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r 1 bd er Ee oe eG a” a atl, 1, AF mee eo —_ 7 wen ws, . a a + Fag oe a, a ssn . ae or a M. OAK, managing the New Leader, ofa | publication o Ifthe Bocia] Democratic Federation, Was first to put into, words the problem raised by the: atom Eomb. ' “The shortening of the war will be enly the beginning of the effects of the atomic bornb,” he writes. “Noth- ing since the invention of gun- powder has changed military strategy so basically; nothing since the steam # engine hee caused such an industria) Tevolution as will result; nothing since the French revolution has had such political repercusslons as this will have. It is universally recognized as something revalution- “In a@ very different sense than Marx meant, this stupendous dis- covery by sclentists working under a: capitalispeconomy means that ‘capi- ; talism is its own gravedigger.’.Capl- C) - ™ HE Militant, publicati Socialist Workers Samet Trotzkyites, came through with a party manifesto on, the subject of the atomic bomb. “Capitaliam in its death agony, , writhing in the tolls of mortal’ crisis,” said the manifesto, calmly, | “has perfected an instrument of ‘ embracing annihilation. This Seeaiy: destructive force, beld in the grip of the criminal capitalist rulers, will be used to decimate mankind unless it is snatched in time from their mur- | derous grasp. The workers awake, and wake quickly, to the realization that war with all its hor- rors is the product of the capitalist syetern.” HE Daily Worker, publication of the Communist Party, while no Jess sure of the result, has been less certain as to what it ought to sy talism has not produced s yeveentebeut the atamic bomb. tionary working class but a revolu- tionary invention. The atomic bomb compietes the process begun by the machine gun, the tank, the airplane, which ex- eludes the practical possibility of vlo- lent social revolution, of seizure of the State power by the proletariat. it makes the suppression of revolt too easy. a * a * H ERMAN ~ GINGER, editor of the Call, which is the of- ficial organ of Norman Thomas’ Socialist Party, ‘was right on his heels, however. “The revelation that the atomic bomb has shifted the basis of in-. dustrial energy to atomic energy?" he said, “has apparently shattered the vested interests In coal and elec- tric utllities. ewewe—For if the people take control of the tremendous destructive ’ strip our own _ After approaching the subject pingerly from seveTal directions, in- cluding the British Labor Party vic- tory, without much progress, the ‘Worker finally settled for this decis- fon. “If it comes to the collective or- ganization of the powers of hand and ‘brain, there are other people who can equal and (for all we know} out- achievements. The alternatives, therefore, are competi- tion or co-operation in the use of this new weapon. “That is the basic question which! has confronted the United Nations | in every aspect of its work. We be- | lieve that this is the time to fight ‘even more strongly for a fundemen- | tal co-operation of the great powers ~especially our own country and the Soviet Union—for the sake of progress in ali fields of human en-' vor for the sake of preventing that inheres in atomic energy and vandther general war, turn it toward constructive uses, the vast monopolies which now base themselves on suddenly nemeelves | electric nower, will find themselves “But if the monopolies have any- thing to say there will be no conver- gion of atomic energy to make it pos- sible for the workers of the world to enjoy any of the benefits that would accrue from the widespread use of energy. Through employment atomic energy, it might be pos- sible in a few short years to wipe out poverty and to build a world which could fulfill the most Utop socialist dreamers. id “And the responsibility to secure ‘this les particularly on us Amer- jeans. Particularly after the devel- opment of atomic power. “ N ONE of the organizations had any doubts, however, at least editorially, that the atomic bomb made their panacea just what the doctor ordered. The New Leader sald: “It means! that the world must be socialized, that we must have a worldwide fed- eration of co-operative Socialist commonwealths, if mankind and clv- tion are to survive.” Cali stated: ‘If we arg io turp Date_Go/Z 44s" The Philadelphia Inquirer Phila., Pa. TRCLE * 0 0~ 3° U4 ‘Ye oo ve * re ra ' oe Won ae ~ ene profit, a woridwide federation of co- operative commo: mwealths." a s HE Daily Worker put it: “The immediate answer remains: thi vigilance ef the people, the strugg] to win new positions by united actior. from the forces of reactionary mo- nepoly.” The Militant said: “Soclalism—o: perish! These are the alternatives Oniy the working class, which suf- fers the cruelties of capitalism ir peace and war, can deal the death- blow to this foul system." No ope suggested that perhap: capital, industry, labor and govefn- ent, working hand in hand to yn- lgck the secret of atomic y. accomplished very much. The End %