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Vol. 32 - No. 4 Monday, January 22, 1968 Price 10¢ Tour by Holsteod Opens 1n Modison By Patrick Quinn MADISON, Wis., Jan. 7 - Fred up as a result of the meeting. Halstead, Socialist Workers Par­ Halstead spoke with campaign sup­ ty candidate for President, wound porters, and those interested in up the first stop on his four­ more details of the SWP program, month national speaking tour here at a reception following the meet­ Photo by Henne~~ tonight at a meeting of about 300 ing. WOMEN MARCH. About 5,000 women demonstrated at Capitol building in Washington, D.C., Jan. students at the University of Wis­ Upon arriving in Madison on 15 against war in Vietnam. See story, page 2. consin. Jan:' 5, the Socialist Workers can­ The audience reacted favorably didate had an informal discussion as Halstead discussed the war in with leaders of the German SDS Vietnam and the antiwar move­ (Socialist Students of Germany) ment. Applause greeted many of who are visiting the country. That his statements, including the one afternoon, Halstead spoke at the that he was "about the only presi­ James Madison Memorial High dential candidate around who School here, at a meeting spon­ New U.S. Escalation: doesn't have to sneak into town sored by the High School Students for fear of encountering an anti­ for Social Justice and the school's war demonstration." Forum Committee. The 33 students A collection of $60 was taken present were interested in dis­ for the campaign, and several new cussing questions of basic social- campaign supporters were signed (Continued on Page 6) Bombardment of Laos By Dick Roberts "enemy insurgents" who were the Johnson administration wants On Jan. 13 the United States seeking "border sanctuary" in to open negotiations at this time." opened a new stage of the Viet­ Cambodia, Laos and North Viet­ But that has always been the nam war with the announcement nam. real question. of intensified U.S. bombing of True to form, the announcement The reason Washington gives Laos. Typically, administration of escalated bombing in Laos has for not· ceasing its military ag­ sources refused to establish ex­ been accompanied by an escalation gression is not that it is uncertain actly when the escalation of Laos of repqrts of "North Vietnamese whether Hanoi "could" or "will" bombing had actually begun. infiltration" into that country. respond by entering negotiations. Within three days of the announce­ What was new to most· people It is that Hanoi has not promised ment, it had reached flood-tide any "reciprocal" actions. was that such bombing was taking proportions. place. It appears to have been "A dramatic increase in North Johnson demands that Hanoi started several months ago. Vietnamese infiltration through cease all aid to the National Lib­ "The only thing the Air Force eastern Laos," New York Times eration Front before he "could" will say officially on air action correspondent Charles Mohr dis­ or "will" enter into negotiations. over Laos, as it has been saying covered in Saigon, "has created And Hanoi steadfastly refuses to for the past several months," the more bombing targets than there bow to this pressure to betray the Associated Press reported from are available aircraft to hit guerrilla struggle. The shift in ver­ Washington Jan. 13, "is: 'Armed them ...'' bial tenses does not alter the reconnaissance missions are being And this is so despite the fact fundamental positions. flown over Laos with the consent that the new level of bombing in The U.S. is militarily deadlocked of the Laotian Government.' Laos "is more than three times in Vietnam and refuses to "open "Only air missions over North the average daily number of Air negotiations at this time" because and South Vietnam are listed in Force craft that, with Navy and it has a weak bargaining position. the daily communiques. They Marine jets, are carrying on the An unnamed U.S. military official never mention Laos." bombing offensive against North told Wall Street Journal reporter That such an escalation was in Vietnam," according to the same Frederick Taylor Jan. 12: the making - or was already newspaper. "In the next few months, it will under way - became clear in become clear that we are winning Photo by Bob Wilkinson late December. At that time State Suspicious · TimiDg FRED HALSTEAD. Socialist Workers presidential candidate speaks the war, and, once the enemy ac­ Department and Pentagon spokes­ The announcement of bombing knowledges that, we can 'practical­ with students a,t James Madison High School in Madison, Wis. men began issuing decrees about in Laos appears to have been ly dictate' the peace terms ..." timed to distract attention from (Continued on Page 2) new pressure on Washington to seek an end to the war. This pres­ sure developed when North Viet­ Defense ·of Antiwar Figures namese Foreign Minister Nguyen Students to Pion Duy Trinh reiterated Hanoi's terms NEW YORK - A mass meeting groups, takes place the same day man. It was sponsored by Resist, for settling the war in a reception to protest the indictment _of Dr. the defendants are being arraigned and Support-in-Action. in Mongolia Dec. 30. Antiwor Action Benjamin Spock and four others in Boston. Spock and Ferber will Ferber ridiculed the conspiracy Those terms are that Hanoi will for their antiwar and antidraft fly to New York directly from the charge. Discussing how the move­ not enter negotiations until Wash­ In Cllkogo Meet stands will be held here Jan. 29 arraignment and report to the ment should respond to the gov­ ington unconditionally ceases the at Manhattan Center (8th Avenue meeting on the developments in ernment attack he said: bombing of North Vietnam and High school and college students and 34th St.) beginning at 8 p.m. Boston. "We have to act as though the all other acts of war. When that from across the country will gather The new government attack on The meeting will be chaired by government is playing a chess happens, Hanoi has indicated over in Chicago Jan. 27-29 for a na­ the right of dissent and the right actor Ossie Davis, and folk singer game and has made a move and over again, it would be willing tional antiwar conference called of free speech is being met by a Pete Seeger will participate in the against us. We have to respond to negotiate an end to the war by the Student Mobilization Com­ united defense by the whole anti­ pro&>ram. cooly if we hope to win. I don't using its four-point program as a mittee to End the War in Vietnam. war movement. Organizations sponsoring the think we are on the verge of basis for settlement. The meeting, which will discuss Accused of "conspiring to coun­ rally include the National Mobili­ fascism. We have to act as though The four-point program,calls for proposals for an international stu­ sel, aid and abet" young men who zation Committee to End the War democracy still exists somewhere withdrawal of U.S. troops from dent strike in the spring, promises refuse to serve in the armed forces, in Vietnam, Students for a Demo­ in this country.'' Vietnam and reunification of North to be the largest student confer­ Dr. Spock and his co-defendants cratic Society, The Resistance, Ferber expressed the sentiment and South Vietnam. ence against the war in Vietnam face up to five years in prison and Student Mobilization Committee, of the meeting when he said: But there was a nuance of that has yet been held. Students $10,000 fines if they are convicted Young Socialist Alliance, Fifth "If this was an attempt to dis­ change in Nguyen Duy Trinh's from 30 states have already writ­ under the unconstitutional law. Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade courage the peace movement they statement and the nuance was ten to the SMC naional office say­ The others indicted were the Rev. Committee, National Conference have already failed. The best way seized by some war critics to exert ing they plan to attend. The con­ William Sloane Coffin Jr., chap­ for New Politics, War Resisters to defend us is for all of you to new pressure on the Johnson ad­ ference will also discuss plans for lain of Yale University; Michael League, DuBois Clubs, Medical redouble your efforts in all your ministration. The nuance was that actions at the Democratic Party Ferber, a Harvard graduate stu­ Committee to End the War, Com­ actions to end the war." instead of saying unconditional national convention in August. dent; Mitchell Goodman, an au­ mittee of the Professions, and Four draft resisters were also on cessation of bombing and acts of Young people interested in at­ thor; and Marcus Raskin, co-di­ Clergy and Laymen Concerned. the platform. They announced that war "could" lead to settlement tending the gathering should con­ rector of the Institute for Policy Admission to the meeting will they would refuse their inductions, talks, Nguyen Duy Trinh said they tact the Student Mobilization Com­ Studies. be $1 for students and $2 for which are pending in the next "will" lead to settlement talks. mittee, 17 East 17th Street, New Dr. Spock and Michael Ferber adults. few weeks. About 500 people from "Now that Hanoi has said it York, N.Y. 10003, phone (212) 255- will address the defense rally here. Another meeting held here Jan. the audience signed a scroll pledg­ 'will' tal~," declared the New 1075; or the Chicago SMC, 1608 The rally, which has been called 14 drew 1,500 people to hear ing to "aid and abet" the draft York Times Jan. 7, "the real W. Madison, Chicago, Ill. 60612, by a broad coalition of antiwar Michael Ferber and Mitchell Good- refusers. question comes down to whether Phone (312) 226-4676. Page Two THE MILITANT Monday, January 22, 1968 ••• Bombortlment olloos (C'ollltinued from Page 1) Few authorities would agree that Washington's military headway in the next few months will signif­ It looks like an interesting year covering 550,000 members in basic icantly alter the balance of power. ahead. According to the Bureau steel expire on Aug. 1. But no one could disagree that of National Affair's Union Labor Early in December, I.W. Abel, Johnson's hope in Vietnam is to Report, Jan. 4 issue, "with major Steelworkers Union president, dictate the "peace terms,'' no mat­ contracts covering over three mil­ came up with a plan for what he ter what the cost in bombs and lion workers open for negotiations called "voluntary" arbitration of human lives. during 1968, the outlook is for all issues not settled in negotia· Meanwhile, Washington appears another year of difficult and tor­ tions. This plan was rejected both to be temporarily shelving the tuous collective bargaining." by the steel industry and Abel's question of an International Con­ The ULR goes on to editorialize, own executive committee. Yet on trol Commission investigation of "The difficulty may be com­ Dec. 25, in an interview with the the Cambodian border. pounded by the high targets pro­ Los Angeles Times; Mr. Abel said Cambodian Prince Sihanouk co­ vided by the record gains achiev­ that while his plan had been "tern. operated with Johnson to the ex­ ed in 1967." porarily shelved it is by no means tent of meeting Johnson's envoy, * * * dead." He is quoted as saying Ambassador Bowles, to. discuss the According to this same source, "strikes are outmoded." border question. This lends some the median wage settlements dur­ Sounds more like George Meany credence to the Pentagon double­ ing 1967 were 14.3 cents per hour. every day, doesn't he? talk about "sanctuaries" and the Manufacturing wage advances • • • need for "self-defensive," "hot pur­ were 13.1 cents per hour, an in­ The Steelworkers are now nego­ suit." crease of 2.9 cents over 1966. The tiating for new contracts cover­ At the same time, Sihanouk average settlement in nonman­ ing about • 40,000 can and alumi­ asked Bowles for a halt to the ufacturing went up 5 cents to 19.5 num workers. The contracts with bombing of North· Vietnam. On cents per hour. American and Continental Can ex­ Jan. 11, Cambodia charged in the * * * pire on Jan. 31, and with Crown UN that an "aircraft of the Unit­ With these inadequate results Cork and Seal at the end of Feb- ed States-South Vietnam armed in mind, the workers, especially ruary. forces" killed one man and seri­ the young ones, will put real * * * ously wounded another in a Dec. pressure on their negotiations Meanwhile the six-month long 11 violation of the Cambodian IN LAOS. Wreckage of U.S. plane shot down in Laos. teams to come up with real wage strike in copper remains at stale­ border. increases to meet the rising cost mate. According to a Jan. 5 edi­ Sihanouk is obiously attempting an untenable position. Hanoi's response to Johnson's of living right now. torial in the Wall Street J ourna1, to counter impressions that he When U.S. troops invade Cam­ Cambodia threat was of a dif­ • • • this long battle is nothing but "a has been brought over to the U.S. bodia, Sihanouk will be forced to ferent character. On Jan. 11 Hanoi Contracts covering 250,000 aero­ blatant power grab." The leaders position, while keeping in the one side or the other, either bow declared it would militarily de­ space workers expire during the of the 26 unions involved in this good graces of the State Depart­ to Washington's terms or oppose fend Cambodia in the event of an coming summer and fall. These strike are fighting for an industry­ ment. In the final analysis it is them. American attack. workers are represented by both wide contract because "it would the Auto Workers and the Ma­ enhance the power and prestige of chinists. According to Machinists' the union leaders, since it would President P. L. Seimiller, "Aero­ involve them in headline-catching space always follows auto very confrontation with the industry." 5,000 Women March on Capitol closely. I can see no reason why That is how this mouthpiece of it should not do so in 1968." Big Business smears a heroic fight * * * by 60,000 workers in defense of The Steelworkers Union negotia­ their living standards and their tors are going to have a busy union. And Meany and Co. are too To Demand Withdrawal of Troops year indeed. In addition to the six­ busy chumming with Johnson to month strike in the nonferrous in­ spend time supporting and defend­ By Lora Eckert Jewish Women; Judy Mage, pres­ During the meeting, a "Radical dustry still at stalemate, contracts ident of the New York City Social Women's Caucus" was held, which ing the copper strikers. WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. 15- * * * Service Employees Union, and broke ihto two sections. One group. Five thousand women marched Mrs. J. Preston Irwin, Republican organized by a number of younger The Communications Workers of and rallied here today as Congress America have announced they are national committeewoman. women from New York and Chi­ reconvened, demanding that, as its cago, elected coordinators to or­ Harry Ring reopening contracts previously first order of business, Congress Members of traditional women's signed with the various Bell Sys­ peace groups such as Women ganize women's groups in their resolve to end the war in Vietnam own regions. The second group tems. The 22,000-member Western and "immediately arrange for the Strike for Peace and Women's In­ Electric installers' unit has been ternational League for Peace and wanted to open the main meeting lntervi~ewe~d withdrawal of all American of the Congress of American Worn· chosen to "set the national pat­ troops." Freedom; of political groups in­ cluding the Socialist Workers Par­ en to discussion from the floor. tern." The CWU says it intends to The demonstration was organ­ ty and Communist Party; and Both groups objected to the fact "breach the 3.2 shackle ... in ad­ ized by the Jeanette Rankin Bri­ In Hava~na dition to basic wage increases, the radical youth groups such as the that no chanting or picket signs reopening provisions permit re­ gade, a coalition of women lead­ Students for a Democratic Society, were allowed on the march, and The Havana newspaper El Mun­ ers, named for the former mem­ do carried an interview with Har­ discussing overtime and premium Young Socialist Alliance and Du­ to the structure of the Congress pay, job and shift differentials, ber of Congress from Montana, Bois Clubs, were also present. which allowed for no time for dis­ ry Ring, T"f!,e Militant correspond­ who presented the women's de· ent now in Cuba, in its issue of and town classifications." cussion from the floor. About 20() mands to Senate majority leader Black Dresses women took part in the Radical Jan. 9. * * * Mike Mansfield. In giving his views on the re­ The National Railway Confer­ The march included a number Caucus. cently concluded Cultural Con­ ence, representing all the railroads Fo·rtY States of women symbolically dressed in The Jeanette Rankin Brigade is gress, Ring said: "Holding it was in the country, has completed nego­ black and several who l:lad continuing its legal battle for the Women came from 40 states, in· brought their babies. At 11:30 a.m., right of free speech and assembly a tremendous service on the part tiations with the Railway Clerks eluding Alabama, Alaska, Georgia, of Cuba to the work of cultural which "it hopes will set the pat­ they walked in silence from Union and the right to petition the gov­ tern for 1968's railway negotia­ Kentucky, Montana, Oregon and Station, past the monument to ernment. It is fighting to get the development, not only for the Washington. There was also a Third World but for the intellect­ tions." The new agreement pro­ peace in front of the Capitol, to unconstitutional law prohibiting vides an 11 percent wage increase representative from Amsterdam, Grant Park. The procession fol­ demonstrations on Capitol grounds uals of all countries. A congress Holland. like this aids all of them better over four six-month periods. In lowed a banner reading, "End the nullified. to understand their own problems, addition the carriers have agreed The original plans for the march War in Vietnam and Social Crisis as well as those of the underdevel­ to begin paying five cents per had been for the entire demon­ at Home." oped countries." hour per employe into a classifica­ stration to mass on the steps of At the rally in Grant Park, folk The interview also featured tion evaluation fund, on July 1, the Capitol, to make as great an singer Judy Collins entertained Desertion Rote Ring's description of the process 1968. impact as possible on Congress and actress Viveca Lindfors an­ of radicalization taking place * * * and the nation. However, capital nounced that a delegation from Rises in Europe among the youth of the United A slate opposed to the present police invoked a statute going the brigade was presenting the de­ States. While it was still on an regime in the Retail Clerks Inter­ back to 1882 that forbids assemb­ mands of the group to Mansfield The New York Post reported elementary level, he said, it was national Association (AFL-CIO) ling on the Capitol grounds, and and Speaker of the House John will run for the 12 top offices of thus prevented the demonstration Jan. 10 that U.S. Army authorities steadily becoming more militant McCormack. in Heidelburg have admitted that and radical. the union in elections next June. from taking place there. The opposition ticket, headed by Sections of the crowd began to "about 700 men per year desert He noted that, at the great anti­ The Brigade decided to fight chant, "End the War in Vietnam, Vietnam-war demonstration in International Vice President John this ruling in the courts. The wom­ from the American forces sta­ T. Hatletsky of Los Angeles, in­ Bring Our Men Home." After Washington, D.C., last October, en's appeal to get an emergency hearing the petition that was tioned in Germany, some to keep about 75 percent of the partic­ cludes some young men in their restraining order on the police twenties and thirties. being presented to Mansfield and from being sent to Vietnam." ipants were youth. Some carried was denied by the District of Co­ McCormack, the crowd stood in placards with drawings of Che Hatletsky will run for the union lumbia Court of Appeals. The Post commented, "This fig- . presidency against James House­ one minute of silence in memory ure was issued eight months ago Guevara or the slogan "Che of all those who had died in Viet­ Lives," he said. "Today the heroic wright, an assistant to the current Grant Park and since then the number of president, James A. Suffridge. nam. commandante is regarded by pro­ The demonstration was held in troops sent to Vietnam has been gressive North American youth as After stating he would not seek Grant Park, outside the Capitol Held Congress reelection, Suffridge · nominated constantly stepped up. It is not one of humanity's great fighters." grounds but in sight of the Capitol In the afternoon, the women Housewright to succeed him in building itself. unreasonable to suppose that de­ office. met in a "Congres's of American sertions have also risen. In Heidel­ Does your local library have Accusing Suffridge of "clinging Many of the women had not Women" which consisted of a full burg they prefer not to talk about been on antiwar demonstrations program of reports and speakers. a subscription to THE MILI­ to the old status quo," the opposi­ it." tion calls for reform of the union's before. Most were not students, Jeanette Rankin, reporting on her According to the report, there TANT? If not, why not suggest top-level organization. It denounces although some students and youth meeting with Mansfield, said, "I are groups all over Europe, "in that they obtain one. Librarians "the present one-man dictatorial were present. There were 40 wom­ didn't change him and he didn't almost every capital city,'' willing en from the National Council are often pleased to have pa­ rule," the "hand-picking of cronies" change me." It was also reported to help U.S. Gis find work and and "tyrannical control" over the of Churches, others from Baptist, that Senator Gruening of Alaska settle down. "The best prospects trons call t h e i r attention to vice presidents. More local union Methodist and Episcopalian groups, had promised to read the women's for a deserter," the article says, publications that they should autonomy is demanded "to give and many other organizations. petition into the Congressional "are in Scandinavia, especially have available. locals greater voice in policy mat­ Present were Pearl Willen, past Record immediately after John­ Sweden, or in France or Switzer­ ters." -Marvel Scholl president of the Federation of son's State of the Union message. land.'' Monday, January 22, 1968 THE MILITANT Page Three

THE lnt'l Writers Group Blasts MILITANT', Editor: BARRY SHEPPARD Business Manager: BEVERLY SCOTT Published weekly, except during July and August when published biweekli, by The MIUtant Publishing Ass•n., 873 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10003. Phone 533-6414. Second-class postage paid at New York, N.Y. Subscription: domestic, $3 a year; Canada and Latin America, $3.50; other foreign, $4.50. By first cl­ LeRoi Jones Sentencing mail: domestic and Canada, $9.00; all other countries, $14.00. Air printed matter: domestic and Canada, $12.50; Latin America, $23.00; Europe, $27.00, Africa, Australia, Asia (including USSR), $32.00. Write for sealed air postage rate~~. By Elizabeth Barnes LeRoi Jones. Signed articles by contributors do nat necessarily represent The Militant's vieWII. These are expressed in editorials. LeRoi Jones was released from "The charge against Mr. Jones jail Jan. 9 on $25,000 bail, pend­ - illegal possession of weapons - is a criminal charge, and hence ing appeal of his case. The judge Vol. 32 - No. 4 Monday, January 22, 1968 who sentenced the black writer to outside the province of P.E.N. However, according to the New two and a hal~ to three years in prison and a $1,000 fine refused to York Times, of Jan. 5,Judge Kapp, in imposing virtually the max­ S·aigon PoUce Break Strike let him out of jail on bail at the At the AFL-CIO convention in Bal Harbour, Fla., last month, time of the sentencing. But, later imum sentence, 'indicated that he the Newark Superior Court or­ based the severity of Jones's pun­ George Meany explained that the "one overriding fact" in his dered that bail be granted. The ishment to a large extent on a vociferous support of Washington's dirty war in Vietnam is the large sum of $25,000 was raised poem published last month in existence of "free trade unions" under the Saigon regime. by supporters. Evergreen Review, a monthly The utter falsity of this statement was underscored on Jan. Defense efforts for Jones are magazine.' The judge also read 13, when Saigon police broke a strike by electrical workers, round­ the poem aloud to the courtroom. being organized. United Black Ar­ ing them up at gunpoint and forcing them back to work. tists, a national group of artists, "P.E.N. vigorously protests the Charles Mohr, writing in the New York Times from Saigon, impropriety of any judge impos­ is planning a "LeRoi Jones Week." reported on Jan. 13: "The police arrested six leaders of the Elec­ During that week plays and poems ing a sentence the severity of trical Workers Union yesterday, shortly after they had left written by Jones are to be present­ which is based on his disapproval an -ed in various cities across the of a literary work of the accused. inconclusive bargaining session with officials of the state-owned country. Larry Neal, black poet This is a serious assault on free­ power company and the Labor Ministry . . . and spokesman for the group, told dom of expression, a right not "The electric power plant workers had demanded a 12 per­ The Militant that it is hoped the only of every writer but of every cent increase in wages to meet chronic inflation. The union week will be a "very big thing." American citizen, as stated in the voted Wednesday to go on strike if the demands were not met. Anyone who would like to help First Article of the United States The union leaders arrested yesterday were accused of inciting Constitution." with this defense effort should con­ a strike. tact Ronald Hobbs, 475 Fifth Ave., Another group of poets, includ­ "The workers called a two-hour power blackout Thursday New York, N.Y. ing Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlov­ night. This morning, they reduced - but did not completely cut At the trial, the judge admitted sky, and Diane Di Prima, have - power to various parts of town. At noon today, informed that he was basing the stiffness signed a statement declaring, "We LeRoi Jones <>f the sentence on his dislike for believe LeRoi Jones, not the sources said, Premier Nguyen Van Loc signed a decree authorizing the ideas in one of LeRoi Jones' Newark Police, that the poet car­ the 'mobilization' of all electrical workers. He justified the action poems. Many groups and individ­ ried no revolvers in his car, no There will be a defense meet­ on the ground that South Vietnam is in a state of emergency. uals are protesting against this in revolvers at all, that the police ing for LeRoi Jones and co-defend­ "The police then moved into the headquarters of th~ General particular. PEN, the largest inter­ beat Jones up ... that after the ants Barry Wynn and Charles Mc­ Federation of Trade Unions and seized about 130 electrical work­ national association of writers in double whammy of beating and Cray at the Militant Labor Forum, ers staging a sitdown. They were loaded into trucks at gunpoint the world, in a letter of protest to the rabbit-in-hat guns, his trial 873 Broadway, New York City on and taken to the seven power plants in town. The police sent out the New York Times stated: "Since before an all-white jury was triple other squads to pick up electricity workers at their homes. its founding in 1921 the Interna­ whammy. Lo and behold! fourth Jan. 26 at 8:30 p.m. Larry Neal tional P.E.N. has defended free­ execrable whammy - his Judge of the United Black Artists will "'We told them to get into our trucks to go to work im­ dom of expression by writers of addressed LeRoi's poem in a speak, and Barbara Ann Teer, ac­ mediately or be sent to jail,' said Lieut. Col. Nguyen Van Luan, every persuasion. The American butchered version . . . and sen­ tress, writer, and director, will chief of the Saigon police force. About 200 workers were picked Center now wishes to take a posi­ tenced him to two and a half present a reading of LeRoi Jones' up in this way. Colonel Luan said that the search would continue tion on the sentence imposed on years for it.'' most recent poetry. until all of the approximately 1,000 strikers were back on the job." Trade unionists in this country should vigorously protest this A Talk with Ron Lockman's Mother attack on Vietnamese workers by the U.S. puppet regime in Saigon. Defe~nds Antiwar Stand of S~on By Pe.arl Chertov me to go to the trial in San Fran­ Cops Attatk Protesters PHILADELPHIA - Ron a 1 d cisco. Many just read about it, Lockman is a black G I from or heard it on the news, and called North Philadelphia who has re­ to show sympathy. Even from In S.F. Demonstration fused to go to Vietnam. He was London, Christmas cards have eourt-martialed last November, By Howard Cohen when a priest at the doorway been sent to Ronald. Women raised his hand, gesturing to the and is now serving a 30-month SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 11 - sentence at the prison in Fort Strike for Peace, the Anti-Draft The exclusive Fairmont Hotel here police to halt. He then ushered to safety the remaing protesters, and Leavenworth, Kans. Lockman, 23, Union, and others working to end was the scene of a police attack is a member of the W.E.B. DuBois the war have shown interest. My tonight on an antiwar demonstra­ the police did not enter the church Clubs. building. neighbors are generally in agree­ tion - in a clear violation of the Earlier, before the cops attacked Mrs. Vivian Williams, Ronald's ment, although those who do not right to dissent. mother, who has been active in About 1,000 ·marchers braved a the demonstration, the antiwar speaking in defense of her son, have kids do not say anything.'' cold winter's evening to demon­ protesters had showed their sym­ agreed to an interview with The She went on to say in a very strate their disgust as Secretary pathy for a group of striking ma­ Militant on his case. firm but soft voice, "I wouldn't of State Dean Rusk rationalized chinists, who were also protesting care how many sons I'd have, I I went to her home on Jan. 3, U.S. foreign policy at a dinner Rusk - for his role in allowing wouldn't want any of them to go scabs to work in struck Quantas and as I entered I saw that affair of the all-white Common­ into this terrible, immoral war. wealth Club - an association of Airlines. "We support the ma­ Christmas decorations were being Look what they are doing over chinists," the antiwar activists packed away for next year. It re­ businessmen in northern Califor­ there to those people. I have five nia. The assembled capitalists re­ shouted, and "Rusk is a scab." minded me of something Mrs. sons, one the. war machine has Williams had told me, that her portedly enthusiastically ap­ and another is due to register plauded Rusk's defense of their son loved to decorate the tree for next month." the holidays. I couldn't help but blossoming war profits. Ca~m~ejo, think of the many homes with Most Agree The demonstration, organized by Others someone important missing be­ a coalition of antiwar groups, be­ cause of the war. Discussing the attitude of young gan about 6 p.m. with about 500 men who had known her son in G~et s~entenc·ed The warm welcome I received present. As the ranks swelled, the the neighborhood and in school, police forced the demonstrators to from Mrs. Williams and her chil­ she said, "As to the young fel­ dren reflected the pride they felt the sidewalk on the opposite side In B~erke,l~ey lows, most of them agree with of the street from the hotel. for their Ronald. Mr. Williams, a Ronald but are bothered about A Berkeley, Calif., judge sen­ night worker, had already left for By 7:30, almost 1,000 demonstra­ Pfc. Ronald Lockman prison sentences. They've heard tors had arrived. The police, using tenced seven men to fines ranging work, but Mrs. Williams made it so many stories about life in pris­ from $50 to $150 Jan. 3 for their clear that he backed up his son and went from job to job with the excuse that someone had little, pay. He then decided to go on that they don't want to go, thrown some garbage and a "sack part in student protests at the all the way. University of California in No­ to barbering school and learn a "Some who went to Vietnam full of blood," announced that the I asked ,Mrs. Williams how she and are back say, 'I don't blame demonstration was unlawful and vember. They were convicted of felt, as a mother, for a son who trade." After working in a bar­ attempting to raise a pirate flag, bershop, he was drafted. Ronald.' had to disperse. had taken the stand Ronald did. "Former schoolmates of his still Then about 20 cops attacked the the "Jolly Roger," on the campus. "I am proud of Ronald," she said. Mrs. Williams said that she first come around the house. One of marchers, swinging nightsticks. The act had been intended as a "My son told me, 'Mom, I just became aware of her son's deci­ them, now a college student who Many were clubbed; some required symbolic protest of the punishment can't go over there and kill Viet­ sion not to go to Vietnam when works part time, left money in an hospitalization. of antiwar activists by the univer­ namese people. I believe my fight he was home. on his 30-day leave envelope for my trip to the trial Police chased after fleeing dem­ sity administration. is at home. People who live in before assignment. "I didn't want in San Francisco. When I asked onstrators. Astride motorcycles, Peter Camejo, a Cal student the ghetto live in poverty - good him to go and yet I didn't know him why, he answered, 'I am out they drove into small gatherings and a leader of the Socialist Work­ schools, jobs, better homes . are when I would next see him if he here making it while Ronald is of protesters. Plainclothesmen ers Party, received a $150 fine. All needed for the black people right didn't go. Would it be five or ten behind bars for us.' " were seen arresting people they seven, including two nonstudents, here.' years in a jail? I figured he would thought were leaders of the dem­ were given 10-day suspended jail "It is only in recent years that finally make up his own mind In New Haven, Conn., a rebel­ onstration. terms. not to go in.'' our family conditions have im­ lion broke out at Hillhouse High Some 50 demonstrators, shout­ It was ironic that the two non­ proved," Mrs. Williams continued, Response from others has been School after a black girl was re· ing "amnesty, amnesty!'' were students, who were the only others "and as a young boy Ronald knew encouraging. "People I do not portedly hit by a white boy when chased by police onto the grounds besides Camejo to be given $150 poverty. In 1963, Ronald grad­ even know," Mrs. Williams said, she did not stand to recite the of Grace Cathedral. About 40 were fines, were both veterans of Viet­ uated from Edison High School "helped to make it possible for Pledge of Allegiance. pursued into the church rectory, nam. Page Four THE MILITANT Monday, January 22. 1968 Visit to Santa Clara By Ha.rry R.iDg Cienfuegos is now being de­ HAVANA, Cuba - With a large Cultural Congress veloped as a major industrial · group of journalists here for the center and principal sugar port. Cuba's first big fertilizer plant, Cultural Congress, the press sec­ Ends in Havana which is being put up by a British tion of the Foreign Ministry was HAVANA, Jan. 12-The Cul­ hard pressed to show all of them tural Congress of Havana ended firm at a cost of $90 million, is now in construction there. A ce­ around Cuba, particularly since today with a plenary session in the afternoon and a speech ment plant is being built and a the gasoline rationing made it dif­ thermoelectric plant. A plant for ficult to break them up into by Fidel Castro at the Chaplin Theater in the evening. Most of building diesel engines is already smaller groups and send them out in operation. · in cars. A number of bus trips the work of the Congress was carried on in five separate com­ We visited a sugar storage bin,. were organized to cope with this an enormous, quonset-hut style problem. I went on one that went missions and the reports of these commissions are just be­ structure, which has a storage to Santa Clara, capital of Las capacity of 96,000 tons. The sugar Villas Province. It was a 2lh-day coming available in written form. A report on the Congress is removed for loading onto the trip. ships by what sounded like a very With more than 30 newsmen will be forthcoming for a fu­ ture issue. ingenious, suction-type operation, traveling together, it was difficult which is highly mechanized. The to get a comprehensive picture sugar is bulk-loaded onto the of all the places we visited. Some Playa Giron and Laguna del ships, something that was never were particularly important and I done before in Cuba, which always hope to be able to go back. Mean­ Tesoro (Treasure Lagoon) in the Zapata Swamp were resort areas shipped sugar in bags. On comple­ while, a diary-style report of the tion, Cienfuegos will be the sugar trip should give an impression of completed by the Revolutionary Government a short time before port for all of Las Villas province some of the things happening in and part of Camaguey as well. Cuba today and some of the the invasion. We went first to the Laguna del Tesoro a beauti­ From there we went to a cane­ places the Cuban people now are field, which for me was a distinct able to go to. ful place deep inside the swamp that is reached by an artificial emotional experience. I have al­ Our first day was devoted to a ways known that cutting cane is visit to the Zapata Swamp and canal. On arrival we boarded a large motor launch and enjoyed a hard work. But I didn't know how Playa Giron, scene of the 1961 U.S.­ hard it actually is until I saw it sponsored invasion. The counter­ scenic hour's ride to the resort area. There we dined in a large, close up. Just walking through a revolutionary forces had landed field where the cane has been cut at Playa Gir6n and advanced as lovely restaurant, which, like the c?ttages surrounding it, is de­ and is on the ground, waiting to far as the Zapata Swamp, from be picked up, is hard work. A which they were driven back after Signed to suggest the Indian tribe that had once lived there. Laguna stalk of cane is just about the 68 hours to the beach, where they toughest thing I've ever seen (It's surrendered in mass. del Tesoro is a popular honey­ moon resort. In addition to the delicious though just to chomp on restaurant, there is a gift shop, a piece and enjoy the juice.) recreation room, snack bar, and Back-Breaking Work a big swimming pool. There are Cu!Jons Receive walking trails and a museum-type Working in the blazing sun, the PIIGiio b)' Barq :am. reconstruction of an Indian vil­ cutter moves from one stalk to the CUTTING CANE. Work to harvest sugar cane is back-breaking lage. It's a wonderful place for next, one at a time, wielding his labor. Bomb in Moil camera bugs. machete. He cuts as close to the ground as possible to get the max­ At Playa Giron the resort area jaundiced newsmen perked up Some of the women are already imum piece of cane. Before it Sent from U.S. has been replaced by a fishing visibly. At Banao, 750 caballerias receiving technical training and school that trains personnel for took four strokes to cut a piece all eventually will. Eleven of them HAVANA, Cuba - Five postal of cane into two pieces and strip (about 25,000 acres) are being Cuba's new fishing fleet. A mem­ farmed, with strawberries, as­ are now driving small tractors and workers were injured, two of them ber of the school administration it. Now mechanization takes care seriously, when a bomb in a pack­ paragus, grapes and onions the 40 are just completing a training explained its program and it gave of the center stroke and stripping, course on tractors. age from the U.S. exploded here but its still back-breaking work. principal crops. Before, onions me some conception of what it were the only one of these crops on the afternoon of Jan. 8. means for a country like Cuba to I looked at the miles of canefield A group of girls listened with The explosion occurred as mail stretching down the road and that had been grown in Cuba. great interest as we questioned a start building a fishing fleet from (From what I've had in restau­ was being unloaded in the harbor scratch. thought of the men and women motherly looking woman who is from the Cuban freighter, Las who work in the sun, cutting each rants, the strawberries and as­ the Party representative. There Villas, which had just arrived Two Fleets and every one of those millions paragus are excellent.) wasn't a single giggle as newsmen asked her if there was a sexual from Canada with mail shipments Cuba now has two principal of cane stalks. I don't think I'll All of the women who work at from there and from the U.S. Banao are from Las Villas problem with such a concentration f~eets: the Cubana fleet, which ever be able to take a spoon of The lethal container was readily fishes throughout the world, and sugar again without realizing the province. Five hundred live there of women. Not particularly, she identifiable as from the U.S. on the Gulf fleet, which fishes in the amount of back-breaking work and others come in daily from the replied. There are men as well as the basis of fragments of the mail Gulf of Mexico. that goes into it. surrounding area, working for an women and the administration bag bearing the "U.S. Mail" im­ makes no effort to control the To man these fleets, CUba must From the field we went to the hourly wage. At peak crop times print and a tag identifying the there are as many as 5,000 work­ private lives df the workers. But pouch as originating in New York. train merchant seamen as well as nearby Guillermo Moncado sugar where can these young men and fishermen. The school at Playa mill, which I'm told is one of the ing there. The women range in age The blast occurred as the bags women go for privacy, a reporter Giron has 1,282 pupils ranging in smaller ones. It was a giant fac­ from 17 up. Most of the technical were being loaded onto a truck. management of the farm is still persisted. "As anywhere else in Officials said that if it had hap­ age from 14 to 18. Soon the school tory in the field, to which the the world, there are places," she trucks and a train bring in loads done by men, but administration pened in an enclosed area the toll will be expanded to include an­ replied with a patient smile. other thousand. of cane at one end. Through a is in the hands of women. would have been even greater. There is regular night school We concluded our brief stay Glass windowpanes and doors To give the students the neces­ complicated process of grinding sary technical training (some go and cooking in giant vats, unre­ with all the elementary grades, with a visit to the store on the were shattered in an area nearby and the local Party unit organizes project, which was well stocked where men and women were sort­ on to advanced schools to become fined sugar comes out at the ship's officers and engineers), it other end. It was such a fascinat­ cultural and recreational activity with clothing, some costume ing mail but, fortunately, none of and sports. Theater groups and jewelry, and other items. them were injured. is necessary in most cases to com­ ing place that I overcame my plete their elementary education. phobia about heights and joined other entertainment groups come Then a night's sleep and the Many packages arrive in Cuba there regularly. ride back to Havana. from the u.s., sent by emigres to They stay at Playa Giron for two an expedition along the catwalks their families here. years and some then go to ad­ high atop the vats. In New York some weeks ago, vanced schools while others join There were several old vats and a similar package addressed to the fishing fleet. The salary for several new-looking ones. The new Cuba exploded, injuring a U.S. fishermen and seamen is higher ones, I was proudly advised, were than that of most Cuban workers. built in Cuba. Overhauling of the Four Amerimn Figures postal worker. Previously a member of the The pay scale is complicated, with mill since the revolution, I was Cuban Mission to the United Na­ bonuses paid to the Gulf fleet on further told, has not only in­ tions was injured, narrowly escap­ the basis of their catch. But in the creased productivity, but reduced ing loss of eyesight, when a pack­ Cubana fleet the pay ranges from accidents by 80 percent. Protest Tr11vel B11n age addressed to the Mission ex­ $175 a month for an ordinary sea­ From there we went to the city man to $340 for an engineer and of Trinidad, an old, old colonial HAVANA, Cuba- Three U.S. Medical College; Chorover is iD ploded while he was opening it. the department of psychology at The Cuban Ministry of Com­ $400 to $500 for a captain. They town. We visited a shop where scientists and a writer protested receive reduced pay while shore women made straw hats, baskets MIT, and Ptashne i~ in the Biolo­ munications, which is in charge here that the State Department gy department at Harvard. of the Post Office, said measures side. and purses. This has been a major had refused to give them authori­ Our first night away from home industry in Trinidad, where Yglesias said he had finally been would be taken to cope with such zation to travel to Cuba to partici­ incidents here. Havana we stayed at the Hotel the products were sold for very given travel validation by the Jagua in the city of Cienfuegos. little. Now the women work for pate in the Cultural Congress of State Department as a journalist. A magnificent luxury hotel, it had the government and, if I under· Havana which closed Jan. 12. All All had been advised that it was been the property of Batista's son stood correctly, make $7 a day, of them, and others from the not "in the interest" of the U.S. Poppo. Now it's operated by !NIT, which is a very good wage in U.S., had been officially invited to authorize them to come here Che Guevara Cuba's tourist ministry, and rooms Cuba. to be delegates to the Congress. to be delegates to the Congress, are the same rate as most resort We visited an ancient convent, The four were Jose Yglesias, since Washington views the Con­ areas, $6 a night for a couple. now a public school with half a Prof. Roy John, Prof. Stephen gress as a "propaganda" medium. Vietn11111 •nil Worltl I tumbled into bed at night dozen classes going in the various Chorover and Prof. Mark Ftashne. Prominent intellectual figures Revolution without looking at much. On rooms. The kids loved the visiting They made their proteSt public at from every part of the globe par­ awakening I walked out on the cameramen. a press conference here during the ticipated in the Congress. Prof. His April, 1967, declaration balcony and saw a really spectac­ From there we went to the Cultural Congress. John told newsmen he found the from the guerrilla front in ular view. The hotel overlooks the much-discussed Banao Project, a Yglesias, novelist, translator and Congress to be not a Cuban pro­ Bolivia. harbor which is surrounded by old big farm operation manned largely essayist, is the author of a forth­ paganda vehicle but a serious Spanish-style homes with tile by women. Unfortunately we were coming book on Cuba, V:iew from gathering of intellectuals. Yglesias 20 cents roofs. Saul Gottlieb, the writer, hours behind schedule, arrived Mayeri, describing life in a Cuban pointed to the contradiction of the MERIT PUBLISHERS who is here for Evergreen Review, after dark, and were able to stay village as he observed it during U;S. position in approving his re­ stood on the balcony and said that only a short while. Dozens of an extended stay. porting the Congress but denying 873 Broadway him the right to participate with­ New York, N.Y. 10003 he had traveled all over Europe curious young women surrounded Prof. John is in the brain re­ and never seen such a view. us and a number of the more search department at New York out fear of reprisal. Monday, January 22, 1968 THE \HUT A:o-:T Page Five Cll11rge CIA Is Altering OUR. MAN IN HAVANA Guev11mS Field Diory At the Cultural Congress HAVANA, Cuba (Free Territory of the Americas)-Newsmen cov­ quently mentions Che's diary to In an article appearing in the ering the Cultural Congress here Mexican magazine Siempre!, jour­ justify arrests, imprisonment of were given red-carpet treatment. members of the opposition in con­ nalist Luis Suarez charged that Housed at the excellent Hotel Na­ centration camps, and other re­ the CIA has been altering Che cional, they dined in style, and Guevara's field diary. Excerpts pressive measures. plenty, in the hotel's veranda CIA experts, working out of an from the article, which was re­ dining room, overlooking the office set up for this delicate job printed in the Dec. 3 Granma, or­ oceanfront. A European reporter gan of the Communist Party of of falsification on the top floor of the U.S. Embassy in La Paz, said to me, "They told me there Cuba, follow. wasn't enough food in Cuba. Why, are adding the names of students, * * * we're eating like kings!" teachers, professionals and work­ Major Ernesto Che Guevara's When he has a moment, a waiter field diary is being expanded - ers in order to use Che's field diary as a giant "informer." who put in eight years in New as a telephone book - in the agile York ("I learned to move fast " hands of CIA calligraphers for What they are trying to do to the guerrilla leader, who can no he says) stops at my table to talk. an obvious purpose. Yesterday, after taking an order The changes made in the diary longer defend himself, is to add insult to injury . . . at another table, he came over of the guerrilla leader assassinated shaking his head. "Do you know in Quebrada del Yuro are intended Who could possibly believe that Che Guevara, so careful to use what he told me?" he said. "Peo­ to blemish his pure spirit and his ple in Cuba eat too much!" revolutionary integrity, presenting aliases to protect his comrades-in­ We discussed the rationing and him as an inept leader who indis­ arms, and to use codes, would write the real and complete names what it means for the Cuban peo­ creetly mentioned names, charac­ ple. New York has not corrupted teristics and distinguishing marks of his comrades in the struggle in him. "The problems are hard to of those with whom he worked, the rear guard, where it is so thus, through lack of foresight, much easier to be identified and understand for some of those who aren't really revolutionary," he turning into an informer. eliminated? In the paragraphs published said. "They don't realize we're at Bolivian Additions [in La Paz dailies] up to now war.'' The Bolivian-U.S. repressive ap­ there appear real names alongside * * * aliases, as if anonymity were tac- The hospitality extended foreign paratus has embellished Che's journalists, particularly stomach­ diary with names and details to wise, has tended to distort waist­ justify the attacks it is now levy­ lines as well as some reporters' ing against many persons belong­ concept of Cuban reality. Conse­ ing to the opposition, accused, on quently, it was a small pleasure, the basis of such "irrefutable" on a trip to Las Villas province, evidence, of having belonged to to finally be denied something. the guerrilla apparatus . . . Instead of the usual coffee with Based on the accepted authenti­ milk for breakfast, we were served city of the field diary in the state black coffee. A few of the news­ in which that historic document men seemed a bit astonished on was taken from Che Guevara on being advised that milk was avail­ Oct. 8 . . . its pages have been able only for children. I felt a bit altered by CIA experts in psy­ better. chological propaganda, who add what they deem necessary to dis· * * * Two Cairo newsmen covered credit Che and use his diary as the Congress. In conversation, a basis for division and enmity within the democratic and anti­ they both almost immediately imperialist forces in Bolivia and asked me what stand The Militant Photo by Harry Ring throughout Latin America . . . had taken on the Mideast conflict. MAKING HATS. Straw hats, baskets, etc. were made by women The military prosecutor in the It was a good feeling to be able at hoD?-e in Trinidad, Cuba, before revolutlon. Now conditions are Regis Debray trial, Colonel Rem­ to tell them we had given un­ much Improved as women work in shops for nationalized industry. berto Iriarte, read - during the equivocal support to the Arab people against the aggression of trial - 50 pages from that field some of the bureaucrats would friends tell me that while the diary which, according to France­ the Israeli cat's-paw of the U.S. One told me there is still a not believe that they are Al· floor show is still a fantastic Presse correspondent Marc Hut­ mighty, which is to confuse so· super-extravaganza, it's no longer ten, fills 280 pages of a notebook Che Guevara deeply militant mood among his people. "In Cairo," he said, "the cialism with feudalism there the old girlie show but includes with notes that run from Jan. 1 would not be the conf~sion of tically advisable for some but not man on the street will ten you: worthwhile ingredients of Cuban to Oct. 7, 1967- the eve of Che's ideas that some people have." folk art. death. This is in violation of the for others, though all are part of 'It's better to die than to live in humiliation.' " * * • • • • Bolivian penal code itself, for the same apparatus of struggle, The widely used method of on different fronts. He said that he had been heart­ Film critics for Juventud Re­ under its statutes the period for birth control here is the intra­ belde, newspaper of the Com­ introducing evidence ran out in In these paragraphs, for ex­ ened when, after the U.S. and USSR arranged the UN cease-fire uterine device. The Public Health munist Youth, and Verde Olivo October. ample, mention is made of jour­ Service distributes the loop with nalist Gonzalo L6pez Muiioz, who Fidel had declared that the word the Army magazine, selected T~ The reading of these 50 pages, a unique guarantee. Anyone who Battle of Algiers as the outstand­ doubtlessly already altered, can was Press Secretary of the Boli­ "cease-fire" is not in the language of the Cuban people_ becomes pregnant using it can ing foreign film of the year - a only serve the dual purpose of vian Presidency, a rightist belong­ have an abortion. ing to the group of Walter Gueva­ choice that has my heartiest con­ promoting the sale of the diary * Otherwise, legal abortions are currence. itself, whose price has been stead­ ra [no relation], recently appoint­ A reporter for a Stockholm still available only on a limited ed Foreign Minister in the reor­ trade-union daily told me that .Morgan was a strong runner-up ily going up, and involving more basis, the principal one being that w1th the Juventud Rebelde critics. members of tl>e opposition in the ganized Barrientos Administration. with the rising militancy amo~ women with five or more children Camiri trial ... L6pez Munoz, correspondent of Swedish youth, there is a growing can have abortions if they choose. • • • It would seem that the Bolivian Visi6n magazine, traveled to the interest in Latin America in gen­ A doctor explained to me that It's an abstract question in the military regime is, along with its United States a short time ago at eral and in Cuba in particular. the limitations on abortions are U.S. where you can't get any CIA advisers, skillful in both fal· the invitation of the U.S. State There is a functioning committee not based on so-called moral con­ anyway, but authentic Bacardi sifications and salesmanship. Department. on Latin America, which organ­ siderations. It's a problem he rum is now called Caney. When ized a militant demonstration on the revolutionary government in­ Sale of the diary is a flagrant Lopez Mufioz said, of the lack of ava'nable violation of literary rights. The behalf of Hugo Blanco, the im­ facilities and personnel. tervened the famed Cuban distil- Bolivian government cannot sell Taking it for an established prisoned Peruvian peasant organ­ it, even though that is precisely fact that Che Guevara mentioned izer, and now a Cuban-Swedish * • • llliii\IIIIIIJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIJJII\11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111, what it is doing, because the diary L6pez Munoz in his diary as a friendship society has been estab­ A sidelight on how the Revolu­ belongs to the Guevara de Ia follower, the journalist has been lished. tion changes patterns of life: Militant reporter Harry Ring Serna family . . • arrested. In Bolivia it is felt that She said that for several years When I visit my friend Pepe he is now in Cuba, and will be News from La Paz reports that the motives for this specific ma­ the Cuban Consulate in Stock­ gets out the family photogr~phs writing a series of articles on the Ministry of the Government neuver are within the play of fac­ holm has been publishing a bi­ and everyone gathers around to his first-hand observations of headed by General Barrientos fre- tions in the Bolivian Government, weekly bulletin of news and in· look again. It's like a typical scene the development of the revo· and, of course, that the maneuver formation about Cuba. Subscrip­ in the U.S., but with a difference. lution. To be sure of receiving is designed to intimidate intellec­ tions are entered on request. It There are the usual photos of family and friends. But as the the complete series, use cou­ tual circles, keep them from ex­ now has a reported circulation of pon on page 6. pressing themselves, that it is a 30,000. chronology advances past the wed­ ding and the children as babies, 1 Leon Trotsky warning to them as well as to * • • 1111111111UIIIIllllliiJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIflllllllllllf journalists who sympathize the After discussions with several a new element ·comes into focus. 08 slightist with the opposition. dozen reporters from all parts of There is Pepe on maneuvers with lery, the Bacardi family headed his militia unit; Fidel's helicopter The hand of the experts is seen, the globe, I found one who sup­ for the U.S., taking along a siz­ ports the U.S. position in Viet­ , landing at his encampment dur­ able fortune. They set up a plant moreover, in the fact that the ing the 1961 mobilization; Pepe's Black Nationalism supposed excerpts from the field nam. A very proper young man, in Puerto Rico and instituted legal representing a Belgian travel mag­ graduation class at the Party's proceedings to bar Cuba from us­ a ad diary- with names added on the School for Revolutionary Instruc· top floor of the U.S. Embassy - azine, he said: "Perhaps you ing the name. Rather than become should not have gone in there. But tion; shots of the bohio (hut) involved in such a proceeding, were not published all at once, where Pepe slept during the za­ but in dribbles. now that you're there, how can Cuba d_ropped the name and began Self· you simply get out?" He seemed fra (cane harvest); and, for con­ producmg Bacardi under the First they publish excerpts from trast, the substantial building Caney label. ·The Caney distillery the diary, and, when the repres­ a bit startled when I repeated the Determination reply of folk singer Bill Freder­ where his daughter's high school has been functioning in Santiago sive apparatus has done its dirty class was housed. de CUba since 1862. Call it Ba­ work, other excerpts from the icks: "By boat." 95 cents • • * cardi or Caney, it's still a smooth diary appear with new names. * * * I had turned down the invita­ potent drink. (According to th~ In this way repression is meth­ To get back to Cuba: In the of­ tion extended to newsmen to label, it's only 70 proof. But after MERIT PUBLISHERS odically carried out and no one fice of the manager of the Par· spend New IOYear's Eve at the a couple of shots I'm convinced 5 EAST THIRD STREET knows whether or not his name tagas cigar factory here in Havana Tropicana, assuming that it would that's either a misprint or a dif­ NEW YORK, N. Y. 10003 will appear in the field diary the there is framed on the wall a be just as boring as similar huge ferent standard of measure.) next day ••• quotation from Fidel. It says: "If clubs in New York. But CUban -Harry Ring Page Six THE MILITANT Monday, January 22, 1968 Black Liberation Notes Strikers Protest At L.A. City Hall For two years now the students New School for Afro-American at Howard University in Washing­ Thought. By Della Rossa ton, D.C., have been fighting to LOS ANGELES - About 2,000 professional scabs here in some get ric;i of compulsory ROTC. This When actress •Diana Sands and representatives of the trade union time, and the demonstration was year they were victorious after 80 four other black celebrities went movement here marched from the an awakening of the labor move­ students sat in at the president's to dinner with LBJ, they found ment to the danger of strikebreak­ office and a poll of male students that the White House social staff struck plant of the Herald-Exam. ing spreading to other industries. revealed that 91 percent favored is "lily-white," while the waiters n ~very every meeting. After hearing for a maximum of only 10 months Beats a Retreat sonville, Fla., City Council has campus he visited, and ' interest Halstead speak, and often vigor­ - and then only in exceptional General Lewis B. Hershey, direc· just completed a most embarrass­ and support for Young Soc;!ialists ously debating with him in the cases.) tor of the U.S. Selective Service ing dechristening job. It seems for Halstead and Boute~e. ··. · .· discussion period, many have ex­ The bureaucrats apparently used system, had to beat a strategic re­ that in recent years they named a . ' pressed interest in the socialist the time to build up their case. treat Jan. 12 in his war against library for Lemuel Sharp, a city MINNEAPOLIS, ,Jan. 11. campaign. One of the four, Aleksei Dobro­ opponents of the war. The doughty councilman; a city park for City Upon arriving here from Madison Halstead will speak at six more volsky, pleaded guilty at the trial general, who has ordered draft Commissioner Dallas Thomas; and on Jan. 9, Fred Halstead held a campuses in the Minneapolis area and charged that the defendants boards to move against antiwar a sports complex for George G. press conference at SWP campaign in the next seven days, in addi­ were in touch with and acted as protesters, canceled a speech be· Robinson, Sr., a former city rec­ headquarters which received cov­ tion to appearing on radio shows agents for an emigre anti-Soviet fore a group of Boy Scouts in a reation director. All three officials erage on radio and TV. and at the Twin Cities Socialist group. Philadelphia suburb for fear of an were subsequently charged with That afternoon, the candidate Forum. The intent of the charge was to antiwar demonstration. theft of city funds. Monday, January 22, 1968 THE MILlTANT Page Seven

Gloomy as that picture is it also has its bright side. In trying to Thought for the Week enslave the world, the Roman Em­ "Indeed, there is even warrant for fear that a settlement based pire only destroyed itself. A law­ on the free choice of -the South Vietnamese people-the avowed ob­ less government inevitably creates jective of both sides-might result in a peaceful Communist take­ a lawless people and Rome col­ over in Saigon." - Editorial in the Jan. 14 New York Times. - lapsed, not because of military defeats, but because of moral dis­ integration and corruption at home. Castro) which were fundamentally the Castro-Debray thesis on Latin correct. · It is time for the American America should not be played people to :(ace up to it; we are Sheppard deals only with one down: the death of Che Guevara is Letters governed by men who, like Nero of these points. Rosen's attack on the greatest of these. The con­ and Napoleon and Hitler, have the Cuban CP as "bureaucratic," tinuing defeats of guerrilla groups been driven insane by greed and "with no inner life, no real activi· should lead you to take a hard the lust for power, and the nearer ties, which actually debates noth· · look at the theory which produced From they come to controlling the world ing and decides nothing." them. the closer our American 'civiliza­ Sheppard replies by pointing out If you would contrast to your tion - or at least what passes for that the Chinese CP, which Rosen present false line on Lati'n Ameri­ civilization - is to its own death. so admires, is a bureaucratic, anti· ca one which returns to Leninist Our democratic organization, and hard­ principles, one which is based on Dale Rasmussen ly a model for anything. This is the great possibilities of develop­ A Reader exactly true and a good point, but ing urban proletarian struggles Readers San Bernardino, Calif. it also exactly sidesteps the real there, you would not have to spend I've enjoyed reading your paper issue: despite intentions, is what your time and waste your space and will continue reading it Rosen says a!Yout the Cuban CP in shadowboxing with Mao Tse­ throughout my socialist career. also true? tung and his American acolytes. · E.S. I think it is, and I doubt if Shep­ Dave Cunningham [This column is an open forum "The Curdler" Opposes "Cuban Line" pard has any real evidence to in­ [The purpose of my article re­ for all viewpoints on subjects of -dicate the opposite. ferred to above was not to analyze New York, N. Y. Iowa City, Iowa It was probably no accident that Debray's book. I refer Dave Cun­ general interest to our readers. When I first read Elizabeth Please keep your letters brief. Barry Sheppard made several Sheppard chose to quote only Ro­ ningham to Livio Maitan's critical Barnes' note in The Militant that amusing points in attacking the sen's comments about the internal article on Debray in the Sep,t.-Oet. Where necessary they will be the Philadelphia police had tried abridged. Writers' initials will be Maoists in his article dealing with democracy of the Cuban CP (a 1967 International Socialist Re­ to obtain some armored antiblack World Revolution and Progressive side issue at best), whereas if he view. Maitan is a leading member used, names being withheld untess "antiriot" tanks "capable of authorization is given for •ut:.j Labor's diatribes against Cuba and had dealt seriously with the real of the Fourth International. emitting a high-frequency mind­ the Debray-Castro thesis on guer­ issues in Rosen's attack - those Barry Shep,pard.] deranging noise called 'the curd­ rilla warfare ("A 'Radical' Attack regarding the militarism and ad­ A Thought ler,' " I was confused. I couldn't on Cuba," The Militant, Dec. 18). Flushing, N.Y. venturism of the Debray-Castro The Scales of Justice figure out how the cops would be It is rather a pity that he wastes line - he would have been in Toronto, Canada I've gotten some kick out of the immune to the effects of their so much time and cleverness de­ When Stalin's daughter came to feature "Thought for the Week." serious trouble indeed. These are new weapon. fending such a degenerate position. the USA one journal mentioned I think I may have one that others the real points made, these are But then I realized. That PL and the Maoists are where the "Cuban line" is vul­ that, because of her book critical will certainly reflect upon. Robert Gebert of the Russian government, she Working out of New York Re­ frequently a joke is of course no nerable, and it is instructive that received "a home, God, and a mil­ sistance I frequently received the news to anyone. Nevertheless I Sheppard never mentions them in Decline and Fall . . . lion dollars." critical attack that: read the same things that Sheppard his article. San Francisco, C~lif. Draft resisters are selfish! read for his review - Revolution It is doubly unfortunate that When LeRoi Jones, however, w.c. The "Report on the Interna­ in the Revolution? and the article The Militant and the SWP have wrote a poem critical of the Ameri­ tional Situation" by Joseph Han­ in World Revolution and Progres· chosen to tail-end after the leader­ can system, one could say he re­ A Pr.ofitable Defense sen in the January-February In­ sive Labor - and, ·while I am ship of the Cuban state in this ceived "a prison, the Devil and ternational Socialist Review is a Buena Park, Calif. hardly inclined to agree very much manner, and to fashion themselves not a damn cent." remarkable essay and it almost with their line, I would say that as an uncritical rooting section for The hypocrisy of bourgeois jus- Have things reached such a seems that there is nothing more pass in this country that defense Rosen's article, especially, made all the bureaucracy's works. tice! to be said on the subject, but I some attacks on Debray (and The practical consequences of J.R.G. orders are given to enrich the would like to add a few facts and corporations rather than for de­ ideas I believe to be relevant. fense? I am sure many of us have seen Philip Wylie in an article in the epic motion picture, "The Fall Popular Science for January asks: of the Roman Empire," and it is "Will McNamara's 'thin shield' of tremendously interesting to note anti-ballistic missiles improve my the various ways in which that chances to survive a nuclear period of Roman history resem­ war?" bles modern American imperial­ His conclusion is: "Since our ism, or as I prefer to call it, our present aims do not give sound industrial empire. reasons for being safer, they As the Roman Empire moved in­ amount only to an escalation of to its final years, the colonies Let's Just Bum 'Em All - A Hold That Line, Now - Pay Icy Insults Melt - Now that the standing stalemate. The only began revolting and the emperor sure advantage in such a program sometimes gave orders that every letter to the editor of the Sacra­ raises of $17,000 for the Vice Pres­ McNamara is on his way out, he is the resulting profits of the lOth person in the rebellious col­ mento (Calif.) Bee suggests that ident, $20,000 for Cabinet mem­ can ski in peace. Last winter myriad industries involved and onies be burned to death. Gov. Reagan sell the greater por­ bers, and $15,000 for members of fellow-skiers at Aspen, Colo., pur­ the military gain in empire. But America does it much more "Any double ABM array de­ tion of the collections of the Uni­ Congress are recommended in a sued him up and down the slopes efficiently; with napalm and frag­ report, by a committee of "lead­ with antiwar comments. One wom­ signed now will be no more than mentation and incendiary bombs versity of California libraries at a double Maginot Line when in Berkeley and Los Angeles, as well ing citizens," that LBJ has kept an even caught him in a lodge we obliterate whole villages and, secret for months. Chairman of place years hence." in one case, an entire leper colony. as the state library in Sacramento. dining room, just as he was put­ The article is entitled "Mc­ this generous and guideline-less ting ketch-up on his hamburger, Though it was not brought out The economy-minded bibliophobe committee was Frederick Kappel, Namara's Missile Defense - a in the film, an interesting parallel offers the following supporting and said, "I hope that reminds Multibillion-Dollar Fiasco?" former president of AT&T; vice you of all the blood that is being lies in the "games" held in the data: "I have always felt that h1.1ge chairman, AFL-CIO President Murla Kyrian Colosseum. Just like in America, library expenditures are commu­ shed in Vietnam and spoils your George Meany. appetite.'l as the Roman legions were fight­ nistic. A recent article I read ------~ ing in far corners of the earth the pointing out that the largest li­ Ulterior Motive-We were quite Rings No Bell With AT&T - people at home were kept so brary in the world is in Moscow impressed when we read that Ingenious young engineers and Weekly Calendar amused by all kinds of sports that confirms me in this belief. If Com­ Ebsco Industries in Shrewsbury, computer operators have been fig­ they temporarily forgot their sons mies go in for books in such a N.J., is offering its workers a uring out ways to make free long­ were killing and being killed in big way, there must be something bonus of $10 a month to stop distance calls, reports The Wall LOS ANGELES senseless wars. basically wrong with them." smoking. Then we read on. The Street Journal. One group of stu­ THE REFERENDUM CAMPAIGNS boss estimates that about 30 min­ dents at Harvard and MIT de­ AGAINST U.S. WAR POLICY. A sympo­ utes of working time is lost each veloped six methods, ranging from sium. Speakers from referendum com­ day for each smoker. Thirty min­ mittees in Los Angeles, Compton, Be­ a musical instrument that activates verly Hills. Friday, Jan. 26, 8:30 p.m. utes a day is about 10 hours a the telephone company's electronic 1702 E. Fourth St. Ausp. Militant Labor month. On a wor~er who gets $2.50 call-placing equipment, to a sys­ Forum. New Readers an hour and gives up smoking, the tem for avoiding the billing com­ • • • bonus saves the company $15 per puters. In New York an enter­ BIWEEKLY RADIO COMMENTARY If you would like to be sure of receiving every issue I month; on a worker whose hourly prising student built an electronic over KPFK (90.6 FM) by Theodore Ed­ containing Harry Ring's special on-the-spot series from I rate is $3, the company will save attachment to his phone that per­ wards, So. Calif. chairman, Socialist Cuba, order an introductory four-month subscription now. $20 per month. mitted friends in other cities to Workers Party. Monday, Jan. 29 and call him free. AT&T calls all this Feb. 12 at 6:45 p.m.; repeated Tuesday, In addition, you will receive FREE a copy of the November­ Union-Buster Busted - An ex­ Jan. 30 and Feb. 13 at 9:45 a.m. "stealing.'' And we thought they December 1967 issue of the In_ ternational Socialist Review I pansion-minded entrepreneur, who stood foursquare for rewarding in­ is proud that his North Carolina containing Fidel Castro's speech at the OLAS conference dividual initiative - the Ameri­ • held in Cuba last summer, and the general declaration is· textile machinery plant (Roberts can Way. NEW YORK sued by OLAS. Send this coupon and $1 to Co. of Sanford) is nonunion, took DEFENSE MEETING FOR LeROI over a firm near England's indus­ Palm Beach Wedding - "The JONES, CHARLES Mc:CRA Y and BARRY trial Midlands. Class-conscious WYNN. The background and recent de­ bride wore a dual-length ivory velopments of this case will be presented workers, with a long and militant satin gown, trimmed with Alen­ by Larry Neal, poet and spokesman for trade-union tradition, resented !;On lace, and a long veil of French United Black Artists, which is support· THE MILITANT being further exploited by intro­ illusion hanging from a crown of ing the defense of these three men. duction of time-saving, efficiency­ seed pearls . . . The groom was There will be a reading of LeRoi 873 Broadway expert methods. The company ad­ conservatively attired in a white Jones' most recent poetry by Barbara New York, N. Y. 10003 vertised for scabs, asking for top hat and black bow tie . • • Ann Teer, actress, writer and director. "those individuals who appreciate After the wedding party posed for Friday, Jan. 26, 8:30 p.m. 873 Broad­ working in a free atmosphere pictures, everyone retired to the way, near 18th St. Contrib. $1. Ausp. Name rather than the bureaucratic and Militant Labor Forum. patio for a short reception." High restricti¥e environment of a union society event? Yes. But bride, • 1 Street ···--·---··---··--·----···-··-··-·------··------·····-··- Zip .. ___ _ shop." Two thousand unionists re­ groom, and many of the guests THE REAL STATE OF THE UNION. sponded by overpowering the cops had four legs apiece - which is Friday, Jan. 26, 8:30 p.m. 704 Hennepin, and breaking almost every win­ only · natural since they were Hall 240, Mpls. Ausp. Twin Cities So­ City -----···---···-·--·-···------···--··--·--·······- State -·····-······--- _ dow in the plant. The boss has French poodles. cialist Forum. given up and is now trying Spain. '------_I -Ruth Porter Page Eight THE MILITANT Monday, January 22, 1968 N. Y. Sociol Workers Vote Bring. tile Troops Home Now By Howard Reed last April. The fact that over half NEW YORK, Jan. 12 - In a of the union's 6,500 members repudiation of AFL-CIO Presi­ voted in the referendum is an in­ dent George Meany's parroting of dication of the concern SSEU Johnson's prowar line in the name members have about the war, and of the entire labor movement, the a reflection of their desire to do Social Service Employees Union something about it. here approved by referendum vote a resolution calling for the im­ mediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam. Scop,e of Cuban The membership of the union approved the resolution by a bet­ ter than two-to-one margin. Oil Di~scov~e~ry This vote, as well as other labor opposition to the war, shows that Meany does not represent the rank Sti·l·l Unknown and file of the labor movement in HAVANA, Jan. 12 - There is his jingoistic stand in favor of the still no word as to the extent of Photo by Shannon war. Unions like the California the oil strike made Jan. 8 in Gua­ PAUL BOUTELLE. Socialist Workers vice-presidential candidate Federation of Teachers (whose nabo, a town some 12 miles from chats with students at Queens College. r e c e n t convention passed a here. It is said that it will be sev­ resolution calling for immediate eral weeks before geologists will withdrawal), the Amalgamated have definite findings on this. Re­ Clothing Workers, the Woodwork­ search is reportedly being con­ ers and the Amalgamated Butch­ ducted by Soviet and Cuban geol­ Stude·nts Hear Boutelle ers and Meatcutter§ are only a ogists. There were virtually no few of the unions whose top of­ geologists in Cuba prior to the ficials have expressed sharp dif­ revolution, but for the past num­ ferences with Meany about the ber of years there have been 20 At N.Y. Tour Meetings war. geology graduates a year. The A Gallup poll released on Jan. search for oil here has been going spoke directly to close to 700 stu­ 2 revealed that 43 percent of trade on for several years. By Bill Martin SSEU STRIKE. Welfare work­ NEW YORK - Paul Boutelle, dent activists in the antiwar and unionists nationally believe the Unconfirmed reports in Havana union struck for better pay Socialist Workers Party candidate Afro,American struggles, and whole war was a mistake. ers' have it that the geologists say for Vice President, completed a reached thousands more over the The key phrase in the referen­ and conditions last year. Mem­ there is the possibility that the oil tight schedule of campus meetings, radio. Boutelle's tour also enlisted dum, "Be it therefore resolved bers have voted against war in strike in Guanabo may have public forums, and radio appear­ the active support of many more that we declare that the Social Vietnam.. tapped a rich area of oil deposits ances here, before going on to students for the Socialist Workers Service Employees Union is in fa­ which is believed to run from Boston for his next stop in a four­ ticket in opposition to both the vor of an immediate withdrawal bership meeting on Nov. 8, which Venezuela to Texas. month national speaking tour.> · Democrats and Republicans. of American troops from Viet­ set the wording of the referen­ With Cuba now compelled to On Jan. 9 the candidate ad­ Boutelle taped an interview Jan. nam," was backed by 2,260 mem­ dum. Opposing paints of view ration gasoline and institute other dressed a group of about 100 stu­ 12 with radio station WBAI-FM. · bers, and opposed by 1,118. Thus, were published in the union news­ rigid controls over its use, a sig­ dents at the State University of In the evening he participated in on this referendum, where the paper, and both formal and infor­ nificant oil supply here .would, of New York at Stony Brook. The a symposium with John Wilson of question of withdrawal had to be mal debates took place in many course, be a tremendous boon. meeting was sponsored by the the Student Nonviolent Coordinat­ voted straight up or down, 68 per­ welfare centers during the fol­ Since the U.S. instituted the trade Young Socialists for Halstead and ing Committee and Carlos Russell cent voted for it. This is signif­ lowing weeks. Supporters of the blockade, Cuba has had to rely icantly higher than the vote for Boutelle. of the National Conference for referendum also passed out leaf­ completely on the Soviet Union The following day he spoke at a New Politics. The discussion topic similar referendums conducted in lets urging fellow wefare workers for oil. On Jan. 2 Fidel Castro in­ San Francisco and in Cambridge, meeting sponsored by the Students was "Nationalism, Socialism and to vote in favor of it. formed the Cuban people that, Mass., last November, indicating for a Democratic Society at Man­ the '68 Elections." About 150 peo­ It is significant that the size while Cuba's need for oil had in­ the growing opposition to the war. hattan Community College, and ple attended the meeting, which of the vote was almost as large creased enormously, the USSR at a meeting at Columbia Univer­ was sponsored by the Militant La­ A petition signed by 2,000 mem­ as the number of members voting would not be sending increased bers of the union called a mem- amounts. sity organized by the Young So­ bor Forum. in the election for union officers cialist Alliance. Despite administration restric­ tions on advertising, more than 90 students turned out at Manhattan Community College to hear Bou­ Carmichael Attacked by French C P telle, and a lively discussion fol­ lowed his talk. The candidate ap­ The French Communist Party and SNCC, but also at the Cuban ed in this Northern city [New regards this formation as the real peared later that evening for an printed a slanderous attack on leadership, which shares Car­ York] by the white intellectuals leadership of the black masses in interview on the Caspar Citron Student Nonviolent Coordinating michael's view of "peaceful coex­ with whom he associated . . ." America. radio show. Committee leader Stokely Car­ istence." Carmichael is pictured as an We are never told who attended Boutelle spoke Jan. 11 at meet­ michael in the Dec. 18 issue of the If Buchanan had made this immature foreigner, who is igno­ this illustrious assembly, but the ings at Bronx Community College party's newspaper l'Humanite. The clear-cut political difference the rant of the real lives of black peo­ author finally informs us that the and at Queens College. The Bronx author of the attack is Thomas axis of his article, the issue could ple because he has lived in the "principal spokesman of the group meeting was sponsored by the Buchanan, who is identified as "a be clearly debated. This American North and associates primarily of 80 Marxists'' was Henry Win­ Afro-American student organiza­ progressive American journalist" literary hatchet man for the with whites. ston, national chairman of the tion SIMBA, and drew more than and author of the book Who Killed French CP carefully avoided that SNCC is described by this "pro­ Communist Party, USA. Winston gressive" as "a minority section 125 students. The discussion period Kenned.y? confrontation of views, however. was presented as having spent his lasted for about two hours, cen­ The full text of Buchanan's ar­ He chose instead to launch a smear of the black student movement life in "organizing the struggle of largely originating from the black tering around the relationship be­ ticle, along with a reply by Joseph attack on Stokely Carmichael. the black people in the racist bourgeoisie, who, unlike most of tween black nationalism and so­ Hansen titled "In Defense of Sto­ Carmichael's background, he South." the black population, have the cialism. At Queens College Bou­ kely Carmichael," appears in the tells us, "is not typical of Amer­ Joseph Hansen discusses the means to send their children to telle introduced his campaign to Jan. 19 issue of the labor press ican blacks." That is because Car­ basic political question at issue: service, World Outlook. universities like Harvard, where about 75 students. michael was "born in Trinidad in "Stokely Carmichael's suggested Buchanan begins by favorably a mulatto family . . . A cultured Carmichael went to school and In the course of the week's meet­ from which he graduated.'' course of action conforms much ings the vice presidential candidate citing resolutions of a "recent" young man, he was socially accept- conference of an unidentified This is followed by the asser­ closer to the reality than the "group of 80 black Marxists" that tion that Carmichael's "experi­ 'peaceful coexistence' line of Win­ took place in New York. This ence of the conditions in the ston and Buchanan. For their line Ralph Schoenman anonymous gathering, we are told, struggle in the Southern states is equivalent to advising the blacks "implicitly rejected, among other has been limited to organizing a to bow their necks to the master things, Stokely Carmichael's thesis few 'expeditions' which he under­ race, while Carmichael urges re­ Speaks in Boston in favor of a kind of 'guerrilla took . . . during his stay at Har­ sistance, whatever the cost.'' BOSTON - Before an audience movement' in the black ghettos.'' vard." This does not mean, Hansen of about 600 people, Ralph Schoen­ Buchanan recounts some of Car­ The reality is that Stokely Car­ says, that there are no tactical man, secretary to Bertrand Rus­ michael's comments to reporters michael went to Howard Univer­ questions to be discussed, or that sell, spoke on "The World in Re­ while he was in Havana attending sity in Washington, D.C., on the the formula "guerrilla warfare" volution.'' Most of the audience the conference of the Organiza­ border of the South, and spent settles everything. "But it is quite were students at Tufts University. tion of Latin American Solidarity years in the South as a SNCC or­ pointless," he says, "to discuss The main thrust of Schoenman's last August. Fundamentally, what ganizer - he spent almost a year these things with people who are talk was to condemn U.S. impe­ outraged the "progressive journal­ in Lowndes County, Ala., helping in disagreement on the most rialism as the main cause of pov­ ist" was Carmichael's rejection of to found the Lowndes County Free­ fundamental question; that is, the erty and oppression in the world the concept of "peaceful coex­ dom Party, and worked in many historic pattern of struggle in the and to defend the rights of op­ istence" and his insistence that other parts of· the South. period we are now living in. Is the pressed people to struggle by any black people will win their rights Finally, after he has completed pattern one of colonial uprisings means necessary to gain their free­ in the United States only through his smear job, Buchanan spends and socialist revolutions or of dom. a total change of the system by several pages eulogizing the ob­ 'peaceful coexistence'?" The generally receptive au­ any means necessary. scure "conference of 80 black World Outlook may be obtained dience gave Schoenman a stand­ Actually, the French CP and Marxists.'' From the amount of at 50¢ per copy. Their address is ing ovation at the conclusion of Buchanan are · aiming their fire space devoted to this gathering, we P.O. Box 635, Madison Sq. Station, his talk. not only at Stokely Carmichael Stokely Carmichael must assume that the French CP New York, N.Y. 10010.