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MAY 28, 1976 25 CENTS VOLUME 40/NUMBER 21 A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY /PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE Gov't moves to end busing ieooardize 20-vear_ struggle against segregation -PAGES 4, 10 An interview with Peter cameio, Militant/Ginny Hildebrand SPRINGFIELD, 111.-More than 8,000 answered National Organization for Women's call to join socialist May 16 march and rally for ERA ratification. See pages 6-8. workers presidential candidate -PAGE 16 Militant/Pat Hayes In Brief THIS MOTHER'S DAY MARCH FOR JUSTICE: Juanita Harris, McCain Prison, Box 58, McCain, North Carolina Tyler, Hattie Dunn, and Helen Magee commemorated 28361. WEEK'S Mother's Day by leading a solemn march of forty Black women through the streets of New Orleans May 9. ROSENBERG TRIBUTE: "It is twenty-five years since MILITANT Juanita Tyler's son Gary is in a six-by-eight-foot cell on our parents proclaimed their innocence with their lives but death row in the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. the government still shows the need today to cover u~ the 3 4,000 protest threat record of their frame-up," stated Robert and Michael to shut down Hostos · He was framed up for a murder he did not commit. Hattie Dunn's son, Richard, was shot and killed last March by two Meeropol in a news release announcing plans for the 4 Blacks hit Levi's moves white racist night riders while on his way home from a Twenty-third Tribute to Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. · to axe busing decision benefit dance to raise funds to win Gary Tyler's freedom. The Meeropol brothers, sons of the victims of the Helen Magee's son, Stanley, allegedly committed suicide infa~ous gove.rnment-contrived "espionage" frame-up, are 5 Crystal City says 'no' while in the St. Tammany Parish Prison. seekmg to gam access to all government files on their to gas-utility swindle At a widely covered news conference, · the protesters parents under the Freedom of Information Act. The June 15 tribute at Carnegie Hall will launch a 6 Thousands say: announced that the march would "focus attention on petitioning drive to collect 500,000 signatures demanding 'ERA Now!' mothers and wives of the overwhelmingly Black male victims of racist violence from the police, the courts, and the release of all files on the Rosenbergs and Martin Sobell, 9 The 'Guardian' opens white persons in the general population of Greater New who was jailed in the same frame-up. China discussion Orleans." For further information see ad on page 27. 13 Rubber strike: crucial NEW HOUSTON SWP BRANCH OPENS OFFICES: battle for all labor STILL ANOTHER VICTIM: In an attempt to harass Gary Tyler's family, cops arrested Terry Tyler on Monday The new Northeast branch of the Socialist Workers party 14 Judge orders gov't to morning, May 17, on trumped-up burglary charges. Terry opened its campaign headquarters and bookstore with an release more SWP data Tyler is a leading figure in the defense campaign to win open house Sunday, May 9. The area of Northeast Houston freedom for his,brother. The day before his arrest, Terry and where the new socialist headquarters is located is mostly 15 Socialists expand lawsuit his mother had just returned from a weekend trip to Detroit, Black, but there is also a large Chicano community nearby. against FBI where they had gone to gather support for Gary's defense. The highlight of the day was a short meeting to familiarize people with the party. Gene Lantz, socialist 16 Socialist discusses issues In St. Rose Parish, Terry has orgaRized the Gary Tyler candidate for U.S. Congress in the area, chaired the facing Chicanos in 1976 Freedom Fighters, a group of teen-agers who raise funds and publicize his brother's case. Terry is expected to be meeting. SWP National Committee member Malik Miah 18 Plans under way to win released from jail on $5,000 bond. and Rachel Knapik, a new party member, also spoke. Calif. ballot spot GOOD NEWS FROM THE POLLS: In recent years, a 23 How safe is firm majority has come to support the right of women to nuclear power? June 5: Put SWP abortion and ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment 25 Unions, Blacks set march even though many have been hesitant to endorse th~ to save Phila. hospital on Mass. ballot women's liberation movement as a whole. But now, reports The Massachusetts Socialist Workers Campaign will kick a UPI dispatch, "Public acceptance of women's liberation is 28 All-white jury finds off its ballot drive on Saturday, May 22. A team of twenty increasing gradually and now finds favor with 60 per cent J.B. Johnson guilty full-time volunteers will initiate the effort to gather well of adult Americans, a life insurance industry study over the 37,000 signatures required to put SWP presidential said.... " 2 In Brief and vice-presidential candidates Peter Camejo and Willie A New York Daily News poll taken last month found that Mae Reid, as well as state candidates Carol Henderson 63 perc.ent of New Yorkers replied "yes" to the question, "Do 10 In Our Opinion Evans and James "Mac" Warren, on the November ballot. you thmk that homosexuals should be accepted in society Letters Evans is opposing Edward Kennedy for U.S. Senate, and and treated the same as anyone else?" Warren is running for Congress in the predominantly Black And in the same poll 58 percent said that they opposed 11 Capitalism in Crisis Roxbury section of Boston. iLa Raza en Accion! the March 29 Supreme Court decision allowing states to Several weeks of petitioning by the team will pave the outlaw homosexual acts between consenting adults. Only 18 12 The Great Society way for the first special target day for the drive Saturday, percent said they agreed with the court. June 5. Hundreds of socialist campaigners will fan out in By Any Means Necessary -Ginny Hildebrand American Way of Life Boston, Springfield, Worcester, New Bedford, and other Massachusetts towns and cities to petition and hand out 24 In Review thousands of pieces of campaign literature. In preparation for the June 5 target day, a rally featuring Peter Camejo WORLD OUTLOOK will be held in Boston on June 4. A second target campaign 19 Growing opposition and petitioning day is scheduled for the following weekend. to Franco's heirs TWO HUNDRED MARCH FOR UFW IN UTAH: Some 21 World news notes 200 people took part in a May 8 march and rally in Salt 22 Britain: 10,000 march Lake City, Utah, to demand that the Utah State Liquor for abortion rights Commission stop selling Gallo and other scab wines. Commissioner Gerald Hulbert had met with a delegation from the UFW Support Committee May 3. Utah AFL-CIO Director Hank Inskeep was among those in the delegation. THE MILITANT Luis Fuentes, spokesperson of the support committee, demanded that the state "stop buying Gallo wines and VOLUME 40/NUMBER 21 nonunion wines to honor the United Farm Worker boycott." MAY 28, 1976 Hulbert alleged he "sympathized with the problem," but CLOSING NEWS DATE-MAY 19 later announced he wouldn't honor the boycott because the Editor MARY-ALICE WATERS state had to remain "neutral" in labor disputes. Managing Editor: LARRY SEIGLE At the May 8 rally Fuentes charged that Hulbert's Busmess Manager: ROSE OGDEN "neutrality" was a cover-up for aiding the growers. "We Special Offer Southwest Bureau: HARRY RING know why Mr. Hulbert refused," the Chicano activist said. Washington Bureau: NANCY COLE "Big business stays together." Published weekly by The Militant Publishing Ass'n., For New Readers 14 Charles Lane. New York, NY. 10014. Telephone: CHAVIS ON HUNGER STRIKE: Rev. Ben Chavis Editorial Office (212) 243-6392; Business Office began a hunger strike on April 30 at McCain Prison This _week So~thwest Bureau head Harry Ring continues (212) 929-3486. Southwest Bureau: 1237 S. Atlantic a_senes. on Ch1cano struggles in the Southwest, based on Hospital in North Carolina. In a statement to Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif. 90022. Telephone: (213) r~leased dtscusstons with leaders and activists there. Raza Unida 269-1456. Washington Bureau: 2416 18th St. NW, supporters, Chavis charged that guards put him in chains party . farm workers movement .. bilingual Washington, D.C. 20009. Telephone: (202) 265- and leg irons and transferred him to the prison sanatorium e~ucat1on ... fight ag~inst deportations ... Keep up 6865. •as part of "a systematic plot to silence me." This is the Correspondence concerning subscriptions or wtt~ the struggle for Ch1cano liberation. Subscribe to the changes of address should be addressed to The second time prison authorities have transferred Chavis M1l1tant. Militant Business Office, 14 Charles Lane, New who has been speaking out for prisoners' rights since hi~ York, N.Y. 10014. incarceration in February. Second-class postage paid at New York, N.Y. At McCain, Chavis is exposed to diseases and given The Militant-10 Weeks/$1 Subscriptions: U.S., $7.50 a year; outside U.S., roach-infested food. He has vowed not to eat until he is $13.00. 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