‘Slightly insane’?

1: ae U.S. scciologist, Dr. Robin Williams, said in
Mentreal last week that “the United States goes slightly
insane during presidential elections... and the world
‘watches election-year happenings with some alarm.”

The prof’s use of the adjective “slightly” is a gross

understatement of this epee insanity, which unfcrtun-
ately is not confined exclusively to election years.

The emergence of the “Goldwater phenomenon’ in
the current presidential election campaign, reflects above
all the deep-rooted crisis in American politics; a crisis
which has festered like a cancerous bcil on the body poli-
tic of U.S. partisan monopoly government, not cnly since
the advent of the coldwar, but dating as far back as the
Russian Revolution cf 1917.

The ultra rightist ravings of Goldwater and all his
John Birchist gangsterized following, which includes assas-
assination, lynching and ccld - blooded murder among its
political weapens, is merely the end result (domestically)
of this political crisis gripping the partisan ruling caste of
America, driving it forward along the path of rabid reac-
tion at home, and provocative wars of aggression abroad.

The millicns of words that have already been written
by brain-washed editors “analyzing” the ‘Goldwater phen-
omenon’ and his middle-class ultra rightist following, bear
a close resemblance to millions of similar words written

three decades ago analyzing the emergence of one Adolph
‘ Shicklegruber.

Both were and are expressive of a deep-going political
crisis in the partisan ruling castes of their respective do-
-mains; a crisis in which the democratic institutions and us-
ages have become a burdensome cbstacle, to be circum-
vented or obliterated entirely, with anti-Ccmmunism and

ruthless aggressive war as the prime weapons of elimina-
tion.

Hence the mantle of McCarthyism with its fascist ob -
jectives more brazenly pronounced, falls upon the shcul-
ders of Goldwater. And as is customary in a presidential
election-year “insanity,” to goad the contenting political
party intc desperate acts of war and aggression upon cther
‘states, just to “prove” its fitness to continue serving the
Molbdch of American moncpoly!

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Murder Inc. ‘aid’

j ecoaions gangsters, war maniacs and the like,
when in need of “aid” to pursue their homicidal poli -
cies,are always readily accommodated by Washington.

In Vietnam, Cyprus, the Congo: wherever native
hoodlums seek to thwart the struggles of their peoples
for independence and freedom from colonial oppressicn,
U.S. “aid” is always available. The type of ‘“‘aid”’ which
rains death and destruction upon hapless, defenceless
people.

Noting that their Congolese stooge “prime minis-
ter” Moise Tshombe, (the murderer of Prime Minister
Patrice Lumumba) is having trouble trying to stem the

a ,

-rising tide of the long-suffering Congolese people for the

freedom and independance of their tortured land, Wash-
ington, “‘in cooperation” with Belgium imperialism, has
stepped up its military “aid” with more bombing planes

‘te gangster Tshombe.

As in Vietnam and elsewhere, such U.S. “aid” can
never assure victory for its gangster proteges; but it can
kill and destroy on a massive scale — obviously the sole
aim of Pentagon ‘aid’ policies?

and states; all is considered fair game in the Goldwater
“crusade” for America’s place in the Republican party sun.
Shades cf Abe Lincoln?

Thus the one party of Big Business monopoly goads
the other into criminal acts of desperation in order to dem-
onstrate its “toughness” and “fitness” to rule. A criminal
“insanity” which a peace hungry world can only view with
deepening alarm. ;

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Worth |
| Quoting |

What short memories politician’
must think the people have. Listen fo
this from Chancellor Ludwig Erhard
of West Germany as quoted in 4
letter to the Washington Post:

“‘Yet there is one common bond
above all between America and Get-

many: both nations have linked the

struggle for national unity with the

struggle for freedom and civil rights.
This community of ideals can be
traced through our history right uP
to the present time.'’ The millions of
Jews murdered by the Nazis will be. :
pleased to know they died notin u
vain. Their deaths were obviously

part of the linking of the “struggle
for national unity with the struggle —
for freedom and civil rights” by the 4
German rulers. :

Come to think of it, there is 9 —
similarity between what happened j
to the Jews and what is happening :
to the Negroes in the United States:

—FISH AND CHIPS,
in The Fisherman.

I would say that | now believe!
know how it felt to be a Jew in Hit
ler’s Germtny... The same high —
handed methods are here. The sam@
belief in the superiority of the Pro-
testant white man over the black
man or the Jew is here. The same
thinly masked contempt for minori-
ties is here.

—JACKIE ROBINSON, baseball
great, commenting on Republi-
can convention.

When you have succeeded in dé
humanizing the Negro; when He
have put him down and made

possible for him to be but as the

beasts of the field; when you ee
extinguished his soul in this worl f
and placed him where the ray ?
hope is blown out as in the darkness
of the damned, are you quite sure
that the demon you have rouse
will not turn and rend you?... Foy ?
iliarize yourself with the chains °
bondage and you prepare your ow"
limbs to wear them. Accustomed !0
trample on the rights of others, yOu

To attain this end the assassination cf a president, the
killing of thousands of American GI's in foreign war adven-

tures, the mass killing of

countless thousands of defense-

less victims in Asian cr other lands, the readiness to trig-

Tom

ger off a few nuclear bombs upon unconfcrming peoples

McEWEN |

Tom McEwen is away on holiday
for a few weeks. In his Place of his
regular column the PT brings our
readers guest columns. This week’s
guest column is by GEORGE
MORRIS, labor columnist for the
U.S. Worker who writes on an
issue which has important ramifi-
cations for Canadian unions.

The U.S, Appeals Court ruling
in the Archie Brown case, rey-
ersing his conviction under
Provision of the Landrum-Griffir
Law barring a Communist from
holding union office, is another
important sign of the times. In
this case, the court flatfootedly
declared the Provision, Section
504 of the law, unconstitutional],

Brown, who did not hideor deny
his Communist convictions, was
an elected member of the exe.
cutive board of San Francisco’s
‘Local 10 of the Internationa]
Longshoremen’s and Warehouse-
men’s Union. This union, inde-
pendent, happens to be one that
rejects the idea of barring any-
one from office on political, ra-

cial, national origin or other dis-

criminatory grounds, and took up
the Brown fight, : i

The I.L.W.U. was not only
concerned with Brown’s Civil lib-
erties but was most interested
in defending the union from dic-
tation by a sovernment agency
on whom it can or cannot elect
to office. Thereby, the LL.W.U.
fought for a Principle that con-

_Cerns every union in the country,

and won for all labor, Unfortun-
ately, many of our labor leaders
who frequently talk loud against
government interference jn the
affairs of labor, are blinded to the
decision by their anti-Commun-
ism, A.F,L,-C,I.0, News did not
even take notice of the Appeals
Court decision,

The United States Attorney in
San Francisco’ who prosecuted
Brown, recognizes the signific-
ance of the decision with respect
to the entire network of legal
restrictions and Practices in the
labor field against Communists

The election of a U.S. president is very much the bus-
iness of the American people, but their ultimate choice

very much the concern of

or alleged Communists. He ad-
vised the government to appeal

to the Supreme Court. 7 the light

of other decisions by the high
court, the Solicitor-General in
Washington is still thinking.

Shar OR ae

The ramifications of the deci-
sion in the Brown case could run
very wide.

Recently the Supreme Court
let stand a lower New York court
decision (one of several) in which
rank and file members of Paint-
ers’ locals suspended for five
years for criticizing officers,
were restored to their rightsand
membership. It is because of
that trend in .court decisions
that leaders of the United Steel-
workers of America have re-
frained from the kind of inte-
ference in local elections of that

all peace-loving humanity. It is
.a choice between a hesitant reason. or a stark insanity.

* * *

Sec. 504 of the Landrum-Grif-
fin Law of 1959 replaced the
repealed provision of the Taft-
Hartley Law of 1947 under which
a union was deprived of its
N.L.R.B. certification if any of
its officers were found to be
Communist or in association
with Communists.

Only now, 17 years after pass-
age of this vicious piece of
fascist-type legislation, with
tombstones by the hundreds over
local unions killed by these proy-
isions, and many hundreds of
unionists forced out of the labor
movement, are the courts begin-
ning to consider the constitution-
ality of such provisions, Some
people are still under Taft-Hart-
ley affidavit indictments,

union we saw two. years ago, %

Consequently, in the major locals
where critics of David McDonald,
U.S.A, president, were defeated
last time, the very Same persons
were returned to office in the
current round of elections,

The National Labor’ Relations
Board’s ruling depriving an in-
dependent union in Hughes Tool
plants of certification as the
bargaining agent because it failed
to defend the rights of its Negro
members, is another decision
that runs to the above pattern.

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have lost the genius of your own inde-
pendence and become the fit subje¢$
of the girst cunning tyrant who rises
among you.

‘ ABRAHAM LINCOLN, more than
100 years ago.

As in the case ofthe McCarra®
Law, the pattern is tolrreseti
ibly run wildin Congress, without —
serious regard for the constitU-
tionality of a bill. The tactic 1
to immediately use the oppress”
ive law asaninstrument for doilé
its maximum damage possibly £0! _
as long,as 17 years, until thé

. Supreme Court “discovers” that

some things about the law 2!°
not quite constitutional.

People in union ranks should
give some thought to this patte!”
and how the labor movement W?
hoodwinked to go along with it
and the immense price that W?
paid in terms of labor divisio™s
loss of members, bargainif
power and, in the fiaal analyst?
in pay envelope dollars and woh k
ing conditions.

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