Vol. 69/No. 21
May 30, 2005
Corrections
The article “How CP USA backed Smith Act convictions of SWP, Teamster leaders” in the May 23 issue said that “Philip J. Jaffe… describes in detail the documents the Communist Party turned over to the cops in 1941 to aid the prosecution of the union and SWP leaders.” The documents could not have been turned over in 1941, however, since they contained materials published in 1942, as the article later points out. The relevant source cited in the article indicates that the CP leadership turned over these materials to the Department of Justice sometime before the 1943 Supreme Court review of the 1941 convictions of Socialist Workers Party and Teamster leaders. In his book, The Rise and Fall of American Communism, Jaffe says: “The 1941 conviction of the Trotskyites in a lower court finally ended in an appeal before the Supreme Court of the United States in 1943. In November of that year, the conviction was upheld and 18 of 23 defendants went to jail in Sandstone Prison. But the final conviction of the Trotskyites was achieved not without the help of the Communist Party. Not only was there a continuous barrage in the Communist press against the victims, but the Party prepared for the Department of Justice an important collection of documents to help prove the guilt of the Socialist Workers Party.”
The article “Imperialist powers warm up to new regime in Ecuador; Gutiérrez was ousted by layers of bourgeoisie backed by middle-class protests” in the May 16 issue quoted Ecuador’s former president inaccurately. The relevant paragraph said, “Gutiérrez insisted as he fled the country that ‘in Quito and Guayaquil you can hear voices calling for my return, in the Amazon, along the Pacific Coast, and in the poor neighborhoods there are millions of people who support me.’” It should have read instead: “Gutiérrez said hours before being overthrown that ‘while in Quito and Guayaquil you hear voices calling for my resignation, in the Amazon, along the Pacific Coast, and in the poor neighborhoods there are millions of people who support me.”
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