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Butz Slur, Death Penalty Ruling Reveal True Face of Capitalist Government OCTOBER 15, 1976 25 CENTS VOLUME 40/NUMBER 39 A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY/PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE MilE ER 'S -RKERS UNION DEMOCRACY UNDER ATTACK AT CINCINNATI 1ST RULERS CONVENTION. PAGE 14. Butz slur, death penalty A&AIIST ruling reveal true face VIOLE ICE PROTEST BEATING OF SWP LEADERS BY CRUSADE FOR of capitalist government JUSTICE MEMBERS. PAGE 9. LEBAIOI CIVIL WAR AT TURNING POINT. PAGE 5. &' WHERE DESEGREGATION FIGHT STANDS. PAGE 16. SWEDE I BEHIND DEFEAT OF SOCIAL DEMOCRATS. PAGE 22. EARL BUTZ: Official bigotry ELECTRIC CHAIR: Legalized murder PETER CAMEJO II. lEW MEXICO [The following statement was tions in this country since 1967 may RAZA UNIDA SPONSORS TOUR issued October 6 by Peter Camejo occur before Thanksgiving. FOR SOCIALIST. PAGE 6. and Willie Mae Reid, Socialist Because of the racism built into Workers party candidates for every aspect of capitalist "justice," the president and vice-president.] majority of the more than 600 prison­ ers on death row today are Black. Two events occurring within a few Rarely has the government's bigotry WHORUIS days of each other been expressed more have vividly high­ · openly than by Earl CARTER? lighted the racist , Butz. Most of THE REAL POLICY-MAKERS character of the Uni­ the capitalist-owned DON'T COME FROM THE ted States govern­ news media have PEANUT FARM. PAGE 25. ment. declined to print First, the exposure what this high Wash­ of the outrageous ington official really Peter Camejo anti-Black slurs of said. Claiming "good Willie Mae Reid Cabinet member Earl taste," they cloak WOMEI Butz. Butz's remarks in eu- Second, the Supreme Court go-ahead phemisms. '76 to legalized murder. We believe that the American people WILLIE MAE REID SPEAKS On October 4 the court reaffirmed its have a right to know the despicable OUT ON ELECTION-YEAR July decision upholding the death prejudices of the politicians running ISSUES. PAGE 29. penalty. As a result, the first execu- Continued on page 10 THIS In Brief Hospital and Health Care Employees, who· will discuss fight-back strategies. For more information contact the WEEK'S alliance at: CF 347, Queens College, Flushing, New York MILITANT 11367, or call (212) 691-8938. CORNELL STUDENTS HIT U.S.-APARTHEID TIES: 4 Boston racists undermine Two hundred students at Cornell University in upstate New parents' group York rallied against apartheid September 29. The protest 7 A talk with was organized by the Coalition Against Apartheid and Juan Jose Peiia cosponsored by the Committee on U.S.-Latin American Relations and the Young Socialist Alliance. 8 Reid speaks out for framed-up prisoners DEMAND FREEDOM FOR VLADIMIR BUKOVSKY: 9 Crusade members Forty recent emigrants from the USSR. demonstrated outside the Soviet Mission to the United Nations October 1. assault socialists Tallahassee protest against death penalty The protest, called by the Committee to Help People in the 13 Sadlowski campaigns Soviet Union, demanded freedom for Vladimir Bukovsky. in steel centers The Stalinist regime sentenced Bukovsky to seven years PROTEST DEATH PENALTY IN FLORIDA: On in prison and five years of internal exile in January 1972. 14 Miners' convention: union October 2, 125 people rallied on the steps of the Florida He was convicted because he had made facts available to democracy under attack Supreme Court Building to call for the abolition of the death foreign psychiatrists on the Kremlin's abuse of psychiatric 15 A socialist view penalty. The rally was organized by the Tallahassee treatment to persecute dissenters. He has been repeatedly of prisons Citizens Against the Death Penalty. Similar rallies were brutalized by authorities since. held that day in Tampa and Jacksonville. 16 The struggle for school Speakers at the rally included the Rev. C.K. Steel, a RALLY IN DEFENSE OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: a desegregation today former vice-president of the Southern Christian Leadership meeting of 125 people called by Women Employed, a Conference; and Judy Dougherty, a lawyer from the Public Chicago organization, has set plans to protest proposed 23 Who's behind McDonald Defender's Office, representing one of the eighty-one people Labor Department restrictions on already ineffective and his spies? on Florida's death row. government guidelines on affirmative action. 25 The ruling class & Women Employed plans a noon rally at the Department Carter's campaign NAACP WINS DELAY ON $1.6 MILLION: Enforce­ of Labor on October 13. That day, it expects women's and ment of a court order that NAACP officials said threatened civil rights organizations to be organizing similar protests 27 Socialists discuss ERA, the nation's oldest civil rights organization with bankrupt­ in Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Washington, D.C., Minneapolis, abortion, child care cy was delayed October 1. The order would have required Seattle, Houston, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Detroit, New 29 Women- and the NAACP to pay $1.2 million in damages for its role in York, and San Francisco. the elections organizing a boycott of racist white Port Gibson, Mississip­ pi, merchants in 1966-67. SWP FORUM ON MAOISM: Two hundred fifty people 2 In Brief Mississippi law required the NAACP to post a $1.6 million came to hear Les Evans, a member of the Socialist Workers bond by October 1 in order to appeal this penalty imposed party National Committee, present a forum in New York 5 As I See It August 9 by a state court. A major fund-raising drive to City September 30 on "The Politics of Mao Tsetung . A raise this appeal bond had left the NAACP a little under the Marxist View." 10 In Our Opinion halfway mark by the deadline. Letters The last-minute delay was granted by Federal District TAX REFORM, ANYONE?: Eleven major corporations. 11 National Picket Line Judge Orma Smith. Smith ordered a hearing in the case for whose combined 1975 earnings topped $1 billion paid no CapitaHsm in Crisis October 7 and set back the October 1 deadline by one week. federal income taxes that year. So says U.S. Rep. Charles : Also on October 1, the AFL-CIO and the United Auto Yanik (D-Ohio), a member of the House Ways and Means 12 The Great Society Workers union agreed to lend the NAACP more than Committee. V anik based his claims on public Securities and La Lucha Puertorriquefla $800,000 had a delay not been won. "We do not abandon our Exchange Commission records. Women· in Revolt friends in the midst of battle," promised the unions. Other The eleven freeloaders are: Ford Motor Co., Delta Air labor support came from the National Education. Associa­ Lines, Northwest Airlines, Chemical New York Bank, 28 In Review tion, which set up a $50,000 seed fund and urged its Manufacturer's Hanover, Western Electric, Bethlehem Steel, affiliates to contribute. Lockheed Aircraft, National Steel, Phelps-Dodge, and WORLD OUTLOOK Freeport Minerals. -Peter Seidman 19 British Seamen's union PHILA. NOW BACKS SWP CONGRESSIONAL calls off strike SLATE: An October 5 meeting of the board of the 20 Demand Mao's heirs Philadelphia chapter of the National Organization for free Trotskyists Women passed a resolution endorsing the campaigns of SWP congressional candidates in Pennsylvania's First and 21 World News Notes Second congressional districts. The resolution said: "While 22 Social Democrats lose Philadelphia NOW does not endorse the entire platform of at polls in Sweden the Socialist Workers party, NOW endorses the candidacies of Clare Fraenzl · and Tony Austin qn the basis of their positions on women's issues." THE MILITANT PEACE MARCHERS TO REACH WASHINGTON: The Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice­ VOLUME 40/NUMBER 39 three cross-country feeder marches from California, New OCTOBER 15, 1976 Orleans, and Boston-will reach Washington October 16. CLOSING NEWS DATE-OCT. 6 The marchers have passed through thirty-four states over Editor: MARY-ALICE WATERS the past nine months. They are calling for a halt to nuclear Managing Editor: NELSON BLACKSTOCK bomb production, passage of the Humphrey-Hawkins "full Business Manager: HARVEY McARTHUR employment" and Kennedy health bills by Congress, cuts in Southwest Bureau: HARRY RING Washington Bureau: NANCY COLE the military budget, and abolition of the CIA and FBI. A 2:00 p.m. rally at the Sylvan Theater behind the George Published weekly by The Militant Publishing Ass'n., Washington Monument will mark their arrival. Speakers 14 Charles Lane, New York, N.Y. 10014. Telephone: Editorial Office (212) 243-6392: Business Office include Rev. Ralph Abernathy, president, Southern Chris­ (212) 929-3486. Southwest Bureau: 1237 S. Atlantic tian Leadership Conference; Anne Braden, cochairperson of SUBSCRIBE TODAY Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif. 90022. Telephone: (213) the Southern Organizing Committee; Daniel Ellsberg; Dave 269-1456. Washington Bureau: 2416 18th St NW, Dellinger; and David McReynolds, War Resisters League. 5,767 Washington, D.C. 20009. Telephone: (202) 265- 10 weeks lor 81 6865. Continental Walk activities will continue through the Correspondence concerning subscriptions or weekend. changes of address should be addressed to The For more information contact the Continental Walk at: Militant Business Office, 14 Charles Lane, New New Bethel Baptist Church, 1739 Ninth Street NW, Wash­ York, N.Y, 10014. ington, D.C. 20001. Telephone: (202) 332-8252. Second-class postage paid at New York. N.Y. 0 $1 for ten weeks Subscriptions: U.S., $7.50 a year: outside U.S., 0 $7.50 for one year $13.00. By first-class mail: U.S., Canada, and Mexico. SPEAK OUT AGAINST NEW YORK BUDGET CUTS: Name __________________________ $35.00. Write for surface and airmail rates to all other That's what you can do at a meeting scheduled for countries. 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