” (poem), by Eddie Dumaine
• Workers gouged by Newark landlord, from Ruth Franklin
• A working class mother’s answer to aid for Europe, from Pearl Spangler
  Editor’s note
• Rail worker writes on Hudson-Manhattan transport strike, from Railroad Worker
• Comments on national Negro congress, from A Reader
• No more beer – 4,000 laid off, from Paul Chelstrom
• Story of a timber worker enslaved by California boss, from A.B.
• Workers oppose Stalinist tactics, from A Reader

Los Angeles family homeless (photo)

Pioneer Notes

Militant Army

Youth Group Activities

Our Program

Detroit SWP asks for books

$13,864 raised for Militant fund with only nine days left to deadline, by Justine Lang

• $15,000 – Ring the bell!
• Dear Reader, from The Editors
• Scoreboard

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

• Labor and labor power (continued)

5,000 sign Ferguson case petitions of New York SWP

Chicago union backs campaign for Negro jobs, by Robert L. Birchman

Chicago SWP celebrates new headquarters

Workers enjoy Mid-West vacation camp and school

In Memoriam: Comrade Fred Lind

San Francisco SWP plans relief dinner

How Stalin shocked entire world with the first Moscow frameup, by Joseph Hansen

• Leon Kamenev (drawing), by E.A.
• Royalists gloated
• Mussolini pleased

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• To a higher court with the same judge

Seamen’s solidarity (photo)

Militant ball this Saturday

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Diary of a Steelworker, by T. Kovalesky

• Human wreckage of Ames Street

Atomic bomb demonstration in the Pacific is calculated step toward World War III

• Physicist tells horror of bomb at Nagasaki
   
• Will your city look like this tomorrow? (photo)
   
• Experts see no scientific value in Bikini “test”

Notes of a Seaman, by F.J. Lang

• The system of union hiring

Atomic energy can build a new world – if developed for peace

Wages must keep pace with rising prices

“Property court martialed”

On the Railroads, by John Russo

• Roosevelt and the rail workers

Form committee to fight against Los Angeles KKK, by Lois Saunders

Food prices from 1941–46 in typical industrial city

Volume X No. 25, 22 June 1946, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

MANAGING EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Wall St. keeps atomic control in Baruch “plan”

Draft strikers, Truman says in case bill veto

• Choice of weapons (cartoon), by Gray

Ship strike called off; gains granted

Michigan CIO discusses need for labor party

Capitalist press wants draft law made permanent

Senate OPA bill is go-ahead for big price rises, by Ruth Johnson

31 Tennessee atrocity victims face frame-up in white court, by Evelyn Atwood

In the News

• It pays to organize
• Political failure, social success, from United Mineworker Journal
• Don’t call rats s...s, from Federated Press
• Capitalism’s only program for peace
• You’re next, son!

Senate breaks “wage pattern” – for senators!

St. Louis union leaders urge united conference

U.S. non-intervention pledge violated in China civil war, by Li Fu-jen

Militant fund drive passes $15,000 quota

What Do You Say?

When is the time to build a labor party – if not now? by George Clarke

Trade Union Notes, by Art Preis

• Anthracite bosses fold up in 9 days
• Whitney’s plea to Truman and Congress
• Tobin’s warning on AFL Southern Drive

On the Allis-Chalmers picket line (photo)

Flint Buick 599 paper call for a labor party

St. Paul SWP opens new headquarters

Where Is the Soviet Union Going? 2, by Ernest Germain

• The policy of the “strategic bulwark”
   
• Stalin (cartoon)

No decisive changes achieved as result of June 2 French elections

• Radicalization of masses still dominant fact

Belgian miners give militant strong support

Famine victims in China (photo)

The Vatican – a powerhouse of world political reaction, by Joseph Hansen

Indian Congress balks at fake “independence” plan, by Larissa Reed

Workers killed through greed of mine owners

[Editorials]

• Thanks to our readers
• Atomic control
• After Case bill veto
• Feet of clay

“I never really cared for beer ...” (cartoon), by Gray

Problems Facing War Veterans, by Alvin Royce

• Bosses kicking vets around
• UAW program a start

Workers’ Bookshelf

• The Ox-Bow Incident, by Walter Van Tilburg Clark, reviewed by Charles Carsten

Congressmen at Work

• The sad plight of Congressional slaves

Tobacco monopolists extort millions in booty

Workers’ Forum

• A letter to Truman, From M.M.
• “Skid Row” (poem), by Eddie Dumaine
• Food is problem of workers’ wives, from J.W.
• Metal workers chairman calls for political action, from O.B.
• Hollywood musicians won 40 per cent wage increase, from Ben Maxson
• Negroes attacked by police in Philadelphia and Camden, from C. Blake
• Capitalists admit coming Depression, from G.W.
• Reader thinks Militant incites chaos, from M.A. Wagner
• Enthusiastic reader wants to sell Militant subs to neighbors, from M. Brooks
• St. Paul paper tells truth: ‘No profit – no production’! from Dorothy Schultz

Kill or be killed! (cartoon), by Seaman, from Labor Reports

Militant Army

J. Pierpoint Moneybags says: “Wage raises mean inflation – what we need is higher prices” (cartoon)

Our Program

Youth Group Activities

Michigan CIO votes support to India workers

Detroit SWP asks for books

Militant fund drive goes over top; total contributions reach $15,398, by Justine Lang

• $15,000 – We rang the bell!
• Scoreboard

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

• The value of labor power

It’s a crazy world! by Grace Carlson

Doolittle report attacked by caste-system defender, by George Breitman

Labor unity in political field sought by Akron CIO council

Vacation at Mid-West camp and school

Mich. CIO condemns assaults on unionists

How fatal clues exposed frameup in first notorious Moscow Trial, by Joseph Hansen

• I.N. Smirnov (drawing), by E.A.
   
• Stalinist slander machine and the Nuremberg Trial

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• A new wind in the South

AFL seamen cheer strike vote (photo)

Local activities of the Socialist Workers party

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• The Carnival on Ames Street

Incendiary bombing of Negro widow’s home perpetrated by race terrorists in Chicago, by Robert Birchman

A column of smoke where your city once stood? (photos)

Capitalists lie about peacetime possibilities of atomic energy, by John G. Wright

Notes of a Seaman, by F.J. Lang

• Fight for a 4-Hour Watch

H&M strikers ignore Truman’s “fact-finding”

Girl strikers in Akron fight vile conditions

On the Railroads, by Henry Adams

• “Next time it’ll be better”

Volume X No. 26, 29 June 1946, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

MANAGING EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Runaway price inflation looms

• Biggest steal in history
   
• Wall Street sneak-thief (cartoon), by Gray
   
• Crowds storm for bread in Philadelphia, by Jack Spiller
   
• “No meat, no work” miners threaten

Toledo SWP candidates placed on Ohio ballot, by Harold Josephs

• Paul Wylie (photo)
• Malcolm Walker (photo)

Wall Street uses A-bomb control for power play against USSR

In the News

• No authoritarianism – except toward labor, by Senator McMahon, from Congressional Record
• Land of the free, no homes for the brave
• Dynamic progress toward breadlines, by William E. Robinson
• 60,000,000 dead get good news, from N.Y. Times

Trotsky school begins June 30 at summer camp

Congress plans draft extension, huge war funds

“They trained us to break maritime workers strike”, by an Ex-Soldier

Flint SWP leads fight to defeat tax increase, by Sol Dollinger

Boston CIO urges unity

What Do You Say?

General Tire workers in 3 communities shut plants in first all-company strike,

Trade Union Notes, by Art Preis

• Packinghous union seeks new wage boost
• All not yet quiet on the strike front
• Guild president lashes at Truman
• Sidney Hillman looks beyond the Case veto

Greek American labor solidarity (photo)

Phila. UE local backs plea for joint conference, by C. Blake

Rents will soar too, McMahon tells Senate

Akron joint labor meeting discusses political action

Vet’s family forced to live in Phila. park, by Alma Seton

Where is the meat?

Labor will be forced to build own party, says union editor

Where Is the Soviet Union Going? 3, by Ernest Germain

• The war strengthened pro-capitalist forces

U.S. domination of Philippines is not halted by “independence”

• Old job, new title – McNutt (cartoon)

Allies supported Italian king to very end

• Out – Umberto deposed in Italy (photo)

New military code foreshadows revival of purges in Red Army, by George Breitman

Behead German for opposing rule

Bureaucrats in control at laborite conference

• Bevin (cartoon)

New Marxist paper issued in Norway

Civil conflict in Palestine and plight of Nazi victims

U.S. news broadcaster is muzzled by BBC

[Editorials]

• Hands off China!
• Prices and politics
• Bilbo’s lynch call
• New Red Army code

“It really isn’t our fault ...” (cartoon), by Gray

Eastman raises “Red Peril” bogey, by M. Stein

Workers’ Bookshelf

• A Passage to India, by E.M. Forster
• Blood in the Street, by Albert C. Hicks

Congressmen at Work

• A Slick Maneuver

French workers show how to get wage raises

Workers’ Forum

• Union hiring hall for all workers, from A.S.
• “Question from Tarawa ...” (poem) by Eddie Dumaine
• Reply to M.A. Wagner on what Militant fights for, from A.L.P.
• Readers tell of weeks at Mid-West vacation-school, from V. Foley
• Demands government act on cancer research, from H.K.
• How Trotskyist youth raised funds for The Militant, from R.A.
• Praises good work, from H.A.
• Offers week at Mid-West school, from A Reader
• Stalinists fail to halt Militant distribution, from A.C.

Why migrant workers struck (photo)

Pioneer Notes

Militant Army

Our Program

Youth Group Activities

The hole – a short story, by Theodore Kovalesky

• [Striking a match] (drawing), by G.

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

• Labor power and productive labor

$855 pledged at N.J. dinner for election campaign of SWP

• William Bohannon (photo)

Court hearing held on L.A. race covenants, by Lois Saunders

Article on China today featured in July F.I.

SWP branches in Minnesota hold convention, by Barbara Bruce

Seattle SWP shows Czar to Lenin, by Clara Kaye

How Moscow Trial “confessions: revealed frameup of defendants, by Joseph Hansen

• Natalia Trotsky (photo)
   
• Stalinists at Nuremberg fear widow of Trotsky

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• News and comments

Two kinds of justice at the Lichfield trials

Protests win reinstatement of suspended L.A. students

Fourth International drive tops 500 subscription goal, by Constance Locke

• Scoreboard

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

San Diego picnic held to aid workers’ relief, by Ann Cope

Detroit SWP asks for books

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• On the Little Island of Bikini

Incendiary bomb assault on Negro widow covered up by Chicago cops, SWP reveals, by Robert L. Birchman

• Negro home bombed in Chicago (photo)

GM not so stingy to its big-shots

Who’s going to buy the new autos?

Veterans’ Problems, by Alvin Royce

• Vets bitter as they sweat it out

Court upholds all-white jury in frame-up of 31 Negroes, by Larissa Reed

You Paid for It – U.S. Steel Gets It, by Art Preis

Indonesian seamen victims of American-Dutch deal, by Evelyn Atwood

H&M strikers win demand for 18½ cents

Japanese Labor Shows the Way, by Joseph Hansen

Stalinists attack biography by Trotsky

Volume X No. 27, July 6, 1946, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

MANAGING EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

UPWA seeks “living cost” bonus

• The uninvited guest (cartoon)
   
• 3 auto locals urge sliding wages scales
   
• Rising prices bring new wave of wage demands

Mass arrests of Trotskyists in Bulgaria

Minnesota SWP opens election campaign, nominates candidates

• Grace Carlson (photo)

In the News

• Capitalist answer to poverty
• Peace of the grave after atomic war?
• Cleric prefers ‘ittie bittie’ war now
• New model pigs – all tail, no chops
• It works both ways

Chicago union says labor must build own party, by Eugene Zucker

Toledo rail workers support resolution for labor party

An Editorial

• United labor action to fight profiteers!

Pleas for ‘self-restraint’ won’t halt price-gougers

• Series on prices starts next issue

What Do You Say?

The sliding scale of wages: an effective way to combat the rising cost of living

Trade Union Notes, by Art Preis

• Boilermakers local for joint labor conference
• Stalinist explanation on plant seizures
• More unions declare ‘Build a labor party’

Canadian loggers want action (photo)

UAW local wins 110-day strike in Port Clinton

New York painters roll up big vote against Stalinists

Ohio UAW group endorses labor conference call

L.A. rubber union seeks wage raises

General Tire workers hold firm in strike

Briggs local votes strike, by Jeanette Kirk

Contractors block housing construction in Houston, by Robert Dallas

AFL seamen announce new wage agreement

Camden group backs labor conference, by Jim Dolan

Why India Starves: British imperialists drained food supply, by Kamelesh Ray

New purge is Stalin’s answer to economic crisis in Soviet Union

• Kremlin offers scapegoats to cover up its own crimes, by George Breitman
   
• Trials strike at almost every branch of industry
   
• Past purges
   
• Calling turn on the purge

Hunger in Hunan (photo)

Parisian workers hold huge rally

Belgian Trotskyists first revealed purge

Inflation cuts wages in Hungary and Italy

International Notes

• Germany
• Indonesia
• Austria

Ta-Tu-Thau reported dead in Indo-China

[Editorials]

• It’s time to act
• End meat famine!
• A Prussian law
• Withdraw the troops

“The workers don’t realize ...” (cartoon), by Gray

World Socialism and the Kremlin, by M. Stein

Workers’ Bookshelf

• Labor Baron, by James A. Wechsler, reviewed by Al Miller

Congressmen at Work

• Why electricity comes high

Workers’ Forum

• Must fight for rising scale of wages, from A.B.
• Calls for a labor party, from H.M.W.
• Liberals (poem), by Louise Breier
• Byrnes at Paris (poem), from D.D.T.
  Byrnes (photo)
• Supports program of Militant and SWP, from S.T.
• Thinks Militant divides workers, from J.F.S.
• No homes for vets, from C. Blake
• Stalinist radio censorship, from W.T. Moore
• “Why should such conditions exist?” asks Negro veteran, from J.T. Stevens
  ‘What we come home to’ (photo)
• Praises articles by Germain, from L.S. [Reply], by The Editors]
• Bilbo’s lynch call, from Harold Rice

Why the South must be organized (graphic), from Federated Press

Militant Army

Pioneer Notes

Our Program

Youth Group Activities

How Jim Crow broke down on a troop ship, by Ray Moore

The Tower of Babel strike, by M. Luce

• 30% – Strike (cartoon), by G.

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

• Surplus value

Big problems still face maritime workers after concessions won in recent struggle, by F.J. Lang

Red-baiting of AFL leaders mars California convention

Former Stalinist official reveals how GPU cooked up “evidence”, by Joseph Hansen

• Karl Radek (drawing), by E.A.

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• Race consciousness and class consciousness, by Joe Morgan

Stalinists hail Nuremberg; silent over Moscow Trials

Poison pen artists attack Trotsky’s biography of the Kremlin dictator, by Charles Carsten

• Stalin (cartoon)

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Los Angeles Comm. plans relief picnic

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• A Hot Summer Night in the Mill

Atomic bomb demonstration in the Pacific is part of Wall Street drive toward war

• Senator scores Bikini “tests” as step to war

Rich eat cake; urge cut in diet of poor families, by Winifred Nelson

Racial terror in Chicago arouses defense movement, by Robert L. Birchman

• Victim of Chicago bombing (photo)
   
• Mike Bartell speaks on Hardy bomb case

Veterans’ Problems, by Alvin Royce

• Postwar World and GI dreams

How atomic energy can free the world under socialism

• [Mushroom cloud] (photo)

Saga of Henry J. Kaiser, by Art Preis

Bay City S.W.P. fights sales tax

Senator Bilbo and the Law, by Ruth Johnson

Japanese soldiers punish brutal officers

Volume X No. 28, 13 July 1946, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

MANAGING EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Antoinette Konikow mourned by comrades, by Joseph Hansen

• Antoinette Konikow 1869–1946 (photo)
   
• Revolutionary leaders send sorrowing tributes
   
• SWP national committee expresses grief of party

New OPA bill will not halt run-away prices, by Art Preis

• Black market prices on meat now are legal

Detroit unions urge national labor “holiday,” by Al Adler

Defying Bilbo’s threats (photo)

Packing union seeks cost-of-living bonus

• Meat profits up, production down

Profits high as “best war years”

Jim-Crow judge aids frame-up in trial of 25

2 top Washington officials linked to $78,000,000 arms firm fraud, by Ruth Benson

Joseph Hansen (photo)

“Our dead comrade was one of rarest spirits of our time”, by E.R. Frank

• First Trotskyist meeting in Boston
   
• A Trotskyist to the end, by John G. Wright
   
• 58 years a fighter for the oppressed
   
• [Antoinette Konikow] (3 photos)

Workers everywhere voice tributes to heroic life of Comrade Konikow

• Trotsky (autographed photo)
   
• Bulletin No. 1 (facsimile)
   
• Relief committee pays honor to its chairman

What Antoinette Konikow taught the workers

• The class struggle
• Leisure and machines
• Socialism and housewives
• Motherhood without fear
• Health and beauty
• Planning the family
• Youth and the future
• On imperialist war
• Moscow frame-up trials

[Editorials]

• Rent strikes
• Reparations
• The Hobbs bill
• Terror in Balkans

“Aren’t people silly to crowd the beaches ...” (cartoon), by Gray

The post-mortem of veto of OPA, by M. Stein

Workers’ Bookshelf

• Handbook of Politics and Voter’s Guide, by Lowell Mellett, reviewed by Ruth Johnson
• The New Sad Sack, by George Baker, reviewed by George Breitman

Congressmen at Work

• Planning Under Capitalism

Odds and Ends

Workers’ Forum

• Luxuries fill ships as millions starve, from P.M.
• Nurseries too few, cost too high, from N. Kane
• Socialism is constructive, from Jarvis Dusenberry
• Bilbo and the Negro struggle: a letter to Militant readers, from C. Howell
• A worker’s worry, from L.P.
• Canadian worker endorses Militant, from J.M.

Picture of inflation (photo)

Pioneer Notes

Militant Army

Youth Group Activities

First week at Mid-West school, by Myra Tanner Weiss

• Myra Tanner Weiss (photo)

Our Program

New York youth open branch in Queens

Relief social in Allentown July 14

Wages, Prices and Profits

• The Propaganda Against Wage Raises, [by Warren Creel]
   
• Standing in the way (cartoon), by Morgan

Ask “Flying Squadrons” to stop rent evictions, by Sol Dollinger

What Do You Say?

Northeast Ohio UAW calls for Labor Party

37th convention marks progress of the NAACP

Curran issues public blast against Stalinist machine in Maritime Union

Buffalo UAW groups discuss political action

Indian Trotskyist exposes fraud of British plan for “independence”

• British murder Indian demonstrators (photo)

The Negro Struggle, by Charles Jackson

• The end of the FEPC
• Political action

Where is the Soviet Union going? 4 by Ernest Germain

• The 5-year plan and the new “left turn”

Nazi terror survivors killed in Polish pogrom

International Notes

• Philippines
• Poland
• Indonesia
• Germany
• Soviet Union

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• Old John gave all that was his

CIO’s “Operation Dixie” forges forward despite Jim-Crow campaign of employers

AVC pickets realtors who bar Nisei vet, by Nora Scott

What meat shortage? (photo)

On the Railroads, by Henry Adams

• A sign of the times

Anti-Negro vandals continue terror in Chicago district, by Robert L. Birchman

Mack Local 677 supports labor unity conference

Unity slate wins nine posts at Inland Steel

Veterans’ Problems, by Alvin Royce

• Veterans turn to the labor movement

San Francisco AFL, CIO Carmen unit in strike

Chicago workers face wholesale evictions, by Bruce Oxford

Ship committee urges conference

Gov. Dewey and Freeport case, by Bill Morgan

Volume X No. 29, 20 July 1946, New York, NY
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Published in the Interests of the Working People

MANAGING EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Auto union calls for 2-hour halt – 800,000 to stage protest against rising living cost

• Just a leaking bucket (cartoon), by Morgan
   
• Camden union pickets fight price-gougers, by James Dolan
   
• Senate votes 62 to 15 for inflationary bill

New York SWP announces slate for elections, by George Clarke

• Farrell Dobbs (photo)
• Joseph Hansen (photo)
• Milton Richardson (photo)
• William Kitt (photo)
• Sylvia Blecker (photo)

SWP names candidates in Washington – Swett, Roberts chosen for election campaign

Rep. May evades investigation of his part in arms firm fraud

• May (photo)
   
• May’s anti-labor record

In the News

• Just one of the gang
• War profiteers can’t use them, army can
• Why capitalist politicians go wrong
• “All but human”
• Didn’t know Wall Street, from Christian Science Monitor
• When she got there, cupboard was bare

40,000 Belgians strike, demand workers’ control

Our program to fight price rises, by the Editors

• Stock market – 1946 (cartoon)

Sidney Hillman – an appraisal, by M. Stein

• Sidney Hillman (photo)

Locomotive engineer’s view on rail union consolidation, by Henry Adams

L.I. council votes “relief” for landlords

Where is the Soviet Union Going? 5, by Ernest Germain

• Role of the masses since end of war

Anti-Soviet aims pursued inside Japan

Martin Widelin – our martyr

• A heroic Trotskyist leader in the German underground, by Marguerite Baget
   
• Martin Widelin (drawing)
   
• Why the Gestapo tracked him down, by George Breitman

Chinese students urge U.S. withdrawal (photo)

Grave crisis grips Italy 3 years after Duce’s fall, by Carlo Bivancho

Why India Starves

• British colonial rulers cause famine in India, by Kamalesh Ray

Trieste issue unsettled despite “Big 4” decision

International Notes

• Palestine
• Algeria
• Indo-China
• Egypt

Propose Greek united front

[Editorials]

• The SWP’s greatest election campaign
• Politics of reaction
• Victims of inflation
• Get the big crooks!

“You’d think if people must keep dogs ...” (cartoon), by Gray

Ivan the Terrible – Kremlin version, by Joseph Hansen

Workers’ Bookshelf

• Veterans and Labor, by Charles Carsten, reviewed by Alvin Royce
• Freedom Road, by Howard Fast, reviewed by Bill Morgan

Congressmen at Work

• The Debate Over OPA

World War II and the monopolies

• Big Business grows bigger, by Art Preis
   
• The point of free enterprise (diagram), by F.P. W.E.S.
   
• Who owns America

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

• Workers produce all wealth

Memorial meeting at school honors Antoinette Konikow

Wages, Prices and Profits

• Rising prices do not result from wage costs, by Warren Creel
• Warren Creel (photo)

Akron CIO launches fighting drive against price-gougers, rent hogs

Stalin’s new blood purge recalls frameup trials of ten years ago, by Joseph Hansen

• Stalin (cartoon)

Chicago terror against Negroes fought by SWP, by Robert L. Birchman

• Call conference in Chicago

Stalinist hacks keep silence on Nuremberg

• Natalia Trotsky (photo)

Youngstown CIO council asks labor nominee for governor

Youngstown CIO in rally against soaring prices, by C. Peters

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Unions propose “Flying Squadrons” in the struggle against rent-gouging, by Ruth Benson

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• A worker’s child is born

Atomic bomb blasts upon guinea pig fleet underline Wall Street drive for new war

• [Mushroom cloud] (photo)

Candidate outlines SWP anti-inflation legislation

• George Breitman (photo)

Veterans’ Problems, by Alvin Royce

• Why Congress can kick vets around

Mr. Truman and Mr. Dooley

Drive launched to put SWP nominees on Minnesota ballot

Freeport probe headed by Republican stooge, by Bill Morgan

Atom Bombs or TB Cure? by Evelyn Atwood

Seattle machinists ask 40% raise

Volume X No. 30, 27 July 1946, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

MANAGING EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

“Need immediate wage raises” – CIO

• How to get that basket (cartoon), by Gray
   
• Meat packers demand “cost of living bonus,” by Barbara Bruce
   
• New OPA bill puts virtual end to all price controls
   
• Buffalo workers push fight on price rises

An Editorial

• A call to action

Paris “Peace” conference is step to World War III, by Ralph Grahan

Kitt advocates sliding scale for veterans

• Wm. Kitt (photo)

In the News

• No Difference
• Past imperfect
• Sixty million jobs

Evictions fought in Philadelphia

Cannon and Baldwin protest mass arrests in Bulgaria

SWP protest Freeport whitewash hearings

100,000 workers in Detroit protest skyrocketing rise in cost of living

• Detroit workers rally against high prices (photo)

Trade Union Notes

4,000 attend UAW protest in Chicago, by Howard Smith

CIO veterans fight for bonus and rent control in Michigan, by J. Roberts

Cannery local seeks sliding scale of wages

Minnesota workers launch campaign against price rises, by Winifred Nelson

United rally backs strike in East Pittsburgh, by Jim Colletti

Mass action in Phila. brings cuts in prices, by Jack Miller

Camden groups fight price hikes, by James Dolan

Where Is the Soviet Union Going? 6, by Ernest Germain

• Why workers should defend the USSR

Growing unrest of Italian workers flares in militant general strikes

August Fourth International features works of Trotsky

Egyptians revolting against British rule (photo)

Hawaiian labor in political fight

Trotskyists spur fight for freedom of Egypt

Comrade Chen Tu-hsiu

• Grave & portrait (2 photos)

Fate of the Jews under capitalism, by Dan Shelton

International Notes

• Mexico
• Ecuador

U.S. imperialism in the Philippines

[Editorials]

• Who runs the USA?
• Labor’s needs today
• Withdraw the troops
• Georgia “democracy”

“But Ethelbert, don’t you want to have a pretty smile ...” (cartoon), by Gray

British Labor Party’s nationalization policy, by Ajit Roy

Workers’ Bookshelf

• Only Victorious Socialist Revolutions Can Prevent the Third World War, reviewed by Bill Morgan

Congressmen at Work

• Farmer’s demands are plowed under

Worker’s Forum

• In tribute to Antoinette Konikow, from Joseph McNamee
• What workers can do about rising prices, from E. Brent
• ‘I don’t want to miss a copy,’ says reader, B.P.J.
• One profiteer washed out, from S.S.
• Packinghouse workers need wage boost to buy meat they prepare, from B.B.
• Likes logical program of the Militant, from Sarah Preston
• Soldier describes solidarity of workers’ rally in Detroit, from Sergeant
• Hammond Militant readers enthusiastic, from L. Simms

To the men of England (poem), by Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Militant Army

• Buffalo SWP reports new high in sub work

Protest rent increases (photo)

SWP program against inflation is forum topic

Pioneer Notes

Our Program

Youth Group Activities

St. Paul SWP holds Strawberry Festival

World War II and the Monopolies

• How war strenghtened [sic] monopoly, by Art Preis
   
• Corporation profit secrets (cartoon), by Gray
   
• How big is Big Business?

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

• How much is three hundred billion?

Wages, Prices and Profits

• High productivity doesn’t raise wages, by Warren Creel

Wave of Jim-Crow terrorism reaches new high in Chicago, by Robert L. Birchman

Akron City Council refuses to legislate rent controls

Antoinette Konikow – our symbol of dauntless revolutionary spirit, by Edith Konikow

• Antoinette Konikow (photo)

Cop gouges out both eyes of Negro veteran

Buffalo CIO intervenes in Singleton frameup

Why Dewey commission probed Moscow trials, by Joseph Hansen

• Christian Rakovsky (drawing), by E.A.

Nuremberg silence exposes Moscow trials as frameup

• Vyshinsky (photo)

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Correction

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• A Vanishing Species of Foremen

While they talk about “peace” at Paris, they are preparing war all over the world

• Washington’s blueprint of the U.S. in an atomic war
   
• Atomic Energy (cartoon), by Gray
   
• Feverish race for new, more horrible weapons

The dread beriberi, by Grace Carlson

• Grace Carlson (photo)

Unions support defense drive for Indonesians

People have not even begun recovery from World War II, by Evelyn Atwood

On the Railroads, by Henry Adams

• Questions and Answers on CCE

“Suffer, Little Children”, by Ruth Benson

• Ruth Benson (photo)

Volume X No. 31, August 3, 1946, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

MANAGING EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Four Negro farm-hands lynched in Georgia, by Evelyn Atwood

New OPA bill lifts hundreds of prices, by Ruth Benson

• The mountain labored and brought forth a mouse (cartoon)
   
• Two bankers, one boss staff decontrol board

Congress boosts its own pay by 50 per cent

Joseph Hansen will speak at Indonesian League rally

Campaign to put SWP on ballot in New York gets a flying start, by Karolyn Kerry

In the News

• Atom bomb helps
• Jobs for all – except millions
• Cooperation – but, from N.Y. Times
• Does anyone need three guesses
• Like bombing Java?

Fire at SWP headquarters set by Detroit arson gang

Mid-West camp extended for two more weeks

The fight to defend the workers’ standard of living, by the Secretariat of the Socialist Workers Party

• Help – he’s holding me up! (cartoon), by Gray

1,000 Buffalo workers protest rapidly mounting cost of living

• Trade unionists, veterans’ organizations and consumers’ groups in Buffalo protesting (photo)

What Do You Say?

Congress votes down cancer research bill

Akron CIO council opposes any new “no-strike” pledge

New purges in the Soviet Union reflect discontent with Kremlin, by Larissa Reed

Chiang uses American arms in war on people of China, by Li Fu-jen

• Chiang Kai-shek (cartoon)

Scene of Bolivian upheaval (photo)

RWP enters elections in Australia

• Jack Kavanagh (photo)

Strikes spread across India in reply to high living costs, by Duncan Ferguson

Greek monarchists shoot down leftists

Lessons for Jews in fight on British rule of Palestine, by Don Shelton

200 Stalinists beat Trotskyist at Nice, France

International Notes

• Bolivia
• Italy
• Palestine

Stalinists in India linked with British police service

[Editorials]

• Reuther’s Promise
• Congress’ record
• Bikini and Paris
• Smear technique

“For heaven’s sake – Why are you doing that now ...” (cartoon), by Gray

Withdrawal of the occupation troops

Workers’ Bookshelf

• The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams, reviewed by Eugene Shays

Congressmen at Work

• Making the next war scientific

Ruptured duck now a homing pigeon

Workers’ Forum

• Injuries to 30 “no excuse” for going home, from F.B.
• It makes a lot of difference, from R.N.
• Eyewitness report on Congress, from A Reader
  [Senator] (cartoon)
• Louisiana sawmill workers in bitter 4-month strike, from Kent Darrow
• Workers in Reading face eviction from housing project, from William Moore
• Militant tells news others don’t print, from P.L.D.
• Victimization of civil service workers, from C. Blake
• New Masses slander, from W.E.M.
  [Note], by The Editors
• Unbiased information, from Mrs. O.E.

Police attack pickets (photo)

Pioneer Notes

The Militant Army

• Monthly sub quotas set by SWP members

No connection with Akron “ULP” group

Bayonne SWP opens new headquarters

Youth Group Activities

Our Program

Philadelphia SWP holds Konikow memorial meeting, by C. Blake

World War II and the Monopolies

• What is the Future for Monopoly? by Art Preis
   
• How public opinion is monopolized
   
• U.S. free press (cartoon strip)

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

• Growth and decay

Pennsylvania cannery workers strike against vile conditions, by Powell Bleicher

• Behind cannery strike (photo)

Wages, Prices and Profits

• The working class method in economics, by Warren Creel

How the GPU tried to discredit the Dewey Commission of Inquiry, by Joseph Hansen

• Carlo Tresca (photo)
• John Dewey (photo)
• Trotskyist press warned of frame-up

Condemn police role in terror against Negroes, by Robert L. Birchman

• Check presented to Mrs. Grace Hardy

Stalinists find Nuremberg creeps at “snail’s pace”

Start defense movement in choice case

Los Angeles CIO unions win victories for Negro workers, by Lois Saunders

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Frameup of Negro youth protested by Bayonne SWP

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• The fate of Slim’s new pants

Arms fraud inquiry hints at new scandals far worse than Garrson-May profits deal

Hartford workers show solidarity (photo)

Dobbs attacks capitalist parties at New York SWP election rally

Infantile paralysis vs. profits, by Grace Carlson

Detroit police shield arson gang in SWP fire

• Attack on SWP is condemned by unionists

Indignant audience walks out on “whitewash” of Freeport

Veterans’ Problems, by Alvin Royce

• Inflation hits the veterans

Help wanted, from Union Register

Johnny’s Initiative and How It Paid, by V. Grey

[Price advances and removal of controls] from N.Y. Times

[Meat prices higher this Fall] from AP Dispatch

Volume X No. 32, August 10, 1946, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

MANAGING EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Socialist Workers Party demands Truman act against lynch-murders, by James P. Cannon

• Marching through Georgia (cartoon)
   
• Halt the lynchers!
   
• Negro flogged to death in Mississippi
   
• Burial of one of Georgia lynch victims (photo)

UAW heads denounce arson-attack on SWP

• Call mass rally in Detroit to fight terrorism
   
• UAW-CIO statements on Detroit outrage

AVC urges veterans’ benefits be geared to living cost rises

Vets tell bloody toll of defective shells

War profiteers looted “untold billions”

CIO leaders retreat from wage fight; substitute weak program calling for “roll back” of prices, by Art Preis

• Walter Reuther (photo)

Robertson telegram arouses railway men, by Lou Manning

Minnesota SWP candidates file petition to place party on ballot

• Minnesota SWP candidates file for ballot (photo)

What Do You Say?

Addes’ letter on arson-attack

Weird lie of Stalinist on the fire

$500 emergency fund asked to aid Detroit SWP local

Workers in Egypt battle repression, by T. Cliff

Allied powers spar in Paris arena for position in another world war

AMG persecutes Trieste strikers

Garbage for food (photo)

Four Marines killed in North China, by Mike Cort

AMG sells 35 Farben plants

Over 400,000 demonstrate in Calcutta general strike, by Duncan Ferguson

Anti-labor general sent to N. Africa

Demonstrations win pay rise for militant French workers

Labor votes decline in Great Britain

Labor under the Kremlin regime, by Ernest Germain

International Notes

• Palestine
• Japan

Correction

[Editorials]

• Labor solidarity
• C.P. colonial policy
• Arms profiteers
• CIO leaders retreat

“Democratic rights – bah! ...” (cartoon), by Gray

First month at Trotsky school, by Myra Tanner Weiss

• Myra Tanner Weiss (photo)

Workers’ Bookshelf

• The Fate of Writing in America, by James T. Farrell, reviewed by Larissa Reed
• Manhattan Transfer, by John Dos Passos, reviewed by Ruth Benson

Congressmen at Work

• Pity the Poor Landlords

Workers’ Forum

• Merchant seaman tells about fight to free Philippines, from B.T.
• Militant popular in Newark, from Dorothy Lessing
• Reader continues sub work while laid up in hospital, from Goldy Geldman
• San Diego workers eagerly subscribe, from Louise Leslie
• Police helpless in Detroit rally, from E. Brent
• Los Angeles workers defend distributor of The Militant, from Sam Stern

GI amputees demand autos (photo)

Pioneer Notes

The Militant Army

• Four SWP branches wind up campaign

Youth Group Activities

Our Program

Flint sends C.E. Wilson a token of appreciation, from Flint News-Advertiser

Eight ex-GIs raise objection to our demand for military training under control of trade unions

• A letter ...
   
• Peace-time conscription (cartoon), by Gray
   
• ... And an answer, by George Breitman

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

• Constant and variable capital

Higher prices pour like flood out of OPA

Wages, Prices and Profits

• The anarchy prevailing under capitalism, by Warren Creel

Incitement to murder

How the truth triumphed over Moscow frameup lies, by Joseph Hansen

• Leon Sedov (photo)

Dewey Freeport “investigation” ends in whitewash of murderer, by Bill Morgan

• Welcome Home Boys! (cartoon), by Gray

Midwest school plans Labor Day jamboree

Philadelphia U.E. Local class for escalator wage clause, by H. Newil

Chicago AVC chapter backs resolution on defense guard, by Robert L. Birchman

Toledo labor prepared united political action

Three packing unions raise bonus demand

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Correction

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• Steel plant sketches

SWP candidates answer 17 questions of NAACP

• Fair employment
• William Bohannon (photo)
• Civil rights
• Dorothy Schultz (photo)
• Welfare legislation
• Malcolm Walker (photo)
• Armed forces
• Joseph Hansen (photo)
• Veterans
• Labor
• Liberalize rules of Congress
• Charles Swett (photo)

Civil War in Athens, Tenn., by Art Preis

On the Railroads, by Henry Adams

• Which side are you on?

Dobbs blasts Stalinist attempt at deal with boss politicians

12,000 sign petition in drive to put SWP on N.Y. ballot, by Karolyn Kerry

Volume X No. 33, August 17, 1946, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

MANAGING EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

An Editorial

• Leon Trotsky’s heritage to U.S. workers
   
• [Leon Trotsky] (photo)

Big auto locals demand cost-of-living bonuses, by Art Preis

• “Reopen wage contracts,” GM workers say, by Jerry Kirk

“Peace” conference (cartoon), by Gray

Angry veterans give details on defective shells

U.S-British bloc lays down line against USSR at Paris parley

In the News

• Right place, from United Press Dispatch
• Hero’s reward
• Food profiteer gets off the hook
• Everybody’s doing it, from Associated Press
• No bust-control, from Report for the Business Executive

Bosses gyp vets on job training

Union leaders spread false wage theories

18,140 sign election petitions in New York, by Karolyn Kerry

Georgia lynchers known!

Detroit auto union local presidents join protest against arson-attack on Detroit SWP headquarters

• Detroit SWP protests notice of eviction

AFL threatens general strike in Los Angeles, by Lois Saunders

Tugboats picket against scabs (photo)

Prices hit new high; worst still to come

Ferguson case petitions filed by SWP in N.Y.

Mazey, Scholle statements denouncing arson-attack

Seattle packing union demands escalator clause

California AFL launches Red-baiting drive on CIO, by James Dall

SWP organizer describes benefits of Midwest school, by Myra Tanner Weiss

SWP candidates demand action in lynch terror

Seattle social for relief nets food, clothing

Six years after Trotsky’s death

Peace or war – how Trotsky posed the basic question of our times

• Leon Trotsky (woodcut)
• Leon Trotsky (photo)

44 years in the struggle to free humanity from capitalist slavery, by Larissa Reed

• Foremost defender of Soviet Union against domestic and foreign foes
   
• Trotsky articles featured in new issue of FI

[Editorials]

• Our program
• Troops and strikes
• Election laws

“And does it say that our investments ...” (cartoon), by Gray

Two of a kind – political swindlers, by George Clarke

Workers’ Bookshelf

• Up Front, by Bill Mauldin, reviewed by Bill Stevens
• Primer for White Folks, edited by Bucklin Moon, reviewed by Winifred Nelson

Higgins and Kaiser, “self-made” war profiteers

Congressmen at Work

• Saving British Capitalism

Workers’ Forum

• Reader in England appraised British Labor Party policy, from A Reader
  Bevin (cartoon)
• “No draft at all,” says Militant reader, from L.B. Courts
• Petition gatherer proud of her achievements, from Betty Davis

Two ends of the same chain (cartoon), by Gray

The Militant Army

• Novel idea puts zest in San Pedro sub drive

“My Day” – experiences of a working mother, by Mille Fredreci

Pioneer Notes

Youth Group Activities

Conditions in Soviet Union worsen for factory workers and soldiers

• Unpaid men live like slaves under corrupt Stalinist rule
   
• “Big Four” plotters (photos)
   
• Discipline patterned on model of despotic Prussian system

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

• The machine

Teachers union votes for rising scale of wages

Dutch Trotskyists hit moves to crush Indonesian republic

Opposition to C.P. developing in Prague

Bulgarian Trotskyist in prison camp

Wages, Prices and Profits

• The law of labor value controls prices, by Warren Creel

International Notes

• Puerto Rico
• Palestine

How Leon Trotsky’s assassination capped bloody edifice of Moscow frameup trials, by Joseph Hansen

• Leon Trotsky (photo)

Police terrorism rages against Harlem Negroes, by C. Howell & H. Hill

Twin-Cities honors memory of A. Konikow, by Barbara Bruce

Chicago delegation protests wave of race hate attacks, by Robert L. Birchman

Egypt’s fight for freedom headed by new leadership, by T. Cliff

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• The plant and the people

Lucas County election board votes to bar independent labor candidates on ballot

• Bulletin

Meet the SWP candidates

• Farrell Dobbs
  Photo
• Paul L. Wylie
  Photo

SWP candidates gain place on Washington state ballot, by Clara Kaye

Crime in high places, by Grace Carlson

Smear campaign against veterans, by Alvin Royce

Our Program

Testing Push Button on War III, by Joseph Hansen

Volume X No. 34, 24 August 1946, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

MANAGING EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

CIO leaders stall on wage fight, by Art Preis

4 more Negro victims added to lynch toll

Pickets halt fascist Smith in Chicago, by Robert L. Birchman

British imperialists drive Jews into Cyprus concentration camp

• “Four Freedoms” for refugee Jews (cartoon)

Goodrich local opens drive for rising pay scale

Profits soar along with prices

Government smashes strike of 50,000 in South Africa

• SWP protests atrocities against African strikers

In the News

• Seems to be a habit
• A penny more for profiteers!
• Capitalists have one law – their own
• They sure will help
• The truth marches on

Detroit labor rally assails arson outrage against SWP

UAW veterans demonstrate for GM vacation pay

An Editorial

• Open America’s gates to Jewish refugees!

UAW executive board authorizes Chrysler locals to file notice for reopening of wage contracts

Trade Union Notes

• Packers’ insulting answer to UPWA-CIO
• Armour local urges sliding wage scale
• The richest prize in all Dixie

Chicago pickets halt Smith (photo)

OPA approves hundreds of new price rises

CIO unions rally to aid NMU in battle with Lake carriers

Decontrol board can’t roll back prices, Porter admits

Powerful CIO unions support sliding wage scale principle

NMU ties up six lake ships at Buffalo

One year of Indonesia’s battle for independence, by Joseph Hansen

• Bringing “four freedoms” to Indonesia (cartoon), by Gray

Puerto Ricans treated like slaves in Pennsylvania camp, by Paul Kelly

Blood, tears and sweat in African gold mines, by Larissa Reed

Mexican GPU agent slanders Trotsky’s biography of Stalin

New Philippine government uses mailed fist on Huks, by Dave Dreiser

Uruguayan union hits Wall Street military scheme

Troop demonstration is labelled “mutiny”

[Editorials]

• Veterans and politics
• Lynchings hush-hush
• The war scandals
• Ominous trend

“My husband says in these critical times ...” (cartoon), by Gray

Stalinist policy in New York primaries

Workers’ Bookshelf

• News from Nowhere, by William Morris, reviewed by Ruth Benson
• Mrs Palmer’s Honey, by Fannie Cook, reviewed by Winifred Nelson

Wall St. “bargains” – slavery at cut rates, by Dan Shelton

Political action – but what kind?

Workers’ Forum

• Harlem workers greet SWP speakers against lynch law, from Mill Adams
• “Best newspaper”, from Mrs. A.M. Norman
• Scored leadership of UAW-CIO in wage struggle, from Fred Riggs
• UAW official aids distributor, from May Manning
• Enthusiastic about West Coast camp, from Alfred Lann

Picket White House to protest lynching (photo)

The Militant Army

• Red Sunday mobilization steps up Chicago subs

A working mother gets a politician’s letter, by Mille Fredreci

Pioneer Notes

Youth Group Activities

West Coast SWP opens 3-day camp weekend

Mid-West school prepares for Labor Day jamboree

Blistering attack on lynch terror delivered, by Robert L. Birchman

• Milton Richardson (photo)

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

• Machines create no new value

SWP petition drive enters final stage in New York, by Karolyn Kerry

Veterans win election battle (photo)

Black market charged to “Big 4” packers

San Francisco parley calls for united labor conference, by Russell Morgan

Half of America lives sub-standard

Wages, Prices and Profits

• The relation between wages and surplus value, by Warren Creel

Who’s really to blame in Jersey rail wreck? by CRRNJ Worker

How the third big frameup trail exposed Stalin’s gangster regime, by Joseph Hansen

• Mussolini thanked Stalin for trials
   

• Summaries at Nuremberg silent on Moscow Trials
   

• Bukharin (drawing), by E.A.

The Negro Struggle

• – the government and the lynch mobs, by William Bohannon

• William Bohannon (photo)

Judge denies civil rights in frameup trial of 25 Negroes

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• Our Comrade – Leon Trotsky

Candidate exp ains [sic] position of SWP to New Jersey women voters league, by George Breitman

• Atomic energy
• Tariff
• Food
• Colonies
• Production
• Housing
• Price rises

Meet the SWP candidates

• Grace Carlson
  Photo
• Joseph Hansen
  Photo

Selling Water in a Bread Wrapper, by Joseph Hansen

New Friends Won to SWP in Seattle Election Campaign, by Clara Kaye

Fresh Winds Blow in Rail Unions, by Henry Adams

Our Program

Veterans Exploited as Cheap Labor, by Alvin Royce

Volume X No. 35, 31 August 1946, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

MANAGING EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Union leaders protest ruling of price board, by Art Preis

Minneapolis picket-line smashes fascist rally, by Barbara Bruce

• Hot reception for fascists in Minneapolis (photo)
• Grace Carlson (photo)

Marines resent Wall Street role in Chinese war

“Big 4” meat packers receive strike notices

Mississippi lynch posse seizes 14 Negroes in savage man-hunt

• Fear silences lynch witnesses in Georgia case

In the News

• There is no peace at “peace” parley
• Bottom drops out of UN conference
• Forced to scab, can’t collect pay
• Might rub the polish off the Big Brass
• Not “bad taste” to drop them, though

“Silent parade” in bay city protests against lynchings, by Russell Morgan

Decontrol board’s decisions pave way for higher prices

Cable to Bulgaria demands jailed Trotskyist be freed

Union leaders continue stall on wage fight, by Art Preis

How anti-fascist demonstration was organized in Minneapolis, by Barbara Bruce

• After they routed the fascists (photo)
• Fascist Smith (cartoon)

Big RCA local urges formation of Labor Party, by James Dolan

A fitting memorial to Leon Trotsky

Prices soar higher as OPA approves new boosts daily

Chrysler workers file notice to reopen wage negotiations

Fish cannery union votes San Diego strike, by Jerome Williams

Firestone local in L.A. votes for rising scale, by Dave Dreisler

One year after “V-J” Day

• Yenan mobilizes for war; Wall Street backs Chiang, by Li Fu-jen
  Chiang Kai-shek (cartoon)
   
• Looking forward to World War III (cartoon), by Gray
   
• Ultimatum put to Yugoslavia; capitalist pound war drums
   
• There is no peace!
   
• Bikini atom bomb demonstration (photo)

Dutra regime suspends press of Brazil CP

British gunfire mows down Indians in Calcutta “riots”, by Larissa Reed

Full Story of Bulgarian Trotskyist Arrests

Stalin’s new 5-year plan

[Editorials]

• Let labor beware!
• The wage front
• Bring them home!
• Stalinist treachery in Palestine

“Goodness – just look at those Communists ...” (cartoon), by Gray

PAC’s “box-score” on 79th Congress, by Ruth Benson

Workers’ Bookshelf

• Build a Labor Party Now, by George Clarke, reviewed by Jeff Thorne
• Marching Blacks, by Adams Clayton Powell, Jr., reviewed by Larissa Reed

“Who’s making all the money?”

Peace-makers at work, by Bill Morgan

• Atomic energy (cartoon), by Gray

Spanish paper banned in France

Workers’ Forum

• Dutch reader tells how anti-labor drive in U.S. affects all, from B.M.
• Trinidad workers mourn Antoinette Konikow, Rupert Hannibal
• SWP urges mass demonstration against police terror in Harlem, from Victor Howell & Herbert Hill
• Supports program of Socialist Workers Party, from M.M.
• Henry Kaiser – “a force for good?” from Dilliam M. Hostetler
  Henry J. Kaiser (photo) Editor’s reply
• Army life on Okinawa gets worse, from Ray Moore
• The role of H.G. Wells, from H. Daniels
• How to show price-rises, from Arthur Young
• Army banned book satirizing Brass Hats, from D.B.

Legal lynch gangs in man-hunt (photo)

Pioneer Notes

The Militant Army

• Detroit sub record holds up despite fire

Youth Group Activities

Candidates speak at Newark picnic, by Ruth Franklin

300 New York City workers pay tribute to Leon Trotsky at death memorial

• Trotsky’s life told in Detroit

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

• Where profit is made

Flint memorial opens new headquarters, by Douglas Snyder

Storming the fascist meeting (photo)

Vacation school commemorates fallen leader, by E. Kennedy

Two veterans, one soldier die at hands of race-hate lynchers

• 16 hoodlums indicted in Jim-Crow attack

Wages, Prices and Profits

• What becomes of surplus value? by Warren Creel

All-white jury sought in trial of 25 Negroes

General Eisenhower seeks hemispheric armed camp

Inflation and OPA

West Coast camp schedules week-end session near L.A.

GPU book The Great Conspiracy rehashes Moscow frame-up trials, by Joseph Hansen

• Picture printed in Raymond Robins’ Own Story (photo)

The Negro Struggle, by William Bohannon

• The fight against lynching

Stalinist N.Y. election policy leads to Wall Street victory, by Joseph Hansen

• Joseph Hansen (photo)

Demonstrations in Denmark mark rising labor militancy, by William Simmons

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Frederick Douglass, great Negro rebel

The only salvation for the Jews, by Leon Trotsky

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• Yesterday ... and today

Campaign to put SWP on New York ballot goes over top with 25,000 signatures, by Karolyn Kerry

Minnesota SWP candidates get wide publicity

Meet the SWP candidates

• William E. Bohannon
  Photo
• Charles Swett
  Photo

Newark rally puts steam in SWP election campaign

A New Use for “Truth Serum”, by Grace Carlson

Old age pension fight backed by SWP candidates

Don’t play with rattlesnakes, by Farrell Dobbs

Our Program

Veterans’ Problems, by Alvin Royce

• Oppression of Negro Veterans

Volume X No. 36, 7 September 1946, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

MANAGING EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Lynchers named by Negro victim

• Escaped from lynch mon (photo)

Allied powers restore Greek king

Giving a fascist the boot (cartoon), by Gray

Price ceilings on meat to hit new high

U.S. imperialists intensify drive toward new war, by Joseph Hansen

Minneapolis labor points the way

White attackers of Negro girls get $10 fine

In the News

• Uncanny, isn’t it?
• “Peace” in pieces
• How about Moscow Trials confessions?
• Also?

MacArthur forbids strikes in Japan; threatens force

Socialist Workers Party files N.Y. state election petitions, by Karolyn Kerry

N.Y. truck drivers strike

Big Akron locals to advocate sliding wage scale program at CIO United Rubber workers convention, by Milton Alvin

Red-baiters ban Communists in Phila. CIO, by H. Newell

Police attack NMU pickets (photo)

Negro-haters seek to evict Detroit SWP

AFL seamen fight wage ruling that denies increase they won

Illinois cops charged in lynch-assault

American Sweatshop, by Dinah Sanders

Skilled factory women spurn poorly-paid dust-mop jobs, by Winifred Nelson

Only road for Arab-Jewish masses, by the Editors

• Two faces of Stalinism on Arab-Jewish problem

Eyewitness account from Greece tells crisis leading to plebiscite,

• Starving family in Greece (photo)
• King George (photo)

16-inch guns sure help negotiations

[Editorials]

• Export democracy
• Labor’s program
• Labor Day
• Anti-lynching law

“I’m sorry, but we really couldn’t contribute ...” (cartoon), by Gray

Wallace’s advice on the elections, by Ruth Benson

Workers’ Bookshelf

• Thaddeus Stevens, by Thomsa Frederick Woodley, reviewed by Max Goldman

How Washington coddles the fascists

“Educating” Japan’s crown prince, by Art Preis

Workers’ Forum

• Reader tells why he joined SWP, from Jarvis Dusenberg
• Single Militant article wins new one-year sub,
• Trinidad worker describes conditions in colonies, from Rupert Hannibal
• Urges votes for SWP in anti-fascist fight, from Victor Howell
• A letter on production under capitalism, from Jeff Thomas
  A reply, from Warren Creel
• Old “success story” still going around, from R.S. Amanas
• German workers enslaved in Britain by labor government, from A.C. Booth
• West Coast camp set for week-end session, from A.L.

Tobacco workers strike (photo)

The Militant Army

• Flint SWP tops list for week’s sub getting

Working mother writes of day in N.Y. court, by Mille Fredreci

Pioneer Notes

Youth Group Activities

Rich planter holds five in slavery, by Evelyn Atwood

Wages, Prices and Profits

• Production and Income, by Warren Creel

Leon Trotsky’s heroic life told at Buffalo SWP memorial meeting

• SWP candidate speaks at memorial meeting in Buffalo (photo)
   
• Memorial held for Trotsky in Los Angeles
   
• Trotsky memorial held in New Haven, by Pearl Spangler
   
• Meeting held in Bay Area

WDL intensifies pardon campaign for Tee Davis

5 white jurors picked in Tennessee Negro trial

American imperialists push scheme for military grip on Latin America, by Charles Carsten

Northwest branches hold camp week-end

How Stalin’s secret police expose their hand in latest propaganda, by Joseph Hansen

• James P. Cannon (photo)

The Negro Struggle, by William Bohannon

• The Negroes need a Labor Party

Roxas regime launches war on “Huk” guerrilla fighters, by Larissa Reed

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Rail strike called in India

• Victims of British terror in Calcutta (photo)

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• Sunset Over the Steel Town

Prominent Toledo labor figures denounce election board ruling on SWP candidates, by Harold Josephs

Only solution is labor’s own men in office

• Farrell Dobbs (photo)

Meet the SWP candidates

• Doris Schultz
  (Photo)
   
• William Kitt
  (Photo)

People Can Change, by Grace Carlson

Lords and Rhinoceros-Hide Whips, by Joseph Hansen

Our Program

Veterans’ Problems, by Alvin Royce

• “Army Justice”

Volume X No. 37, 14 September 1946, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

MANAGING EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Bid to German capitalist class made by Byrnes, by Joseph Hansen

• Byrnes (photo)

Maritime labor displays might in national strike, by C. Thomas

Truck strike spreads – Jersey drivers join walkout

No government wage-cuts! (cartoon), by Gray

SWP candidates in Los Angeles pledge fight against fascists, by Al Lynn

In the News

• But they didn’t pull out his poison fangs
• ‘Long time’ is forever under capitalism
• Law-abiding capitalists
• Which one’s lying?

Nation-wide meat famine imposed by packing trust

An Editorial

• Labor solidarity in maritime strike

Why prices soar

Nationalize meat trust demand packing locals

Trade Union Notes

• Chrysler profiteers oppose bonus demand
• New York AFL warns of new wage fight
• ACW-CIO prepares raise demands
• Bosses use starvation tactics in strikes

Not a ship moving as seamen picket San Francisco docks

• Seamen “hit the bricks” (photo)
   
• Harry Lundeberg (photo)
   
• Seamen solid in Seattle; port tied up, by A. Bradley

Cost-of-living bonus demand attacked by Stalinist editor

A truck driver tells his story, by Evelyn Atwood

• Arthur Hammer (drawing)

At Buffalo SWP election rally

Minneapolis CLU commends anti-Smith picket leaders

Eye-witness report from Athens relates background of plebiscite, by Jean Paul Martin

• Greek tyrant put on throne through fraud and violence, by Larissa Reed
   
• U.S. warships back up Greek “election” (photo)

Build Marxist party, Canadian paper says

Squeezing blood out of a stone

India Congress Party leaders in deal with British despots

Restrictions in provincial voting expose U.S. “democracy” in Germany

U.S. blacklists cattle needed by Mexico

International Notes

• Panama
• Germany
• France

[Editorials]

• Storm-warning
• What must be done
• Terror in Philippines
• Minority parties

“We’ll show those strikers ...” (cartoon), by Gray

UNRRA promises prove to be lies, by Eugene Shays

Workers’ Bookshelf

• Martin Eden, by Jack London, reviewed by Winifred Nelson
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, by Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), reviewed by John Jones

Billionaires’ club grows and grows

Mead wants “efficient” war,” by Ruth Benson

Workers’ Forum

• 84 yeas [sic] old and still interested, from T.H.
• Detroit workers resent production for export alone,
  Editor’s Note
• “American Way” – a sweatshop, from H. Daniels
• Refugees don’t cause job problem, from J.H.
• Stalinist sympathizers friendly to Seattle Militant distributors, from Clara Kaye
• Canadian reader changes opinion on U.S. workers, from A.G.

Wall Street’s decontrol board (photo)

65,000 march in Detroit on Labor Day

The Militant Army

• St. Louis SWP branch doubles monthly quota

Chicago YMCA heads offer striker “pie in the sky,” by Eugene Zucker

Big Labor Day parade held in San Francisco, by Russell Morgan

Working mother describes domestic servants life, by Mille Fredreci

Trotsky works in wide demand

Youth Group Activities

New York Democrats, Republicans and ALP stage “3-ring political circus,” says Farrell Dobbs

• Republican stooge – Dewey (photo)
• Democratic stooge – Mead (photo)

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

• From competition to monopoly

New Jersey labor dissatisfied with policies of PAC leaders, by Alan Kohlman

Thomas scores attempt to evict Detroit SWP

Menace of dread diseases fails to stir law makers, by Susan Adams

American Sweatshop

• How the Stalinists “manage” our union, by Dinah Sanders

Wages, Prices and Profits

• Productive and unproductive labor, by Warren Creel

Identified lynchers still at large

• Oil swindle motive disclosed in Louisiana lynch murder
   
• Survivor of Louisiana lynch mob (photo)

The Negro Struggle, by William Bohannon

• The heritage of Frederick Douglass

Defense continues grim fight in Tennessee frame-up trial

Correction

Urge defense guards against race terrorists

Army court martial system gives two kinds of justice

13 injured in Chicago fires set by Jim Crow terrorists, by Richard L. Birchman

Yankee imperialism guided overturn in Bolivian capital, by C. Fernandez

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• If you were a Negro ...

Washington state SWP election campaign shifts into high gear with Seattle rally

• Dyniel Roberts (photo)

SWP candidate in Jersey asks housing action

Meet the SWP candidates

• Sylvia Blecker
  (Photo)
   
• Alan Kohlman
  (Photo)

Who’s for free speech? by Grace Carlson

Seattle SWP candidate backs seamen’s strike

Showing Off Their War Profits, by Ruth Benson

Our Program

An Indictment of the ICC, by G. Gustafsen

Volume X No. 38, September 21, 1946, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

MANAGING EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Biggest maritime strike forces government to rescind wage-cut

• Dobbs defends seamen, drivers in radio talk

The snake charmer (cartoon), by Gray

Reuther hits attacks on Detroit SWP

Stalinists drop own candidates to back capitalist party slate

Stock market slump reveals Wall Street’s view of future, by Art Preis

In the News

• A shot in the arm for German capitalists, from N.Y. Herald Tribune
• Hogs never satisfied
• Propaganda sure makes a hearty breakfast, from Saturday News
• How about putting capitalists to work?
• De-control’s already jet-propelled

Atom workers vote 2–1 for unionism

New York truckdrivers stand firm; break operators’ front

Meat trust causes famine

“Why we support the striking seamen and New York truckdrivers”, radio address by Farrell Dobbs

AFL seamen win; CIO unions hit the bricks for equal pay, by C. Thomas

• Seamen close ports (photo)
   
• “Nothing doing, cap’!” – a scene on a N.Y. dock, by Art Sharon

State of Greek political parties before the recent plebiscite, by Jean Paul Martin

Nation-wide strike in Japan against puppet government, by Larissa Reed

• Workers demonstrate in Japan (photo)

Cable from France

Nationalization in Britain

• Grant huge sum to mine owners
   
• British steel barons will retain their stranglehold on industry
   
• Jock Haston (photo)
   
• Homeless workers in London take over vacant mansions

Crisis over high living costs in Brazil shakes Dutra govt., by Charles Carsten

15,000 Belgian dockworkers on picket lines

2,000 workers in Bolivia honor Trotsky

[Editorials]

• Government boards
• The same enemy
• Workers’ control
• The Wallace speech

“I don’t care if they are my size ...” (cartoon), by Gray

Why the veterans remain homeless, by Ruth Benson

Workers’ Bookshelf

• Inflation Is Coming! by Ralph Borsodi, reviewed by Larissa Reed
• Men, Women and Dogs, by James Thurber, reviewed by Ruth Benson

Buffalo CIO council condemns Red-baiting

Guam – Wall Street colonial prize

Workers’ Forum

• Cleveland boss tries new trick, from B.K.
• Worker’s wife scores packers’ meat famine, from Alice Patton
• Enjoys seeing crooks exposed, from R.O.
• A victory – almost – against Jim Crow, from NAACP member
• Stalinist threats with “Militant” friends, from Therese Stone
• Paris: ‘A system falling apart’, from A Reader
• Pennsylvania miner circulates Militant, from Eloise Gordon

Demand federal probe in Tennessee (photo)

CP expels two editors of New Masses

The Militant Army

• Pittsburgh quadruples sub goal for August

Resigns when CP supports candidates of Wall Street

Youth Group Activities

Flint unionists buy Pioneer’s new pamphlets

Labor Party debated by Ohio CIO, PAC parleys

• C.I.O. delegates fight Jim Crow

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

• Capitalist waste of human labor

Striking truckdrivers show fighting spirit at meeting, by Evelyn Atwood

• N.Y. Teamsters on strike (photo)

Wages, Prices and Profits

• Capitalist waste of human labor, by Warren Creel

1. Capitalist division of the product
2. Capitalist waste of human labor

What happens when workers back capitalist candidates

SWP veterans ask basic changes in Army’s court-martial system

• Army court martial (cartoon), by Rap

The Negro Struggle, by William Bohannon

• The record of Congress

Chicago Jim-Crow terrorism hits other racial groups, by Robert L. Birchman

Stalinist machine retains control at UE convention

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Housing Crisis in New Jersey, by Alan Kohlman

California Socialist Workers Party names Roberts for governor, Rogalin for Senate, by Al Lynn

Minnesota SWP candidates to speak on radio

Meet the SWP candidates

• Milton Richardson
  (Photo)
   
• George Breitman
  (Photo)

The Generals and the Admirals, by George Breitman

Los Angeles labor organizes demonstration against Smith

Kohlman hits strikebreaking threat by edge

Veterans’ Problems; by Alvin Royce

• Why Vets Have “Mental Disturbances”

Our Program

On the Railroads

• Who Wants Amalgamation? by Henry Adams

Volume X No. 39, 28 September 1946, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

MANAGING EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Wallace fired in drive to war, by George Breitman

Attempt to bar minority parties from N.Y. ballot, by George Clarke

• N.Y. SWP urges united fight to keep minorities on ballot
   
• A stab in the back by Norman Thomas

“Now, all together, boys!” (cartoon), by Gray

An itching atomic trigger-finger

Bring back home all U.S. troops, says Flint CIO

Maritime strike wins equal pay at highest level for all seamen, by F.J. Lang

Rubbers workers face key issues at convention, by Anne Chester

Japanese labor victorious in great strike struggle

Truck strikers in New York split owners’ front in two

Meat profiteers tighten squeeze on the people

Pittsburgh union leader jailed

A defense of the packinghouse workers’ demand for a cost-of-living bonus to meet rising prices, by Art Preis

Government aids profiteers’ price gouging, by Warren Creel

• What Do You Say?

Growing union protest hits attempt to evict Detroit SWP

Victorious CIO seamen (photo)

Haywood appoints receiver over Cleveland CIO council

Pittsburgh power workers to challenge injunction, by Eloise Gordon

Help us to end terrorism against the Greek people! from Central Committee of the International Communist Party of Greece

• Monarchists wage war on Greeks

Hunger, fear and violence spreading on all continents

Italy 3 years after downfall of Mussolini, by Carlo Bivanco

• Italian housewife joins protest (photo)

Starvation living standards driven still lower in Mexico, by Betty Douglas

London scene (photo)

African mine workers held under Nazi-like conditions

Mounting wave of barbarism engulfs the Jewish people

• Plight of the Jews

Nuremberg trial bared frameup of Moscow

Behind the scenes of World War II

[Editorials]

• The 1946 elections and a Labor Party
• Red-baiting
• Withdraw the troops
• Hello, new reader

“But how on earth did it HAPPEN ...” (cartoon), by Gray

Why you pay more and get less

Workers’ Bookshelf

• Socialism on Trial, by James P. Cannon, reviewed by Ruth Benson

James Roosevelt draws class line

What you can’t believe in the CP

Wall Street strengthens the national guards

Workers’ Forum

• Militant brings out truth, says vet, from James Mahoney
• Democratizing the Armed Forces, from A former enlisted man
• On the waterfront, from A.R.
• Protest in Trinidad on Freeport murders, from N.T.G.
• Unite to smash fascist groups, from M.S.
  Fascist G.L.K. Smith (cartoon)
• Jim-Crow terror a shame and disgrace, from Eugene Cheng
  Smash Jim Crow! Vote SWP (cartoon)
• Torture still legal punishment, from B.J.
• Ford cheats worker’s widow, from A.R.
  Ford (photo)
• Negro nationalism or socialism? from Victor Howell
• Dobbs’ radio talk wins quick support, from E. Landl

The Militant Army

• N.Y. Militant boosters give inspiring reports

Pioneer Notes

Youth Group Activities

What is the Socialist Workers Party? by James P. Cannon

• James P. Cannon (photo)

Shop Talks on Socialism, by V. Grey

• The gifts socialism bears

The slavery of a housewife, by Alice Patton

• “Learn to relax!” (cartoon), by BW

What “wage stabilization” really means to workers

Jarvis Johnson 1936–1946, by Kay O’Brien

Republicans and Democrats guilty of lynch terror against Negroes, by Milton Richardson

• Milton Richardson (photo)
• Welcome Home Boys! (cartoon), by Gray

The Negro Struggle, by William Bohannon

• The decision you must make

Seattle SWP candidate brands demagogy of Democratic Party, by Charles Swett

November elections and U.S. labor

How railway strike exposed anti-labor role of Congress, by Dorothy Schultz

Threaten to kill Southern CIO organizer in Alabama

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Kitt speaks at Buffalo SWP election rally

Fight ruling on WP candidate

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• The giant and the chain

Wallace ouster signified third world war has early date on Wall Street’s calendar, by Joseph Hansen & George Breitman

• Wallace (cartoon)
   
• Take war-making powers out of hands of Congress
   
• Republicans and Democrats united on new slaughter
   
• Brass Hats indignantly deny they are preparing for war

The Health of the Nation, by Grace Carlson

The Real Issue in New Jersey, by Alan Kohlman

Our Program

The people don’t like it

Volume X No. 40, 5 October 1946, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

MANAGING EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Pittsburgh labor smashes power strike ban, by Eloise Gordon & William Carlay

• Bulletin

Democrats conspiring to bar minority parties, by George Clarke

• Bulletin
   
• When to register in N.Y. State
   
• LaGuardia condemns attempt to bar minorities from ballot

Housewives storm city hall in Toledo in demand for meat

Beating drum with both arms (cartoon), by Gray

Martel protests attempt to oust Detroit SWP

An Editorial

• Fight the conspiracy!

Union leader ruled off air

Ohio SWP runs Walker as candidate for governor

• Malcolm Walker (photo)

Stalin knifes struggle against war, by George Breitman

Rubber workers set stage for action on wages, by Joseph Andrews

Mayor Lawrence angers workers of Pittsburgh

• Workers cheer Mueller (photo)

UPWA-CIO leader blasts meat barons for shortage, by Barbara Bruce

No progress at Wayne County CIO-PAC merger

600 militant Akron students win demands in 5-day strike

More Detroit CIO leaders hit attempt to oust SWP

Support Spanish workers! by International Executive Committee of the Fourth International

French workers run factory for 2 years without a boss

• Fight rages over French constitution

Hawaiian workers strike (photo)

Stalin’s statement denying war danger recalls his record of false prophecies

• Stalin (cartoon)

Poverty and disease ravage the poor people in Mexico, by Betty Douglas

Stalin peddles line the CP condemned as “Browderism”

PCI reports progress at Third Congress

Trotskyist run 15 candidates in Ceylon election, by V. Karalasingham

[Editorials]

• Keep their snouts out!
• Role of the courts
• The meat famine
• Inspiring example

“Hubert feels just like you do ...” (cartoon), by Gray

Shipyard firms stole 1,600% war profits

Workers’ Bookshelf

• God’s Little Acre, by Erskine Caldwell, reviewed by Eugene Shays
• The League of Frightened Philistines, by James T. Farrell, reviewed by Jules Kramer

General Food’s corner on Rye Market

A&P convicted in anti-trust suit

W. Averell Harriman, Wall St. tycoon, by Ruth Benson

• Harriman (photo)

Workers’ Forum

• Protests attempt to rule SWP off ballot, from George R. Stryper
• Children sleep in rain in New York park, from Rose Fireman
• Rats bite baby in Detroit slum, from E. Brent
• Women appreciate SWP program, from E. Landi
• What’s happened to Charles Jackson, from R.P.
  Editor’s Note
• Much-needed work, from Sam Brown
• Events driving people toward us, from J.E.
• Does Kaiser answer the workers’ needs? from Lillian L. Hostetler
  Editor’s Note
• Stalinists get another kick in the teeth, from L.M.

Monopoly in action (cartoon), by ?-Montgomery for Economic Outlook, CIO

The Militant Army

• Boston goes over top in Sept. sub-getting

Pioneer Notes

Many visitors at Northwest week-end camp

Youth Group Activities

California week-end camp studies U.S. labor history

“Why Truman fired Wallace” – radio address by Farrell Dobbs

• Farrell Dobbs (photo)

Wages, Prices and Profits

• The “Miracle” of wartime production, by Warren Creel

Socialist Workers Party on radio

Reward for Stalinist boot-licking

Why Negro soldiers are slandered by fascist-minded Army Brass Hats, by Milton Richardson

• Vets protest pay cuts (photo)

The Negro Struggle, by William Bohannon

• What counts in candidates

Workers throng to SWP election street rallies, by David Weiss

25 Tennessee Negroes tried in all-white kangaroo court

How Stalinist leaders’ policies paid off in the maritime strike, by F.J. Lang

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• The Story of Stanley Barek

New Jersey candidates fight for housing to be financed by taxing the monopolies

• Alan Kohlman (photo)

California SWP election drive goes into high gear this week

Meet the SWP candidates

• Warren Creel
  (Photo)
   
• Daniel Roberts
  (Photo)

Distribute four special editions of The Militant

Don’t be a Vitamaniac! by Grace Carlson

On the radio

Carlson pledges fight against Jim Crow, by Winifred Nelson

Girdling the Earth with bases, by Joseph Hansen

SWP candidates hit sales tax in Washington

Our Program

What is moral turpitude? by Ruth Benson

Volume X No. 41, 12 October 1946, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

MANAGING EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Meat famine stirs wide protest

• Riding high (cartoon), by Gray
   
• Toledo housewives put heat on City Council, demand meat, by Harold Josephs

U. S. dragged down road to war, by George Breitman

23 Negroes win acquittal in Tennessee trial

Allied verdict in Nuremberg trial conceals war guilt of capitalism, by Art Preis

Different court, same judge to hear N.Y. ballot-ban case

Nelson defends Detroit SWP in fight on eviction

New England steelworkers call for sliding wage scale clauses

Detroit local presidents urge UAW wage conference

Pittsburgh powerhouse workers stand firm in strike; trolley men and coal ruck drivers show solidarity, by Eloise Gordon

• When Pittsburgh labor killed injunction (photo)

CIO leaders challenge Tobin on brewers, by V.R. Dunne

• Tobin (cartoon)

Flint labor united for joint political action, by Sol Dollinger

Strike of maritime officers continues tie-up of shipping

• NMU ship crew urges sliding scale of wages

Hollywood studio strikers defy brutal police attack, by Al Lynn

• Roberts scores police brutality in studio strike

Washington CIO OK’s third party – but not now

Uneasy truce marks Akron Central High student strike

Stalin frameups bared in the Nuremberg Trial

Dutch soldier and workers strike in defense of Indonesian struggle

• Tan Malakka in danger of being killed

U.S. aid still being given to Chinese dictator

Canadian families move in (photo)

Rising unrest in Italy marked by strikes and land seizures

The revolutionary position on the French referendum

German prisoners held by U.S. stage sitdown strike in Italy

Poverty and filth in Mexico spell early death for masses, by Betty Douglas

• Peasants take militant action to divide Mexican estates

Greek Stalinists forced to debate Trotskyists

[Editorials]

• War guilt
• Warning to labor
• Aid to reaction
• Road to war

“Why don’t they just phone?” (cartoon), by Gray

Democrats seek votes on a program of lies

Workers’ Bookshelf

• The Last Frontier, by Howard Fast, reviewed by Phil Clark
• The Adventures of Wesley Jackson, by William Saroyan, reviewed by George Breitman

Profiteers steal millions on soaring dairy prices

“Progressives” block the road, by Ruth Benson

No meat is hot potato for Democratic Party

Workers’ Forum

• Open the gates to the Jews, from David Berkingoff
• Huge layoffs in Detroit area, from Jack Gayner
  [Workers in rain] (cartoon)
• Workers are wise to the incompetents, from Joseph McNamee
• Workers want to join us, from E. Landi
• Wants action on meat famine, from Angry Housewife
• Learned about SWP from YCL, joins us, from M.J.
• He’s satisfied, from O.K. Wilson
  J. Pierpoint Moneybags says: “Jobs for everyone? Why, that’s socialistic!” (cartoon)
• Nuremberg verdict, from A.G.
• Take over homes in empty resorts, from E.J.
• United action against Wall St. conspiracy, from R. Taylor
  Editor’s Note

Food costs nearly double 1939 (photomontage/table)

The Militant Army

• 25 subs in 1½ hours is Connecticut record

Working mother hunts for her family’s food, by Mille Fredreci

Youth Group Activities

Pioneer Notes

Suffering anti-fascists need aid now, says ACEWR

Jim Crow record of Republican and Democratic Parties is exposed at NAACP convention, by Alan Kohlman

• [Alan Kohlman] (photo)

Wages, Prices and Profits, by Warren Creel

• Capitalist waste ad profits keep living standards down

Toledo housewives storm mayor’s office (photo)

• Walker demands Ohio governor act on meat
   
• Toledo union plans search for hidden hoards of meat

Inspired by SWP street meeting, by Murray Jackson

Richardson at Boston forum

CIO publication explodes myth that high wages force up prices

The Negro Struggle, by William Bohannon

• Truman’s brand of “sympathy”

1,000 picket meat convention in Chicago, by Leigh Ray

• Chicago workers flay meat trust (photo)

Carlson speaks in Minneapolis on Wallace ouster, by Elaine Roseland

Chicago SWP backs fight of CIO packinghouse workers

Chicago race-haters attack white Army friend of Negro, by Robert L. Birchman

Minnesota SWP candidates hits meat profiteers

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Blecker supports Toledo women

Diary of a Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• A Hollywood Tragedy

New York candidates explain cause of war in answer to league of women voters, by Farrell Dobbs, Milton Richardson, Joseph Hansen, Sylvia Blecker & William Kitt

Draft denounced by Bohannon

Meet the SWP candidates

• Steve Roberts
  (Photo)
   
• Cynthia Rogalin
  (Photo)
   
• Arlene Phillips
  (Photo)

SWP candidates give support to California FEPC

Mothers and Sons, by Grace Carlson

Rogalin asks vote against Tenney-Smith

Richardson urges Negro and white workers unite

Veterans’ Problems, by Alvin Royce

• Vets’ Homes Can’t Survive Peace

Our Program

Robert on Tour

The Use of “The Law,” by Evelyn Atwood

Volume X No. 42, 19 October 1946, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

MANAGING EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Cynthia Rogalin lashes “Little Dies” committee

• Cynthia Rogalin

Truman gives profiteers okay to soak the people, by George Breitman

• Toledo council asks seizure of meat trust, by Harold Josephs
   
• How to get meat (cartoon), by Gray
   
• Sure – on both capitalist parties, quote from Truman speech

Effort to bar SWP from N.Y. ballot is based on phony technicalities

• SWP candidates present program over the radio

Italian jobless storm palace in Rome; many shot

Acquitted Tennessee Negroes face more frame-up charges

Stalinist goons badly injure Militant agent; beat women

Ford calls strike against gas poisoning “subversive”

The fight against the Red-baiters, statement by the Secretariat of the Socialist Workers Party

• Lies, hypocrisy, deceit etc. (cartoon), by Gray

AFL leaders offer witch-hunt as only program at convention, by Art Preis

• Tobin takes a leaf from Hitler’s book

Help the Greek workers! – an appeal to the workers of England and Europe

Referendun [sic] has not ended instability of French politics

Nazis freed in Nuremberg (photo)

Japanese general strike to cap labor resurgence, by Larissa Reed

Peruvian Trotskyist group denounces U.S. Imperialism

Workers fight for democracy inside Italian Stalinist party

Lessons of the local elections in Germany, by K. Manfred

Bolivian miners support sliding scale of wages

Seaman reveals Marines impose martial law in China, by Sam Randell

Lessons of strike in India

[Editorials]

• Defeat Red-baiters
• Strikebreaking
• Railroad unity
• Anti-labor laws

“Have you heard those awful Trotskyists candidates ...” (cartoon), by Gray

More testimony on court-martial system

Workers’ Bookshelf

• America Is in the Heart, by Carlos Bulosan, reviewed by Larissa Reed
• Dragonwick, by Anya Seton, reviewed by Ruth Benson

Big Brass “explains” $134,000,000 waste

Lament of an Inkwell Admiral, by Art Sharon

Workers’ Forum

• Prices up – on what meat? from Housewife
• Potatoes rot while millions starve, from L.R.
• Now is the time to live, from June Carey
• Politics control food, fuel, clothing, from Jarvis Dusenbery
• Grandmother dies on N.Y. meat line, from R.L.
• Rejects lies of “great conspiracy”, from J.C.
• Is our face red! from Warren Creed
  Editor’s Note
• Longshore pickets like Militant, from M. Roberts
• Protests arbitrary removal from ballot, from L.B. Courts
  Editor’s Note

Europe, 1946 (photo)

The Militant Army

• Seattle election drive boosts Militant subs

Letters from Europe tell of workers’ need for aid

Stevedore presented by Chicago group, by Sara Preston

Pioneer Notes

• A plug for newest Pioneer pamphlets

Youth Group Activities

Conspiracy against democratic rights in New York, radio address by Farrell Dobbs

• Farrell Dobbs (photo)
• Socialist Workers Party on the radio

Wages, Prices and Profits, by Warren Creel

• How competition produces monopoly

Cynthia Rogalin takes offensive at “Little Dies” committee hearing

Resolution adopted by Toledo City Council

• Solution to meat crisis offered by Walker

Stock market slump shows Wall St. fear of coming Depression in U.S., by Art Preis

The Negro Struggle, by William Bohannon

• The decisive vote in 1946

How meat has “disappeared” (photo/graphic)

Swett presents SWP program in Washington

Operators’ deadlock broken in maritime officers’ strike, by Art Sharon

Pittsburgh power strike firm despite reactionary campaign

• Red-scare raised in power strike

Local activities of the Socialist Workers Party

Candidate hits anti-labor acts

Diary of Steel Worker, by Theodore Kovalesky

• Little Johnny O’Hara

Shop committeemen enter labor candidate in Cleveland congressional election race, by V. Foley

Dorothy Schultz scores Thye as anti-Negro

Meet the SWP candidates

• Malcolm Walker
  (Photo)
   
• Robert Chester
  (Photo)

Poverty and the I.Q., by Grace Carlson

New Jersey election drive now making real headway

Candidates speak at Seattle rally

Banquet held in San Francisco, by Russell Morgan

Packers Threaten Sick and Injured, by Ruth Benson

Our Program

Steve Roberts hits Jim-Crow terror

Veterans’ Problems, by Alvin Royce

• Bradley finds a friend

Volume X No. 43, 26 October 1946, New York, NY

Published in the Interests of the Working People

MANAGING EDITOR:
Farrell Dobbs

Price-gougers rob the workers

SWP fights N.Y. ballot-ban

Eloise Gordon lashes witch-hunt committee in Washington hearing, by Joseph Hansen

• Eloise Gordon (photo)
• Bilbo (photo)

Swilling the hogs (cartoon), by Gray