NOVEMBER 12, 1971 25 CENTS

A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY/PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE s:

N0\1.20 MAROB ON WASHINGTON REPEAL ALL ABORTION LAWS

VOLUME 35/NUMBER 41 IRANIAN APPEAL: On Oct. 25, the Iranian Students "whether we're just going to bow down to raw author­ Association in the U. S. announced the fate of some of ity or not. I'm going to resist." the more than 4,000 persons arrested by the Shah's po­ lice last month. The roundup preceded the Shah's cele­ NINE MILLION COLLEGE STUDENTS: That's about bration of the 2,500th anniversary of the Iranian mon­ how many students are enrolled in universities and col­ archy. Six of the vidims have already been sentenced leges this year, according to the Oct. 31 New York Times by a military tribunal, five of them to death. The fate -an increase of 5 percent over last year. of these six is not known. The death sentence is also being asked by the Iranian military prosecutor in the cases of 37 others. The World Confederation of Iranian RIGHT-WING TERRORISTS AND CAPITALISM'S LE­ Students has demanded an "immediate stop to this in­ GAL DOUBLE STANDARD: On Oct. 30, 1966, New human behavior" and "an open trial based on the human York cops arrested 20 Minutemen and seized "over a THIS rights provisions of the UN Charter." The Iranian Stu­ ton" of firearms and explosives cached by the ultraright dents Association in the U. S. has appealed for "all demo­ group. One month earlier, the New York offices of the WEEK'S cratic-minded people of the U.S." to send telegrams to Socialist Workers Party had been fire-bombed. There had Iranian Prime Minister Amir Abbas Hoveida, Tehran, been similar attacks earlier that year against antiwar Iran, protesting the treatment and sentences of those ar­ groups, the Communist Party and the W. E. B. DuBois MILITANT rested. Copies of a petition being circulated may be ob­ Clubs. In making the arrests, cops revealed that the Min­ 3 Charges dropped for tained by writing to the Iranian Students Associati.on, utemen had planned to raze to the ground three camps Black Gls in Germany 525 Ave. of the Americas, Third floor, New York, N.Y. in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, ,and the Brook­ 4 Nov. 20 abortion march 10011. lyn campaign offices of Communist Party congressional candidate Herbert Aptheker. According to cops, the Min­ 6 Who do Pay Board's utemen planned to kill anyone they found at,these places public members repre­ ALASKAN NATIVES CLAIM BILL: Senator Mike Grav­ if necessary. The full facts never came completely into sent? el (D-Alaska) and other sponsors of the measure to pro­ 7 Price increases mount vide Alaskan natives with 40-million acres and $1-bil­ SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 3-Lt. ( ig) Gordon Piland, lion are congratulating themselves on its imminent pas­ 10 Antiwar strategy in '72 sage {the House passed it Oct. 27 and Senate approval a Naval Academy graduate and an antiwar activ­ 11 Broad labor support for is virtually assured). Gravel boasted that "all" the Alas­ ist stationed near here at the Mare Island Naval Nov. 6 kan natives in Washington, D. C., to lobby for a land Shipyard, faces a punitive transfer to Adak, Alaska, 12 Black Democrats debate claim settlement were "pleased." The Nov. 1 Race Rela­ for his part in organizing the Oct. 23 First Inter­ '72 strategy tions Reporter points out that this is not the case and national Military Rights and Antiwar Convention. Congressional votes re­ quotes Anchorage Eskimo William Willoya, who says The brass have repeatedly told Piland that his ac­ Gravel's bill is "just another way to get the land away flect deep split over war from the people." The bill will make land that only pro­ tivity in the Bay Area Concerned Military (BACOM}, 14 YSA convention vides nomadic residents with subsistence into taxable prop­ which sponsored the convention, is not consistent 15 SWP '72 campaign erty, meaning the land will be taken piece by piece to with his duties as an officer. On Nov. 1, he was 19 Texas Raza Unida Party meet the taxes. Moreover, at least 3,000 hunting, fishing informed of the transfer to Alaska. goes statewide and gathering areas are excluded from the land allot­ Piland stated at a news conference today that ment in the bill, meaning they will become subject to state 20 U. of Minn. students de­ fish and game laws. Willoya predicted that in two decades the Navy "will never stop me from opposing the mand gay be rehired the 20,000 Alaska natives would be driven from their war in Southeast Asia and exercising my consti­ 12 Court denies press right land by taxes and have their way of life destroyed Com­ tutional rights. I'll continue to organize at Adak to interviews at Attica menting on the support the bill does enjoy from some ;ust as I have in San Francisco." In addition, Piland 22 Mexican left searches natives, he said, "I will stake my life's blood on the fact plans to take the Navy to court Nov. 15 to demand that 99 percent of the. Alaska natives do not know what for answers an explanation of this violation of his rights as is going on down here" (i.e., in the Capital). 23 ·8,000 demonstrate for I • a citizen in uniform. French Quebec Piland has requested support· from the civilian 24' Britain enters Corrtmon McCLQSKEY SAYS.HE WILL DEBATE JENNESS: Rep­ antiwar movement. Messages of protest should be resentative Paul McCloskey, Republican presidential as­ sent to Secretary of the Navy John H. Chafee and Market pirant, told a student audience at Providence College in 25 Young workers offer Providence, R. I., Oct. 29 that he would be willing to Admiral E. R. Zumwalt, Chief of Naval Operations, hint of labor's future debate Socialist Workers Party presidential candidate Department of the Navy, Washington, D. C., with 26 N.Y. cops Linda Jenness. In response to the questions from Young copies to BACOM, P. 0. Box 15187 Station A, Sdn 32 L.A. Raza Unida cam­ Socialists for Jenness and Pulley about the war, McCloskey Francisco, Calif. 94115. paign said: "H she (Jenness) will write to me and ask to de­ bate me on my position on the war, I'll write back and British terror in N. Ire­ the light, but it was revealed that a number of cops in try to arrange a deb ate." the organization were not assigned to infiltrate it- they land had joined on their own. In one case, a state trooper had turnett over police rues on the Minutemen to the NIXON'S FIVE-MEGATON FIRECRACKER: The White group. After the initial arrests, 16 rightists were charged 2 In Brief House has made clear its intention to ignore the dan­ with conspiracy and four were let off. 8 In Our Opinion gers and almost universal protests and forge ahead with Last month, the Queens district attorney's office dropped "Cannikin," the test of a nuclear warhead 250 times all charges against all 16 men, using as his reason a Letters court ruling that search warrants used in the cases of 9 Great Society more powerful than the bomb that wiped out the city of Hiroshima. The "super-bomb" is a prototype of the nine of them had been defective and that the other seven Insurgent Ma;ority warhead to be placed in U.S. Spartan anti-missile mis­ had been denied a speedy trial. When one bears in mind 20 By Any Means siles, and its explosion sometime before Nov. 5 on Am­ that Angela Davis has been held without bail for more Necessary chitka Island in the Aleutians will almost certainly have than a year on trumped-up evidence and the way in which 27 National Picket Line a disastrous effect on the ecology, according to many judges trample on left-wing defendants' constitutional rights in trials such as the Soledad case, the words of Queens 28 In Review experts. On Oct. 27, Atomic Energy Commission Chair­ man James Schlesinger announced Nixon had given the Assistant District Attorney Frederick J. Ludwig as he authorization that Congress had required in a feint at dropped the charges against the murderous right-wingers halting the test. Later the same day, Justice Department are an insult to the intelligence: "This office is vigilant attorney Edmund Clark told a federal appeals court, in to observe conspiracies ... whether from the Black left effect, to get lost because its ruling on a suit to stop the or the white right." test brought by environmentalists could have no effect now that the president had decided to go ahead. CAPITALIST "JUSTICE" has two standards, one for the left-by which the simple act of opposing oppression THE MILITANT warrants frame-up, jail and death- and another for the VOLUME 35/NUMBER 41 right- by which burning, bombing, shooting and lynch­ NOVEMBER 12, 1971 EMBATTLED ATTORNEY: Daniel T. Taylor, a Louis­ ing warrant only an occasional wrist-slapping. CLOSING NEWS DATE- NOV. 2 ville, Ky., attorney who defends many Black, poverty­ Another timely example of this double standard is the stricken victims of capitalist "justice," has again been case of Meir Kahane and the .Iewish Defense League. Editor: MARY-ALICE WATERS cited for contempt and, according to the Oct. 31 New Kahane, after pleading guilty to a firearms-transport con­ Technical Editor: JON BRITTON York Times, is being held in jail. After N arvel and Wil­ spiracy in a deal with the prosecutor, got a five-year Business Manager: SHARON CABANISS liam Tinsley, two Black youths Taylor was defending, suspended sentence in July- the most recent of numer­ Southwest Bureau: HARRY RING were found guilty by a jury that recommended a death ous arrests and convictions from which the racist dema­ Published weekly by The Militant Publishing Ass' n., sentence Oct. 30, the judge in the Louisville murder trial gogue has walked away free. A. condition of his parole 14 Charles lane, New York, N.Y. 10014. Phone: called Taylor before him and sentenced him on nine counts was that he cease his violent activities, a condition he Editorial Olfice (212) 243-6392; Business Olfice (212) of contempt, the Times reports. The judge accused him announced his intention to violate in a news conference 929-3486. Southwest Bureau: 1107 1/2 N. Western of having a "flippant" attitude. Taylor is hated by some immediately after stepping out of court. Ave., los Angeles, Calif. 90029. Phone (213) 463- 1917. Second-class postage paid at New York, N.Y. judges and powerful Kentucky lawyers because he de­ After bullets smashed the windows of a Soviet UN Mis­ Subscription: domestic, S6 a year; foreign, S7 .50. By fends many who would otherwise be railroaded to jail. sion bedroom where children were sleeping Oct. 20, Ka­ first-class mail: domestic and Canada, S22; all other In the early 1960s, he was one of the attorneys in the hane went on TV to make a public threat against the countries, S24. Air printed matter: domestic and Con­ life of Soviet Premier Alexsei Kosygin, who was visiting ada, $26; latin America and Europe, $40; Africa, well-publicized free speech case of three Bloomington, Ind., Australia, Asia (including U.S.S.R.), S50. Write for Young Socialist Alliance members. The Times quotes Tay­ Canada. The JDL leader is still walking around on parole. sealed air postage rates. Signed articles by contrib­ lor on the current contempt case: It is a question of -LEE SMITH utors do not necessarily represent The Militant's views. These are expressed in editorials.

2 Charges dropped for Black Gls in Germany PARIS, Oct. 28- The support and trying to make the victim into the is 10 kilometers from the Darmstadt Jackson in 1969, spoke in support publicity mobilized by a vigorous de- criminal. The 53 were surrounded by base. of the Darmstadt Gls to a Frankfurt fense campaign in behalf of 29 Black white Gls carrying M-16s with fixed Socialist Workers Party vice-pres- memorial meeting for George Jackson Gis from the 93rd Signal Battalion bayonets. Then the battalion com- idential candidate Andrew Pulley and Sept. 18. Some 300 Gls from bases in Darmstadt, West Germany, made mander appeared and ordered the Gls Joe Miles, both of whom were attacked all over Germany attended. U.S. Seventh Army commander Gen- to disperse. Almost immediately, a by the brass for their activity at Ft. Continued on page 30 eral Michael S. Davidson decide to truck pulled up and the Black Gls drop the case Oct. 22. were nudged into it at rifle point by Not only did Davidson drop the the whites. They were held overnight charges against the 29 who had been in a barbed-wire compound with no ·facing court-martial, but he set aside shelter, food, water, or bedding. Some the penalties against 17 others who of the armed white Gls guarding them had accepted Article 15s (minor ad- were the same ones who had led the ministrative punishment) in connec- racist attack in the mess hall the day tion with the same incident the past before. summer. The 47 were part of the now- When the brass offered Article 15s famous Darmstadt 53. to the 53, 29 of them refused, insist- The case of the Darmstadt 53 is ing they be tried by court-martial in indicative of the racism that confronts order to protest the injustice they had the 28,000 Black Gls in the 215,000- suffered. man Seventh Army stationed in Eu- The Gls began a defense campaign rope. It began July 18 with a fight in that gathered support from white Gls, the mess hall. Some Black Gls were from U. S.·civilians in Germany, and, listening to the juke box when a group for the first time, from a significant of whites came in and began loudly number of Germans. The Revolution- playing tape-recorded country-westeJ:n ary Communist Youth (RKJ), a Ger- music. After the whites were asked to man Trotskyist organization, called turn down the volume, a group of and led a demonstration in support them left and returned carrying sawed- of the Darmstadt 53 in Mannheim off pool cues. The Blacks defended on Oct. 4, when the first six of the themselves and a Black GI was ar- 29 were originally scheduled to be Photo by Joe Mile• rested for "inciting a riot." court-m artialed. Posters and leaflets On July 19, 53 Blacks gathered out- for the action were pasted up in towns Andrew Pulley (left), former Gl and now the socialist candidate for side the battalion headquarters de- and cities for a 300-kilometer (190- vice-president, gives clenched fist salute with some of the Darmstadt manding to know why the Army was mile) radius around Mannheim, which 53 on his September 1971 trip to Germany. National sales teams top quota in 7th week By BAXTER SMITH in a surprisingly large number of sub­ NOV. 2- At the end of the seventh scriptions, considering the college's week in the fall campaign to obtain conservative history. Most of the stu­ Area Quota Subs % Binghamton, N.Y. 100 51 51.0 30,000 subscribers to The Militant. dents now receiving The Militant will Trovis A.F.B., Calif. 15 · 29 193.3 Jacksonville, Fla. 20 10 50.0 the scoreboard shows we have 19,- likely renew and more will probably Geneseo, N.Y. 20 22 110.0 Upper West Side, N.Y. 1,250 609 48.7 027 new readers. This is 6~ fewer take advantage of your special intro­ Paterson, N.J. 25 27 108.0 Connecticut 200 95 47.5 than what we need to be on time this ductory offer." Claremont, Calif. 40 40 100.0 San Francisco, Calif. 1,300 611 47.0 week. A salesman in New York reports Erie, Pa. 5 5 100.0 Seattle, Wash. 600 278 46.3 One reason why the sub drive is success in selling The Militant at Cath­ San Antonio, Texas 40 37 92.5 Logan, Utah 100 45 45.0 slightly behind schedule for the first olic schools, where the students ex­ North Andover, Mass. 20 16 80.0 Detroit, Mich. 1,200 530 44.2 time is that Militant subscription sell­ pressed interest in the struggles of the Worcester, Mass. 200 152 76.0 Burlington, Vt. 25 11 44.0 ers have been among the most active Catholics in Ireland and The Mil­ Boulder, Colo. 100 73 · 73.0 Lower Manhattan, N.Y. 1,250 541 43.3 builders of the Nov. 6 antiwar dem­ itant's support for them. Philadelphia, Pa. 1,000 711 71.1 Durham, N.H. 40 17 42.5 onstrations and during the past week The Mid-Atlantic team reported suc­ Boston, Mass. 2,000 1,399 70.0 Amherst, Mass. 100 41 41.0 were deeply involved in the final prep­ cess in West Virginia. Sally Moore Pullman, Wash. 10 7 70.0 Brooklyn, N.Y. 1,250 502 40.2 arations for the actions. wrote, "You can see concretely the ef­ Twin Cities, Minn. 1,200 810 67.5 Davenport, Iowa 10 4 40.0 Two areas, Boston and Chicago, fect of the radicalization and lessons San Diego, Calif. 200 134 67.0 Nashville, Tenn. 45 18 40.0 were still able to send in over 300 learned from the Cambodian events OaWanc:I-Berkeley, Calif. 1,600 1,052 65.8 West Brattleboro, Vt. 20 8 40.0 subs .each this week. of May '70. For example, at Glen­ Atlanta, Ga. 750 291 38.8 The national sub teams have now ville College, women organized a fight Houston, Texas 600 233 38.8 Washington, D. C. 600 366 61.0 sold 6,415 subscriptions. The orig­ to get rid of hours in the women's Portland, Ore. 400 153 38.3 Austin, Texas 375 227 60.5 inally projected goal for the teams dorms. These women went to the ad­ Long Island, N.Y. 200 75 37.5 Madison, Wis. 300 177 59.0 was 6,000. Several of the team mem­ ministration building to present the Ann Arbor, Mich. 100 37 37.0 Denver, Colo. 700 403 57.6 bers, commenting on the relative ease president with a petition for open Tallahassee, Fla. 200 72 36.0 Phoenix, Ariz. 40 23 57.5 with which they have surpassed their dorms. His response was to call in the Cleveland, Ohio 1,000 354 35.4 Providence, R.I. 200 115 57.5 goal, feel that a final total of 10,000 police. Because of this incident, wom­ El Paso, Texas 50 17 34.0 Chicago, Ill. 2,000 1,145 57.3 subs may not be an unrealistic pos­ en wanted to buy a sub to The Mili­ Sonoma County, Calif. 15 5 33.3 Bloomington, Ind. 150 84 56.0 sibility for them. tant. to find out more about different Los Angeles, Calif. 1,550 483 31.2 Chapel Hill, N.C. 30 16 53.3 In Pennsylvania, the Mid-Atlantic struggles, especially women's libera­ Eugene, Ore. 40 12 30.0 team was hampered in its sales at tion." Lubbock, Texas 25 7 28.0 Slippery Rock State College when of­ The letter concluded, "It is impor­ Knoxville, Tenn. 100 27 27.0 State College, Pa. 20 5 25.0 ficials said they weren't allowed to tant that everyone see The Militant Milwaukee, Wis. 150 37 24.7 sell door to door in the dorms. One to read that there is a real alternative in this society and that people them­ Aliquippa, Pa. 20 4 20.0 team member, Fred White, told of an El Paso, Texas 5 1 20.0 incident that occurred when students selves can bring about the basic changes needed." Marietta, Ohio 10 2 20.0 heard about this restriction: "Two stu­ Wichita, Kansas 20 4 20.0 dents suggested I wait inside their San Jose, Calif. 60 10 16.7 room while they went out to bring International Socialist Review Edinboro, Pa. 25 4 16.0 back students they thought would be Subscription sales of the Internar Kansas City, Mo. 200 28 14.0 interested in subscribing to The Mili­ tional Socialist Review continue to lag Racine-Kenosha, Wis. 25 4 12.0 tant and ISR. The response to our far behind with a total of 1,459 new Modesto, Calif. 30 3 10.0 publications was enthusiastic, to say readers. This is still less than half of DeKalb, Ill. 100 7 7.0 the least. And our new subscribers, what we need in order to be on sched· Oxford, Ohio 75 5 6.7 in turn, would return with other in­ ule. ISR sub sales should be care­ Tampa, Fla. 150 7 4.7 terested students." fully planned out in conjunction with Lawton, Okla. 5 0 0 One letter we received last week is The Militant so that those areas be­ Manchester, N.H. 15 0 0 an example of the impact the sub hind schedule can catch up. Wichita Falls, Texas 10 0 0 teams have had A new subscriber The November I SR. containing the National Teams 6,000 6,415 106.9 in Ashland, Va., writes, "The Militant Socialist Workers Party's position on Mid-Atlantic (1 ,869) was much appreciated by the left-wing the Chicano liberation struggle, was Southern {1 ,562) students of Randolph-Macon College, well received at the statewide conven­ Southwest {1 ,562) who, by the way, are increasing in tion of La Raza Unida Party, held Western {1,422) number. The recent visit to the c~­ in San Antonio, Texas, last weekend General 325 345 106.2 pus by a Militant sales team resulted At least 35 copies were sold TOTAL TO DATE 19,027 63.4 SHOULD BE 19,089 63.6 GOAL ao,ooo u;o.o

THE MILITANT/ NOVEMBER 12, 1971 3 mar~:h an Wash· far abarti law ·ns graw· support I AU i'iliOfUiON lAWS en in the Nov. 20 march. Women at Howard sity, "Women from nine different schools attended have formed a group called Black Student Strug­ the founding meeting of the Boston Women's Abor­ gle for Abortion Law Repeal. The group began tion Action Coalition (BOWAAC) in August. We ~~REPEAL AU CONTRACEPTION LAWS at Howard by leafletting all the floors in one dor­ all had very ambitious ideas about reaching every mitory, putting stickers on every door, making campus in the area with news about Nov. 20 announcements of the demonstration, setting up and seeing organized groups working on the abor­ literature tables in the lobby of the dormitory, tion campaign in as many schools as possible. and holding informal meetings any time three Nothing since has made us more modest- if any­ or more women were together. The women then thing, the potential is greater than we had real­ spread out across the campus for a mass distribu­ ized." tion of leaflets, stickers, and the WONAAC bro­ Much of the success in Boston has been due to chure for Third World women. They have also the initiative taken by women at Boston Univer­ asked professors to allow speakers on abortion sity. Since B U opened before any other major in their classes. college in the area, the first events there got the The editor of the Howard University Hilltop whole campaign off to an early start. has endorsed WON AAC and agreed to print regu­ A B U Abortion Action Coalition was formed, lar articles on the Nov. 20 demonstration. largely by women from an established feminist The abortion campaign at Howard has raised group, B U Female Liberation. The new coalition the question of free speech and the right of the projected a series of three activities on successive community to participate in activities on the cam­ Wednesday nights in September. They were well pus. The Oct. 20 meeting at Howard had decided publicized on other campuses and helped to in­ to set up a debate on the quesion of genocide, but spire the formation of other campus groups. the student government refused to permit the use The B U series consisted of: a teach-in on abor­ of a classroom, on the grounds that some women tion Sept. 15, with speakers on the medical, legal, active in the abortion group are not students. political and religious aspects of abortion; a d~ The group has decided to fight this decision, and bate on "Whose Life?" Sept. 22 between Dr. to fight for the right of the Black community to Barbara Roberts of the Women's National Abor­ hold meetings at Howard University. tion Action Coalition and Dr. Mildred Jefferson Another activity of the Black Women's Task of the Value of Life Committee; and the "Abor­ Force in D. C. has been to attend meetings of tion Waiting Room," a two-day, drop-in, multi­ the candidates for D. C. School Board forcing the media presentation Sept. 29-30. The last event candidates to respond to questions on their posi­ featured displays and posters made by women tion on abortion law repeal. This provides both of the B U Abortion Action Coalition or borrowed Photo by Howord Petrick from medical groups, two showings of fllins each Austin demonstration Oct. 16 building toward publicity and an opportunity to pass out leaflets day, and plenty of opportunity for new interested Nov. 20 and sign up women who are interested in the abortion campaign. women to talk about the· abortion repeal cam­ So far, six of the candidates for the School Board paign and become involved in it. · have endorsed the Black Women's Task Force About 1,000 women attended one or more of Bla1:k women ofWONAAC. the B U events and women from 15 schools signed Activities of Black women in other cities are also BOWAAC mailing lists. going well. The Black Women's Task Force of A number of organizational forms have devel­ WONAAC recently received a letter from Clev~ oped on other campuses. Some schools have, organize land, which contained this suggestion: "The term like B U, organized new groups specifically to work 'women's liberation' sometimes evokes negative on the abortion campaign. Two examples are feelings from Black women. If this is the case, the Abortion Action Committee at the University and those two words turn you off, don't use them. of Massachusetts in Boston and the Harvard-Rad­ in D.E. Instead, let's talk about the woman's right to con­ cliffe Women's Abortion Action Committee. trol her own body, to decide for herself whether At Boston College, a Catholic school, the or­ By MARSHA COLEMAN ganizers of a female studies course are the most At the Women's National Abortion Conference held or not she wants to bear children, when, and how many." Our next letter from these women reported active builders of the abortion campaign. There in New York last July, 45 Black, Latina and are about 45 women in the course, but an open Asian women met in the Third World women's that a Black women's group had been formed in workshop to decide on plans for involving Black, Cleveland. Latina and Asian women in the campaign to r~ In Detroit, a meeting of Black Women for Abor­ peal abortion laws and in the Nov. 20 march tion Law Repeal was held at Highland Park Col­ on Washington and San Francisco. Since then, lege. Discussion was organized on "Abortion: Black, Chicana and Asian women from across Genocide or a Woman's Right to Choose?" the country have proceeded to implement those Black women in Chicago are involved in leaf­ ideas. letting and are seeking speaking engagements to Within the Women's National Abortion Action build Black participation in the Nov. 20 demon­ Coalition (WONAAC), a Black Women's Task stration. At the western states abortion action con­ Force has been formed, and in local areas Black, ference held in Berkeley, Calif., Oct. 15-16, the Asian and Latina women are laying the ground­ workshop of Asian, Latina and Bl~k women work for building independent groups for abor­ decided to lead the West Coast march in San Fran­ tion law repeal as well as task forces within exist­ cisco. ing abortion law repeal organizations. Indepen­ The Black Student Union at Mills College in dent groups organizing for Nov. 20 now exist Oakland, Calif., has endorsed the Task Force, in five cities, and another at American University as well as Warren Widener, mayor of Berkeley. in Washington, D. C., is in the process of formation. These developments show that the potential is During the past month, WONAAC and the Nov. there- that Black, Latina and Asian women will 20 demonstrations have been endorsed by Black be in the streets on Nov. 20, and we urge all our Student Unions across the country, as well as by sisters across the country to join us. Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm (D-N. Y.), Fan­ ny Lou Hamer of the National Welfare Rights Pholo by Gene Yzquiedro Organization, Georgia state legislator Julian Bond, Detroit abortion rally Aug. 31 the Honorable Marjorie Lawson, and Mary Debates, Treadwill of Pride, Inc. class devoted to the abortion campaign drew about The Black community in Washington, D. C., has 100. been quite receptive to the abortion law repeal teaEh·ins The situation is similar at Emmanuel, another campaign. Black women met recently at Ameri­ Catholic college. There the women's studies course can University to plan building for Nov. 20. A has one weekly section entitled "Birth Control and literature table on abortion was set up, and dis­ Abortion." cussions took place with several Black male stu­ an Baston The Wellesley Abortion Action Committee is a dent leaders on the relevancy of abortion law r~ subcommittee of the Women's Center at Wellesley. peal. They work closely with the city-wide abortion co­ The women at the meeting enthusiastically sup­ ~:amp uses alition. ported the idea of organizing a Black women's Campus coalitions have used many different types abortion group. Later, a discussion was held in ByMATILDEZIMMERMAN of events to educate about abortion and build Nov. the Black women's section of the American Uni­ BOSTON- There are literally dozens of campuses 20. Almost every college group has sponsored a versity dormitory. Plans were made for setting in the immediate Boston area, some of them with debate with a representative of an anti-abortion up regular literature tables and organizing mass long traditions of involvement in the women's lib­ group such as the Value of Life Committee. The ·leafletting of the campus and the community. eration and other movements, and others very most lively was a four-way, all-female debate at At Howard University, Black women met on new to organized political activity of any _kind. Harvard, where two pro-repeal professors debated Oct. 20 to discuss the involvement of Black wom- Accorc:ling to Ginny Hildebrand of Boston Univer- two physicians from the Value of Life Committee.

4 Other successful actions have included teach-ins, each school and be sure that every high school films and speak-outs. The general experience in knows about the Nov. 20 demonstration and the Boston has been that two or three interested women high school contingent. can build a successful debate, and among those The speaker's committee is planning to get speak­ who attend they will find many more to help the ers from WONAAC and Planned Parenthood into Building work of ful'ther publicity, getting faculty support, the schools to publicize Nov. 20 and give women fund raising, setting 1-lP literature tables, and sell­ thorough, accurate birth-control and abortion in­ ing bus tickets to Washington for Nov. 20. formation. These speaking engagements are be­ for Nov.!O Three campus groups have already been able ing set up for gym classes, hygiene classes, gen­ Over 100 women from 13 states met in Wash­ to distribute to their entire faculties a letter re­ eral school assemblies, or, in some cases, for after ington, D. C., at George Washington University questing financial contributions and endorsements classes are over. Oct. 30 for the national coordinating committee for the Nov. 20 demonstration. This has been a The progress we have made so far in building meeting of the Women's National Abortion Ac­ major source of funds for BOWAAC. the high school contingent for Nov. 20 is en­ tion Coalition (WONAAC). Shirley Wheeler's con­ Black, Puerto Rican, and Asian-American women couraging, particularly considering the short time viction and sentencing for having an abortion have also been more active in the abortion repeal we have been organized. High school women are has aroused much protest in local areas around campaign than in any previous feminist activity unequaled in the enthusiasm and optimism they the country. This sentiment has helped build the in the Boston area A regional abortion conference bring to the fight for repeal of all antiabortion Nov. 20 demonstration and broadened support Oct. 29-30 was sponsored by Umoja (the Black laws. for the abortion-law repeal movement. Student Union at Boston University), and· the Martin Luther King Jr. Center, as well as WONAAC has printed two new buttons for the BOWAAC. Nov. 20 demonstration, including a Black Wom­ About a third of the women at a large North­ en's Task Force button. One is in black and white, eastern University meeting on abortion were Haw men with the slogan "Abortion is a woman's right to African-American. choose," and the Black Task Force button is in The response on college and high school cam­ black, red and green, with the slogan "Repeal puses so far indicates that a large Black contingent all antiabortion laws; no forced sterilization." can be built for Nov. 20. ~:an support Leaflets, posters, brochures and buttons can be ordered from WONAAC, 917 15th St. N. W., Wash­ ington, D. C. 20005. Phone: (202) 347-0946.

nau.2D The Abortion Law Reform Association and the The following statement was released by the na­ Women's Liberation Movement in New Zealand Enthusiasm tional office of. the Women's National Abortion are organizing. actions there on Nov. 20 in re­ Action Coalition (WONAAC) on Nov. 1. sponse to the international call for actions on In the course of building the Nov. 20 demon­ Nov. 20 by WONAAC. A women's liberation far abartian strations in Washington and San Francisco for group in Nottingham, England, is also sponsor­ • • repeal of abortion laws, many male supporters ing a demonstration on Nov. 20. of the Women's National Abortion Action Coali­ 1:ampa1gn 1n tion have asked how they can help. The Minneapolis-St. Paul affiliate of WONAAC WONAAC is a coalition of women, and the abor­ held a very successful weekend of activities Oct. tion campaign is being run by women and for 29-31. Over 200 women attended a speak­ women because abortion is something which af­ out on abortion Friday, and on Sunday a cock­ fects the lives of women the most. Just as it is a tail party to raise money for the abortion repeal high s~:haals woman's right to choose whether or not she wants coalition was attended by Abigail Van Buren (Dear an abortion, women must make the basic deci­ Abby). __ By BRIDGET ROWAN sions about how a campaign for the right to abor­ NEW YORK-"We're old enough to get pregnant tion should be carried out. At the same time, there Boston women held a regional conference the same but too young to get an abortion or birth-control is an important place for men who would like information," was one high school woman's sum­ weekend, which was attended by over 200 people. to help us build the campaign, and we welcome mation of the situation faced by "underage" wom­ Attorney Florynce Kennedy was the keynote speak­ their support! en around the country. The situation is one in er on Friday evening. There are many things men can do. First and which hopelessly inadequate birth-control services foremost, we hope that large numbers of men as compound the risk of an unwanted pregnancy that Dr. Barbara Roberts, national project director of well as women will be out marching Ot;J. Nov. cannot be terminated by a safe, legal abortion. WONAAC, spoke to a group of 50 women at San 20, so that we can have the greatest show of An unwanted pregnancy, a tragedy for any wom­ Diego State College as part of her national tour, strength possible. In addition, men can help us an, is doubly so for the high school woman, who and is speaking in Los Angeles during Nov. 7-15. is least· likely to have the financial resources, the build the demonstrations by distributing leaflets and by selling bus tickets and buttons. connections, and the parental support required One of the demands of the Nov. 20 demonstration Another important way men can help is by con­ for obtaining an abortion when a woman is "un­ is for no forced sterilization. Although everyone tributing money to the coalition. WONAAC has derage." The high school woman who is unable knows that forced sterilization is not uncommon, amassed a large debt as a result of our efforts to obtain an abortion · is either forced to drop it is usually not done openly or officially. In a to launch the abortion law repeal campaign and out of school or exiled to one of the "pregnant" small town in Ohio called Zanesville, instances build the Nov. 20 demonstrations. Many of the schools, far removed from the "uncorrupted" stu­ women working on the campaign are already of forced sterilization have come to public atten­ dents. tion. Now, however,· for the first time, high school actively working to raise this money. But the need is still very great. Zanesville probate judge Holland M. Gray has women are organizing to change this degrading Male · supporters can help not only by con­ ordered 12 female and two male sterilizations since and oppressive situation. We are recognizing for 1962. As reported in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the first time our basic right to have control over tributing money themselves, but also by helping us approach other people for money. .. this was done to prevent them from having chil­ our own lives, our right to freedom of sexual dren whose IQ may be low and who may become activity and our right to birth-control informa­ Contributions can be sent to: WONAAC, 917 15th St. N. W., Washington, D. C. 20005. public charges." tion and abortion on request. The judge and others are the object of a $3- In early October, 45 high school women rep­ million suit by a woman who was sterilized at resenting 16 New York City high schools formed the age of 17 and is now suing, since she has a High School Abortion Coalition as an affiliate turned 21. She was sterilized because she was of the Women's National Abortion Action Coali­ supposedly 11 ..problem child" and had an IQ tion (WONAAC). At this first city-wide meeting of 57. we made the decision to concentrate our forces on building the Nov. 20 march on Washington, D. C., And in Virginia, according to the Oct. 31 Wash­ for the repeal of all abortion laws, no forced ster­ ington Post, a female doctor, Dr. Ann R. Karnit­ ilization and repeal of all anticontraception laws,. schnig has been arrested and will be brought to as well as on distributing birth-control informa­ trial on Thursday, Oct. 28, for prescribing birth tion in the high schools through literature, films and speakers. control pills to a 17-year-old woman without her Our success in organizing the maximum num­ parents' consent. This is a major issue that has ber of high school women to participate in the been raised by WONAAC high school afflliates, Nov. 20 demonstration as part of the high school which are demanding the right to have birth con­ contingent will have important ramifications for trol information disseminated in the high schools. the success of our future work in the city. To implement our decision to concentrate on The Clark University Abortion Action Committee building the high school contingent for Nov. 20, conducted a referendum on abortion law repeal we set up three committees- transportation, pub­ recently on the Clark campus. licity, and speakers.. The transportation commit­ The total number voting was 539, or 30 per­ tee is coordinating the sale of bus tickets to Wash­ cent of the campus population, 262 female and ington in high schools all over the city. This com­ 262 male, with 15 not indicating their sex. mittee is organizing the sale of buttons and lit­ The total in favor of abortion law repeal was erature to raise money for subsidizing bus tickets 511, or 94.8 percent. Two hundred fifty-two wom­ -making a cheaper ticket available for high en, or 96.3 percent, voted for, and 246 men, or school women. 93.9 percent, voted for. Women on the publicity committee have drawn up a special high school contingent leaflet, which is to be distributed on a massive scale to high ·school women. A chart listing every high school in the city has been put up on the wall of the WONAAC office so that we can keep a record Photo by Ed Weaver of how many leaflets are being passed out at Texas abortion repeal march Jan. 30

THE MILITANT/ NOVEMBER 12, 1971 5 By DICK ROBERTS school of business administration for 20 years, lists him­ Phase Two of President Nixon's wage-freeze attack on self in Who's Who in America as an educator. American workers will supposedly be regulated by the Jacoby "advised" Eisenhower into the post-Korean-War 22 members of the Pay Board and the Price Commis­ recession of 1953-54 and served as U.S. representative sion Nixon established Oct. 22. Five of the 22 appointees to the UN Economic and Social Council, where he de­ are the so-called "public" members of the 15-member Pay fended the high levels of U.S. military spending- in 1957, Board. 60 percent of the budget- to international critics. In 1967, These are the five officials who are supposed to make he turned out a study praising U.S. aid to Taiwan. impartial judgments in Pay Board wage settlements, where Kermit Gordon is an influential expert on imperialist it is assumed that the five labor representatives will vote foreign and domestic policy and a professor at Williams one way and the five business representatives the other College. A graduate of Swarthmore College, a Rhodes WhO dO way. ., Scholar and graduate of University College, Oxford, and It is an old trick. The cards are stacked against workers a graduate of Harvard, Gordon was one of the promot- from the beginning by careful selection of "public" mem­ bers whose sympathies to the ruling class are well known Pay in the "right places." Nixon's choices are no exception to this rule. The five are: George Boldt, a Tacoma, Wash., judge with a long record of contempt for civil liberties; William Caples, a corporate executive and college presi­ Board's dent with two decades of antilabor experience in the steel industry; Kermit Gordon and Dr. Neil Jacoby, two former members of the President's Council of Economic Advisers; and Arnold Weber, a top official of the Nixon 'pu administration who headed the wage-freeze Cost of Liv­ ing Council in Phase One. Here are some facts about these five men whose votes will influence the wages and livelihood of all American members workers. Judge Boldt Boldt is the chairman of the Pay Board. A U. S. dis­ speak trict court judge, he undoubtedly won recognition from the White House for his vicious rulings in the "Seattle Seven" case last winter. Boldt was also the man who ordered the arrest of Leslie B aeon in order to force her to testify in the "Capitol Bombing" case. lor? The Tacoma judge first made the headlines during the antilabor drive of the late 1950s when he sentenced former Teamsters President Dave Beck to five years in prison on a tax-evasion charge. In the "Seattle Seven" case, Boldt attempted to get the antiwar activist defendants into prison without a trial. The government's case had fallen apart when an FBI agent declared in court he would go to any lengths, in­ cluding lying, to see the defendants convicted. Boldt's ruse was to declare a mistrial a few days later when the court had resumed but wpile the defendants were still outside. When the defendants returned and pro­ tested, Boldt convicted them of contempt, handed down six-month and one-year sentences and held them at $25,- 000 bail. All of these decisions were later overruled in ,,.,, higher courts. ''I think we've got him right where he wants Boldt's order for the Washington, D. C., arrest of Leslie Bacon to make her testify in a Seattle trial was also ruled ers of the Kennedy-Johnson administrations' "wage-price illegal in a higher court, after Bacon had been jailed for guideline" attack on workers. seven weeks. Gordon is former vice-president and now president of the prestigious Brookings Institution in Washington, D. C., which, as one of the oldest capitalist "thinktanks," helps William Caples manufacture government policy. He serves on the Coun­ This college president is also presently a director of cil of Foreign Relations and the Committee of Economic the First Knox National Bank of Mount Vernon, Ohio, Development. has served as general attorney for Continental Casualty Gordon worked for the Office of Price Administration Co., vice-president of National Casualty, manager of in­ during World War II. In 1961 he told the New York dustrial relations and vice-president of Inland Steel Co., Times, "anybody who endured that ordeal came out of president and director of Inland Steel Container Co., and it, I think, with a deep-seated aversion to expansion of director of Inland Steel Products Co. Caples is also a direct control over prices. . . . " vice-president of the National Association of M an~fac­ Controlling wages seems to be a different matter. turers, the powerful antiunion organization, and chair­ man of the committee of industrial relations of the Amer­ Arnold Weber ican Iron and Steel Institute. Weber mainly achieved recognition in the inner circles All of these are the credentials of an opponent of labor; of the Nixon administration itself. it is only necessary to recall the history of the steel in­ In 1963, he completed a study about retraining work­ dustry in the postwar period (Caples served Inland from ers. This project concerned 650 workers laid off at an 1946 to 1968): the steel bosses drove back steelworkers' Armour Plant in Ft. Worth, Texas. Of these 650, 117 wage demands, destroyed their protection of working con­ took the retraining course; 91 found jobs. In an article ditions and stripped their cost-of-living clause to the bone. heralding the study, the New York Times nevertheless As college president, Caples did Mitchell and Agnew pointed out, "But their base pay [of the workers who a favor in the Nixon administration's campaign to in­ found jobs] had averaged $2.43 [at Armour]; it was $1.61 timidate students. Caples was one of the nine college pres­ in the new job." idents in July 1969 who urged administrators to refuse Such projects brought Weber into the Nixon adminis­ to negotiate with student protesters and to reject requests tration in 1969 as an assistant secretary of labor and for amnesty in civil and criminal cases. director of the "Concentrated Employment Program." This fraudulent "job-training" program was described by the New York Times: It "contains no provision for partici­ 'Economic advisers' pation of the poor, it would not guarantee jobs for those Neil Jacoby and Kermit Gordon both served on the trained, it makes no attempt to deal with racial discrim­ President's Council of Economic Advisers, Jacoby under ination and, as one critic said, it would only feebly at­ Eisenhower, 1953-55, and Gordon under Kennedy, 1961- tempt to face the problem of rising unemployment." 62. Gordon also served as director of the Bureau of the Weber was promoted to the post of associate director Budget from 1962 to 1965. of the Office of Management and Budget, July 2, 1970. The careers of these two men illustrate how the posts Six months later, in January 1971, Nixon picked Weber of "economic advisers" at the top levels of government to head up the much-publicized task force to meld seven administration are closely interwoven with private busi­ cabinet departments dealing with the domestic economy ness, with the semi-governmental agencies that review and into four superagencies. help determine capitalist policy, and with university fac­ Then, four days after the Aug. 15 announcement of ulties. the "New Economic Policy," the president made Weber On the private business level, Jacoby is presently a the second-in-command, under Secretary of the Treasury director of the Occidental Petroleum Corp., and he has Connally, to head up the entire Cost of Living staff. served as a director of First Western Bank and Trust The man who chiefly organized Nixon's wage freeze and Gibraltar Finan<;.ial Corp. Gordon is presently a during Phase One will hardly be sympathetic to workers' director of the General Reinsurance Corp. and North wage demands in Phase Two. The entire five-man "pub­ Star Reinsurance Corp. lic" section of the Pay Board is stacked against labor Jacoby, as dean of the University of California graduate from the outset.

6 Illegal price !ncreases Meany's fond memory m~R~!!t desp!~A!!~~~.:om of War Labor Board When the "price freeze" was first an- of Living Council, issued .after it had The October 1971 issue of The Amer- lie of the bosses. In these two sentences nounced Aug. 15, the government de- become apparent that busmesses were ican Federationist the publication of Meany accepts without argument the clared that elaborate enforcement rna- la_rgely ignoring this req.uirement, had George Meany's AFL-CIO Executive number-one myth used by the cap- chinery would not be necessary be- stipulated that these hsts be made Council, contains an "interview" with italists in their wage-freeze attack: cause consumer pressure and volun- available to customers .no later than Meany by an unnamed "reporter." The wage raises cause, rather than follow, tary cooperation of business would Nov. 1. Shoppers lackmg access to article, entitled "The War Labor inflation. What did workers get in re- be sufficient to assure compliance. such lists have absolutely no way of Board: A Plan that Worked," is of turn for being denied pay increases? "The burden of enforcement of the kn.owing .whether stores have illegally particular interest because of what it Says Meany, "pension and welfare freeze, according to IRS [Internal Rev- rrused pnces. reveals about the mentality and plans plans were not inflationary and could enue Service] officials ... falls on in- of those supposedly representing la- be negotiated." dividual consumers," wrote New York In dropping this requirement, an bor on President Nixon's Pay Board. Meany's "reporter" then asks Meany: Times reporter Grace Lichtenstein action which itself directly conflicts Meany reiterates that he would be "Were there potential penalties if some- Sept. 3. with Nixon's order, the Cost of Living satisfied with a wage-control commis- body didn't go along?" You might As for business cooperation, Trea- Council left standing another, virtually sion modeled after the War Labor think this question referred to penal- sury Secretary John Connally stated unpublicized, option that had been al- Board (WLB) of the Second World ties on the capitalists for not going at a news conference Aug. 16, "... it's lowed retailers: providing customers, War. He explains that the WLB was along with the alleged price freeze. inconceivable to me that a major on written request, the ceiling price formed in 1941 after a twO-and-a- No, the question is about penalties American corporation would attempt of an item by mail within 48 hours. half-day meeting between union rep- for workers who did not go along to violate the wage and price freeze." To obtain this information, the cus- resentatives and management where with the no-strike pledge. Recent disclosures show, however, tomer must fill out a "ceiling price the labor bureaucrats agreed that they "The only penalty they [the inter- that illegal price increases h ave b een information request form" for each would try to prevent strikes. national unions] had, as f ar as umons· widespread and that the administra- item, describing the item, the price "All the decisions made in the WLB were concerned," replies Meany, "was tion is making it as difficult as pos- paid, the "style number," the store de- were participated in by labor and by the union constitution.... For in- sible for consumers to find out about partment, and the buyer's name and management and the general public. stance, we never had a case where t h em. address. - At no time, during all those years, we re all y h a d to d e al WI"th an I ron Recent revelations include the fol- Aside from the discouraging_ red tape was there any disagreement once a Workers local because, if they went lowing: involved in getting price information decision was made." on strike, or even talked about go- • Prices of daily staples such as by mail, it's highly questionable Meany's rosy presentation of the ing on strike, Patty Morrin, the pres- meat, bread, margarine, canned whether the stores will comply with war-time strike ban and wage freeze ident of the Iron Workers, just picked goods and milk rose in the New York this requirement any more seriously is a clear indication of his intentions. their charter up and by the time we metropolitan area during the week than they did with the other one. Lee Smith summarized the reality of [the WLB] got into it, there wouldn't ending Oct. 31, according to a New The lack of enforcement of the "price these WLB anti-labor policies in The be any more union there." York Times survey. The price of milk, freeze" stands in stark contrast to the Militant, Sept. 17. A more detailed Meany complains, "We can't do this for example, was found to have risen extremely effective enforcement of the history can be found in Labor's Gi- any more under Landrum-Griffin. It more than 6 percent in one area. The wage freeze. The reason is simple: the ant Step by Art Preis (available from has really tied our hands." Here Times was unable to report how many employers are the wage-freeze enforc- Pathfinder Press, 410 West St., New Meany is tipping his hat to the cap- of these increases were illegal since ers. They issue the pay checks, and York, N.Y. 10014. $7.50). italists again. There have been in- most of the retailers surveyed did not it is clearly in their interest to see In July 1942 the WLB imposed a creasing complaints in ruling-class have lists of ceiling prices with which that wages don't go up. settlement on steel workers known as circles about the Kennedy-Landrum- to make comparisons. Inflation is endemic to a modern the "Little Steel Formula." This "for- Griffin Act because it provides aframe- • Paul W. McCracken, chairman of capitalist economy. That's why it is mula" reduced wage increases to a work whereby unionists are allowed to the President's Council of Economic crucial, if living standards are to be fraction of what the steel workers de- vote on- and reject- agreements Advisers, announced Oct. 22 that worn- maintained, that guarantees are won manded, and it was later used to drive reached by the bureaucrats and the en's and girls' apparel, footwear, fro- for automatic increases in wages, so- back the wage demands of workers bosses. There are moves afoot for zen orange juice, several cuts of beef, cial security benefits and welfare pay- in other industries. The WLB used new laws requiring rank-and-file margarine and salad oil were among ments linked to the rising cost of liv- the Little Steel Formula to deny Ford unionists to accept the contracts items whose price rises, disclosed by ing. Nixon proclaimed the "price freeze" workers asking for a dollar-a-day reached at the top. September's Consumer Price Index fig- not with the serious intention of ac- raise any increase at all. In fact, workers in World War II ures, would be investigated by the tually freezing prices but to create the In the Federationist interview Meany did not sit by and accept the dictates IRS for violations of the freeze. appearance that prices were going to admits, "Now, we came up with the of the government and the WLB. Once e A New York Times investigation, be held down, thereby hoping to fool Little Steel Formula and that placed they clearly recognized that the WLB the results of which were released Oct. working people into going along with a limit on wages and that was the was foe, not friend, things began to 25, showed that retailers in New York the real freeze, the freeze on their War Labor Board recognizing the change. Beginning with the coal min- City, including major supermarket wages. danger of inflation. Of course, labor ers' strike in 1943, workers refused chains, illegally increased the prices An effective response by the labor was opposed to that, but we lost." to abide by the strike ban and they of seven out of 27 meat cuts, ranging movement to this attack on workers' Win a few, lose a few. Especially ultimately smashed the Little Steel For- from pork shoulder to porterhouse living standards requires among other when "the public" represents the pub- mula steak. things that Nixon's "price freeze" fraud • An official of New York City, be thoroughly exposed. The "watch- Milton Musicus, accused oil companies dog units" recently proposed by the International Socialist Review, Young Socialist Al­ of illegally raising the price of fuel AFL-CIO could play an important liance, and Young Socialists for Jenness and Pulley oil. The increase, he said, "could cost role in this regard. announce a fall series of: the city $!-million this winter and These units could be organized to landlords, building operators and monitor the general price level as well householders millions more," accord- as to check prices of individual re- ing to the Oct. 21 New York Times. tailers to see if they are within legal On Oct. 1, oil producers set a price limits. Since the price ceilings specified on No. 6 fuel oil, used to heat most in Nixon's stabilization order are of the city's apartments and homes, based on the prices charged in the cialistI that was 7.6 percent above the price 30 days prior to Aug. 15, the watch- a year ago. They say the increase dog units would also have to have is justified because the sulfur content complete access to business records in the oil has been lowered to conform to insure that the price ceilings claimed with the city's Air Pollution Code. The by each retailer are valid. Internal Revenue Service says it is Even President Nixon's stabilization investigating. order recognizes that access to busi- • A large apartment complex in ness records is required for price freeze New York City illegally increased the enforcement. It states in Section 5 that security on new leases as a way of the Cost of Living Council "may re- getting around the freeze on rents. quire the maintenance of appropriate The increases were ordered rescinded records or other evidence which are by the IRS after receiving some 40 necessary in carrying out the provi- complaints from tenants. sion of this order, and may require The dishonesty of the administra- any person to maintain and produce tion's claim that it is depending on for examination such records.... " consumers to enforce the "price freeze" Needless to say, the Cost of Living was underscored Oct. 27 when the Council has not utilized this power government suspended altogether, for to check compliance with the price an indefinite period, the requirement freeze. But the AFL-CIO watch-dog of Nixon's stabilization order that a units, if they have the same access list of ceiling prices be available for to business records, could do so very inspection by consumers at each place effectively.

For further information, contact the nearest regional office of the YSA, listed on p. 30. (In some areas the conferences will be held on a weekend other than Nov. 26-28.)

THE MILITANT/ NOVEMBER 12, 1971 7 Let ten Proud to be in YSA Gay people's rights I have just joined the Young So­ I have asked Mr. George Menden­ Laborand'72 cialist Alliance. I am proud to be hall, Vector editor, to send you On Aug. 15, the Nixon administration launched the most serious at­ a member of an organization which complimentary copies of his publi­ tack on the living standards of the American working class in more is fighting for socialist democracy in cation, and told him I would ask than a quarter of a century. The 90-day wage freeze, followed by the U.S. A I hope many of your you to send him The Militant. the creation of a special Pay Board whose function is to drive down readers will follow in my footsteps. [Vector is a gay monthly~published Tom LoBello real wages in the coming months, signified a political turning point by the Society for Individual Rights Bronx, N.Y. (SIR) in San Francisco.] in this country. The main impact of that change has yet to be realized. Your current series on the Stalinist The major domestic targets of Nixon's' economic policies are the Prospective Communist trends in revolutionary Cuba are giGnt, powerful industrial unions, whose contracts for wage increases Could you do a fellow revolution­ appreciated and objective. must now be approved in advance by the Pay Board-which was cre­ ary a favor? I know that you are I have also sent Mr. Mendenhall ated with full bipartisan support and even proposed by the very in­ socialists, and would probably like the article on Mr. Powers, Socialist dividuals who are supposed to represent the interests of labor on it. to get most leftists in the Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor Workers Party, but could you help of Boston, who is outspoken in his This board is now considering several key questions: 1) whether me get in contact with the Commu­ support for the rights of gay people. to "allow" payment of wage increases already won by 5.8 million nist Party, U. S. A? H you could T.H workers; 2) whether to "permit" retroactive payment of millions of. find out the address of either the cen­ San Francisco, Calif. dollars of wages withheld during the 90-day freeze; 3) whether they tral CPUSA office or a cell some­ can get away with establishing a 5 to 6 percent guideline for wage where near Durham (which is near Women's liberation increases as suggested by Nixon. The answers to all three of these Raleigh), I'd really appreciate it. I believe in women's liberation. The I hope it's not too much of a reason I am writing is because I questions will depend first and foremost on what decisi.ons they think bother, and if you can't find out the they can force the American workers to accept. The ruling class will am going to do a report on wom­ address, or if you don't care to help en's liberation. I have a friend who take back as much as it can, as fast as it can. a prospective Socialist become a wrote to you for some information, If the Pay Board decides to reject payment of deferred wages and Communist, you don't have to: so that's where I found out where to already negotiated increases, it will mean that the government has Anyway, we're all fighting for the write to. same cause, so whether I become a in effect ripped up contracts, many of them won after long strike strug­ D. D. member of the CP or the SWP isn't Monrovia, Calif. gles. The American workers are not 'only up against their immediate as important as helping the working employers, but are confronting the entire apparatus of the capitalist class achieve its final victory over Note- Anyone interested in literature government every time they demand a penny more. the vicious forces of capitalism. on women's liberation can write for What can the labor movement do? By the way, I hope you are suc­ a free listing of inexpensive pam­ One thing is certain. Workers cannot rely on the five labor mem­ cessful in your drive to get new phlets on this subject {which is print­ bers of the Pay Board to protect their interests. Even though Meany, Militant subscriptions. I would sell ed on the back of a women's libera­ it myself, but there are already so Woodcock, and the others say they will withdraw from the board if tion poster) to: Pathfinder Press, many people from UNC [University the deferred wage increases are not granted, the fact that they agreed 410 West St., New York, N.Y. of North Carolina] and NCCU 10014. to serve on the board in the first place shows that they agree in prin­ [North Carolina Central University] ciple with the creation of a board controlled lock, stock and barrel by selling them, I don't think I'd be of the bosses. They believe that wages must be limited if inflation is to much help. "Attica Mylai Two" be stopped- even though everyone who works for a living knows wage I like The Militant, especially the Peace and Right On! Convey our reporting you've done on the atroc­ increases are won only after inflationary price rises have drastically greetings to Sister Angela and Mrs. ities at Attica Prison. But I do wish Georgia Jackson. eroded buying power. you'd spend less talk on trivialities Tricky Dicky Nix is on the politi­ Nor can any faith be placed in the Democratic "friends of labor" (not that Attica was a triviality; it's cal bandwagon and he gives lip ser­ in Washington. They were the ones who first passed the Economic just that it is not the main issue with vice to the National League of Stabilization Act of 1970 providing the legislative basis for the freeze. which Marxists are concerned) and Families about bringing their P. 0. W. The Democrats' main disagreement with Nixon was that he should have concentrate on the important thing: relatfves home. We wrote to him to the proletarian revolution in Amer­ frozen wages sooner! the effect that we, the "Attica Mylai ica. You do report on the labor Two" survivors, would gladly be ex­ There is only one force on which the American workers can rely: movement, but not really in a so­ changed to a man for the Lt. their own power, their own ability to mobilize mass independent strug­ cialist sense. H you could have a Brooks and/ or any other prisoner. gles against the employers and the government. Paul Schrade, the few more articles on how and why No response! Attack-General Mitchell United Auto Workers West Coast director, has stated that "If Nixon we should emancipate the working says that Russian Jews can come and the Pay Board's program is to prevent working men from get­ class, it would give your paper a over here-fme, we will take their place in any non-imperialist country ting what they are owed, there should be a general strike and a new lot more meaning. AP. in a fair exchange! labor party." Durham, N. C. Rocky says that he will spend Several unions, including the Illinois AFL-CIO and the King County $200-million to confine us in a labor COuncil (Seattle, Wash.), have recommended that the AFL-CIO In reply- The address of the na­ • "maxi-maxi" concentration camp: the call a 24-hour general strike to demonstrate the united power of the tional office of the Communist land of the free, white, rich oppres­ labor movement against Nixon's freeze. This would be a political ac­ Party is: 23 West 26th St., New sors! York, N.Y. 10010. Contact anyone whom you con­ tion that could inspire the confidence of the working class and serve sider to be concerned about this notice on the administration that American workers will fight to pre­ situation, including the various em- vent their standard of living from being driven down. McGovern at UCLA bassies, and ise them of our To chart a program of united actiOIJ against Nixon's direct attack McGovern was here at UCLA on plight. Peace and Power! on the working class, an emergency congress of labor should be con­ Oct. 15. Nearly 3,000 (an estimate) Herbert X. Blyden, vened, with representatives democratically selected by the rank-and­ turned out to hear him speak. He Minister of Information, got a pretty good response, especial­ The Attica Liberation Faction file of every union in the country. Such a gathering should adopt a ly to his end-the-war promises and program to fight inflationary price increases by demanding automatic promises of amnesty for war objec­ cost-of-living wage increases equal to every rise in living costs. tors. Like gold Such steps by the labor movement would be incompatible with con­ Unfortunately, he "couldn't" I am a prisoner in the state of tinued support to the Democratic Party. It would be increasingly clear answer more than five questions afterwards, so I couldn't call him Michigan (K. K. K.) prison, and to ever larger numbers that rather than elect opponents of labor to out on his refusal to debate Linda would like very much to receive political office, the unions should break with the two parties of the Jenness. your highly informative paper. big industrialists and bankers and establish their own political party, Anyway, keep up the good writing. Your paper is a big thing here at responsible to the labor movement. Enclosed is $1 for an introductory Jackson Prison. The brothers look upon your paper as if it was gold. The 1972 elections will offer the first opportunity for labor to use subscription to be sent to a prisoner Your paper is a highly informa­ the electoral arena nationwide to respond to Nixon's attack. Unfor­ in the U.S. jails. Your choice. M.M. tive one, and I really do enjoy read­ tunately, there is presently neither a labor party nor even any in­ Los· Angeles, Calif. ing it, for you really do tell it like dependent labor candidate to whom workers can turn. But there is it is, and that's what we need more a campaign which represents that perspective. The candidates of the of. I'm not just saying this because Socialist Workers Party are campaigning in support of independent I want to be added to your mailing Rings true list at no charge, but because it is political action by labor, and those who agree with this perspective The article in the Oct. 8 issue of The · · true. should join in and help build the 1972 SWP election campaign. Militant on "Marx, McLuhan, Mc­ Also, can and will you ask your Govern and Gus Hall" certainly readers to write to me and I will rings true. It's always a pleasure to answer all letters. see the Communist Party and other Charles E. X (Thompson) reformists harried in this manner. #111686 E. B. Jackson Prison, 4000 Cooper St. New York, N. Y. Jackson, Mich. 49201 . The Great Society lugheads in high places- Patricia ously assailed at the World Synod Commissioner Patrick Murphy to the Murphy of Philadelphia charges that of Bishops by Joseph Cardinal Slipyj. informer's assertion that every single "the IRS is male chauvinist." The "To sell art works and ecclesiastical cop on gambling squads was taking The Who revenooers rejected her application to treasures would be to help fill stom­ bribes. The commissioner said, "I The following letter is in response to renew her license to make 200 gallons achs while depriving the spirit of its know for a fact" that there are mem­ a review of The Who's album of home-consumption, tax-free wine. nourishment," the good father de­ bers of the squad who are not tak­ Who's Next in the Oct. 1 issue of She said the application was rejected clared. Besides, he added, "the poor ing bribes. The Militant. on the ground that the exemption is are sometimes prone to prodigality. limited to heads of families and the It happens that some poor people seek From the Automat?- Los Angeles in­ Right on, brothers and sisters­ IRS can only see her husband in that charity, but smoke good tobacco and dustrialist Norton Simon bought a you said it like it is. role. The IRS responds that Murphy drink good brandy." They must think painting for $775,000 in a New York Of course The Who are going to said on her application that she they're bishops. gallery auction. He did his bidding tell people to be apathetic, after all wasn't the . family head. Maybe she by phone from a restaurant where look at their socioeconomic status. should write back that their teen-age Bankruptcy sale?- A Los Angeles he was eating. In our neighborhood Let's say The Who give 15 concerts kid is. bookstore is featuring bibles at a they used to call them big-time oper­ next year and the tickets are $5 50 percent discount. ators. each. Now with a 1,000-person au­ Want God in right place sexwise­ dience, that makes $5,000 per con­ CEASE (Citizens Enraged at Sex Edu­ It would be un-American- A New Note to esthetes- Recently we report­ cert. Multiply by 15 for a total of cation), a Lyndhurst, N.J., group, York reader advises of a rumor that ed the availability of a toilet-paper $75,000. Sounds like a pretty good perceives a nationwide plot to teach the Nixon administration may freeze holder with a built-in radio. If you're chunk of coin to me. young people the "mechanics" (?) of the bribes of New York's Finest, planning on installing one, be sure As for their charge that today's sex. They are particularly uptight which, according to a current inform­ to also consider the currently avail­ leaders of the revolutionary struggle about the introduction of sex educa­ er, run as high as $1,500 a month able shaped toilet seat lid that func­ will sell out their followers, The tion at a local Catholic school. "All per cop. If true, the Patrolmen's Be­ tions as a contour back. Who said more than they intended. this comes from much higher than nevolent Ass'n and other concerned Remember the songs "My Generation" the local authorities," a CEASE rep­ groups should challenge on the Thought for the week-" Should we and the young man from "Who Live resentative advised. "The only differ­ grounds that a cop's take is neither vainly play the game of democracy at Leeds"? They helped make ence is that the Catholics sprinkle wages, nor prices, but pure profit­ and freedom which will lead us to Townshend a culture hero for "his God's name in their discussions- and which everyone knows must remain complete defeat or should we curtail generation." Now he reverses himself not always in the right place." unrestricted if we are all to enjoy the anarchic freedom in order to achieve by encouraging apathy and submis­ benefits of our free-enterprise system. victory?"- Cambodian Prime Minis­ sion. How much more a self-indict­ ter Lon N ol explaining why he sus­ ment is needed to realize that Spiritual enrichment dep't- A sugges­ pended the national assembly. Townshend is telling us of his own tion that the Vatican sell its art works He even attended their funerals-" Ab­ moral cop-out? to help feed the hungry was vigor- surd," responded New York Police -HARRY RING For the American Servicemen's Union at the Presidio, Jim San Francisco, Calif Women: McCabe and Mrs. Miller Just a comment to Steve Beck on his review of McCabe and Mrs. Miller in the Oct. 1 Militant. I agree- as far as you go- with your views on .The Insurgent Majority McCabe, but with some of your RESERVE LABOR FORCE- A reader from Minneapolis "There should be a swimming team that's open to the references to past westerns­ sent in an item that appeared on the editorial page of best swimmers. Their eligibility should be based on their hogwash. the Minneapolis Tribupe Oct. 23. Taken from an article ab in the water, not on their sex." I do not think that you have seen by Harvey Cox printed in Christianity and Crisis, it il­ some of the classic westerns that lustrates the changing consciousness in this country con­ have been made by Hollywood, cerning the "role" of women. The article reads in part: especially from 1939 to 1963. If so "The very recent dogma that a woman should be a you could not have said what 'full-time wife and mother,' a strange notion indeed, you did. may spring from the shrinking labor-supply needs of I refer you to: My Darling Cle­ late capitalism and high technology. mentine, Red River, Winchester 73, "Women constitute the reserve labor force. The mind­ Rio Bravo, The Searchers, Sergeant less TV housewife, idiotically agog over whiter washes Rutledge, The Big Sky, Fort and crisper pie crusts, can be transmuted into Rosey Apache, Seven Men From Now, the Riveter with a flick of the corp or ate wrist. And then Wagonmaster, They Died with she can be shipped back to the ironing board and doesn't Their Boots on, Three Godfathers, even sully the unemployment statistics. Or at least this The Lusty Men, and so on. was the way it worked until recently. Because of the almost built-in "Now the flesh-splitting contradictions of this replace­ success of this genre, some of the able coolie's role have begun to stoke the rage of wom­ world's greatest film artists (Ford, en. They now know that the job of full-time diaper-changer Hawks, Mann) were able to have and pot-scraper is a shill. They will no longer be shoved their greatest freedom to express on and off the assembly line like colored beads on a their vision. A vision which I believe playpen. Once again, as Marx predicted, the very linea­ is one that revolutionaries can look ments of the capitalist system have spawned their inevi­ to. But my views on this are not table contradictions." unique. They mainly flow from the work of Andrew Sarris and his WOMEN IN CHINA- The November McCall's carried book The American Cinema. articles by two American women who recently visited D.S. China, Simone Attwood and Jean Garavente. Garavente Chicago, fll. says that the gains for Chinese women since the 1949 revolution have been "enormous" and "dramatic." A woman gets 56 days of paid maternity leave, and then FLY ME- I'm sure many women have felt Less editorializing can leave her child in a child-care center where she works. I am among those of your sub­ Birth-control pills and abortions are available free, but the "Fly me" ads for National Airlines, which really scribers who would be delighted if not to unmarried women. take the cake for sexist advertising. We're glad to report you began to give us more political Garavente also writes that "Men don't ogle women in that women from the New York National Organization and party news reporting and less the streets,'' and that women "dress for convenience rather for Women (above) organized a picket line at Nation­ editorializing. than to attract men." al's Manhattan ticket office. They told executives from Please accept my criticism in good On the other hand, Garavente reports that the Univer­ the airline's advertising agency that the ads were degrad­ faith. I do enjoy The Militant very sity of Peking, which was closed down during the "Cul­ ing to women. much. It's a publication like yours tural Revolution,'' has reopened with only one-third of CHAUVINIST QUOTE OF THE WEEK- The follow­ that keeps some of us in Texas go­ the students female. Attwood says that no fiction whatso­ ing is from a statement by Bishop G. Kilmer Myers to ing in the midst of the "silent Texas ever and no poetry other than Mao's is published in the annual convention of his Episcopal diocese in San majority." China. Francisco. He was trying to explain why women should J.M. A SWIMMER AND A FIGHTER- Diane Freed, who is not be ordained as priests. Denton, Texas faster than some of the men on the New York City Col­ "The sexuality of Christ was no accident, nor is his lege swim team, has appealed to the CCNY Student Sen­ masculinity incidental. This is ·the divine choice. Jesus The letters column is an open forum ate to back her in a fight for the right of qualified wom­ continued that choice in the selection of men to be his for all viewpoints on subjects of gen­ en to be on the school swimming team. Her request for apostles.... eral interest to our readers. Please support and legal aid will come up at the next meeting "God is represented in masculine imagery. The Father keep your letters brief. Where neces­ of the school's Policy Council. Diane Freed told the Oct. begat the Son. To tamper with this imagery is to change sary they will be abridged. Please in­ 25 New York Post: "I want the backing of my school. the faith into something else.... The male image about dicate if your name may be used or I want that body to confront the Eastern Collegiate Ath­ God pertains to the divine initiative in creation. Initiative if you prefer that your initials be used letic Conference with their outlandishly discriminatory rule is a male rather than a female attribute." instead. and end the separation of the sexes in this activity. -CAROLINE LUND

THE MILITANT/ NOVEMBER 12, 1971 9 'By LEW JONES disarm the antiwar movement. There are those, With the culmination of the fall antiwar offensive as we mentioned before, who feel he has succeeded in the Nov. 6 regional mass demonstrations, the and the antiwar movement is "moribund" at this antiwar movement's attention will turn toward time. preparation for the next phase of activity. Dis­ The cussion of plans for the coming months and d~ Not dead cisions about what to do next will take place at Regardless of the size of the Nov. 6 demonstra­ a convention of the antiwar movement Dec. 3-5 tions, that view of the antiwar movement is in­ in Washington, D. C. correct and pessimistic. There are several key In a large sense, the discussion has already reasons why. antiwar begun. Many commentators in the mass media First. Antiwar sentiment has reached such pro­ and the radical press have remarked on the "d~ portions that one force that could actually end cline" of the antiwar movement. Some, like Rennie the war, the organized labor movement, is for Davis, a leader of the People's Coalition for Peace the first time beginning to become involved on and Justice (PCPJ), feel that "there is no motion a significant scale. Both the April 24 and Nov. in this country for Vietnam." The People's Co­ 6 actions have made big advances in trad~union movement alition for Peace and Justice, basing itself on as­ support and participation. A great deal more, sumptions like Davis', has decided to forego anti­ of course, is needed, including the actual mobili­ war actions in favor of a year-long campaign zation of the ranks of the labor movement. But to "Evict Nixon" by participating in primaries with the Nixon administration's attempt to make and calling for a demonstration at the Republican the workers pay for the war by freezing their and Party national convention next summer. wages and driving down their living standards, These are important issues for the antiwar mov~ there is every reason to believe that the antiwar ment to confront, discuss, and decide upon. An movement can expect increasing labor participa­ assessment of the real strengths and weaknesses tion. of the antiwar movement, and of the relationship Second. The widespread antiwar sentiment is between the antiwar movement and the 1972 pres­ reflected in another way also. Those who rule the 1972 idential elections, is involved. the country are not united over the war policies. Far from the war becoming less of an issue in There are deep divisions among them and they American political life, it is becoming more of are becoming deeper, not disappearing. One in­ an issue, simply because more people than ever dication of this is the number of national, state before oppose the war at a time when the gov­ and local government officials and bodies that ernment remains intent on its aim to win a mili­ have endorsed the Nov. 6 action. Nov. 6 is of­ ctions tary victory. Consequently, the antiwar movement ficially "Peace Action Day" in at least four cities: has the potential for significant growth and mas­ Seattle, Minneapolis, Atlanta, and New York. An­ sive activity. What is called for is a larg~scale, other indication is the burgeoning number of Dem­ united campaign to build the movement toward ocratic Party hopefuls trying to gain the repu­ the next round of mass actions in the spring. tation for being the most dovish. The divisions Now is not the time for pulling back or sub­ among the rulers reflect the widespread mass anti­ ordinating the movement to electioneering for the war sentiment and in turn help deepen that senti­ Democratic Party. ment. Third The main reason, however, for rejecting Illusions and disillusionment the "moribund antiwar movement" theory is the In charting out a course for an election year, war itself. Nixon, while claiming to "wind down" it is important to remember the origins of the the war, has in reality kept the war raging. And antiwar movement. The first massive outpourings it will only be a matter of time until once again against the war occurred when President Johnson, masses of people realize they have been lied to. who had just been elected as the peace candidate, Nixon and the government have no intention drastically escalated the war in early 1965. Many of ending the war and withdrawing the troops. people, discovering for the first time that they Their policy remains that of winning the war by had been lied to and manipulated by the govern­ militarily defeating the National Liberation Front. ment and the Democratic Party, took to the streets For that purpose there are still close to 200,000 to demand an end to the war. Gls in Vietnam and the Saigon army has been Over the last six years a similar pattern has greatly expanded For that purpose, the bombing reoceurred numerous times. Administrations rep­ of North Vietnam has been resumed and the resenting both the Democratic and Republican par­ war has been escalated into Laos and Cambodia. ties have put forward peace plans, "secret" peace Under Nixon's regime, 96,000 tons of bombs are plans, and "peace candidates" only to have the dropped every month in Southeast Asia, compared fraud of those plans exposed. The real plan of to Johnson's average of 60,000 per month. In both the Democratic and Republican parties has its first two-and-on~half years, the Nixon admini­ been and is to win a military victory in Vietnam. stration dropped over 2. 7 million tons of bombs As each lie has been exposed and as the effects on Indochina, more than fell during World War of the war have become more apparent, the op­ II (2,057,244) and the Korean War (635,000) position to the war has grown and the antiwar combined. movement has been able to mobilize in action increasingly significant sectors of the population. No, Nixon is not "winding down" the war. He This process, of course, has not been a simple is pursuing it with great vigor. If this fact is not one of each demonstration being bigger than the widely known in the American population, it is previous. There have been ups and downs in the certainly suspected, and the suspicion is growing. readiness of those who oppose the war to dem­ To the extent the antiwar movement remains onstrate in the streets. This has been especially in the streets mobilized around the "Out Now" true in election years, when many have believed, demand, which Nixon cannot maneuver around, for a time, that a particular candidate or a new greater numbers of Americans can and will be government would make a decisive difference. brought into action. Following each election, when the war continues as before, public tolerance breaks down and new Election-year strategy upsurges in antiwar activity occur. This was the If this assessment is accurate, then what is r~ case, for example, in the 1968 elections when quired is the broadest possible unity around a Nixon said he had a "secret plan" to end the war. program of action building toward spring dem­ When his plan turned out to be the same as all onstrations that seek to involve all who are op­ of Johnson's plans, larg~scale actions occurred posed to the war. in the fall of 1969. The PCPJ "Evict Nixon Election-Year Strategy," Undoubtedly a similar process will occur dur­ however, goes in a different direction. Their claim ing the 1972 elections, although the timing and that "Another mobilization in Washington ... is Photo by Mark Sati noH scope of it remain to be seen. But even if willing­ not what is needed now," combined with concentra­ The only consistent antiwar policy is one of ness to march ebbs, it will not signal the end ting their activity on preventing Nixon from being building mass movement independent of of the antiwar movement. reelected, means only one thing. PCPJ is putting rulers. "Now is not the time for pulling back The antiwar movement, regardless of ups and together a program that subordinates the oppor­ or subordinating the antiwar movement to downs, has become established as a real power tunities for building the independent antiwar mov~ the Democratic Party." Above, April 24, 1971, in the political life of the United States. It has ment to the needs of the Democratic Party. Elec­ demonstration in Washington, D. C. organized the largest political demonstrations in tioneering for yet another dove is the direction the history of this country. It has transformed they are moving in. Rennie Davis made this ex­ American political life and forced the government plicit by saying he will "vote Democratic" in 1972. to make major concessions. It has prevented the The entire history of the war and the antiwar rulers from conducting the war as they wish. The movement indicates the futility of this approach. strength of the antiwar movement and the source Every single one of the Democratic Party doves, of its victories has been its understanding of the from Eugene McCarthy to Vance Hartke and need to mobilize the greatest numbers of people George McGovern, have demonstrated their unwill­ in action independent of the Democratic and R~ ingness to take the steps necessary to end the war. publican parties in order to force the government Time and again, for instance, they have voted for to stop the war. the war appropriations and draft laws necessary to President Nixon has spent a great deal of ef­ continue the war. fort .trying to undercut the antiwar sentiment and The Communist Party, Rennie Davis, and PCPJ

10 are, of course, entitled to choose any course of antiwar actions have never previously endorsed action and support any candidate they wish. All an action," she said. The endorsements represent the antiwar movement asks of them is that they a "real cross-section" of the labor movement, in­ not seek to impose their reformist electoral goals cluding many AFL-CIO unions With no recent onto the antiwar movement and seek to take the record of radical political stands. Nov.6 movement off the streets. Both Towne and Myers said they believed there The Socialist Workers Party, which is running would be "hundreds more" endorsements from Linda Jenness for president and Andrew Pulley unions had NPAC been able to contact them. A for vic~president, feels that an independent strug­ big factor in the heightened receptivity of union gle in the electoral arena is needed, as well as the officials to antiwar action, Towne said, has been independent struggle of the antiwar movement. the wage freeze. "The freeze has been the sharpest count· But the Socialist Workers candidates do not d~ expression so far of the war-aggravated economic mand that the' entire antiwar movement endorse crisis that has been putting a squeeze on working their full program because they recognize that it people for years," she said. would significantly reduce the size of the antiwar Myers agreed, and added tbat the continued movement. On the contrary, the Socialist Workers mass mobilizations of the antiwar movement had candidates will be campaigning to build the broad­ produced a shift in the attitude of most workers November 6 is officially Peace Action Day in seven est possible antiwar actions. toward mass demonstrations. "There is no more of the 17 cities holding demonstrations. The may­ To that end, the SWP supports the initiative looking at a demonstration as something kooky," ors and city councils in Atlanta, Cleveland, Detroit, taken by the National Peace Action Coalition na­ Myers said. "Mass actions are just looked at as New York, San Francisco and Seattlehavedeclared tional coordinators in seeking to achieve a single a regular part of the American scene." Peace Action Day in these cities, and the Minne­ national antiwar coalition and a unified antiwar The two labor task force coordinators said that apolis City Council took similar action in spite of convention in December. In an open letter to PCPJ when they made initial phone calls to set up ap­ the mayor's attempt to veto it there. (see Nov. 5 Militant) the NPAC coordinators sug­ pointments to talk to union officers, the response gest that PCPJ should "independently carry out was consistently friendly. "If you tell the secretary Nine senators and 21 representatives had endorsed campaigns on all issues with which they are con­ you're calling from NPAC, the group that orga­ Nov. 6 as of the end of October. The most recent cerned." But they also propose the two coalitions nized April 24, you usually get right through endorsement came from Senator George McGovern unite to build independent mass antiwar actions. or you get called back right away," Myers said. (D-S. D.) Oct. 29. The other senators endorsing As the letter states, "The building of an even more "Most officials at the local level are willing to are Birch Bayh (D-Ind.), Mike Gravel (D-Alaska), powerful antiwar force is imperative to bring [the talk," he said, "and there is no hostility." He said Fred Harris (D-Okla.), Philip Hart (D-Mich.), war] to a halt. A unified movement will spur our the worst that happens when a union is asked Vance Hartke (D-Ind.), Lee Metcalf (D-Mont.), common efforts to end the war." for an endorsement "is that they might say no­ Walter Mondale (D-Minn.), and John V. Tunney Differences exist in the antiwar movement over and that's happening less and less often." The (D-Calif. ). the 1972 presidential elections. The NPAC pro­ attitude that antiwar activists working on labor posal, however, provides a vehicle for building support should have, Myers asserted, "is to as­ Thirty-one of the 55 students in the Lyndon B. the independent antiwar movement without asking sume that every single union local in your area Johnson School of Public Affairs at the Univer­ the movement to settle those differences. While rev­ will endorse. It's just a question of being able to sity of Texas sent a statement to the Dally Texan olutionary socialists feel that the only electoral talk to as many as you can." Oct. 28 calling for an immediate end to the war activity consistent with the antiwar movement is Among the nearly 300 endorsers, in addition and urging people to join the Nov. 3 student one independent of the rulers, we urge those who to the locals and local officers, are regional and strike and the Nov. 6 actions in major cities. plan to support Democrats or Republicans to fully district officers, about a dozen metropolitan cen­ support NPAC's call for united antiwar activity tral labor union councils and the Colorado State A few of the most recent Nov. 6 endorsements as well. AFL-CIO. Just last week, the central labor coun­ from organized labor are the Columbia Region cils in Santa Clara, Contra Costa, and San Ma­ of the International Longshoremen's and Ware­ teo, Calif., endorsed the San Francisco action. housemen's Union in Washington and Oregon; In at least half a dozen of the 17 scheduled the Northern California Joint Board of the Amal­ actions Nov. 6, Towne said, the labor contingents gamated Clothing Workers of America, AFL-CIO; will include unions marching under their own ban­ ners. Some unions have done direct mailings to the American Federation of Government Employ­ their entire membership, others have put out their ees Local 476 in Washington, D. C.; Shirley Davis, own union leaflets for the actions, and others have district vice-president of the National Alliance of set up committees to actually mobilize the rank Postal and Federal Employees in New Haven, and file to turn out. Conn.; and the Minnesota United Auto Workers. Myers described the meeting at which Minn~ sota PAC Trade Union Task Force Director Bill In Denver, two broadcasts by organized labor, Peterson secured the endorsement of the St. Paul one on TV and the other on radio, wlll build Trades and Labor Assembly, the city's central Nov. 6 in the week before the action. An AFL­ labor body. "An al'l'l:endment to change the demand CIO TV show called "Labor's Language" will from Out Now! to Set-th~Date got just two votes," be an interview of Peace Action Coalition Trade Myers said, "and the final vote on the main mo­ Union Task Force representatives Skip Ball and tion was 125 for endorsing to one against." Susan Blanchard by Herick Roth. And Roth will Towne said that a UAW committeeman from interview Jim Lauderdale of PAC on the radio Photo by Howard Petrick a GM assembly plant in New Jersey had passed show "Voice of Labor." Antiwar Gls demonstrate in San Antonio, Tex­ out Nov. 6 buttons, leaflets and posters in the as, Oct. 25. plant. "The attitude of a whole layer of leader­ The Philadelphia Peace Action Coalition, with the ship in the unions, especially at the local level, help of the American Civil Liberties Union, s~ is changing very fast," Towne said. cured a permit for the Nov. 6 rally that will take "Another important aspect of these endors~ place on Eakins Plaza in front of the Art Museum. ments," Towne said, "is that they be used on leaf­ A previously granted permit for the Museum steps lets distributed ~t factory gates, shopping centers had been suddenly and arbitrarily revoked Oct. and union meetings." While some unions are tak­ 22. ing steps to mobilize their membership for the Union support Nov. 6 action, she said, "at this point getting the At a membership meeting attended by 200 teachers, endorsements is still just the first- and easiest the Portland, Ore., Federation of Teachers Local - step. Then we have to take them and publicize 111 passed a motion Oct. 27 endorsing the Nov. them in an effort to get workers out on 6 Seattle action. The meeting also passed a mo­ the marches." tion calling on AFL-CIO President George Meany for antiwar to organize a one-day general strike against Phase Two of the wage freeze, but the latter motion was referred to the executive committee after discus­ movement sion was reopened. Three hundred civilians joined 100 Gls from Ft. Huachuca and Davis Monthan Air Force Base grows in an Oct. 25 antiwar action in Tucson, Ariz. G Is spoke at a rally that followed a march, and By LEE SMITH distributed their antiwar paper, Wliere Are We. NEW YORK CITY, Oct. 30- With one week left before -the Nov. 6 regional mass antiwar actions,­ Among the many events besides the student strike Rachel Towne, national coordinator of the Nation­ leading up to the Nov. 6 action in New York al Peace Action Coalition's Trade Union Task during the final week are several showings of Force, said the number of Nov. 6 endorsements a fllm by the NPAC Dominican Task Force. The from union officers, locals and official bodies was fllm, "Fuera Yanqui," is about the 1965 U.S. close to 300 "and they are still coming in every day." invasion of the Dominican Republic. A sound truck In an interview here yesterday, Towne and Der­ caravan organized by the Puerto Rican Contingent rel Myers, NPAC Trade Union Task Force coor­ will drive through Spanish-speaking neighbor­ hoods Nov. 5, featuring Juan Mari Bras, secre­ dinator for New York, said that labor support Photo by John Ratliff for the Nov. 6 antiwar actions marked a new tary-general of the Movement for Puerto Rican New York Mayor John Lindsay declared Nov. Independence (MPI). stage in the relationship between the antiwar mov~ 6 Peace Action Day in New York Nov. 1. ment and the unions. The endorsements this time are broader and With him at City Hall are Jerry Gordon of Thousands of marshals for the New York Nov. more numerous than ever before, according to NPAC and a representative of the Manhat­ 6 action are to be trained in two-hour sessions Towne. "Many of the unions endorsing this fall's tan borough president's office. at the Washington Square Methodist Church from noon to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs­ day and Friday before the action.

THE MILITANT/ NOVEMBER 12, 1971 11 Votes in Congress reflect deep divisions over Vietnam war By DICK ROBERTS according to New York Times cor­ Recent debates and votes in the U.S. respondent William Beecher. Congress reflect the major divergent "Planners suggest that even after Sai­ forces in American politics concerning gon has taken over responsibility for the war in Southeast Asia. On one the campaign, the United States wlll side is the administration's increasing­ probably continue to maintain fighter­ ly apparent policy of permanent war: bombers both in Thailand and on Black Caucus in U.S. House of Representatives strengthening the Thieu regime in Sai­ aircraft carriers off the Vietnamese gon, escalating the conflict in Cam­ coast to deter Hanoi either from at­ bodia and Laos, and extending the tempting an invasion in strength or massive U. S. bombing throughout the from employing its aircraft against entire arena of war in Indochina. targets in South Vietnam," Beecher Black Democrats On the other side is the increasing stated. mass opposition to the war in this "The initial test [of the new bombers], country and the increasing awareness by American crews, will take place debate '72 strategy that Nixon's "Vietnamization" policy at Elgin Air Force Base in Florida. is a cover for indefinite U. S. war. In the spring the tests wlll be con­ By DERRICK MORRISON committed to let's say Senator George The votes in Congress give the lie ducted over the Ho Chi Minh Trail A great deal of attention has already McGovern, some to Senator Edmund to any conception that antiwar sen­ itself. . . . Both American and Viet­ been focused on the question of a Muskie, and, if the plan worked out, timent is decreasing in this country. namese pilots will participate in the Black political strategy for 1972. The the delegates out of heavily Black They reflect deepening divisions in combat tests." 13 members of the Congressional districts would be committed to the the U.S. ruling class about Nixon's The lucrative bomber contract was Black Caucus, Black mayors like Black candidate for president. This war policies and the American voters' awarded to Fairchild Industries of Carl Stokes, political activists such as candidate might be a Black favorite deepening hatred for the war. Germantown, Md. Rev. Jesse Jackson of the Southern son or daughter running in the state. A pivotal point in Congressional An unsigned Times diSpatch from Christian Leadership Conference's Or, if the Black Democrats should de­ war legislation is the "Mansfield Saigon Oct. 25 described Pentagon Operation Breadbasket in Chicago, cide to unite behind Rep. Shirley Chis­ amendment." As described in The Mili­ worries about the failure of the Sai­ and Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi holm (D-N. Y.), who has already in­ tant Oct. 15, this amendment has no gon army to press the CIA's counter­ Jones) of the Committee for a Unified dicated she wants to run for presi­ force of law and could not in any way guerrilla "pacification" program. Newark and Congress of African Peo­ dent, then the Black delegates would bind the White House. It simply places "The Phoenix Program, conceived ple, and state legislators like Julian be committed to her. Congress on record as favoring U.S. by the CIA in 1967," the dispatch Bond- all have been involved in military withdrawal from Southeast stated, "was turned over to the South meetings and discussions to map out Even the election of a substantial Asia within six months of enactment Vietnamese in principle the following a purported plan. number of Black delegates- Bond of the amendment, provided U.S. pris­ year. Americans have since pushed The nationally prominent Black hopes for doubling the 1968 total of oners of war are released by Hanoi. the program, providing advisers and Democrats feel a considerable amount 5.5 percent-is heavily dependent on Spineless though it is, the amend­ funds as a primary means of seeking of wind was put into their sails with reform of party procedures. This was ment has been forcefully opposed by out the Vietcong. last year's election of four new Blacks the hotly contested issue when leading the administration, which has succeed­ "Under the Phoenix operating plan, to the House of Representatives, the Black Democrats came out in the mid­ ed in preventing it from passing the each province receives a quota of Viet­ election of 114 of the 300 Blacks who dle of October and urged their na­ House or from emerging from any cong to be 'neutralized' each month, sought office in the South, and the tional committee to reject the candi­ House-Senate conference. (Most recent­ which can .mean arresting a man, tak­ mayoral victory of Kenneth Gibson dacy of Patricia Harris for temporary ly, the ~an,sfield amendment was ing him into the Open Arms program, in Newark. chairwoman of the credentials com­ tacked onto the foreign aid bill Oct. which accepts defectors, or killing These electoral victories are a re­ mittee for the 1972 convention. 29 by a Senate vote of 45-36. The him.... flection of the deepening nationalist Harris, an African-American who defeat of the foreign aid bill the follow­ "Last August, in an attempt to bol­ sentiment in the Black community. was formerly the U. S. ambassador ing'"' day blocked Senate passage of ster the program, the United States The masses, growing tired of voting to Luxembourg and sat as an alter­ the amendment.) and the South Vietnamese government white and not getting anything in re­ nate delegate for the U.S. in the Unit­ decided to begin experimental cash turn, are beginning to vote Black, for ed Nations, and now sits on the The ever-higher number of votes in rewards in four provinces, paying up candidates whom they feel are going boards of directors of IBM and the the House and Senate for the Mans­ to the equivalent of $11,000 for cer­ to be accountable to them. Scott Paper Company, was backed field amendment, despite immense tain key leaders. It is doubtful the But will the growth in the number by the old-line, anti-reform forces of White House pressure, is a barometer rewards are effective." of Black officeholders enable the Black the Democratic Party. She has strong of the anxiety in Congress about mass This dispatch also noted that the community to acquire some political ties to the party's hierarchy, which opposition to the war and Nixon's costs of U. S. funding of this program power? The Black Democrats say yes. explains how she defeated Senator escalation plans. from 1968 to 1971 amounted to a And their strategy is to work through Harold E. Hughes of Iowa, the can­ On Oct. 19, the administration suc­ whopping $732-million. (For the sake the Democratic Party in trying to didate supported by the reformers and ceeded in blocking the Mansfield of comparison, the entire annual bud­ achieve this end. most of the Black Democrats. amendment in the House by a vote get associated with operating the U.S. Some of them work as individuals. Thus, her election places a question of 215-192. But this compared to a Congress, the federal judicial system Others organize into predominantly mark over the potential success of vote of 219-176 on the same amend­ and all of the major government reg­ Black groups or factions within the Bond's strategy. Moreover, Charles ment last June. "The relative narrow­ ulatory agencies is roughly $500-mll­ Democratic Party. This is the case Evers, mayor of Fayette, Miss., and ness of the margin by House stan­ lion.) "Current contributions [to the with Carl and Louis Stokes' 21st Con­ a national committee member, broke dards represented a high-water mark Phoenix Program] have not been dis­ gressional District Caucus in Cleve­ ranks and supported Harris. for critics of the Vietnam war in their closed," the New York Times dispatch land, John Cashin's National Demo­ Despite this setback and their dif- · repeated efforts over the last two years sta_ted. cratic Party of Alabama, and Charles ferences of opinion, Rep. William Clay to get a direct vote on the war issue," On Oct. 31 the Nixon administration Evers' Loyalist Democrats in Missis­ (D-Mo.) boldly exclaimed, "They [the John W. Finney reported in the New made an open show of support to· the sippi. Democratic Party] are either going to York Times Oct. 20. Thieu regime it holds in office by The strategy of these figures for give us what we are entitled to, or Other legislation concretely reflects sending U. S. Secretary of the Treas­ 1972, as it emerged at a meeting in we are going to deny them what they Nixon's plans to escalate the war. ury John B. Connally to Thieu's sec­ Northlake, lll., on the weekend of want from us-our votes," reported In two succeeding Senate votes on ond-term oath-taking ceremony. Sept. 25, was to field a Black presi­ the Oct. 26 Wall Street Journal. This the funding of the war in Laos and The ritual took place "with thou­ dential candidate in the primaries in view-or bluff-has both its op­ Cambodia, Senator Stuart Symington sands of troops and police patroling order to organize a Black caucus at ponents and proponents in the Con­ (D-Mo.) made concessions to the ad­ Saigon and its outskirts," the Times the Democratic Party national con­ gressional Black Caucus (CBC). Rep. ministration allowing for increasing stated. "Police searched roofs and vention in the summer of 1972. Augustus Hawkins (D-Calif. ), of a Pentagon funds going to these nations. apartments overlooking the inaugural According to Julian Bond, Georgia more conservative cut, reasoned, ac­ On Oct. 28, the Senate voted 52-35 stand in the heart of the city.... legislator, they hope through such a cording to the Journal, "Running a to raise the ceiling on U. S. spending And American 'firefly' helicopters move, and a reform in party conven_:­ Black candidate and just raising hell in Cambodia to $341-million, the equipped with searchlights flew over tion procedures, to elect 600 Black at the convention risks irritating oth­ amount requested by the administra­ the surrounding areas in search of 1elegates committed to none of the er groups we need to join within the tion. This does not include funding enemy gunners who might be intent white aspirants for the presidential party.... Our first job is to defeat of U. S. air warfare. on spoiling what Mr. Thieu regards nomination. This ambitious plan is Mr. Nixon even if we don't elect an as the high point of his political operational only in those states where ideal candidate." Washington announced Oct. 28 that life.... the delegations are elected in the pri­ In addition, it is widely acknowl­ it is ordering "a new force of light "The security precautions are the maries on a district-wide rather than edged that Chisholm in announcing armed aircraft to better equip [South most extensive yet seen in Saigon. statewide basis. her intention to run for president, did Vietnam] to take over the job of at­ About 30,000 troops and security In the latter case, the state winner not consult with .the CBC, leaving tacking supplies and troops moving forces took up positions in a 10-mlle of the presidential primary would some of the members very rankled. down the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos," radius of the city." have the commitment of all of that These statements and actions dem­ state's delegates. Whereas in the for­ onstrate the Black Democrats are mer, some of the delegates would be Continued on page 30

12 After a special subscription campaign of only seven weeks, close read radical paper throughout Aztlan because of its compre­ to 20,000 new readers are following The Militant every week. hensivfl coverage of all aspects of the struggle: Chicana libera­ That makes The Militant the largest circulation radical paper tion, La Raza Unida Party, the Chicano Moratorium, as well in the country, as well as the fastest growing! Why is The Mili­ as on-going debates within the movements. tant so popular? These new readers were attracted by the International Coverage: Each issue of The Militant includes broad scope of our coverage and the in-depth analysis we extensive international news and analysis of events such as oHer on every major issue. the Padilla aHair in Cuba, the civil war in Bangia Desh, the Vietnam War: The Militant continues to expose the fraud of Palestinian revolution and the Allende regime in Chile. Nixon's phony withdrawal and Vietnamization programs, as Socialist Election Campaign: Of special interest to our new well as bringing you weekly coverage of the escalation of the readers is the coverage The Militant gives to the only genuine air war throughout Indochina and the growing disaHection national antiwar election campaign in this country- Linda Jen­ among Gls in Vietnam. ness for president and Andrew Pulley for vice-president on Attica: Militant staH reporter Derrick Morrison was there on the Socialist Workers Party ticket. the spot to bring our readers the truth about the Attica rebel­ lion and has provided comprehensive coverage since then. Wage Freeze: The Militant supports the call that has gone Subscribe now tO issues/It out from some unions for a congress of labor to map out a ------­( ) Enclosed is $1 for 10 weeks ofThe Militant. program for fighting Nixon's attack on wages and working con­ () Enclosed is $2 for three months of the International Socialist ditions. Review and 10 weeks ofThe Militant. Abortion Law Repeal: The Militant is your best source for () I'm a Gl. Send me six months ofThe Militant for $J.50. Name ______up-to-the-minute coverage of the Nov. 20 demonstration for the repeal of all restrictive abortion laws, as well as continued Address------coverage of all areas of the women's liberation movement. City State Zip ______Chicano Liberation Struggle: The Militant is the most widely 14 Charles Lane, N.Y., N.Y. 10014 and if you want a free book If you take this opportunity to subscribe to by Roger Alvarado, Antonio Camejo, Rudolfo "Corky" tions of the principles of Marxist political economy. The Militant for a full year, with your new Gonzales, Isabel Hernandez, and others; and "La Raza or renewed subscription you can choose a Unida Party in Texas" by Mario Compean and Jose THEIR MORALS AND OURS by Leon Trotsky, John Angel Gutierrez, with an introductio1\ by Antonio Ca­ Dewey and George Novack. Three essays on morality _FREE book from among the following titles: mejo. and the relationship between means and ends, con­ BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY by Malcolm X. Speeches BLACK VOICES FROM PRISON by Etheridge Knight trasting the Marxist and liberal points of view. and interviews never before published, from the last and fellow inmates of Indiana State Prison. Knight, year of Malcolm's life. who was paroled from prison in November 1968, SUBSCRIBE TO THE MIUTANT FOR ONE YEAR- RECEIVE wrote, "I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and ------­THE BOOK OF YOUR CHOICE FREE PROBLEMS OF WOMEN'S LIBERATION by Evelyn Reed. poetry brought me back to life." One of today's most widely read feminist books, this is the only contemporary work that examines the roots Gls SPEAK OUT AGAINST THE WAR by Fred Halstead. Enclosed is $6 for a one-year subscription. Please of women's oppression from a Marxist, and feminist, The fight of American soldiers to secure their basic send me the following book free viewpoint. rights- including their right to express their opposition Name ______to the war in Vietnam- is told here by the Fort Jack­ Address ______THREE PAMPHLETS ON THE CHICANO STRUGGLE: "Chi­ son Gls. cano Liberation and Revolutionary Youth" by Mirto Vidal; AN INTRODUCTION TO MARXIST ECONOMIC THEORY City State Zip _____ "La Raza! Why a Chicano Party? Why Chicano Studies?" by Ernest Mandel. One of the most concrete exposi- 14 Charles Lane, N.Y., N.Y. 10014

THE MILITANT/ NOVEMBER 12, 1971 13 YSA .national convention campus 1n• HOuston Dec. 28-Jan. 1 workers By FRANK BOEHM set aside for a socialist campaign ral­ to build the next stage of these mov~ on strike Preparations for the Eleventh Young ly, with both Linda Jenness and An­ ments. · One of the major reports at Socialist National Convention, to be drew Pulley as featured speakers. This the convention will deal with the devel­ held in Houston, Texas, are well un­ will be the first time a massive so­ opments in the war and the fight in Phila. derway. The fll"st young socialist con­ cialist campaign rally has ever been against it. Hundreds of antiwar ac­ vention ever held in the South will held in Texas, and it promises to be tivists will attend the convention and By ROSE OGDEN begin Tuesday, Dec. 28, and continue one of the most exciting events of the participate in the discussion of this PHILADELPHIA- On Oct. 18,. the International Brotherhood of Univer­ through Jan. 1, 1972. All indications fiv~day convention. crucial question. are that this national gathering of The late December gathering will The history of U. S. aggression in sity Employees, a predominantly young revolutionaries will be the larg­ be the culmination of a period of in­ Vietnam has decisively proven to Black union at Temple University, went on strike to demand a 38-cent­ est in more than 25 years. tense fall activity not only for young many young people that the interests an-hour wage increase, a paid pen­ A press conference in Houston on socialists but for other activists in­ and actions of the government run sion plan, clearly defmed job classi­ Oct. 21 announced that the contract volved in the movements for social counter to those of the American peo­ fications, and a on~year contract in­ for the spacious· 2,800-seat Houston change. Even before the fall began, ple. Others have come to recognize stead {)f the two-year agreement the Civic Center Music Hall had been the capitalist government launched a this through their struggles as Blacks university insists on. Under the pres­ signed after having been approved major assault upon the .American and Chicanos for self-determination, ent contract, women workers make by the YSA National Executive Com­ and still others through their strug­ working class through the imposition about $60 a week while men average mittee and the Houstort City Council. of the wage freeze, signaling an in­ gles as women and their fight for ·$90. At the press conference, Jeannette tensification of the class struggle. Soon the legalization of abortion, through Tracy, Houston convention coordina­ In an interview with Jean Savage, after that the rebellion at Attica broke their fight for student rights, gay lib­ Socialist Workers Party mayoral can­ tor, revealed the ambitious campaign out. And only a few days later, the eration, and as young workers. These that the YSA was launching to mo­ didate, IB UE Vic~ President Willie country was shocked by the bloody are the young. socialists who will at­ Reeves stated the strike was being sup­ bilize young people to attend the massacre of the rebel prisoners. Hun­ tend the Houston convention and dis­ ported by members of Local 835 of Houston convention. She described the dreds of teach-ins were spontaneously cuss how best to advance the fight projected convention-building ac~v­ the International Union of Operating organized on campuses across the against capitalism and build the rev­ Engineers, AFL-CIO, who have been ities that would reach virtually every country in protest. Tens of thousands olutionary movement. honoring the picket lines even though major campus and many high schools expressed their outrage at the slaugh­ Anyone who would like packets of a clause in their contract makes it in the South and Southwest. In late ter. material to help build the convention illegal for the union as a whole to of­ November, Mirta Vidal, the national In the midst of these events, the. in their area and organize a contin­ ficially go out on a sympathy strike. Chicano work director of the YSA, will fall antiwar offensive was being or­ gent, or who would like informaUon At the beginning of the strike, a conclude a nationwide tour with a ganized and bufJt. Plans for the Nov. on transportation, housing and other meeting of all campus groups was special convention-building blitz tour 20 abortion demonstrations in Wash­ convention arrangements, can write called to organize support for the strik­ throughout Texas. At the same time, ington and San Francisco were well or call:· ing workers' demands. Groups sup­ Norman Oliver, the national organi­ . underway as well. YSA, P. 0. Box 471, Cooper Sta­ e porting the strike include the Young So­ zation secretary and national Black Young Socialists have been deeply tion, New York, New York 10003; cialist Alliance, the student govern­ work director of the YSA, will be con­ involved in all these aspects of the (212) 989-7570. ment, the BlaCk Student League, the cluding a convention-building tour fall offensive. At the Young Socialist e Young Socialist Convention Cen­ Revolutionary Union, Students for a that will have taken him through the nation.al convention, these activists ter, 6409 Lyons Avenue, Houston, Mid-Atlantic and Southern states. Democratic Society, Young Workers will evaluate the progress of the mass Texas 77020. Liberation League, Temple Women's Tracy also described the special ef­ struggles directed against different e Or contact the Young Socialists forts that would be made by the stat~ Liberation, Student Mobilization Com­ forms of capitalist oppression, assess nearest you listed in the Socialist Di­ mittee, Federation of Puerto Rican Stu­ wide Texas YSA to bring hundreds the fall actions, and discuss how best rectory on page 30. of activists from their region to the dents, the Labor Committee ·and the convention. Arrangements have been Workers League. made for Olga Rodriguez, a well­ Activities planned include a regular­ known Los Angeles Chicana activist, ly published newsletter, rallies and to travel through parts of New Mexico demonstrations, and staffing the picket and Texas speaking at colleges and lines on a 24-hour basis to discourage high schools during the final month deliveries and trash removal. The prior to the convention. strike has activated hundreds of stu­ Four teams of Houston regional dents who have never before partici­ travelers will fan out through the pated in political activity. Trash and states of Texas, Louisiana and Okla­ garbage has accumulated on the cam­ homa in December. Ted Stacey, Texas pus, the school and dorm cafeterias regional traveler, had already left have no food, and many buildings Houston at the time of the press con­ have been closed because of rats. ference to help prepare for the up­ The university's response to the sit­ coming tours. uation. was to request an injunction Finally, Tracy reported on her tour, against Local 835 and an injunction which was scheduled to begin shortly placing limits on both the IBUE and after the press conference. She will student pickets. Attempts have been be working with young socialists made by the university to move food throughout eastern Texas, Oklahoma, into the cafeteria by substituting super­ Arkansas, Mississippi, and western visors for Teamsters who have con­ Tennessee to help them organize con· sistently refused to cross the picket tingents from those areas to attend the lines. convention. While on her tour, she The strike supporters responded to will also be addressing gathefings on this attack by increasing the number dozens of campuses and will be talk­ of pickets at key dorm entrances. On ing to campus radio stations and Oct. 28, 100 Black resident students newspapers. blocked the gate where the admini­ Young socialists in other parts of stration, supported by campus and the country have also begun building Get there ~way city police, attempted to move the the convention. Many areas have r~ trucks onto the campus. No action served buses, and in some of the w~S-taken by the police. places farthest away from Houston, When another attempt was made the other forms of transportation such as following day to deliver food to the planes and trains are being checked yousen'liere! dorms, over 30Q students gathered into. Thousands of convention posters to prevent delivery. The administra­ and over 200,000 printed leaflets are tion was prepared with 200 city po­ being circulated throughout the coun­ lice and 18 students were arrested try. Plans are also being made by Come to the 11th Yolq Socialist It is not yet clear what they are being revolutionary socialists from many charged with. countries around the world to send National Convention in Houston The administration arranged for representatives and delegations to dorm students to stay in hotel rooms the convention. YSA, P. 0. Box 471 Cooper Station for the duration of the strike, but few­ ------­New York, N.Y. 10003 er than 50 have agreed to move. Among those attending the Houston Although the administration has Young Socialist convention will be So­ __Send me more information on the Young Socialist convention. threatened to close down the campus, cialist Workers Party presidential and -I'm coming-- send me material to help build the convention. morale is high and students are in­ vic~presidential candidates Linda Jen­ -I want to join the YSA. sisting the university meet the d~ ness and Andrew Pulley. Both will -Enclosed is $1 for a copy of "Introducing the YSA." mands of the strikers rather than close have just concluded the first leg of the campus. their campaign by the time of the Name------~------convention. Special efforts are being Address------=~------made by the candidates and by sup­ Ci ty State ____ Zip porters of the campaign to urge young people to attend the convention. A full evening of the convention will be

14 By DAVID THORSTAD To promise to run the biggest social­ ist election campaign since Eugene V. Debs sounds ambitious enough. But Linda Jenness, SWP presidential can­ didate, went even further when she told the Aug. 12 campaign kick-off rally in Cleveland: "Our campaign is the campaign that will change Amer­ ican politics." Recently, I asked the national cam­ paign staff in New York just how they thought the campaign would change American politics. It was log­ ical to ask them, since much of the work necessary to carry out such a task will fall on them. "The capitalist candidates are not going to be able to ignore the issues we are raising," replied Laura Miller, at 19 the youngest of the eight full­ time people on the staff. "Big-scale socialist campaigns are just going to be a fact of life in American politics from here on out." Though young, this is not her first presidential campaign. She worked ac­ tively for Eugene McCarthy in Chi­ cago during the 1968 campaign. "We're very optimistic," she said. "We're going to make a big impact." "You see, the Democrats and Repub­ licans have this game they play," add­ ed campaign manager Larry Seigle. "They pretend that the real choice is between Nixon and Humphrey, or be­ tween Johnson and Goldwater. But that's not the real choice. There are only two choices for American youth: They can support the capitalist can­ didates, or they can support Jenness and Pulley. "That's why it's so important for us to run a big campaign." Already, less than three months af­ ter it was launched and more than a year before the election, it is big. The presidential and vice-presidential candidates, Linda Jenness and Andrew Pulley, have so far campaigned in ersPartv 17 states. Before the campaign is over, they will have been to all 50 states. Many of their appearances are being arranged by the close to 30 campaign offices that have been set up through­ out the country. 1972 campaign Pulley has already made one of the several international fact-finding tours that are planned. In September he discussed the nationalist struggle in Ireland with revolutionaries there be­ fore going on to investigate conditions off a running among Black Gis in Germany. The candidates are not the only ones to speak for the campaign, however. A National Campaign Committee ex­ ists consisting of 10 people who not only serve as "resource people" in dif­ ~ ferent areas but who are available to speak for the campaign anywhere in the country. They include Marxist anthropologist Evelyn Reed, 1968 SWP vice-presidential candidate Paul Boutelle, Chicana activist Olga Rodri­ guez, and Marxist scholar George No­ vack. Two members of the staff, Cindy Jaquith and John Hawkins, both na­ tional coordinators of the Young So­ cialists for Jenness and Pulley (YSJP), are touring the West and the North­ east until the end of the year in an effort to form hundreds of YSJP chap­ ters on U.S. campuses and high schools. New ones are being formed at the rate of five per week, I learned. The goal is to obtain 5,000 endorsers of the socialist campaign by the time of the national convention of the Young Socialist Alliance at the end of December. Student referenda One of the projects of the YSJPs will be to confront any capitalist can­ didate who tries to get support on campus. Another will be to initiate referenda on the campuses and in high schools. "What we want to see is a referendum on every campus this fall and spring to find out what students Photo by Howard Petrick think about the candidates running Linda Jenness, SWP presidential candidate (top). Below, Andrew Pulley, vice--presidential candidate, and the issues," Laura Miller ex­ with Travis High School students in Austin, Texas. plained. The YSJP, besides challeng-

THE MILITANT/ NOVEMBER 12, 1971 15 ing ··the campus groups supporting showed me the campaign "scrapbook," nounced her candidacy for ·u. S. Sen­ other candidates, such as Youth for containing page after page of news­ ate, also on the SWP ticket. Dixon McGovern, to debate, will collaborate paper articles on the candidates from will be running against Democratic with them on such referenda because every corner of the country. He es­ SUpport Congressman John Conyers. timates tqat from newspaper coverage "we all have a common interest in Later that afternoon, Jenness spoke seeing how our candidates are doing." alone, more than 10 million people to 100 students at Wayne State Uni­ have already learned about the cam­ In one such referendum, held at the versity in Detroit. Present at the meet­ College of Wooster in Ohio on Oct. paign. mounts ing were John Zupan, president of The press coverage is "much more 18, Linda Jenness received 5.4 per­ American Federation of State, County cent of the vote and came in seventh sympathetic" than in the past, Janice and Municipal Employees Local 1497 out of 10 presidential candidates on Lynn, another staffer, told me. She for on the Wayne State campus, who has 'keeps up with the mquiries that pour the ballot. Seigle was impressed with endorsed the SWP campaign, and sev­ into the office by mail. Many of these, this showing because no campaign­ eral members of the Wayne State Stu­ she said, are from people who have ing for Jenness had yet been done socialist dents for McGovern. Senator McGov­ received campaign brochures from the on the campus. "We were very sur­ ern, an aspirant to the Democratic prised because we didn't even have four Militant subscription teams that presidential nomination, had ap-. are traveling across the country. Many a YSJP chapter there and hadn't dis­ peared in Detroit several days before tributed any literature." sub,scriptions each week arrive in the slate Jenness. Having heard about his r~ SWP campaign office from people who By JANICE LYNN It wasn't because they hadn't pub­ fusal to debate Jenness at the Uni­ clip the coupon on the brochures. "In For the past five weeks, Linda Jen­ lished any literature. More than half versity ,of Wisconsin Oct. 2, the Stu­ essence, those teams are campaign ness and Andrew Pulley have been a million pieces of campaign literature dents for McGovern at Wayne ap­ teams," Lynn added, "just spreading stumping the country seeking support have already been sent out to sup­ proached McGovern to see if' they porters. And in addition to leaflets the word about the campaign." for their campaign on the Socialist Workers Party 1972 presidential tick­ could arrange such a deb ate. McGov­ and brochures, and special campaign ern,· however, refused to answer yes The kind of response the campaign et. At the same time, Cindy Jaquith supplements to The Militant, other lit­ or no even to his own supporters. is generating is fantastic. She told of Blcld John Hawkins, the two national erature will be published. This in­ Disillusioned, some McGovern sup­ a student at Lehigh University in coordinators of the 'Young Socialists cludes "truth kit" p·amphlets on each porters came to hear Jenness and were Bethlehem, Pa., for instance, who, af­ for Jenness and Pulley, have been of the other major candidates, a news­ generally impressed. with what she had ter hearing Linda Jenness was run­ meeting with young campaign sup­ letter called the "YSJP Campaigner," to say. Many of them began to re­ ning for president, called up to ask porters throughout the country, orga­ and a regular four-page reprint of think which candidate they should for 10,000 of each of the three bro­ nizing high school and college groups newspaper clippings on the campaign support in 1972. from across the country, "The Social­ chures the campaign has published so of campaign activists. ist Campaign in the News." far. The enthusiasm, excitement and dy­ That evening Jenness spoke at Cen­ Moving all the campaign literature Laura Miller said one of the main namism of the campaign tours so far tral Michigan University in Mt. Pleas- is not easy work. "One of the things things the SWP campaign hoped to is a good indication of the degree to • ant and the next day at Delta College I've noticed working on the staff is accomplish was to help build mass which many people are getting fed in Bay City, Mich. She also appeared that you have to have muscles," movements for social change. That's up with the phony politicians of the on the "Guy Gibson Show" on radio quipped Judy Uhl. In addition to the why the candidates are publicizing and Democratic and Republican parties, station WCAR. Jenness was invited literature, 50,000 campaign buttons supporting the Nov. 6 antiwar demon­ and of the growing reCeptivity to so­ to be a guest on the show after Gib­ have also been produced. strations and the Nov. 20 demonstra­ cialist ideas and activities. With ex act­ son heard her at the Oct. 28 news Judy Uhl is a former student at tions for abortion in Washington, ly 12 months to go in the campaign, conference. New York University and a former D. C., and San Francisco. "Our can­ the goal of running the biggest so­ Jenness plans to visit the Jackson Peace Corps volunt~r . .Her main duty didates are the only candidates cam­ cialist election campaign since the time State Prison and to meet with inmates on the staff requires a lot of patience. paigning on issues," she insisted. of Eugene V. Debs seems realistic. at the Detroit House of Correction for She is in charge of coordinating all "They are the only ones who ask their The SWP candidates are running Women. On Nov. 3, she will address the work of getting the SWP candidates supporters to work to build these mass activist campaigns, aggressively tak­ student strike rallies at Wayne State on the ballot throughout the country. movements." ing their program onto military bases, University, Highland Park College, She spent the entire summer reading into the prisons, high schools, migrant Oakland Community College (Au­ up on every state's election laws. Were they perhaps overly optimis­ labor camps, and other areas ignored burn Hills Campus), Schoolcraft Col­ She said the SWP plans to file for tic, I asked, pointing out that the New by their Democratic and Republican lege in Livonia, and Macomb County ballot status in more than 30 states York Times had just printed a front­ counterparts. They are speaking at Community College in Warren, Mich. during the 1972 campaign. This com­ page article suggesting that students rallies and demonstrations, before From Michigan, Jenness plans stops pares with 19 states in 1968, 11 in were not really interested in politics community organizations, and at in Pennsylvania, Washington, D~ C., 1964, and 12 in 1960. this year. "That's the article they write street rallies. They will be taking their New York and the New England area. I observed that this must require every fall," Seigle shot back. "They views to workers at plants and union On .the West Coast, Andrew Pulley, hard work and hours. "But ·I write it. because they hope it will come meetings. And they are speaking on 1972 SWP vic~pres~dential candidate, college campuses throughout the coun­ was greeted by large SWP campaign try. banners draped from buildings at the !I Jenness has been touring the Mid­ University of California, Santa Bar­ IS west, appearing on numerous radio bara. Pulley spoke to an audience and TV programs, and receiving ex. of 150 on the campus Oct. 25. cellent press coverage, which has al­ In· San Diego, Pulley spoke at out­ ready reached millions of Americans. door rallies at the University of Cal­ Pulley has been campaigning in the ifornia, San Diego and San Diego South and Southwest, where he has City College at which Mario Garcia, been enthusiastically greeted by Black a member of MECHA (Movimiento and Chicano high school and college Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan- Chi­ students, as well as G Is and ex-G Is cano Student Movement of Aztlan) who had heard of his GI organizing and professor of Third World studies, when he was at Ft. Jackson, S.C. urged support for Pulley's campaign. in 1969. Part of Pulley's tour of the Pulley also spoke at a meeting South included a visit to Ft. Jackson, sponsored by the San Diego Gay Lib­ where he talked to many Gis before eration Front, and taped radio and being surrounded by the Military Po­ TV interviews. lice and escorted off base in clear On Oct. 27, Pulley was invited to violation of the constitutional right speak to a literature and philosophy 1,200 supporters participated in launching of SWP campaign of Gis to hear political candidates. class, composed primarily of Black in Cleveland, Aug. 12, 1971. students, at San Diego State College. The candidates' most recent activi­ That evening, he was the featured pan­ love it," she said. "Working for som~ true. And it is true for the Democratic ties make it clear that the campaign elist at a meeting on electoral poli­ thing you believe in is very satisfying. and Republican candidates. But not is rapidly moving into high gear. On tics sponsored by MECHA And working for this campaign in for us. Besides, there are more social­ Oct. 26 Jenness spoke to a meeting Pulley and several campaign sup­ particuiar, when you see the response ists now than there have been in many at Cleveland State University and then porters have received invitations to you get." years." to 300 high school students at two tour the Lompoc Federal Correctional She said she had not even heard Not only are there more socialists, assemblies at Shaker Heights High Institution in Ventura County, Calif. of the SWP election campaign in 1968, he added, but one of their most ef­ School. That evening she spoke to They were invited by Warden Frank but that if she had she would certainly· fective weapons is one that only they an enthusiastic meeting of 165 stu­ F. Kenton after a request by Los have- the truth. He ·said Linda Jen­ have supported it. "I think it's the dents at Edinboro State College in Angeles SWP campaign manager ness had summed up the need for the same with other young people today," Pennsylvania. After the meeting, 35 Tony Dutrow. she added. other candidates to lie this way: "If people signed up to endorse the SWP Pulley plans to speak at the Clar~ Seigle, drawing attention to the sig­ the Democratic and Republican parties campaign and, to actively work as mont Colleges, L. A Valley College were really honest, they would call nificance of the suits that the cam­ Young Socialists for Jenness and Pul­ (at a rally organized by the presi­ themselves 'capitalist imperialist party paign will be filing against discrim­ ley on their campus. dent of the Black Student Union No. 1' and 'capitalist imperialist party inatory election laws, and in order Jenness opened the Michigan leg of there), and at several high school as­ to gain access to prisons, jails, and No. 2.'" "We're telling the truth," he her tour with a news conference Oct. semblies in Beverly Hills and San military bases, pointed out that "This added. "That's why our campaign is 28 at the Detroit Press Club. Attended . Marino. On Nov. 3, Pulley will ad­ campaign will extend democratic so attractive. Even if people don't by over 20 reporters, it was one of dress the strike rally at Los Angeles rights for everybody- in the prisons, agree with everything we're saying, her most successful news conferences City College. in the high schools, and on the cam­ they know we're telling the truth." since the campaign began in August. Pulley's tour will take him Cal­ puses." One such suit has already been to To get out the truth as widely as Appearing with Jenness were Maceo ifornia's Bay Area, Oregon, Wash­ filed against Chicago Mayor Richard possible, he said the campaign needs Dixon, a Black Detroit activist who ington, Utah, Colorado and Missouri. Daley for preventing Linda Jenness to establish a "network of contributors." from speaking in the city's Civic Cen­ announced his candidacy for U.S. Meetings may be arranged for the He emphasized that even small con­ ter. representative from Michigan's First candidates by contacting the Social­ tributions of $5 or $10 were impor­ Congressional District on the SWP ist Workers Party 1972 Campaign Extensive press coverage tant, and that there was no danger ticket; and Linda Nordquist, a fem­ Committee, 706 Broadway, Eighth Steve Beren, who is in charge of of getting too much. "Don't worry, inist active in the Detroit Women's Floor, New York, N.Y. 10003. Tel~ press relations for the campaign, we'll spend as much as we can raise." Abortion Action Coalition, who an- phone: (212) 260-4150.

16 By LAURA MILLER According to an interview in the aid the Native American people? people? If, by your own admission, George McGovern, the fll'st declared August 1971 Playboy, you stated: "I Why haven't you condemned Rocke­ the new reforms will not change the Democratic presidential candidate for would think that negotiations for the feller and others responsible for the balance of power within the Democrat­ 1972, is making a whirlwind tour of release of our prisoners and the safe murder of 43 prisoners and hostages ic Party, why do you ask us to build college campuses this fall campaigning exit of our forces could begin within -at Attica prison? support for that party? Why do yo'\! hard for the youth vote. He recog­ 30 days after I became president. And Why haven't you publicly called for encourage young people to forsake nizes that 25 million new young voters once those negotiations were com­ freedom for Angela Davis? the independent mass movements for cannot be ignored by any office-seeker pleted, I see no reason why a full Why haven't you publicly con­ a party that we can never exert real with high ambitions. withdrawal couldn't be executed in six demned the murder of George Jackson control over? But the current attitude among or eight months' time." Why do you by prison guards at San Quentin? many ·youth toward the Democratic think it would take so long to with­ Do you support independence for Wage freeze and Republican parties, and virtually draw U.S. troops? Why do you feel Puerto Rico? Mr. McGovern, why did you vote every other institution in this society, the U. S. has any right to have U. S. for the Economic Stabilization Act of is marked by skepticism and, suspi­ troops on Vietnamese soil for even 1970, which gave President Nixon the cion. A recent poll of new voters con­ a few months or to extract any con­ Democratic Party legislative authority to freeze wages? ducted by Newsweek magazine report­ cessions? As past chairman of the Democratic After Nixon imposed the wage freeze ed that of all new voters who have Although you claim that the Amer­ Party's Commission on Delegate Se­ on Aug. 15, why did you support registered thus far, 18 percent signed ican public has a right to know what's lection and Party Reform, you were this action and even go so far as up as Republicans, 38 percent as Dem­ going on in Vietnam, and attribute instrumental in attempting to make a to say it was "too little, too late"? Why ocrats and 42 percent as independents. your past support to the war on lack few rules changes that will allow do you think American workers Young people are less willing than of information, Daniel Ellsberg re­ young people, oppressed nationalities should have stiff limits placed on wage ever before to take the capitalist par­ vealed that when he asked you to and women to have greater participa­ increases, as Nixon intends during ties, or their politicians, at face value. make public the Pentagon Papers in tion in the Democratic Party. The pri­ Phase Two of his economic plans? None of the current liberals who as­ January 1971, you refused. Why? mary strategy behind this reform Do you support the demand for pire to the presidency- McGovern in­ You've spoken at antiwar rallies, movement is to convince young people guaranteed cost-of-living raises to pro­ cluded-has succeeded in capturing but why haven't you promoted the to participate in the Democratic Party tect workers' wages against inflation, the unquestioning allegiance and fir­ antiwar movement and its demonstra­ in order to discourage them from tak­ and a shorter workweek at no reduc­ ing the imagination of youth in any tions in your campaign speeches? ing their grievances into the streets in tion in pay to reduce unemployment? way approaching the success of the independent mass action~. In your McCarthy youth brigades of 1968. own words, even if all the proposed re­ Following are some questions Debates Middle East forms take effect, they won't make Mr. McGovern, on Oct. 2 a debate young people on the campuses and While you think the war in Viet- much difference in who runs the party. between Linda Jenness and yourself, in the high schools are asking McGov­ nam is too costly, you support arms You stated in the Playboy interview: ern. The Socialist Workers Party can­ arranged by Students and Youth for aid to Israel. In the August 1971 "I find it's very bad operating pro­ didates for president and vice-presi­ McGovern at the University of Wis­ Playboy interview, you stated: "I think cedure, for example, to go into a state consin in Madison, was canceled by dent, Linda Jenness and Andrew Pul­ Israel won't be fully secure until the without advance telephone calls and ley, think that young people have the you and your staff. Why? United States and other countries personal letters to key party leaders. right to know the answers. to these When Chicago Sun Times reporter guarantee its existence. Israel is the . . . When it comes right down to questions. James Campbell called your national one free state we have in the Mid­ it, the candidate will be selected by staff in Washington, D. C., about the dle East." Why do you oppose the about 1,500 of these people at the Madison meeting, he reports that one right of the Palestinian people, who next national convention." of them referred to Jenness as a "kook Vietnam war have been driven out of their home­ If this is what you think, why do and a Trotskyite." Do you condone Mr. McGovern; why did you vote land, to self-determination? Would you you defend a system of candidate se­ this answer? for the Gulf of Tonkin resolution in advocate U. S. military intervention lection based on maneuvering and Why do you refuse to debate Linda 1964, which provided the legislative in the Mideast under any circum­ back-room deals by a handful of Jenness? basis for the military escalation in stances? . Vietnam? Why did you vote against its repeal in 1967? Why did you vote Socialist candidates around the country for every military appropriations bill Women's liberation COLORADO: Joan Fulks, U.S. Senate; Miguel Pendas, U.S. Congress; that came up in the U. S. Senate dur­ You have failed to take a clear ing the 1960s? Your position on the stand on the crucial question of abor­ Fern Gapin, U.S. Congres·s. Vietnam war at the 1968 Democratic tion law repeal, and other issues of Party convention was support for a vital importance to women. Do you GEORGIA: Alice Conner, U.S. Senate; Frank Grinnon, U.S. Congress, temporary bombing halt in Vietnam. support the right of women to decide 5th C.D. You also opposed immediate and total whether ·or not to have an abortion? withdrawal of U.S. forces and in fact If so, why haven't you endorsed and MICHIGAN: Linda Nordquist, U.S. Senate; Mace.o Dixon, U.S. Con­ are still opposed to it. Why? helped promote the Nov. 20 demon­ The "Amendment to End the War," strations for the repeal of all anti­ gress, 1st C. D. which you cosponsored with Senator abortion laws? Do you support free Mark Hatfield (R-Ore.) in 1970,rather 24-hour child-care centers controlled NEW YORK: Peter Buch, U.S. Congress, 14th C. D.; B. R. Washington, than demanding the immediate with­ by those who use them? U.S. Congress, 18th C. D.; Stacey Seigle, U.S. Congress, 20th C. D.; drawal of all U.S. military forces, David Keepnews, State Assembly, 66th A: D.; Evan Cohen, State As­ proposed instead to allow the war to continue until December 1971, and Oppressed nationalities sembly, 67th A. D. then to withdraw U.S. troops only Mr. McGovern, when you were if the Vietnamese people granted cer­ chairman of the Senate's Interior Sub­ OREGON: Ruth Getts, U.S. Senate; John Linder, Portland Board of tain concessions to the U. S. aggreS:. committee on Indian Affairs, why Education Position No. 1 . sors. didn't you produce any legislation to

THE MILITANT/ NOVEMBER 12, 1971 17 . leaflets, and sell The Militant. the U.S. She·~ speaks Spanish fluedtly . "It's a thing with this society," he Influenced by .the Cuban revolution StUdent suggested, when asked why he thought and the war in Vietnam, she joined no woman had yet been elected pres­ the Young Socialist Alliance in 1966. ident. "I don't see any reason why She served as an officer of the Wash­ a woman and a Black man shouldn't ington, D. C., Mobilization Committee activists run for office as long as they're qual­ at the time of the Oct. 21, 1967, anti­ ified." Although he is impressed with war march on the Pentagon. She the record of Jenness and Pulley, worked for Merit Publishers (now join . Richardson made it clear that it was Pathfinder Press) in New York in the program of the candidates .that 1968. In September 1968 she repre­ made him a supporter of the cam­ sented the YSA in Lares, Puerto Rico, campa1gn paign. He believes that socialism is at the hundredth anniversary celebra­ the answer to the problems facing peo­ tion of the Puerto Rican independence ByJUDYUHL ple in the United States today and movement. In January 1969, she Gary Yost, a Lehigh University stu­ is building the campaign to get out spent five weeks in Cuba as part of dent, first heard of the Socialist Work­ the ideas of socialism. "We put so­ a YSA delegation invited by the Cu­ ers Party election campaign when he cialist pamphlets on the literature ban government to participate in ac­ saw Linda Jenness on Underground table," he pointed out. tivities marking the tenth anniversary News, a Chicago-based TV news show Many Young Socialists for Jenness of the Cuban revolution. carried on Philadelphia's Channel 29. and Pulley do not belong to an or- Linda Jenness was the Socialist "She was talking about the antiwar . ganized group that meets regularly. Workers Party candidate for mayor movement and about how things real­ Some do. But all of them agree on of Atlanta in 1969 and for governor ly are in this country," he said. Yost one thing. They want to help build of Georgia in 1970. and his friends in Allentown, Pa, im­ the SWP 1972 campaign and· help While a candidate in Georgia, she mediately telephoned New York to increase the numbers who already was a leader of the Atlanta Mobiliza­ place an order for 30,000 campaign support the program of the can­ tion Committee and was active in brochures. didates. Emory University Women's Libera­ Yost and Dave Rizzetto, a Lehigh "It's women who seem most excited tion. Funds are urgently needed to County Community College student, about the campaign," offers Linda Jen­ She is the coauthor of several pam­ build the Socialist Workers Party have already arranged to have Linda ness, remarking on the number of phlets on women's liberation: "Wom­ election campaign. Enclosed is my Jenness appear on the local educa­ women who have endorsed her cam­ en and the Cuban Revolution,"" Abor­ contribution of $] 00 $50 $25 tional TV station when she is in Al­ paign after hearing the presidential tion: A Woman's Right," and "Kate $] 0 $5 Other. I can make lentown. "It will be broadcast to seven candidate speak. "Many campaign Millett's Sexual Politics: A Marxist Ap­ a regular monthly pledge of$ __ . states," the 18-year-old campaign sup­ supporters are Blacks, Chicanos and preciation." This spring she toured the 01 would like more information porter said, "and we've got her a date G Is," reports an organizer for theY SJP country, speaking on the women's lib­ on the Socialist Workers Party to appear on cable TV as well." Jen­ in Austin, Texas. He was describ­ eration movement. 1972 campaign. ness will be speaking in the Allentown ing the endorsements received after She spoke as a representative of 01 endorse the Jenness-Pulley tick­ area Nov. 8 and the Young Socialists Andrew Pulley spoke to several meet­ the SWP at the April 24, 1971, anti­ et os a positive alternative to the for Jenness and Pulley have already ings in Austin. Support for the cam­ war demonstration in San Francisco. Democratic and Republican parties, pasted up campaign posters on the paign is coming from almost every although I do not necessarily agree campuses in the area. sector of society. Andrew Pulley with all of the planks of the SWP Getting on the ballot is another con­ The youthfulness of the candidates, Andrew Pulley was born May 5, 1951, program. cern of the newly formed Allentown especially their defense of the interests in Greenwood, Miss. When he was 01 wont to organize o meeting YSJP. "The Philadelphia campaign of young people, is a strong attr ac­ 12, he moved to Cleveland, Ohio. He for o candidate or campaign speak­ headquarters told us you need 20,000 tion to the campaign for many was expelled from John Adams High er in my oreo. signatures to get on the ballot in Penn­ YSJPers. "I find that being a 20-yeat:­ School for playing a leading role in 01 wont to organize Young Social­ sylvania and so far we've collected old vice-presidential candidate is a def­ what school officials termed a "riot"­ ists for Jenness and Pulley in my about 1,000 signatures," Yost report­ inite asset in this campaign," says An­ students had walked out of their class­ or ea. ed. The campaign activist wasn't de­ drew Pulley. "I know what it's like es as part of the nationwide protest 01 wont to attend the Young So­ terred when he was told that the actual to be discriminated against because by Blacks in the wake of the assas­ cialist convention in Houston, Dec. signatures would have to be collected of my age. Our campaign is the only sination of Martin Luther King Jr. 28 to Jon. I. Send me more in­ on special petitions which weren't campaign which is fighting to extend Given the choice of going to jail or formation. available yet. "We can get them over the democratic rights, such as voting joining the Army, he joined the Army. OEnclosed is $].00. Send me I 0 again," he replied. "It won't be hard." rights, of all young people. Every As a GI at Fort, Jackson, S.C., he weeks of The Militart. the weekly In addition to publicizing the cam­ young person who wants to should became involved in one of the first newspaper of the socialist cam­ paign in his area, Yost was interested be able to participate fully in elec­ GI antiwar organizations in the coun­ paign. in the plans for the Young Socialist toral politics." try- Gls United Against the War in 01 wont to help sell The Militant. Alliance convention to be held in This fall, Cindy Jaquith and John Vietnam. As the organization's influ­ Send me a regular weekly bundle Houston, Texas. When he found ·out Hawkins, national coordinators for ence spread throughout the base and of_ Militants and_ subscription the gathering of socialists would take YSJP, have been touring the country gained national attention, the Army blanks. place over Christmas vacation, he organizing youth support for the cam­ decided to crack down on it. Its main· said he'll be making plans to attend paign. leaders were arrested and threatened MATERIALS AVAILABLE (Special so that he can meet and talk with In the months to come, thousands with court-martial. Pulley became one rates available on oil bulk orders.) Young Socialists for Jenness and Pul­ of Young Socialists for Jenness and of the defendants in the celebrated case Four-page Militant election cam­ ley activists from around the country. Pulley will be energetically building of the Fort Jackson Eight. He spent paign feature: I 00 for $].50; 500 The convention, which will feature the campaign across the country. 60 days in the stockade before a well­ for $6.00. a rally with Jenness and Pulley as They'll be challenging all of the other publicized defense campaign brought POSTERS: I) Lindo Jenness for Pres­ speakers, will decide on a course of candidates and their campaign rep­ about his release and discharge from ident, JOe ea.; 2) Andrew Pulley action for young socialists in the 1972 resentatives to debates, and pressing the Army. (The full story of the case for Vice-President, JOe ea.; 3) Eu­ elections. the capitalist candidates for clear an­ of the Fort Jackson Eight is told in gene V. Debs, 50c ea. Michael F alladay read of the nom­ swers to the most important questions Gls Speak Out Against the War by BROCHURES: l) Bring All the ination of Linda Jenness and Andrew of the day whenever they appear on Fred Halstead, Pathfinder Press, Troops Home Now; 2) Women's Pulley in the newspaper. "As head of the campuses. YSJPers will be distrib­ 1970.) Liberation and the Socialist Cam­ the University of Kentucky SDS in uting millions of pieces of campaign In 1970, Andrew Pulley was the paign; 3) Young Socialists for Jen­ 1968, I arranged for Fred Halstead literature, selling subscriptions to The SWP candidate for U. S. Congress ness and Pulley. All brochures $2 (1968 SWP presidential candidate] to Militant, the campaign newsweekly, from California's 7th C. D., running per 200. BUTTONS: I) Linda Jenness- pic­ speak at UK and supported the cam­ and staffing literature tables in high against Democrat Ron Dellums. Dur­ ture; 2) Andrew Pulley- picture; paign in a speech and artiq,Ie endors­ schools and on college campuses ev­ ing his campaign, he toured India, 3) Vote Socialist Workers in '72; ing Halstead-Boutelle in the campus erywhere. And every Young Socialist Ceylon, Japan, the Philippines, Aus­ 4) Make Your First Vo.te Count! newspaper," he explained in a letter for Jenness and Pulley who possibly tralia and New Zealand, speaking on Vote Socialist Workers- Young So­ to the national campaign staff. Falla­ can will attend the Young Socialist the growing radical movement in the cialists for Jenness and Pulley. All day, who is currently doing alternate National Convention in Houston Dec. United States and helping to increase buttons 35c eo. service as a conscientious objector at international support for antiwar dem­ 28 to Jan. 1. T-SHIRTS: I) Vote Socialist Workers the University of Kentucky Medical onstrations scheduled that fall. Heal­ '72; 2) Lindo Jenness for President Center, wrote to offer his services in so flew to South Vietnam in an effort (with women's liberation symbol); helping to get the SWP ticket on the to speak to Gls about the war and 3) Andrew Pulley for Vice-Presi­ ballot in his state. "The Kentucky fil­ The his election campaign but, on orders dent; 4) Capitalism Fouls Things ing deadline is February or March," from the U.S. Embassy, was not al­ Up- Vote Socialist Workers. All he reminded the staff. lowed to get off the plane. shirts $3.00 eo., plus 50c postage Gordon Richardson, a Black ninth socialist Following his congressional cam­ per shirt on orders less than one grader from Brooklyn, N.Y., was on­ paign, Pulley worked as a switchman dozen. Wide range of colors; avail­ ly nine years old in 1968. He had in the Chicago rail yards. able in small, medium, large, and never heard of Fred Halstead. He ticket This spring he was the Chicago co­ x-lorge sizes. has decided to help form a Young ordinator of the Black and Brown Socialists for Jenness and Pulley chap­ Linda Jenness Task Force to End the War in Viet­ Nama______Address------______ter. "A friend of mine took me to the Linda Jenness was born Jan. 11, nam. He was a featured speaker at New York headquarters and showed 1941, in El Reno, Okla, but she has the April 24, 1971, antiwar rally in City Stoia.._ Zip_ me the campaign literature," he ex­ been a legal resident of Georgia for Washington, D. C., as a spokesman Telephone------plains, "and we decided to form a most of her life. After graduating from for the SWP. Orgonizotion/Schooi _____ group." high school, she attended Antioch Col­ In September of this year, shortly (for identification only) The YSJP at St. Ann's High, where lege, where she majored in history; after his vice-presidential campaign Richardson attends school, sets up a while in school, she studied in Mexico was launched, he visited West Ger­ Socialist Workers '72 Campaign literature t~le in the school lobby and France. After leaving school, she many to get a firsthand report of ra­ Committee, 706 Broadway, 8th fl., all day on Wednesdays and Thurs­ taught English in Spain for a year cial discrimination against Black Gls. NY, NY I 0003; phone: {212) 260- days. They distribute campaign litera~· and worked as a secretary in Wash­ While there, he spoke to several meet­ 150 ture, antiwar and women's liberation ington, D. C., when she returned to ings of Gls.

18 By ANTONIO CAMEJO and TANK BARRERA SAN ANTONIO, Texas-A-Raza Uni­ da Party state convention held here Oct. 30 voted to organize a statewide party and to work for statewide ballot status in 1972. The decision came after a discussion of the possible difficulties involved in establishing a statewide party as opposed to a regional one. Participating in this discussion were 42 delegates from eight counties as well as some 250 observers and other county delegates that did not meet the strict legal requirement to be seated according to the Texas election code. The gathering was made up of pre­ dominantly young people -25 percent , : fiO~O h\~OZ J~ of whom were women-from both ru­ AIJ~£00 t{AMON ral and urban areas. A credentials committee carefully checked all delegations to make sure that they had held the necessary pre­ Posters urge Raza Unida vote in Crystal City elections in early April. Raza Photo by Howord Petrick cinct and county conventions and had Unida won control of both City Council and School Board in elections. the proper credentials to avoid any grounds for a possible legal challenge cedures for getting ballot status in the executive committee are Roberto Carlos Guerra, executive director of by state authorities. The gathering was county elections. This clear ground, Villarreal from Kleberg County and MAYO, defended the platform commit­ held in a democratic manner, allowing Gutierrez argued, would be better than Alma Carnales of Travis County. tee's resolution, arguing that it had all those who wished to speak to do the relatively unexplored proeess of The gathering voted to nominate been carefully thought out. The dif­ so. This was in sharp contrast to statewide certification. candidates on the basis of a conven­ ference involved was unclear to most the recent Spanish-Speaking Coalition Another consideration raised by Gu­ tion rather than a primary. The bal­ of the delegates, and the "withdrawal Conference in Washington, D. C., Oct. tierrez was the large number of sig­ lot will be headed by a gubernatorial by June 1972" formulation was adop­ 23-24, where Congressman Edward natures required to get statewide bal­ candidate who, along with the other ted. R. Roybal ( D-Calif.) repeatedly tried lot status. Texas election laws require candidates, will be chosen at a future The convention ended with a strong to gavel participants into silence. the gathering of signatures equal to date. note of unity and·with the whole body Mario Compean, former state chair­ 1 percent of those who voted in the determined to get the party on the man of MAYO (Mexican-American last general election for the office of The convention adopted a program statewide ballot in 1972. Jesus Gu­ Youth Organization), along with dele­ governor (over 22,000 signatures). presented by the platform committee. tierrez Cardenas, publisher of the gates Jesus Ramirez and Efrain Fer­ The signatures must be gathered be­ This platform, which will be further weekly El Sol de Texas, the only Span­ nandez from Hidalgo County, pre­ tween June 1 and Aug. 15, and only developed, included a broad spectrum ish-language newspaper in North Tex­ sented arguments for building a state­ registered voters who did not vote of demands, ranging from abolishing as, stated that he would do every­ wide party. in the May primary may sign the the Texas Rangers to points relating thing possible to build support for Compean stated that "H we go back petition. In order to appear on the to environmental poll uti on. A plank the Raza Unida Party among the pa­ and evaluate the position of both par­ ballot in subsequent elections without calling for public ownership of nat­ per's 25,000 subscribers. ties, we will see that they have never petitioning, the R UP candidate would ural resources was also added. The giant task of getting the party done anything for us. We have always have to receive at least 25,000 votes. All the planks passed unanimously on the statewide ballot will require had to grab from them, pressure them On the other hand, if R UP organized except the one on Vietnam, which significant resources, sending speak­ to be able to get something." He con­ exclusively on a county basis and called for withdrawal by June 1972. ers all over the state, putting out cam­ tinued that there were those who ar­ ran local candidates, the party would Dorinda Sanchez of San Antonio, paign materials, and doing everything gued against independent electoral ac­ have to file petitions for each can­ whose cousin is paralyzed from the else necessary to challenge the hold tion by saying that "We are going didate with signatures totaling 3 per­ waist down from an injury received of the Democratic and Republican par­ to lose everything we have." Compean cent of the number of votes cast in in Vietnam, argued that "We should ties throughout the state. This effort answered, "Well, what have we got? that county for governor in the last not wait until 1972 to bring the car­ will require large financial resources. We have nothing.... You have to general election. In Zavala County, nates [brothers] home. We should de­ Contributions should be sent to Raza push progress to make sure progress for example, this would amount to mand to bring the carnales home Unida Party, P. 0. Box 37305, San comes across." only 200 signatures, according to Gu­ now." Antonio, Texas 78237. Another point raised by Compean tierrez. was the importance of transcending It was felt by Gutierrez and those local boundaries. "One of the things who agreed with him that R UP wasn't The following are the principal points embodied in the planks of a that has always kept us down," he ready organizationally andfinancially draft platform approved by the founding convention of the Raza Unida said, "is that we are concerned with to carry out the difficult campaign Party of Texas. A final version of the platform will be acted upon at our little piece of land over here, or necessary to obtain ballot status state­ the state nominating convention to be held in June 1972. our barrio or our town or urban wide and organize a statewide party. area. This has kept us from really They felt that by organizing on a --A broadening of the state educational program to include multi­ moving forward as a united people." county and regional basis, however, lingual and multicultural programs at all educational levels. He argued that by organizing state­ R UP can build the necessary base --All levels of school personnel including administrative shall be wide rather than on a county-by-coun­ to launch a statewide campaign in representative of the people of the community. ty basis, they would have "both local 1974. --Eighteen-year-aids shall be able to hold office as well as vote. control and something on a statewide Compean held that it was impor­ --Abolition of filing fees for political oHice. level." tant to the future of the party to take --Civil review and enforcement boards for all law enforcement agen- Roberto Villarreal of Kleberg Coun­ the step of going statewide now. One ty, arguing for a statewide party, of the dangers of remaining regional, cies, with the composition of such boards to be representative of their stated, "In order to get statewide and he felt, was that "we are only admitting communities. regional enthusiasm for the party, it what the media, the system, the gringo, --Indicted persons to be entitled to a trial by their racial, cultural has to have something higher than a have said about us. We're scared of and economic peers. county judge to shoot for." doing anything. We don't have what --End of intervention in the aHairs of other countries, especially Viet­ Jesus Ramirez urged going statewide it takes to do it. ... We're the 'people nam, and withdrawal from Vietnam to be effectively completed by as the most effective manner of local of mafiana.'" He then added, "Do you June 1, 1972. organizing. He argued that if a state­ want to be the people of maiiana or wide alternative were not present in the people of today?" --Free medical care including a program of preventive medicine the form of a statewide ticket, "La At the conclusion of the vote of dele­ for all. Raza will still be voting Democratic gates, 21 were for a statewide party --An effective system of local, state and federal antipollution laws. Party, and every year it's worse." and 15 for a regional party. Guti­ --Support to the farmworkers' movement and all organizations' ef- Others held that there were certain errez then put a motion on the floor forts designed to improve the economic and social situations of all dangers in becoming a statewide party that in the spirit of unity the conven­ working people. at this time, and that the best way to tion accept the motion by acclamation. --Support to the proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution that build the R UP was to expand and The motion passed. Mario Compean strengthen the county parties. This then made a motion that Gutierrez would include women under the Fourteenth Amendment to the Con­ point of view was expressed by Jose be made state chairman by acclama­ stitution. Angel Gutierrez, leader of the Crystal tion. Gutierrez declined because it --Free public transportation for all. City R UP. Gutierrez, who was nom­ would violate the state election code --Abolition of the Texas Rangers. inated chairman of the convention by (he is presently chairman of the Crys­ --Election of student representatives to the board of regents and acclamation, felt that the party would tal City School Board). Compean was directors of institutes of higher learning. be more assured of success by organi­ then elected chairman of the state ex­ --A minimum wage of $2.50 an hour to be augmented as the cost zing on a regional basis. ecutive committee by acclamation. He pointed out that the Raza Unida The rest of the committee is com­ of living rises. Party's earlier attempt to get on the posed of: Enfrain Fernandez, vice­ --Endorsement of the National Coalition of Spanish-Speaking People ballot in Zavala County, though un­ chairman, Hidalgo County; Alberto formed in Washington Oct. 23. successful, had the effect of forcing Luera, secretary, Bexar County; Jose --Public ownership of natural resources. the courts to enumerate the exact pro- Gonzalez, treasurer. Also included on

THE MILITANT/ NOVEMBER 12, 1971 19 Houston socialists draw first place on ballot By JERRY FANNING nificant legal victory when a federal Incumbent Mayor Louie Welch has candidate for school board, told re- HOUSTON- On Oct. 28 Debby court knocked out sections of Hous- tried to make this a big issue by ar- porters the arrest was an attempt to Leonard, Socialist Workers Party can- ton's election code. The action, as a guing that the loyalty oath is the same deny high school students the freedom didate for mayor, and Paul McKnight, result of a suit filed by Leonard and as the oath of office, and candidates to distribute and read any publica- SWP candidate for City Council, went McKnight, struck down: 1) a require- that won't sign the oath aren't fit to tion they choose. Over 30 copies of to City Hall, where they both drew ment of real estate ownership for two take office. The mayor and the City The Militant were sold to students first place on the ballot for the Nov. years; 2) filing fees of $1,250 for Council publicly declared that they coming out of the school. There were 20 elections. mayoral candidates and $500 for would have appealed the federal court no arrests. City Council candidates; 3) a five- ruling on the election requirements if At Memorial High School, where This was big news in Houston be­ year residency requirement. it would not have posed a problem students have been suspended for en- cause for many months it wasn't clear . The SWP also won a court injunc- in. getting the ballots printed before gaging in political activity, Leonard whether or not the SWP candidates tion against enforcement of the loy- the elections. spoke to 700 seniors during six class would even have ballot status at all. alty-oath provision, permitting the The SWP campaign has had con- periods Oct. 5. Fifty Militants were Just the day before the drawing, SWP candidates to appear on the bal- siderable publicity in the past weeks sold and 25 students signed up as Leonard and lot without the oath. and has received an enthusiastic re- campaign supporters. sponse throughout the city. On Oct. 20, journalism students at Some of the most favorable reac- Madison High School video-taped a tions have come from high school debate between Leonard and Bob students. Since the high schools Webb, a lawyer running for mayor. opened in September, Leonard has Mayor Welch and the liberal candi- spoken at seven of them. date, Fred Hofheinz, refused to par- On Sept. 21, 80 students heard her ticipate in the debate. The tape is be- speak at all-Black Worthing High, ing shown to civics classes through- and 19 signed up as supporters of out Houston's high schools. the SWP' s 197 2 presidential ticket. As the result of her meetings in high The following week, about half of schools, many students have become an assembly of 200 at St. John's ap- involved in building high school' par- plauded when she demanded the dis- ticipation in the Nov. 3 student st~ike missal of Houston Police Chief Short. and the Nov. 6 antiwar demonstra- On Sept. 31, a campaign supporter tion in Houston. was arrested for "trespassing'' at Also, a number of high school stu- Spring Branch High School while sell- dents are now actively campaigning ing The Militant. In response to this for the SWP local candidates as well attack on civil liberties, the SWP cam- as its presidential ticket. They are Photo by Othell 0. Owensby Jr. paign organized a news conference helping to sell The Militant and are Debby Leonard {right) and Manuel Barrera {center) sell­ on the steps of the school Oct. 4. participating on teams to obtain Mil- ing Militant outside Spring Branch High School. Leonard and Tank Barrera, SWP itant subscriptions. U of Minn. students demand gay be rehired By GREG GUCKENB URG some 6,000 leaflets were passed out refused to approve McConnell's con- pus, and numerous professors and MINNEAPOLIS-More than 1,000 at the university. · tract. ministers. persons rallied outside the administra- The McConnell rally was organized With the aid of the Minnesota Civil The Young Socialist Alliance was tion building Oct. 26 to demand that in the wake of a U.S. appeals court Liberties Union (MCL U), McConnell involved in building the rally with the University ofMinnesotarehireMike ruling last week upholding the regents' took the case into court and won, but Minneapolis gay groups and activists McConnell, a gay activist. decision not to hire McConnell. The the regents appealed and last week in the women's liberation movement. The rally, organized by an ad hoc court ruled unanimously that McCon- won a reversal. The demands and slogans of the coalition, received unprecedented en- nell was trying "to foist his socially Others speaking at the rally included rally were: 1) hire Mike McConnell; dorsement from groups and promi- repugnant views on his employer." Conrad Balfour, ex-commissioner of 2) end discrimination against gays nent individuals in Minneapolis. The McConnell is an outspoken gay ac- human rights for the state of Min- now; 3) a. denunciation of the court rally was the largest of its kind ever tivist in Minneapolis. Last year, he nesota; Mathew Stark, president of the of appeals decision as "repugnant to held in the state. and Jack Baker, now University of MCL U; Jack Baker, student body the constitutional mandate that every McConnell-who is gaining nation- Minnesota student body president, president; Randy_ Furst, Young So- person is equal." al prominence for his fight against sought a marriage license, creating cialist Alliance; John Preston, Minne- the regents- thanked rally partici- nationwide publicity. The request for sota Council. on the Church and the A major petition campaign is,r"o­ pants and vowed the struggle would the license was rejected on grounds Homophile; Bob Halfhill, from FREE, jected demanding that McCorifiell be continue. that the two were violating sodomy the campus gay group; Betsey Far- hired. Funds are still urgently needed laws. ley, University Women's Liberation; to build a national campaign to aid Gay leaders at the demonstration McConnell, 28, had earlier applied Sherri Buffington, editor of Uptown Mike McConnell's defense. Contribu- estimated that over 200 gays from for a librarian position, and his con- Voice. tions can be sent to: McConnell De- on and off campus were in attendance tract was approved by the head li- The rally also received support from fense Fund cfo Women's Liberation, at the rally, organized on five days' brarian in April 1970. But in July the president of the Hospital Workers Room 110, Coffman Memorial Union, notice. Gay bars throughout Minne­ 1970, on the recommendation of the union on campus, the president of University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, apolis and St. Paul were leafleted, and university administration, the regents the Teachers Assistants union on cam- Minn. 55455. By Any Means Necessary ACCORDING TO the Oct. 29 Muhammad Speaks. at first. It was as if they were calling me a traitor, atrist, ordered Wall a Wall a Superintendent B. J. Sp/4 Samuel Robertson, 22, of Baltimore, and or disloyal, or something. And that really made Rhay to carry out these reforms. Sgt. Ronald L. Bolden, 23, of Cleveland, were me feel bad. I wanted to go off and picket or The establishment of the council, which had also acquitted of all charges arising from their being demonstrate at the Pentagon, or maybe the White been recommended, did not come about until the absent without leave for six months from the West House, since they claim they are· doing what the inmates- 20 percent of whom are Black and 5 Berlin brigade in West Germany. "This was the song is all about, bring the boys home. I thought percent Native American, Asian, or Chicano­ first time a defense based on racism and discrim­ it was unfair."- Freda Payne, who recorded the massed in the auditorium one day in January, ination has been advanced in an AWOL case ... popular song "Bring the Boys Home." armed with knives and clubs. Negotiations were and won," said the paper. The two faced a maxi­ held, resulting in the agreement on a constitu­ mum sentence of six months in the stockade, for­ WASHINGTON STATE PENITENTIARY at tion and the councils. feiture of all pay and allowances, and a bad con­ Walla Walla, a maximum security installation con­ duct discharge. But Robertson was found not guilty taining 1,155 inmates, is the site of one of the Conte's ideas for the experiment were the -re­ last Aug. 16 by a special court-martial jury of more liberal experiments in prison reform in the sult of his dissatisfaction with U. S. models for four officers, including one Black captain. .Later u.s. prison reform. He sent Rhay, according to the on, charges were also dropped against Bolden. At Walla Walla, there are no longer "guards" Nov. 1 Newsweek, "on a scouting trip to Eu­ The brothers, who had served in Vietnam, left or "convicts," only "correctional officers" and "res­ rope." Rhay was "impressed with experiments in their base in January and returned there, after idents." The residents are allowed to dress in a prison self-government by convicts in Denmark contacting the press, in June. In describing some variety of clothing styles and wear their hair and and Holland." On returning, he and Conte con­ of the factors that led to their flight, one Black beards at any length. Inmates can make telephone vinced state officials to try the plan at Wall a W al­ GI who testified at the court-martial "named three calls and their mail is uncensored. Strip cells have l a Black Gls who had been so harassed that they been banned and solitary confinement is rarely According to the Oct. 18 New York Times, mem­ became mental cases and were sent to hospitals," used. bers of the newly elected councils were given a reported Muhammad Speaks. "He also related a Perhaps most important are the Resident Gov­ dinner in October where over 100 outsiders, in­ recent mysterious incident where a Black GI had ernmental Councils; one for the 855-man inner cluding state officials, reporters, and inmate wives, been found dead in a canal." prison, and another for the minimum-security attended. Robertson's defense attorney was Stanley Faulk­ building, which contains 270. Each council has Walla Walla at one time had a reputation as ner, the New York civil liberties lawyer. 11 members, is elected every six months, and the worst prison in the West. Self-government or abides by an inmate-written constitution. no self-government, it's still a prison, but per­ "WHEN I HEARD THE SONG WAS BANNED The present set-up began in late 1970, when haps a little more bearable. in Saigon (by the Pentagon) ... I was offended the state director, Dr. William Conte, a psychi- -DERRICK MORRISON

20 Court denies press right to interview Attica prisoners By DERRICK MORRISON civil rights are not respected in a maximum se­ NEW YORK- Federal Judge John T. Curtin- in curity facility, how is it to be done in a "max­ Questions a rebuff to the right of the public to know- turned max"? down a suit on Oct. 28 that would have permitted If we judge from past practices, the new prison newspaper reporters to interview Attica inmates. will only intensify the deprivation and dehum an­ raised by The suit was filed by David Burnham and Tom ization that characterize the present hell-holes. Wicker of the New York Times; Donald Single­ To aid Schwartz and the battery of American ton of the New York Daily News; Mary Breasted, Civil Liberties Union lawyers helping to defend Nat Hentoff and Jack Newfield of the Village Voice; the Attica inmates, contributions can be sent to: '!Rap Brown' the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press; Attica Defense Fund, cf o Center for Constitution­ Playboy Enterprises, Inc.; WBAI-FM; and two At­ al Rights, 588 Ninth Ave., New York, N.Y. 10036, tica inmates, James Brown and James Carter. attn.: Norma Munn. arrest It was argued in Buffalo early this month by By DERRICK MORRISON In reaction to a disturbance• in the Tombs (Man- Herman Schwartz, a professor at the University The claim of the New York Police Department hattan House of Detention for Men) on Oct. 22, of Buffalo Law School. that they have arrested Black militant H. Rap Schwartz, in a telephone interview with the Mili­ the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) held a press Brown raises in a very poignant manner the re­ conference the following day demanding entrance tant, said the decision would be appealed. lentless and unwarranted persecution of the brother and interviews with the inmates involved. Although Curtin had conceded earlier that the by police and state authorities- from the time The story of city officials is that several inmates public was getting a one-sided view of the At­ of the 1967 white racist attack on the Black com­ were transferred at about 8 p.m. to other cells, tica uprising from state officials, he stated that munity of Cambridge, Md., in,which Brown was the prohibition of interviews was not an "unrea­ where they started pulling up toilet bowls and wounded, to the present incident and its aftermath. sonable restriction on contacts between prisoners burning the mattresses in protest. Guards came The man police say is Brown was shot twice and the press," according to the Oct. 29 New York in to quell it. in the stomach at point blank range, then ar­ However, GAA and WLIB, a Black-oriented FM Times. rested along with three others, in an attempted jazz station, reported a totally different story. GAA Schwartz also cited a previous suit filed in the robbery of an Upper West Side bar early Satur­ appeals court to stop the questioning of inmates says the disturbance occurred hi the gay section day morning, Oct. 16. Although their identifica­ by the state. It will be heard Nov. 5. The danger of the Tombs, which is on the 4th floor, and ac­ tion is based on a check of fingerprints, the man of the state's investigation, headed up by Deputy cording to an inmate who called WLIB that night insists he is not Brown, but "Roy Williams." Attorney General Robert E. Fischer, is that in­ the guards were the ones who burned mattresses At the Oct. 20 arraignment of "Williams" in Roose­ mates don't know whether testimony given will in an assault upon the inmates. They came in velt Hospital on charges of robbery and attempted be used to prosecute or defend them. In the ab­ with their badges removed, using night sticks and murder, police say Brown's wife and his brother sence of their own legal counsel, this procedure tear gas. One inmate was reportedly badly beat­ Sam were standing by the bed. Bail was set at amounts to a gross violation of their rights. en. GAA observers who were at the Tombs on an astronomical $250,000. In other developments on Attica, New York Gov­ the night of the incident noticed helmeted guards The day before at a preliminary hearing for ernor Nelson Rockefeller and "correction" officials going into the Tombs as late as 2 am. the other three- Samuel Lee Petty, 23, Arthur Lee Young, 26, and Levi Valentine, 24-bail was set at $100,000 apiece. . According to the Oct. 18 New York Times, Brown and the three others were under the sur­ veillance of the St. Louis police while they were in that city several weeks ago. Petty, Young and Valentine were reputed to be former members of the now defunct Black Liberators, a St. Louis­ based group that modeled itself on the Black Pan­ ther Party. All three were wanted by the police on criminal charges, including an indictment for carrying firearms. Brown, after he dropped out of sight in April 1970, was placed on the FBI's most wanted list. Nevertheless, despite this no­ toriety, no arrests were made by the St. Louis police while they had these four under surveil­ lance, leaving the implication that the police could have had a hand in the Upper West Side robbery. On the same day that "Williams" was arraigned, Richard L. Kinlein, the prosecutor for Howard County, Md., was found guilty of contempt of court and fined $350. He was the man who told Aftermath of AHica assault. Prisoners' account of treatment since the revolt a reporter last January that the arson charge still has not been heard. lodged against Brown, stemming from 1967 events in Cambridge, Md., was fabricated by the Dor­ - despite repeated pronouncements about "prison While the press conference was in progress, Jim chester County prosecutor to insure the entrance Owles, GAA president, met with Deputy Correction reform"- are moving to set up a "maximum-max­ of the FBI into the case. Commissioner Benjamin Malcolm to see about imum" prison. Although such a facility had pre­ Brown had been charged with inciting to riot. getting in. Owles returned before it was over and viously been under discussion, it was decided to Indications that the state has a very weak case said he was denied entrance on the pretext that go ahead only after the 8,000 state prison guards, came last year in the release of an unpublished the city is making its own investigation. organized into Council82 of the American Federa­ report by the federal government's Kerner Com­ tion of State, County and Municipal Employees, mission on Civil Disorders. It stated "that the 'riot' demanded it. The demand got spirited endorse­ • Decisions by Judge Bruce McMarion Wright have that occurred after Rap Brown spoke had only ment from Jerry Wurf, president of AFSCME. proved upsetting to the judiciary machinery that taken place within the minds of the officials in Other demands backed by Wurf included the grinds out "justice" in New York City. On the that city." equipping of all state prison guards with riot hel­ nights of Oct. 12 and 13 in Bronx Criminal Court, The two-judge panel that ruled against Kinlein mets and gas masks; rehiring of several hundred the African-American jurist released without bail decided that his revelation was "prejudicial to a guards laid off due to budget cuts; and training a total of 43 people brought in by police. Judge fair trial." of guards by state police and other "law enforce­ Wright exclaimed, after his action was splashed They also might have ruled that the March 1970 ment" personnel. It is not clear whether the state about in the press, "I didn't do anything last night bombing of an automobile in which Ralph E. agreed to the last two demands or not, but con­ that I don't do normally." In a reiteration of his Featherstone and William "Che" Payne were killed firmation of the "max-max" came down on Oct. view in the Oct. 15 New York Post, he stated, was "prejudicial to a fair trial." The two, former 5, two days before Council 82 had threatened "I said Blacks and Puerto Ricans were arrested leaders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating to stage a "lock-in," i.e., a refusal to open cells because they were more visible. . . . I said they Committee, of which Brown was once chairman, for a day. should arrest more of the big [drug] pushers. Cops went down to attend the opening day session, Wurf's actions and the organization of prison in New York would never get promoted if it weren't subsequently postponed, of Brown's trial in Dor­ guards as a supposed component of the labor for Blacks and Puerto Ricans." He was referring chester County. As they drove away from the movement, amounts to openly embracing and col­ to the system of promotion on the basis of the courthouse, the car exploded. laborating with the police- the enemy of Black number of arrests. After this bombing, the trial was transferred and working people. AFSCME members who want Judge Wright was appointed to the bench in to Howard County. But Brown dropped out of to disavow this action should demand that Coun­ 1970. Because of his outspokenness, he was trans­ sight, feeling he could in no way get a fair trial cil 82 be expelled and that the union extend sup­ ferred out of Brooklyn at the request of the dis­ in Maryland. port to the proposals of the Attica inmates for trict attorney. And now, because police and judi­ Despite police allegations, whether "Williams" is prison reform. cial officials are investigating his actions, he might Brown has still to be verified. Rockefeller and Russell G. Oswald, the state com­ wind up in Queens or Staten Island. missioner of corrections, believe that through iso­ He is one of the eight Black judges among the lating 500 or more of the "real troublemakers" 98 who serve in the criminal court system. When from the state's prison population of 18,000, there five supervisory judges were appointed recently would be no turmoil and rebellion. To dress up to help deal with the backlog of cases, Judge the proposed prison, one official referred to it Wright blasted the appointments because not one as a "special program facility," where inmates was Black, despite the fact that the majority of would receive "intensified treatment" with all due defendants coming into the courtroom are Black respect for their human rights. But if human and and Puerto Rican.

THE MILITANT/ NOVEMBER 12, 1971 21 At the other extreme from the "hip­ tion" groups are contributing to the in which we are living and give a say PY left," or the "love generation," is political confusion that exists in the to the people, a voice in the affairs From Intercontinental Press the still more tragic phenomenon of country. of the country that has been taken By RICARDO OCHOA the adventurist groups carrying out In present conditions, the only ones from them. We are going to open MEXICO CITY- On .the anniversary anarchist-type actions and kid­ who can profit from such adventures our ears to the people, listen to them, of the massacre of Tlatelolco, three nappings. are the most reactionary groups. get to know them directly. We under­ years after the army and police Such guerrilla actions made the While the guerrillas seem to be per­ stand that the people are tired of lis­ launched their suppression of the mass headlines several times in September. sonally honest, their activities can tening, of following orders. They want student and popular movement on Just before Echeverria give his report easily be infiltrated by provocateurs. someone to listen to them, they want October 2, 1968, by shooting down to congress, the police captured a Some leaders of the revolutionary to give orders themselves. . . . " left like Rico Galan argue that it is hundreds of persons attending a group called CAP [Comandos Arma­ If we didn't know from a reliable peaceful rally, Mexico seems now to dos del Pueblo-Armed Commandos very likely that some actions, such source that Castillo has no sympathy be passing through a difficult water­ of the People]. These youths were ac­ as kidnappings and bank robberies, for Maoism, we might think that this shed period. cused of holding up drugstores and have been carried out by the "Hawks" was a typical project of "serving the Events in the month of September carrying out a series of "revolution­ themselves. people." But no, Fuentes, Paz, Cas­ pointed up the conflicting currents. ary expropriations." Without examining such charges tillo, and Cabeza de Vaca are too President Luis Echeverria made his The arrest of the CAP group was thoroughly, it does seem clear that the intelligent to stick a Maoist "label" on first report to congress on September 1. the third wave of jailings this year work of the "direct action" groups is themselves, and they would be even This speech had been proclaimed for that Echeverria has directed against obstructing the job of building the rev­ less likely to do so at a time when weeks in advance as an event of the the adventurist far left. At the begin­ olutionary vanguard, which is the ur­ Maoism is rapidly becoming dis­ greatest importance, a statement that ning of the year, nineteen persons be­ gent task at this time. And such a credited. would answer the questions most longing to the MAR [Movimiento de result can only gratify the progovern­ What then does this populist ingenu­ troubling the Mexican people. Acci6n Revolucionaria- Revolution­ ment forces. ousness represent? Castillo and the Naturally, everyone expected a re­ ary Action Movement] were arrested. Some groups of students and left others do, of course, admit to having port on the investigation into the mas­ This July, the police moved against personalities, on the other hand, have a few "ready made" ideas. This is for­ sacre that occurred last June 10, when a group linked to Genaro Vazquez tried to find a way out of the diffi­ tunate. After all that has occurred in rightist commandos, trained and Rojas. culties of the present period by putting the class struggle here in the past few equipped by the army, attacked a stu­ The month of September concluded forward various "broad," or reformist years, it would be incredible if even dent demonstration, killing dozens of youths and bystanders and terroriz­ ing a whole section of the capital city for several hours. Echeverria admitted once again in his speech to the congress that armed bands attacked the students on June 10, thus contradicting the story put out by officials of his own govern­ ment that the massacre was the re­ Lett lorces in exico sult of "dogmatic" wrangling among the demonstrators. However, since he was apparently unable to report any progress in bringing these murderous terrorist groups to justice, the president seemed search ans11ers also to be admitting that the goons and their patrons in the political es­ tablishment are too powerful to be prosecuted. Among other things, this situation seems to illustrate the narrow mar­ gin for maneuver the Echeverria re­ gime has for its so-called democratic opening. In any case, in September a secret armed terrorist repressive force, the "Hawks," remained on the loose-and, along with them, the pol­ iticians of the Diaz Ordaz regime who set them up and control them. At the same time, the massacre of Tlatelolco, followed up by the new murderous attacks on a peaceful mass demonstration last June, has produced a mood of despair and confusion among broad sectors of the student population. This mood has been ex­ pressed in two ways- by the spread of the "drug culture" and by the pro­ liferation of small adventurist groups. In the first case, there is evidence that at least some elements in the gov­ ernment and the ruling class are ac­ tively promoting a "drop-out" mental­ Part of Aug. 27, 1968, demonstration by 500,000 in Mexico City against gov­ ity among the youth. Besides its ernment repression of student movement. political advantages, of course, this development has its financially prof­ political formulas. The case of He­ the most primitive group_ had failed itable side. with the kidnapping of a businessman berto Castillo and his compafieros is to draw some lessons. (It should be One of the landmarks in the growth and high government official, Julio remembered, too, that Castillo and of the hippy movement, which has Hirschfeld Almada. He was captured notable in this regard. Their pro­ some of his compafieros have _spent been led by demoralized young rebels on September 27 by the FUZ [Frente posals have received considerable of the generation of 1968, was the Urbano Zapatista- Zapata Urban publicity in the liberal press and seem almost three years in prison and so "Festival de Rock y Ruedas" [Rock Front] and released sixty hours later to have a certain credibility for large have had time to reflect deeply on the 'n' Roll Festival] held on August 22 in return for a ransom of 3,000,000 sectors of public opinion. experiences of 1968.) In fact, such in Avandaro, a summer resort about pesos [one peso equals US$.083]. On Septem her 21, Heberto Castillo a failure would reveal the most abject two hours' drive from Mexico City. held a news conference, along with political incompetence. Like the MAR before them, the CAP the student leaders Cabeza de Vaca Furthermore, Castillo and Fuentes This event was organized by one of and the F UZ are made up of youths from Chapingo and Salvador Ruiz are not newcomers to politics. They the most reactionary sectors of the belonging to the generation of 1968, Villegas from the engineering school participated actively in 1961 in found­ Mexican bourgeoisie, the sector linked who have been frustrated by the re­ of UNAM [Universidad Nacional Au­ ing the ML N [Movimiento de Libera­ 'to the Azcarraga and Espinoza Ygles­ pression. The members of these t6noma de Mexico-Autonomous Na­ ci6n Nacional- National Liberation ias financial combine. This powerful groups are honest revolutionary tional University of Mexico], and the Movement]. Afterwards, all the other financial group controls the Banco youths disgusted by the depth of de­ writers Octavio Paz and Carlos "founding fathers" of the MLN aban­ de Comercio, the country's biggest cay into which the Mexican political Fuentes. They called on "Mexicans to doned it, leaving Castillo alone in bank, as well as the largest radio and system has fallen. But their moral struggle politically to change the real­ a sinking ship. television network, and it has close and political indignation has been di­ ity that repels almost all of us." ties to the Chrysler Corporation rected toward the most obvious and These figures declared: "We want to Fortunately, as I have said, Casti­ through its partnership in the Fab­ least effective outlets- open rebellion work politically side by side with the llo and his compafieros have some ricas Automex. Former president Diaz by small isolated groups without links people, not in the name of the people." "ready made" ideas. They have per­ Ordaz is also linked to this group. to any sector of the masses, even the They specified: "We are not announc­ ceived that the agrarian reform has The festival in Avandaro was the oc­ students. ing the formation of a political party failed, that the trade-union bosses are casion of one of the most notable Lacking a ·political program, a initiated from ·above by one group lording it over the workers, and that political scandals of the season. Many strategic orientation, or an appreci­ of Mexicans with a ready-made pro­ governmental corruption has reached high government officials were impli­ ation of the need for the patient and gram. No. We are calling on Mexi­ abysmal levels. As the result of such cated- the secretary of the interior, difficult preliminary work of organiz­ cans to discuss the bases, the pro­ insights, they are prepared to say, the governor of the country's most ing revolutionary cadres, the rebels gram, the goals of a political organi­ "We want to take over the govern­ important state, and many others. behind these mushrooming "direct ac- zation that can transform the reality ment."

22 "For what purpose?' It might be asked. "To transform the economic, politi­ cal, and social structures of Mexico," 8,000 demonstrate they say. Appeal for That Is, Castillo and his friends de­ clare their Intention of changing the in Montreal for prevailing capitalist system with the very modest weapons of a humble at­ Argentine titude toward the people and a willing­ ness to let the people show them the a French Quebec way forward. They want to change The following article is reprinted from armed with standard riot equipment militant the capitalist system, but at the same Labor Challenge, a Canadian revo­ such as helmets and clubs, but there From Intercontinental Press time that they "are going to go to lutionary socialist biweekly. were no major incidents. [Luis Enrique Pujals, said to have the people" to inform them of this By MARILYN RAPHAEL However, when the demonstration been wanted by the Argentinian po­ objective, the people are supposed to MONTREAL - A week of meetings reached the Hydro-Quebec building, lice because of alleged membership give them the instruments and solu­ and teach-ins on campuses in Mon­ the Montreal office of Quebec Premier in the Ejercito Revolucionario del tions to achieve this objective. treal, Hull, Sherbrooke and Trois­ Bourassa, a few individuals among Pueblo (Revolutionary Army of the Unfortunately, it is very probable Rivieres, organized by the United the demonstrators let fly a volley of People), was kidnapped in Buenos Ai­ that the Mexican people still have a Front for the Defense of the French rocks and bottles, smashing windows res September 24 by unknown assail­ long way to go In achieving the con­ Language, was climaxed when over and preventing the orators from ants. sciousness needed to define their ob­ 8,000 people marched ·through the mounting the speaker's platform to [His companion, Emilia Susana jectives clearly. But they already prob­ streets of Montreal on Oct. 16. The begin the rally. This attempt to sab­ Gaggero de Pujals, said that she had ably see these new populists as one demonstration commemorated the first otage the demonstration was orga­ received an anonymous telephone call more confusing element, and not as anniversary of the invocation of the nized by a group of ultraleft Maoists informing her that her husband was part of the solution. War Measures Act by launching a who, in the weeks prior to the dem­ being held by the federal police. How­ The Mexican people in general can­ mass campaign for a French Quebec. onstration, had campaigned against ever, the police denied knowing any­ not give directions to anybody. What [The War Measures Act, suppressing the struggle for a French Quebec, thing about his whereabouts. the average person is looking for Is civil liberties throughout Canada, was claiming that the Quebecois' demand [In an open letter to President La­ help in finding a way out. This is invoked by Prime Minister Trudeau for the right to speak their own lan­ nusse, Emilia Susana Gaggero de Pu­ what any self-respecting vanguard following two political kidnappings at­ guage only served to divide the work­ jals appealed for information about must realize, and not waste any time tributed to the FLQ, the Quebec Lib­ ing class. her husband and for protection of with belated populist sentimentalism. eration Front.] After about ten minutes, the mar­ his life. It is hard enough for the people to Oct. 15 was organized as a day shals were able to restore order and [The following is a translation of understand this system, to say noth­ of teach-ins in the schools against Bills the rally began. Michel Chartrand, her letter as published in the October ing of getting them to understand 28 and 63. Both are aimed at main­ president of the Montreal Central 6 issue of La Verdad, a Buenos Aires the need for replacing it. Replace it taining the privileged status of the Council of the Confederation of Na­ weekly newspaper.] with what? How? By what means? English language at the expense of tional Trade Unions, who was the Unless a vanguard tries to answer the French-speaking Quebecois. Bill first speaker, hit out at the social and The federal police have held my these questions, It does not deserve 28 is presently before the National economic oppression of the Quebecois husband for seven days. After taking the name of a leadership, and of Assembly. Bill 63, which was passed at the hands o{ American and Anglo­ all the steps called for by the law, course it will never be one. In October 1969 by the provincial Canadian imperialism. He also con­ I should like to draw some conclu­ Thus, the panorama of the opposi­ government, ·provoked the most mas­ demned the Maoists, declaring "you sions as to what has happened to tion, as featured In the press, ·does sive protest demonstrations in Quebec make a revolution with the people, my husband. not offer a very convincing alternative since the struggle against conscription you don't make a revolution with a I believe that the way in which he to the regime. But some less publi­ in the Second World War. little gang of stone throwers." has been dealt with is not something cized tendencies . point in a more hope­ Thousands of high school and col­ unique. It could occur to anyone in ful direction. lege students in Montreal boycotted The other speakers included: Reggie view of the fact that our country's In September, a coordinating com­ classes on Oct. 15 and representatives Chartrand of the Chevaliers de l'In­ repressive institutions act in general mittee of several groups held Its first of the United Front visited dozens of dependence, Robert Lemieux, lawyer with complete impunity, all restraints activities pointing toward a wider re­ schools to rally support for the dem­ for many of the victims of the War having been removed by new laws groupment of revolutionary Marxist onstration the following day. Day­ Measures, Alain Beiner, national or­ giving the government life and death forces. The organizations Involved long teach-ins were held in four CE­ ganizer of the Ligue des Jeunes So­ powers over individuals without being were the Grupo Comunista Inter­ GEPs (community colleges) in Mon­ cialistes, and Raymond Lemieux of held accountable. nacionalista [Revolutionary Commu­ treal. At one high school, Philippe the Ligue pour l' Integration Scolaire, While I do not intend to deny the nist Group], Teoria y Practlca [Theory Aubert de Gaspe, over 1,000 students· who is presently under indictment for political course followed by my hus­ and Practice], the Partido Mexlcano (practically the entire school) attended "inciting a riot" while he led a demon­ band, it is also necessary to note that del Proletarlado [Mexican Proletarian a rally to hear speakers from the stration in St. Leonard for French­ this is part of the reality of our coun­ 'party], and the Nucleo de Marxistas United Front. At two other high language rights in 1969. try which witnesses conflicts every day lndeyendlentes [Independent Marxist schools, over 800 students lef~ their Raymond· Lemieux ended the rally in all areas-labor, culture, and pol­ Nucleus]. · classes and began a protest march, by declaring that this was only the itics. The coordinating committee. held but were turned back by the police. first step in a massive campaign to My husband is the victim of the two public meetings, one at the UNAM The demonstration, about 4,000 win a French Quebec. only answer your government has to · and the other at the Politecnlco [Poly­ strong when it departed from Pare As the vast majority of the dem­ these facts- arrest, kidnapping, and technic Institute], to give a Marxist Lafontaine, was joined by over 4,000 onstrators dispersed, a group of about refusal to Indicate his whereabouts, answer to Echeverria's report. Mem­ more people along the six-mile route. 200 ultralefts, led by the Maoists, thereby prolonging the suffering of bers of the FAT [Frente Autentico del Thousands of spectators in the work­ marched through the downtown area his family, who, in view of the prece­ Trabajo-Authentic Workers Front] ing-class district the demonstrators smashing windows and ended up . In dents that are publicly known (the also participated in these meetings. marched through enthusiastically ex­ a fighting match with the police. Nine Martins, Maestre, Verd cases) fear for In its first issue, Brecha, the organ pressed their solidarity. arrests were made. his life or his being tortured. of the coordinating committee, ex­ At one point the demonstration Despite these Incidents, the demon­ According to the president of the pressed solidarity with the Fourth passed by the Parthenais jail where stration was a big vict.ory and is proof nation, acts like these are justifiable International, writing: the 500 political prisoners were taken that thousands of Quebecois are once inasmuch as a domestic war is being "The only instrument capable of after the invocation of the War Mea­ again willing to come into the streets, conducted against what he calls sub­ dealing effectively with the complex sures last October. The jail was heavi­ to continue the struggle until a French version. But I, like many Argentinians, conditions of the crisis in capitalist ly guarded with provincial police Quebec is won. wonder why the international Geneva society Is a cohesive party based on conventions, which call for humane a common understanding of develop-_ treatment and respect for the lives of menta and the tasks they Impose. We prisoners of war, are not being ob­ must repeat again and again that the served. International capitalist class has As a psychologist it is a daily af­ learned more from the triumph of the fair for me to encounter illness and Russian, Chinese, and Cuban rev­ in some instances death, but I have olutions than have the workers them­ always tried to fight them. That is, selves and their allies. It Is utopian, my profession enables me to battle therefore, to think that in these con­ against them and draw human beings ditions victory is possible without the away from their influence. But on the supreme revolutionary instrument, the other hand I have found that men Leninist _party. The Chinese won and exist whose profession it is to pro­ the Cubans also won without this, voke them, and who even draw wages but we will never win with a blunted and support their families doing it. instrument like the semi-Stalinized Chi­ Finally, Mr. President, I say to you: nese CP or the guerrilla movement You are responsible before the law, of Fidel and Che. Today the bour­ before history, and before the people geoisie is much more adroit and will for the historical process our country not let itself be taken by surprise is undergoing.· You are also respon­ again." sible for all the actions of the organs These are the revolutionary Marx­ of power. You must guarantee the ist guidelines that the Mexican Trot­ physical well-being and life of my hus­ skyist movement is following In Its band. As a wife, as a mother, as an work to organize the vanguard in the Challenge Argentine woman, I demand it. dangerous conditions created by the Montreal rally of 8,000 Oct. 16 marlcing first anniversary of invocation uneven development of this van­ of War Measures Act, which aimed at suppressing national struggle Emilia Susana Gaggero de Pujals guard's consciousness. for Quebec in.dependence.

THE MILITANT/ NOVEMBER 12, 1971 23 - ' Britain to enter the Common Market By DICK ROBERTS The British House of Commons vote Oct 28 to approve Britain's member­ ship in the European Common Market is a further reflection of the new stage of intensified world capitalist compe­ tition that was forcefully signaled three months ago with President Nixon's launching of the U.S. "New Economic Policy." British Prime Minister Edward Heath told a meeting of his Conser­ vative Party one week before the House of Commons vote: "Everyone concerned with trade and finance knows that rough winds are beginning to blow across the world." Heath's allusion to Nixon's aggressive eco­ nomic policies did not have to be spelled out. Just as Nixon's new policies in in­ ternational economics are coupled with a vicious wage-freeze attack on American workers, British entry into A few of the most ardent supporters of British entry into Common Market: (left) the Common Market has nothing Paul Lorenz, chairman, Ford of Europe; (middle) Lord Stokes, chairman, British whatsoever to do with the needs of Leyland Motor Corp.; (right) John Thomson, chairman, Barclays Bank Ltd. the British people. Polls show that most Britons oppose entry into the Woods system in world finance, and sition of the British workers. Since This means that British people, who Common Market despite a multimil­ at the same time found London en­ 1965, the London governments, first before had access to the cheaper ag­ lion-dollar campaign by the Conser­ tering into a common front with the of Harold Wilson's Labour Party and ricultural produce of Commonwealth vative Party to popularize the move. EEC nations opposed to Nixon's pol­ now of Heath's Conservatives, have nations like Australia and New Zea­ Since the early 1960s, the British icies. Since Aug. 15, so far as world carried out a draconian economic aus­ land, will now have to pay the ar­ ruling class has more and more fa­ finance is concerned, Britain has al­ terity program in order to rationalize tificially high prices of European vored entry into the Common Market ready acted as a member of the Com­ British industry in the fight for world foods- a drastic penalty on the peo­ (the popular name for the six-nation mon Market. markets, partially in preparation for ple for EEC entry. The other side European Economic Community­ Along with British entry into the entry into the EEC itself. of this is that the reduction of markets EEC). This corresponded on one side EEC will probably come the entry With prices rising at a rate of about for Commonwealth nations' agricul­ to the declining power of British im­ of Norway, Denmark and Ireland, 10 percent per year, unemployment tural produce in Britain will depress perialism in the capitalist world mar­ whose economies are closely tied to in Britain and Northern Ireland stood the economies of these nations. ket, and on the other side to the grow­ Britain. The new 10-nation group in September at the highest level since ing economic power of other Euro­ would have a population of 290-mil­ 1940. There were 883,000 out of work Coupled with inflation, unemploy­ pean capitalist economies, especially lion, bigger than that of the U.S. in Britain, 3. 9 percent of the work ment and antistrike legislation, the of West Germany, France and Italy, Its total gross national product would force, and an estimated 45,568 or threat of higher food prices has driv­ the three major EEC nations. (The be around $650-billion, second only 8.8 percent jobless in Northern Ire­ en millions of Britons into opposi­ other three members of the EEC are to that of the United States. It is this land. tion to EEC entry and Heath's gov­ Belgium, the Netherlands and Lux­ combined market that the British rul­ The exact effects on people's incomes ernment. embourg.) ing class hopes will compensate for of British entry into EEC cannot be This, along with the issue of British Initially in the postwar period, Lon­ its loss of an empire. known until the various agreements intervention in Northern Ireland, has don chose to play the role of a junior A typical opinion appeared in a are worked out on a step-by-step ba­ precipitated a sharp crisis in the La­ partner to Washington in world eco­ recent statement by John Thomson, sis. Heath has been notoriously silent bour Party. Heath required- and got nomics and politics. The Bretton chairman of the powerful British Bar­ about the character of any promises -a significant number of Labour Par­ Woods, N.H., monetary conference, clays. Bank: "The importance of the hehas already made to EEC leaders. ty votes on EEC entry. Sixty-nine La­ for example, gave the pound a fa­ Common Market to the banker has Nevertheless, it is well known that bour MPs voted with the Conserva-' vored position in the world monetary been self-evident for a long time," said Heath has agreed to comply with EEC tives, despite the overwhelming vote system- although secondary to that Thomson. "The Six already contribute agricultrual policies. "The Conserva­ to reject British entry at the Labour of the dollar. 30 percent of the free world's trade tive government's most important Party conference in Brighton Oct. 4. But the strategy of British capitalism and their share is growing. If the agreement in the negotiations was ac­ The opportunism of the Labour Par­ has more and more oriented toward Six become Ten, their share will in­ ceptance of the Common Market's ty leadership is all the more drama­ combining with Europe in the fero­ crease to around 40 percent. Any common agricultural policy as it tized by the fact that Wilson- who, cious battle for control of world mar­ bank with international pretensions stands," New York Times correspon­ when he was Prime Minister, made kets. This process has been accentuat­ has of necessity endeavored to dent Anthony Lewis wrote from Lon­ important moves toward bringing ed by the emergence of Japan as a strengthen its associations with the don Oct. 29. "The policy maintains Britain into the EEC and initiated the powerful competitor in world trade. Common Market. ..." relatively high prices for farmers by deflationary policies that resulted in It is not a coincidence that Nixon's The optimism of the British rulers imposing levies on imported food­ the present British recession.;_ now pa­ Aug. 15 moves ended the Bretton stands in marked contrast to the po- stuffs." rades as an opponent of the EEC. Successes reported for Bengali guerrillas The Mukti Bahini (Liberation Forces) the economic and social life of the tween India and Pakistan. Yahya, re­ quoted "senior United States special­ of Bangia Desh have succeeded in region. luctant to concede that his army can~ ists" as saying "that India and the recapturing some territory that had "The Mukti Bahini are here, so we not handle the guerrillas, has blamed Soviet Union are quietly collaborat­ been occupied since last March, when are here. We are safe now," a farmer nearly every Bengali action on Indian ing to promote the political separa­ Yahya Khan's West Pakistani army told Schanberg. Morale among the forces or "Indian agents." tion of East Pakistan from the cen­ began its campaign of slaughter. Al­ liberation fighters is high. tral Pakistani government and its in­ though the total area of liberated Gerard Viratelle reported in the Oct. dependence under Indian protection." zones is reportedly small in compari­ 15 Le Monde that the Mukti Bahini According to Benjamin Welles in the son to the total area of East Bengal have been successful in crippling much Oct. 24 New York Times, military What this "independence" and this (1,000 square miles out of 55,100), of East Bengal's transportation and specialists estimate that India and "Indian protection" would amount to Bangia Desh military forces point to communication facilities, making it Pakistan have each mobilized about is made clear by one of the U.S. their existence as a sign of the future. increasingly difficult for Yahya' s oc­ 250,000 troops along the West Paki­ officials quoted by the Times: "What In the Oct. 22 New York Times, cupiers to "pacify" outlying regions. stan-Indian border. About 100,000 the Indians want ... is an indepen­ Sydney Schanberg described his visit The resistance seems to be firmly Indian troops surround East Bengal, dent East Bengal closely linked with to one such area, around the town inplanted in widespread sections of according to the same sources. Dur­ India somewhat like Sikkim or Bhu­ of Putkhali in the Jessore District of East Bengal: in the marshes around ing Oct. 23-24, some 600,000 mili­ tan." India controls the political, eco­ southwestern East Bengal. Compris­ Gopalganj southwest of Dacca, in the tary reservists were mobilized by In­ nomic and diplomatic affairs of these ing about 100 square miles, the Put­ forests of Madhupur north of Dacca, dia, and special wartime taxes were "protectorates." khali area is adjacent to a 200-square­ throughout the river channels of N oa­ announced. On the eve of her departure for a mile liberated zone in the Khulna Dis­ khali in the southeast Ganges delta Indian Defense Minister Jagjivan three-week tour of West Europe and trict. Some 150,000 people live in the area, and in the extreme northwest Ram, who the New York Times has the United States, Indian Prime Min­ two zones. pocket around the town of Thakurg­ called the Spiro Agnew of the Indira ister Indira Gandhi, in a special ad­ Most of the villagers had fled last aon. Many river routes, the major Gandhi government,. has indicated dress to the population, called for na­ March, when Yahya's invading army means of transportation in the coun­ what the character of Indian "aid" to tional unity and "alertness, not only burned their huts and crops, destroy­ try, are impassable to the army. Yah­ the Bengali .liberation forces would of our defense forces, but of ~ll o.ur ing most' of the jute, banana, and ya's troops have abandoned attempts be. He "vowed that any war would people." mango trees. But in July, the Mukti to repair the guerrilla-damaged rail­ be fought on Pakistani soil and that Yahya, on his part, thundered that Bahini retook the area, and much way linking Sylhet in the Northeast India would not withdraw from any his armed forces "are fully prepared of the population returned. and the major port city of Chittagong. territory her troops occupied," accord­ to defend every inch of the sacred A local administration of sorts has The strain on India of more than ing to the Oct. 24 Times. soil of Pakistan, with complete faith been created. It functions informally, 9,000,000 refugees fleeing Yahya's A dispatch from Washington in the in the righteousness of their cause and as villagers set about reconstructing army has brought threats of war be- same issue of the New York Times trust in the help of Allah."

24 more sense to them." Wickham Skinner of the Harvard likes money, but who has the time In addition to young workers, wom­ Business School summarized the to enjoy it? By the time you get -off By CAROLINE LUND en workers are also helping to create "problem" with workers as a "lack of an assembly line, you're like a dunce." Local 1112 of the United Auto Work­ the new dynamism of this local. R~ identification with the company or the The possibility of workers fighting ers union in Lordstown, Ohio, is a garding the older workers, Bryner product." for changes is not only bothering the somewhat unusual union. It offers a said, "We try to use them the best The Newsweek article included sev­ businessmen; it also worries the trad~ glimpse into the future of the trad~ we can, but the older people don't eral short interviews with workers who union bureaucrats. Earl Kester, 57- union movement in this country. The seem to be motivated any more. It's told how they felt about their jobs. year-old president of Glass Bottle 8,200 members of this local recent­ the younger people; the younger peo­ Willie Sanders, a 37-year-old riveter Blowers Association Local 2 in Oak­ ly elected a 29-year-old president, ple and the women. We didn't have in a California shipyard, said: "You land, Calif., told Newsweek: "These Gary B. Bryner. They also have a women in the plant until about a year get to the point where you stare at the younger people expect too much in 29-year-old financial secretary and ago, but now we have them, so that's rivets and to make the job mean som~ too short a time. They don't appr~ two executive board members who are having a bearing on what we do." thing you start counting them like ciate what they got." 25 or under. The average age of One of the union's committees is a counting sheep. When you do that, union members is 24. women's committee. you better watch out. Some guys tell But as in Local1112 in Ohio, more In the union elections Bryner d~ The dissatisfaction of the workers you that means you're going crazy. and more of these young workers who feated a 43-year-old candidate who at Lordstown- a dissatisfaction with So when it happens to me, I just go want something better than they've urged members not to elect a ''boy" the quality of their lives as a whole, home and watch television until I can got are beginning to organize to get it. to do "a man's job." In the last few weeks, Bryner spoke at the Oct. 13 Moratorium demonstration in Youngstown, Ohio, and has endorsed the Nov. 6 antiwar demonstrations. The election of Gary Bryner, and the changes in Local 1112 are in­ Young workers offer dications of the deep going process tak­ ing place in the America!! labor mov~ ment as a whole. Members of Local 1112 work in the newly built General Motors plant in Lordstown, a "model" plant where hint of laborS ·· · GM produces its compact, Vega, and is trying to meet foreign competition by pushing the assembly rate up to 100 cars an hour (normal speed in Detroit auto plants is 50 to 60 an hour). So in the Lordstown plant, workers face a sharp accentuation of the pressure and tedium of all assem­ bly-line jobs. Absenteeism has risen from 4-5 percent a year ago to 7 percent. And management complains that workers don't seem to respond to the signs hanging along the as­ sembly aisles, which say things like "Product excellence makes our job s~ cure," and "Quality keeps everybody happy." An article on Local 1112 in the Oct. 4 Cleveland Plain Dealer com­ mented that the young workers at the Lordstown plant want a lot of changes and have a lot of ideas-"about their jobs, about politics, about the war, about everything." In order to involve the membership in fighting for these changes, Local 1112 has set up 14 working committees, which meet at Young auto workers on the line at GM's "model" Vega plant in Lordstown, Ohio. least once a month. A "lack of identification with the company" worries bosses. One of these committees, which hasn't gotten started yet, is a peace and not just with their paychecks­ come back and face it again." They will be recognizing that the size committee. "We have a list of 30 guys is growing among workers in other George Watson, a 45-year-old weld­ of their paycheck and their conditions who want to join it," says Bryner, industries as well. The May 17 issue er: "A guy like me starts work when of work are at bottom political issues "and that's without any notification." of Newsweek dealt with this unrest he is 17. By the time he's 50, he's related to every other social issue in Another thing the workers want is in an article called "Blue Collar Blues." all wore out. Someone hands him this country. They will be fighting for a shorter workweek. "Somebody is al­ Newsweek noted that capitalists are some small pension and if he ain't some control over the foreign policies ready experimenting with a shorter getting concerned about problems of half dead already from heart trouble of this country, for an end to the war workweek," Bryner told the Plain Deal­ rising absenteeism, the growing ph~ or if he ain't a drunk, he's got about in Southeast Asia, for greater control er. "I think they're working a 10- nomenon of alcoholism and drug five years of watching TV to look over the work they do and the product hour day, four-day week. But I don't usage among workers, the new rebel­ forward to. That's life, friend. And they produce, for control over their think that's going to satisfy our peo­ liousness of younger workers, and in don't let anyone tell you any differ­ unions, and for greater control over ple down here. They don't want to some plants even .the problem of work­ ent." the government of this country work 10 hours a day. Eight hours a ers deliberately sabotaging produc­ Thirty-year-old auto assembler through a party responsible to the day, four days a week makes a lot tion. Tony Navarette said: "Everybody trad~union movement. UTU right to vote group assesses gains By WILLIAM L. BRANSON Officers and members of more than goes to press, Nixon has not an­ ments of the AFL-CIO affiliates and CHICAGO- A call for union action 500 additional UTU locals contribut­ nounced how Phase Two of his freeze the independent unions such as the against the wage freeze was issued ed financially to support this mov~ will operate, but he has made it clear Teamsters and United Auto Workers here this month by an influential and ment for union democracy. that he intends to place some form could convene a national congress of well-organized group of railroad During the past two years the RTVC of government controls over wages our own with elected representatives. workers who are active members of has issued from time to time a Prog­ while corporate profits will not be At such a congress the entire labor the United Transportation Union, ress Report, keeping railroad work­ touched. movement and its allies could present AFL-CIO. This group, comprised of ers informed of wage negotiations, "Many union officers and members our own solution to the mounting eco­ local union officers and young activ­ government and management attacks, are seeking effective measures to d~ nomic problems we are faced with. ists, has an up-from-th~ranks history and major strike developments in the feat this attack on labor. The follow­ We could develop a program and na­ and seeks a program of struggle for industry. ing ideas should be considered by tional structure for independent politi­ the future. The RTVC secretary, Ed Heisler, UTU locals in concert with other cal action along the lines of forming was elected to represent Local 1433 unions that are also affected. a mass labor party if the politicians At a regular membership meeting at the UTU international convention "1. Organize mass meetings of all in Washington continue to ignore our in October 1969, UTU Local 1433 in Miami Beach, Fla., Aug. 9-25, organized workers, unorganized and needs. elected a standing committee to ex­ where a vote on democratizing the the unemployed against Nixon's New tend the democratic rights of UTU union constitution failed by the nar­ Economic Policy. ":These are some modest proposals members. The committee was called row margin of 815 to 848. "2. Organize mass informational for action and I would like your com­ the Right To Vote Committee (RTVC), picket lines at appropriate govern­ ments and ideas on the above sug­ its central aim being to secure the The latest issue of the RTVC's eight­ ment offices to oppose the freeze. Con­ gestions. If your local takes any ac­ right of all members to vote on union page Progress Report carries a full tact other labor unions, such as the tion along the above lines please let contracts. It quickly developed into aCcount of the UTU convention and United Auto Workers, who might be me know." a movement among railroad workers outlines the future course of the mov~ interested in building such public pro­ This was signed by RTVC Seer~ for control of their union and won ment for union democracy. It says tests against the freeze. tary Ed Heisler. The RTVC mailing endorsement from about 100 other in part~ "3. Call for a national congress of address is: P. 0. Box 4 7 5, Benson­ locals of the 270,000-member UTU. "As this il!sue of Progress Report labor meeting. The legislative depart- ville, Ill. 60 1 06.

THE MIUTANT/ NOVEMBER 12, 1971 25 Inquiry spotlights Lindsay's corrupt cops By LEE SMITH ment, with plainclothes patrolmen being the big­ wrote, "the Lexow probe shook the city with its NEW YORK CITY, Oct. 29-"It is well known best money-makers next to the brass (division revelations of police corruption. So did the Sea­ that the mercenary wages cops receive are sup­ commanders, lieutenants, captains, inspectors, etc.). bury investigation of the 1930s and the Harry plemented by bribes and payoffs, often received e In addition to money from the "pad," free Gross scandal of the 1950s." from the very racketeers they are supposedly pro­ meals and "scores" (one-shot bribes), some cops, The Knapp hearings are proving to be no ex­ tecting the people from," The Militant stated Jan. such as those in the Harlem narcotics division, ception in terms of the momentary sensation they 29 in an editorial on the "strike" of New York have additional arrangements. An established are creating. Daily segments of the hearings have cops. practice on the Harlem narcotics squad is the been carried on two TV stations, at least one How the armed defenders of private property sale of heroin to informants in exchange for stolen radio station has broadcast the entire proceedings supplement their income has become even better merchandise (often stolen to specifications by in· live, and the New York daily papers have given known during the last two weeks, as hearings formants for cops who place advance orders). the disclosures consistent front-page play. have been conducted here by the "Knapp Com­ It would be naive to expect the present hear­ mission," the five-member Commission to Investi­ ings to depart from the basic pattern set by the gate Alleged Police Corruption, headed by Wall earlier probes Cook mentioned and other similar Street lawyer Whitman Knapp. investigations. Once all the shock and sensation The Lindsay-appointed commission's 17-month­ have subsided, things will still be the same. long investigation, costing $540,000 in city and Mayor Lindsay has as much as admitted this, federal tax money, has brought to light many of saying he intended to use the recommendations the details involved in the elaborate payoff setup of the Knapp Commission expected in a written that channels an annual minimum of $4-million report by the end of the year, "as the basis for in graft from the construction business, bars and a major campaign to build public confidence in the operators of gambling, prostitution and drug the Police Department and the integrity of our rackets into the pockets of "New York's Finest." law enforcement processes" (New York Times, Oct. A succession of cops, former cops, investigators, 26). gamblers, and others have appeared as witnesses Despite Lindsay's attempt to play the role of in the hearings. Their testimony, in response to corruption-busting mayor, his image is not com­ the questioning of commission counsel Michael ing out of the Knapp inquiry untainted. The cre­ F. Armstrong, has revealed, among other things, ation of the commission in May 1970 came only that: after great publicity caused by two cops charging • The acceptance of bribes, payoffs and other that Lindsay aides Jay Kriegel and Arnold Frai­ illegal gratuities is virtually a universal practice man (now a supreme court justice) refused to in­ on the force, for everyone from rookies to inspec­ vestigate reports of police corruption. Knapp him­ tors. The regular per capita monthly income of self has admitted that the mayor cannot escape plainclothes cops from graft varies from $400- responsibility for the graft exposed by the com­ $500 per cop in mid-Manhattan's Third Division mission. to around $1,500 per month per cop in East Not only has all of the shady dealing exposed Harlem's Sixth Division. by the hearings been going on while Lindsay • The practices are well enough_established that has been mayor, but it has been flourishing in they have generated a ritual and vocabulary in As a group of Black high school student ob­ spite of the shadowboxing bouts with department which new, .young cops become educated by older servers at the hearings remarked, there is basically corruption waged by his "Mr. Clean" top cop, cops. One witness, Patrolman Edward F. Droge "nothing new" in all of this. "We see things like Police Commissioner Patrick V. Murphy. Jr., testified that he was taught by older members this every day," 18-year-old Denise Atkins told Murphy's unique definition of honesty can be of the force how to begin taking money before the New York Times Oct. 21. "Payoffs, kickbacks, gauged by his handling of the case of Chief of he had graduated from the police academy. corruption- that's all we see." Detectives Albert A Seedm an. After relieving Seed­ • Virtually every unit in the city has a "pad" And if the hearings themselves are not some­ man of his duties for five days because the chief, (a regular schedule of fixed graft payments) of thing one sees every day, neither are they any­ his wife and another couple had eaten an $80 which each man in the unit receives a certain thing new, as Fred J. Cook, the author, pointed dinner free at the New York Hilton, Murphy re­ share (his "nut"). There is a graduated scale of out in the New York Times "Week in Review" instated him, saying, "There is no indication that graft income that corresponds to rank and assign- section Oct. 24: "More than 75 years ago," Cook Chief Seedman is other than an honest man." Former police agent tells of provocations By HARRY RING Tackwood charged that the princi­ who was beginning to suspect his po­ said his relations with the police be­ LOS ANGELES- The Los Angeles pal prosecution witness in the present lice ties and enjoyed immunity for gan in 1962 when he was arrested Police Department (LAPD) has been trial, a former Panther leader who the act. for car theft. As an alternative to pros­ accused of wholesale law-breaking in turned state's witness, is in fact a po­ But independent investigation, some ecution, he was offered the job of po­ a murderous war against militant ele­ lice agent who helped plan the raid. of it from hostile quarters, indicates lice informer in criminal matters. ments in the Black community and He said that the witness, Melvin (Cot­ considerable substance to Tackwood's Tackwood says that he was as­ other political dissidents. ton) Smith, had been identified to him charges. signed to inf"Iltrate the Panther Party The charges were leveled by Louis as a police agent prior to the attack His disclosures have been made in 1969. At that time, he says, a Sgt. Tackwood, 28, who for nearly a de­ on the Panther headquarters. public through the Citizens' Research Ronald Farwell, a Black member of cade was a paid police informer and T ackwood also disclosed that, un­ and Investigation Committee (CRIC), the Criminal Conspiracy Section, the provocateur within the Black commu­ der the direction of the LAPD, he had a local formation dedicated to prob­ department in charge of surveillanc;e nity. infiltrated the election campaign staff ing and countering illegal investiga­ of Black militants, provided him with Tackwood publicly declared that on of D'Army Bailey and Ira.Simmons, tions by law enforcement agencies, ex­ names and photos of several hundred Aug. 18, 1965, on instructions from the two Black Caucus candidates elect­ posing police fabrications of "conspir­ Black Panthers in the state. He spent superiors in a secret division of the ed to the Berkeley City Council last acies" against political dissidents, and several weeks studying them. LAPD, he made an "anonymous" call April. bringing to public attention illegal acts to police headquarters falsely advis­ T ackwood also asserted that the of intimidation and h:ar assment of Farwell, Tackwood declares, then ing them that guns were in the process LAPD had advance knowledge of the such dissidents. went over the photos with him and of being transported into Muslim Marin County courthouse shootout Tackwood originally approached pointed out a number whom he iden­ Mosque 27 of the Nation of Islam. that led to the present prosecution of an underground paper, the Los An­ tified as police agents within the Pan­ The call, he said, was set up to pro­ Angela Davis and Ruchell Magee. geles Free Press, with an offer of in­ thers. vide the justification for the police at­ He further asserted that the L. A formation about the illegal activity Among those whom Tackwood tack on the mosque that followed, an cops also had advance knowledge of of the LAPD. He was referred charges were identified as police attack in which eight Muslims were the San Quentin shootout that led to to Michael McCarthy, a political writ­ agents at that time was "Cotton" Smith, wounded. No guns were found in the the death of George Jackson. He said er for the paper who is actively in­ present principal prosecution witness mosque. that he had been assured before the volved with CRIC and who referred in the Panther 13 trial. Tackwood further said that he had shootout by an L. A secret police of­ him to that committee. Explaining his inf"Iltration of the acted as an intermediary between the ficer that Jackson would never come The committ~ taped Tackwood's Berkeley campaign, Tackwood said police and the cultural nationalist to trial for his alleged part in the entire story and then, realizing its ex­ he had been sent up north to gather information on an individual involved group US, led by Ron Karenga. He shooting of a Soledad prison guard. plosive potential, sought other corrob­ charged that the police had provid­ The media here has focused with orative efforts in addition to its own. in the Angela Davis case. The individ­ ual, he said, turned out to be active ed US with funds and weapons to most interest on a claim by Tackwood The Los Angeles Times, the Wash­ wage gang warfare against the Pan­ that members of the LAPD had dis­ ington Post and Newsweek were in­ in the Bailey-Simmons campaign, and it was decided that it would be useful thers. On Jan. 17, 1969, Panther cussed with state and federal intelli­ formed of the story and offered the for him to gather information on the members Alprentice (Bunchy) Carter gence agents the idea of setting off an opportunity to investigate it on their campaign. and John Huggins were gunned down. explosive at the upcoming Republican own. convention in San Diego with the idea The three publications agreed, and The polygraph expert, Chris Gugas, :Two people associated with US were says he put Tackwood through rigor­ convicted of the killings. that this would lead Nixon to declare in addition to their own study of the a state of emergency under which they case, they arranged for Tackwood to ous, intensive testing of several days' He also charged that the police had could conduct a roundup of militants. be subjected to lie detector tests, which duration. He concluded that while planned for months to carry through Tackwood's record as a police in­ were administered by Chris Gugas, Tackwood was "an opportunist who the Nov. 17, 1969, raid on the former and provocateur is far from past president and current board will work for the highest price," he Panther headquarters which resulted savory. He says that in two criminal chairman of the American Polygraph "did answer all the critical questions in the present trial in Los An­ cases he presented trumped-up police Association. He is regarded as a top truthfully on the examination." He geles of 13 Panthers on charges of testimony that sent two men to prison expert in the field. said he is convinced that Tackwood's conspiracy to assault an officer, con­ for long terms and put another on Tackwood, who was born in New statements "have considerable valid­ spiracy to commit murder, etc. death row. He says he killed a man Orleans and came here at age seven, ity."

26 The National from Pathfinder Picket Line , war is right let it be THE U.S. SUPREME COURT up­ local court injunctions against the held two lower court rulings denying East Coast longshoremen's strike. The declared by the people. both federal and New York State gov­ strike began Oct. 1 when the shippers ernment employees the right to strike. association locked out New York The first case, decided on Oct. 12, longshoremen. Dickman's purpose, of You who have your lives to involved the United Federation of course, is to break the coast-wide strike Postal Clerks, which had sued to force and starve the New York longshore­ the federal government to prove at men back to work under conditions lose, you certainly above all least that a striking worker (and dictated by the employers. his or her union) were "essential" others have the right to to national safety and health. Last A NEW GIMMICK has been intro­ March, a U.S. Court of Appeals had duced by the Department of Labor's denied that petition. Bureau of Labor Statistics in order decide the momentous The New York State case had been to further cover up the extent of un­ brought by the American Federation employment in the country. The bu­ of State, County, and Municipal Em­ reau recently revealed that henceforth issue of war or peace:• ployees and challenged the constitu­ it would no longer announce sepa­ tionality of the 1967 Taylor Law. Un­ rate unemployment figures for the der the Taylor Law, not only are ghetto areas of large cities. The job­ government employees forbidden to less rate in these inner-city areas now • Eugene V.. Debs, Canton, strike but any union wishing to rep­ officially stands at 10.4 percent, as resent them must pledge it will not against 6 percent nationally. Among even advocate the right to strike. The Black and Spanish-speaking youth, Ohio speech, 1918 union based its case on infringements unemployment is now 37.1 percent. of the First Amendment's free speech In a letter to Secretary of ·Labor clause. Hodgson, AFL-CIO President George In a third case, and only as a token Meany charged that the BLS is being to the growing militancy of the op­ politicized in order to cover up the pressed national minorities, the Su­ real situation. Meany said: preme Court refused to hear an ap­ "The announcement several days peal in a case brought by a group ago that the publication of quarterly of large construction firms seeking to reports on employment and unemploy­ declare the "Philadelphia Plan" un­ ment conditions in urban poverty constitutional. The Philadelphia Plan areas will be discontinued during 1972 requires that building and road con­ -incidentally an election year- is the struction firms hire and train a cer­ most recent of shocking examples of tain percentage of Black and Latino what is happening to the Bureau of workers to qualify for federal con­ Labor Statistics.... tracts. "It came on the heels of the re­ The plan has failed due to the united organization of the agency with shifts opposition of the industry and the and downgrading of key career per­ AFL-CIO building trades craft unions. sonnel, combined with the separation The building trades unions got of interpretation of economic data around the plan by giving would­ from the collection and analysis of be apprentices (predominately high such information.... That develop­ school dropouts) such severe tests ment ... came only a few months that most of them failed. One veteran after career, nonpartisan statisticians construction worker who saw the test were barred from the long-time pr ac­ said, "Hell, I've been in the trade tice of interpreting monthly employ­ 30 years and I couldn't pass that ment and unemployment reports at test! " public press briefings." An industry spokesman said the suit was brought because the plan "quo­ THE BALTIMORE LOCAL of the tas" "violate the concept of a color­ Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union blind (?) Constitution and the equal struck back in anger at George employment opportunities section of Meany's abject acceptance of a place the 1964 Civil Rights Act." on the Nixon pay board by with­ drawing all its delegates to state and EUGENEV.DEBSSPEAKS JAMES J. DICKMAN, president of local AFL-CIO bodies because "It is edited by Jean Y. Tussey the New York Shipping Association, unbelievable to us that Meany would with an introduction by James P. Cannon announced Oct. 26 that he expects agree to a board weighted 2 to 1 The most effective socialist agitator of the pre-war United States, Debs was management in other ports besides against the workers of the nation." convicted for his Canton, Ohio antiwar speech under the Espionage Act. The Philadelphia and New Orleans to seek -MARVEL SCHOLL collection includes the Canton speech as well as nearly 30 others. Also con­ tains several articles on prison. 320pp., $6.95, paper $2.75

GIS SPEAK OUT AGAINST THE WAR Youths rebel in five The CJse of the Fort Jackson Eight by Fred Halstead The story of how GIs organized their opposition to the Vietnam war is told of Ceylon's prisons by the soldiers themselves. Illustrating how Gls can wage a defense of their civil rights, and win, the book is a manual for antiwar Gls today. 128pp., $4.50, From Intercontinental Press ment of this university alone is esti­ paper $1.75 Sirimavo Bandaranaike's "United mated at about Rs1 million [1 rupee Fronf' government in Ceylon is ap­ equals US$.168]." BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY parently having difficulty maintain­ The correspondent also reported by Malcolm X ing "law and order" in its detention that pictures of Lenin, Marx, and Che edited by George Breitman centers. The centers were set up to Guevara adorn the walls of the. cam­ A companion volume to Malcolm X Speaks, these speeches and interviews hold the nearly 16,000 youths ar­ pus-prison. from Malcolm X's last year document his political evolution. 192pp., $5.95, rested during the witch-hunt the re­ According to the Paris daily Le paper $1.95 gime launched last April. Monde of October 7, the Lanka Sarna The October 9 Far Eastern Eco­ Samaj a party, one of whose members ROSA LUXEMBURG SPEAKS nomic Review reported that rebellions is minister of justice, threatened dis­ edited with an introduction by Mary-Alice Waters have taken place at five of the cen­ ciplinary measures against lawyers Imprisoned in Germany for her opposition to World War I, and murdered by ters. The campuses of Vidyodaya and who undertake to defend any person counterrevolutionaries in 1919, Luxemburg was a powerful agitator and revolu­ Vidyalankara, which have been trans­ suspected of having supported the tionary theoretician. This collection includes her most well known writings, formed from universities into prisons, April "insurrection." as well as her letters from prison. 473pp., $10.00, paper $3.95 were the scenes of two of the revolts. Other defendants, however, are hav­ According to the account by an un­ ing more luck. According to the Far BLACK VOICES FROM PRISON named Colombo correspondent, "The Eastern Economic Review correspon­ by Etheridge Knight and fellow inmates of Indiana State Prison detainees attacked guards with impro­ dent, "many" members of the security "These voices from Indiana State Prison serve as reminders of how Black vised weapons. Furniture was forces have been brought before courts writers are produced and how Black intellectual history is created."-- Olumo smashed, tube lights and ceiling fans after the government received com­ (Jim Cunningham), Black World 192pp., $5.95, paper $2.45 wrenched out, toilets reduced to a plaints that they had committed rape shambles, doors and windows shat­ and murder ~.nder cover of the "state Write to Pathfinder for a free catalog. tered. The buildings of the Vidyodaya of emergencv." Bandaranaike has de­ university, a multimillion rupee show­ cided to try them behind closed doors PATHFINDER PRESS, 410 West St., New York, N. Y.10014 Phone: (212) 741-0690 piece, now look like cattle sheds. The in order to avoid the damage to mo­ damage caused in the science depart- rale that might result from publicity.

THE MILITANT/ NOVEMBER 12, 1971 27 In Review Film on the defense attorney's skill and the witnesses' contradictory testimony to win the trial. His moving descrip­ tion of their politics is so appealing that it makes us wonder why there is such obstinate resistance to an equi­ table distribution of the wealth and to an end to war, and why any ra­ .. tional person could endorse hunger and destitution. But Sacco and Vanzetti and the forces arrayed in their defense could Sacco and Vanzetti. Directed by rest? On the day of the robbery? With at street corners to scorning men. I never have won the case simply on Giuliano Montaldo. Produced by the Palmer raids? With the Russian might have die, unmarked, unknown, the merits of their arguments. Judge Thayer, District Attorney Katzman, George Papi and Harry Colombo. revolution? The arrest of Eugene V. a failure. This is our career and our Debs? Giuliano Montaldo chose to triumph. Never in our full life could and Massachusetts Governor Fuller Starring Gian Maria Volonte and open this film with the Jan. 2, 1920, we hope to do such work for tolerance, were so determined to execute Sacco Riccardo Cucciolla. A UMC Pictures Palmer raids on the headquarters of for justice, for man's understanding and Vanzetti that they stole and de­ release. left-wing organizations. Another direc­ of man as now we do by accident. stroyed evidence from the court's ar­ On May 5, 1920, two Italian immi­ tor might have begun with some per­ Our words- our lives- our pains chives that implicated a band of out­ grants were arrested in Brockton, sonal incident, perhaps Sacco writing Nothing! The taking of our lives­ laws, the Morelli gang, as the real Mass., and charged with a robbery a letter to his father. But this would lives of a good shoemaker and a culprits in the South Braintree rob­ that had taken place in South Brain­ have been a very different· movie, a poor fish peddler- All! That last mo­ bery and murder. These men were tree three weeks earlier. This was no movie about Nick and Bart, two im­ ment belongs to us- that agony is intent on execution because Sacco and ordinary case, however. Nicola Sacco poverished immigrants, a shoemaker our triumph." Vanzetti and the movement they sym­ and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were arrested and a fish peddler, wrenched from The film is concerned primarily with bolized posed a real threat to the as anarchists- and as an afterthought friends and relatives and thrust im­ the course of the trial. Witnesses tes­ status quo. charged with robbery and murder. probably into political prominence. tify. Lawyers argue. Jurors fidget. An important weakness of Sacco Their arrest can only be understood Such a film would have been less Montaldo compresses into a two-hour and Vanzetti is that it does not ade­ in the context of the 1920 anti-red honest than Montaldo's. film the seven years between May quately deal with the activities of the witch-hunts initiated by then U.S. Montaldo uses the Palmer raids as 1920 and the execution of Sacco and International Labor Defense (ILD), Attorney General A Mitchell Palmer. a frame to his portrait of Sacco and Vanzetti in August 1927. Years are which organized the massive protest And the Palmer raids themselves were Vanzetti in order to focus our atten­ welded together. The trial and appeal campaign on behalf of Sacco andVan­ only one aspect of a campaign of tion on the political significance of are almost superimposed. zetti. This weakness stems from Mon­ repression that had begun much ear­ their trial and execution: the Sacco­ Gian Maria Volonte and Riccardo taldo's selection of the trial itself as lier, that had begun as an attack on Vanzetti case was not a simple mis­ Cucciola give remarkable perfor­ the focus of his film. the trade unions and had burgeoned carriage of justice but a deliberate mances as Bartolomeo Vanzetti and The Boston Committee to Defend into a campaign to throttle opposi­ and vicious attack on the movement Nicola Sacco. Vanzetti 'is throughout Sacco and Vanzetti is portrayed as tion to U.S. involvement in World they symbolized. composed and dignified. When a an assortment of well-meaning friends, War I, and to quell the popular re­ Sacco and Vanzetti were conscious woman comments on the encouraging seven or eight bumblers, an insolent sponse to the Bolshevik victory in of themselves as political symbols. In progress of the trial, he replies, "It lawyer with an Irish temper and a Russia. V anzetti' s own words: would be going well had we done competent lawyer with an English sur­ Where should one begin the story "If it had not been for these thing, the robbery." name. Although it is true that the of Sacco and V anzetti? With their ar- I might have live out my life talking Sacco is more naive. He depends Boston Committee did not always act

The following is the text of the speech Vanzetti, the case of these two Italian by James P. Cannon to a mass meet­ workers in Massachusetts, is not the ing in defense of Sacco and V anzetti case of two hold-up men or bandits. in Chicago on May 13, 1927. Cannon We have become convinced that it is was the national secretary of the Inter­ the working class against the capital­ national Labor Defense (ILD), which ists. We have become convinced that organized the nationwide protest Sacco and V anzetti are not only in­ movement that sought to save the two nocent of this specific crime which they victims of capitalist "justice." are charged with, but that they are Cannon was a founder of the Amer­ innocent of any crime except that of ican Communist movement. He was being rebels against capitalist exploi­ expelled as a Trotskyist in 1928 and tation of the masses. is currently the national chairman of Their case has gone so far that we the Socialist Workers Party. do not need to discuss it any longer This speech was first published in from a legal standpoint. But for those the June 1927 issue of Labor Defender, who are interested, it has been set the ILD's newsletter. It, along with forth by Mr. Holly. And we·can say other articles by Cannon during the for others, that recently a book was Sacco and Vanzetti defense campaign, published by Professor Felix Frank­ are available in a collection of his furter in which he comes to the con­ writings entitled Notebook of an Agi­ clusion that there is no legal case tator (Pathfinder Press, 410 West St., against Sacco and Vanzetti. N.Y., N.Y. 10014, $2.95). But the case of Sacco and Vanzetti has a far bigger significance than any The Sacco-V anzetti case has been a legal procedure. Sacco and V anzetti part of American labor history in the began in this case as two employees, making. It is seven years now since obscure fighters of the working class. Sacco and Vanzetti have been in the But they have grown in these years shadow of the electric chair. I do not until their personalities have made believe that history knows of a simi­ their impression not only in Massa­ lar case. I do not believe that we could chusetts, not only in the United States, find anywhere a case of such pro­ but all over Europe and America longed torture as the holding of the Sacco and Vanzetti have grown as sentence of death over the heads of the great symbols of the whole labor men for seven years. At the end of movement. ·They stand for the upward that time we come together for a meet­ struggle against oppression and ex­ ing and do not know yet whether ploitation, for that fearless defiance that sentence is to be executed or not. of the enemies of labor with which The cause of Sacco and Vanzetti the best representatives of the working demands of us, of the entire labor class are instinct. movement, militant, unhesitating and Everyone today knows why the united support. We may have different Bourbons of Massachusetts arrested, opinions on many problems; but there imprisoned and tried Sacco and Van­ is one thing we have become sure of zetti. Had they not been scr-upulously in these seven years in which we have loyal to the cause of the working class, said our word for Sacco and Van­ they would not now be faced with the zetti. We have become absolutely con­ grim march to the death chair. Had vinced that the· case of Sacco and they remained silent while their broth-

28 newsletter Labor Defender. "The great worldwide movement which has stayed the hands of the executioners up till now must be revived and infused with new strength and militancy. In this movement, unity must be the watch­ word. All partisan aims, all differences of opinion and all controversial ques­ tions must be put aside. All forces must be united without delay on the broadest possible basis for the strug­ gle to free Sacco and V anzetti." The Sacco-Vanzetti trial is part of a history of political fram~ups in the United States: IWW leader Bill Hay­ wood in 1906; Joe Hill in 1915; the Scottsboro case in the thirties; James P. Cannon and other trade union and Trotskyist leaders under the Smith Act in the forties; the Rosenbergs in the fifties; and today Angela Davis, among others. Sacco and Va:nzetti did not appear in a vacuum. It appears at a time when the. current radicalization has generated a growing awareness of radical history. Montaldo, however, in attempting to make clear the rel~ vance of the Sacco-Vanzetti case chose not to make an explicit connection with current cases, like that of Angela Davis. Instead, he has Joan Baez limp in harmony with the ILD, this is hard­ ever, is that movement's sense of r~ demand for commutation of their into the film with a syrupy solo of ly an accurate portrait. sponsibility to them. death sentence to life imprisonment, "The Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti," There is little attempt, beyond some We are shown demonstrators chant­ which, in the eyes of the ILD, would the lyrics of which were for the most valuable film clips of the actual dem­ ing "Freedom for Nick and Bart." But have meant collaborating with the part mercifully unintelligible. Since onstrations, to depict the activities of we do not learn that the demonstra­ state to punish Sacco and V anzetti Montaldo avoids melodrama through­ the International Labor Defense. tors were in large part rank-and-file for a crime they did not commit. out the rest of the film, B aez' doltish It is made clear in the movie that workers who had been organized "The need of the hour is an or­ intrusion is a disappointment. V anzetti repudiated a mere legal vic­ through the ILD in spite of the in­ ganized united movement of protest Despite its flaws, howev~r, Sacco tory, acquittal or pardon. He tells difference and sometimes opposition and solidarity on a national and inter­ and Vanzetti goes a long way toward Sacco: "We have a responsibility to of the labor bureaucrats. We do not national scale," wrote James P. Can­ restoring the word "propaganda" to the movement" to conduct a political know that the demand for "freedom" non, national secretary of the JLD, its original dignity. defense. What is not made clear, how- was deliberately counterposed to the in the May 1927 issue of the ILD' s -CLAIRE MORIARTY

ers and comrades around them suf­ and other men in America. Let us detectives began to fake threatening the workers of America, and in the fered persecution and oppression, had not forget that we should measure letters. After the heart of Joe Hill-had workers of the rest of the world, who they not made the ideal of the libera­ guilt and innocence not by formal been pierced by the bullets of the death have so often and readily responded tion of the working class their own evidence in court alone, but by higher squad, it was exposed that fram~up to the calls for solidarity and aid for ideal, there would not today be a values than that. Let us not forget letters had been used. This must be a Sacco and V anzetti. Every worker in Sacco-Vanzetti case. Had they, in that the last thing that Eugene Debs lesson for us and for those who are the land must be made to realize the court, begged for mercy and r~ wrote publicly was an appeal to the the friends of Sacco and V anzetti. monstrosity and significance to the nounced their cause and their past, workers of America for Sacco and There is no need to threaten the whole labor movement of this crime. they would have been freed to achieve V anzetti, an appeal whose stirring lan­ governor or anyone else because the Every worker must stand shoulder obloquy. guage aroused with renewed vigor the protection of Sacco and V anzetti is to shoulder with his brothers to build But they did none of this. Despite protest of hundreds of thousands in far stronger than any personal act. a solid wall of defense for the victims the hundreds of interminable nights this country, and brought again the The protection of Sacco and V anzetti of the Massachusetts Bourbons who and days of imprisonment, with the million-voiced demand for life and is the job ·of the working. class of are bent on their bestial revenge. Only ghastly thought of execution constant­ freedom for these two valiant fighters, the world, which is knocking on the the great and inspiring solidarity of ly in their minds, they have remained and condemnation of their pers~ door, not with the hands of irrespon­ the whole working class wili succeed as simply true to the workers' cause cutors. sible individuals, but with the titanic in snatching Sacco and V anzetti from as they were before this infamous It is hard to speak with restraint. fist of the workers of the wide world, the chair of death. fram~up was conceived in the minds I, like Comrade Chaplin, also had because they believe in the innocence of the Massachusetts reaction. Yes, the honor of talking with V anzetti. of Sacco and V anzetti. We say to you, their persecution has even steeled their Everyone that has seen and talked our friends and our chairman, b~ convictions, and has already bound with him comes away with the feel­ fore they turn on the switch, that the them inseparably with the history of ing that he has stood in the presence real aim is not only to burn Sacco '"BOOKS~ the American labor movement. of one of the greatest spirits of our and V anzetti in the electric chair but Mter seven years they came to court time. to burn the labor movement in Amer­ for sentence. I wish every worker in It is hard to speak with restraint ica. America could read the speech that when one is pressed by the thought If the worka"s of America and the BY Vanzetti made there. After seven years that the vengeful executioners of Mas­ workers of the world are determined of torture, with the death sen­ sachusetts are consummating their enough and encouraged enough, we tence hanging over him, this man hideous plan to press the switch that can yet save Sacco and V anzetti. And stood up in court, not as one guilty, will forever re;nove from our ranks it is in that spirit that we meet here CANNON not as one afraid. He turned to the the persons of these two men who we tonight. We do not meet here to r~ Revolutionary agitator and judge and said to him: feel are so much a part of labor and sign ourselves to their fate. We meet educator since his Wobbly "You are the one that is afraid. You its cause. Our impassioned determina­ as another ~tage in the fight for Sacco days, Cannon was among the are the one that is shrinking with tion to mobilize all of our strength and Vanzetti. We believe that the work­ first to be indicted and con­ fear, because you are the one that is and power to rescue Sacco and Van­ ers assembled here will go back to victed under the Smith Act guilty of attempt to murder." zetti from their blood-lusting jailers their organizations and their jobs and during World War II. V anzetti called his witnesses there, must be communicated throughout the raise again the battle cry for Sacco and not merely legal witnesses. He land, if we are to save them from and V anzetti. SOCIALISM ON TRIAL marshaled before Judge Thayer's at­ the fate that has been prepared for Let us demand not only the libera­ $4.96, paper $1.60 LETTERS FROM PRISON tention the thousands who have d~ them. tion of Sacco and V anzetti. Let us cided to hold mass meetings such as While I agree with the statements demand also the impeachment of the $7.60 ours; and public men of our period of Fitzpatrick that our meeting should monstrous judge who tried and sen­ SPEECHES FOR like Anatole France, Maxim Gorki, dissociate itself from irresponsible peo­ tenced them. Let us consider ways SOCIALISM Bernard Shaw, Henri Barbusse, Al­ ple, let us not forget the year 1915 and means of making our pro­ $10.00, paper $3.46 bert Einstein. He pointed to the many when Joe Hill was killed in Utah. We test more effective. From this great millions who have protested against must remember that when the wave movement, from the words of Sacco Pathfinder Press, 410 West the fram~up. of working-class protest began to rise and Vanzetti, let us draw inspiration. ..._st., New York ~ He turned to EugJ!ne Victor Debs in protection of Joe ·Hill, gangs of We have hope, and we have faith in

THE MILITANT/ NOVEMBER 12, 1971 29 representative of the Puerto Rican liberation move­ Panthers, and other Black political ing to the Democratic Party as a solu­ ment will speak on Puerto Rican nationalism; and prisoners; implementing the demands tion. The Democrats are just as re­ Nancy Strebe will speak on oppressed notion stoles. 4:30 p.m.: Dinner, $1.25. 7 p.m.: Presidential Cam­ for prison reform drawn up by the sponsible as the Republicans for the paign Rally. 9 p.m.: Party. All conference sessions Attica inmates; investigation and pros­ continued existence of those walls, uni­ will be held at I 004 Filbert Street (one block north ecution of those responsible for as­ forms, unemployment, racism, infla­ 0f Market). Registration for the entire conference is tion and other evils against which S3, h.s. students S1 .50. (Registration lee includes a sassinating George Jackson at San three-month introductory subscription to the Interna­ Quentin and the 32 inmates at Attica; Black people are fighting. It is out tional Socialist Review.) Admission to single sessions taxing of the rich corporations and of these recurring struggles and the S1, h.s. students SOc. Ausp. International Socialist Re­ banks in order to release funds to programs generated by them that the vi- and Young Socialist Alliance. For further infor­ basis will be laid for a mass, indepen­ Calendar mation, call WAS-4316. deal with the urban crisis and aid ARANTA the movement for Black control of dent, Black political party. SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY CAMPAIGN DINNER. SAN FRANCISCO the Black community; ending the wage Speakers: Alice Conner, SWP candidate for U.S. Sen­ SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY CAMPAIGN BANQUET. ole from Georgia; Sid Finehirsh, Southeastern Stu­ Sot., Nov. 13, 5 p.m. at Cafe du Nord, 2170 Market freeze; cutting the workweek to 30 dent Mobilization CommiHee coordinator and mem­ St. Featured speakers: Andrew Pulley, 1972 SWP vice­ hours with no cut in pay in order to ber of the Young Socialist Alliance. Sat., Nov. 6, 7 presidential candidate; Nat Weinstein, 1972 SWP can­ create more jobs; setting up commu­ p.m. Donation: 51.25. Militant Bookstore, 68 Peach­ didate for mayor of San Francisco. Cocktails served nity councils through which Black tree St., Third Floor. Phone: 523-0610. at 5 p.m., followed by Swedish smorgasbord. Tickets SS. For reservations and further information, call 626- people could exercise control over the BROOKLYN 99S8 or write SWP Campaign, 2338 Market St., San BROOKLYN ABORnON SPEAK-OUT. Speakers: Renee institutions in their community; free Francisco, Calif. 94114. abortion on demand and no forced Gls Babel, managing editor of the ProH Institute Prattler, •Continued • • from page 3 on 'Block Women and Abortion;' Marilyn Yogi, So­ NOV. 20 MARCH ON SAN FRANCISCO FOR RE­ sterilization; ending government as­ cialist Workers Party; a representative from Brook­ The 29 G Is enlisted the legal as­ PEAL OF ALL ABORnON LAWS. Important dates: sistance to all oppressive and racist lyn College Women's Liberation; a high school wom­ Thurs., Nov. 11, 7:30 p.m: Monitors Training Meeting sistance of a seven-member team of an from the Young Socialist Alliance. Fri., Nov. 12, regimes from South Africa to South at Women's Notional Abortion Action Coalition oHice, ACL U and NAACP attorneys, headed 8 p.m., at 136 Lawrence St. (at Willoughby). Dono­ 11S 10th St. Sisters only. Call (41S) 864-2060 for fur­ Vietnam and dismantling all foreign lion: S1, h.s. students SOc. Ausp. Brooklyn Militant by ACL U legal director Melvin Wulf, ther information. military bases; ending the draft; au­ Forum. but only two of the seven had arrived Fri., Nov. 12, 6-8 p.m. Picket the "Pro-Life' conven­ tonomous Black studies departments; when the Oct. 4 proceedings opened CLEVELAND tion at the Mark Hopkins Hotel, 1 Knob Hill (corner and support to Black workers in their OHIO SOCIALIST EDUCAnONAL CONFERENCE. Fri. of California and Mason Sts.) Picket sponsored by in the Funari Barracks trial center. and Sot., Nov. 12-13 at Case Western Reserve Uni­ WONAAC West. Everyone urged to participate. struggles against racism on the job? The two were Melvin Boulden of the versity. Fri., 8 p.m.: 'Is Biology Women's Destiny?' Sat., Nov. 13, 12 noon: Western Stoles WONAAC These are just a few of the demands NAACP and Thomas Culver of the Speaker: Evelyn Reed, noted Marxist anthropologist. Working CommiHee Meeting at the Unitarian Church, that should be incorporated into any Place: Wade Commons, CWRU. Sat., 1 p.m.: 'labor, corner of Franklin and Geary. Monitors Training Meet­ ACL U. (An Air Force legal officer the Wage Freeze and the War.' Speaker: Herman ing afterword. Sisters only. Telephone: (41S) 86<1-0SOO. meaningful program for change in for six years, Captain Culver opened Kirsch. Sot., 2:15 p.m.: Panel discussion on the 1972 the Black community. And these are an ACL U office in England to work elections. Sot., 3 p.m.: "Black Nationalism and the SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA the demands upon which struggles are with Gis after he was discharged re­ 1972 Elections.' Speaker: Cecil Lampkin. All afternoon MARXIST RADIO COMMENTARY. Listen to Theodore being or have been conducted sessions in ballroom of Thwing Hall, CWRU. Sot., 5:30 Edwards, spokesman for the Socialist Workers Party, cently. Last summer, he successfully p_m.: Dinner. Sat., 7:30 p.m.: 1972 Ohio Socialist on his weekly 15-minute radio program, 11:30 a.m. throughout the country. Yet, one fought his own court-martial, initiated Workers Party Campaign Kiclo.oH Rally-'The Crisis every Monday, KPFK-FM, 90.7. searches in vain for an expression of by the brass after he led a May 30 in American Politics.' Speaker: Carol Loeb. For tickets these demands in the programs to march of U.S. military personnel to and further information, contact Ohio Socialist Work­ TWIN CinES ers Party Campaign CommiHee, 4420 Superior Ave. TWIN CinES SOCIALIST EDUCAnONAL CONFER­ be pushed at the Democratic Party the ·u. S. Embassy to present an anti­ Telephone: 391-S5S3. ENCE. Fri., Nov. 26 and Sot., Nov. 27. Fri., 7 p.m.: convention by Bond, Stokes, Richard war petition.) Dinner: 8 p.m.: Campaign Rally- Minnesota Socialist Hatcher, Gibson or Evers. The judge, a Captain Green, tried LOS ANGELES Workers Party candidates for 1972: 9:30 p.m.: Cabaret. Neither have these Black Democrats to refuse the G Is the right to replace REVOLUnONARY CHICANO YOUTH AND THE 1972 Sot., 1 p.m.: 'Is Chile Going Socialist?' 3 p.m.: 'The ELEcnONS. Speaker: Mirto Vidal, Young Socialist Al­ Roots of Women's Oppression.' 5:30 p.m.: Dinner. lifted a finger to help organ~ the their appointed defense counsel with liance notional director of Chicano and Latino work. 7 p.m.: 'Revolutionary Strategy for the 70s.' 8:30 Black community around these issues. Boulden and Culver and seemed in­ Fri., Nov. 12, 8:30 p.m., at 1107-1/2 N. Western p.m.: Party. Advance price for entire weekend, SS. They may pay lip service on oc­ clined to deny a motion for postpone­ Ave., Third Floor. Donation: S1, h.s. students SOc. Skoglund Hall, I University Ave. N. E., Minneapolis. ment made to allow the rest of the de­ Ausp. Militant Labor Forum. Telephone: 332-7781. casion, but because they choose to work in the Democratic Party, they fense team to arrive and prepare their L.A. WOMEN'S ABORnON AcnON COMMITTEE tailor their programs, projects and case. MEEnNG, Wed., Nov. 10, 8 p.m., at 2936 W. 8th actions to the needs of that party, Green's belligerence disappeared af­ St., Third Floor ..All women welcome. Join us in the ter a brief recess, suggesting that his struggle to win control over our own bodies- join not to the needs of the masses. the abortion law repeal campaign. Help build the In this way, the Black Democrats superiors were more sensitive than he Nov. 20 demonstration in Son Francisco to repeal serve as a barrier to the independent to the type of conduct that should be all abortion lows, end forced sterilization, and repeal displayed before the world press. He all restrictive contraception lows. For bus tickets to Black organization and action of the Black ••• granted a continuance until Oct. 26. demonstration and further information, call 487-7696. Continued from page 12 community, a brake on the develop­ Another trial that was to have be­ having great difficulty in uniting them­ ment of Black political power. PHILADELPHIA gun Oct 7 in Frankfurt with four The burning task of the hour is to SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY PRESIDENTIAL CAM­ selves, let alone uniting the masses more of the 29 was speedily and cour­ PAIGN RALLY. Sun., Nov. 7, 7:30 p.m., at Steitler of Black people. break down the wall that now exists teously granted a continuance by the Hall B-6, University of Pennsylvania. Featured speak­ between the demands that Black peo­ However, even if the Black bloc judge, a Major Hunt er: 1972 SWP presidential candidate Linda Jenness Bond desires is formed, the demands ple have raised and are moving on in on 'America's Political Crisis." Representatives from Then, on Oct. 22, all charges wer-e Young Socialists lor Jenness and Pulley will also speak. he suggests be met in return for back­ the streets and the demands made at dropped. A tentative move by the Admission free. ing the Democratic Party's nominee the ballot box. The instrument neces­ brass to give the Gis punitive trans­ for president are very limited. His sary to break down this wall and SOCIALIST EDUCAnONAL CONFERENCE. Fri., Nov. fers to Vietnam was blocked by quick 26, 8 p.m.: 'The Wage Freeze and the American labor requests. boil down primarily to ob­ achieve a unified struggle in all arenas defense action. Instead, the G Is have Movement." Speaker: Frank Lovell, staH writer for taining more Black jobs and positions is an independent Black political par­ been transferred to other bases in Ger­ The Militant. 9 'p.m.: "How Students Con Fight the in the federal government- hardly a ty, which will be beholden to no one many. Before they departed, one of Wage Freeze.' Speaker: Rose Ogden. Sot., Nov. 27, demand covering the gamut of prob­ or no force but Black people. 10:30 a.m.: Donuts and coHee, 35 cents. 11 a.m.: A them said: •n started as the Darm­ panel on 'Crimes Against Women," focusing on abor­ lems and dilemmas facing the African­ The continuing motion by brothers stadt 53, but now there will be 53 tion restrictions, forced sterilization, rope, prostitution, American mass. and . sisters behind the prison walls, Darmstadts. Wherever they send us, and women prisoners. 1:30 p.m.: lunch, 75 cents. What about bringing the brothers in uniform, on the campus, in the 2:15 p.m. A panel on 'Nationalism, Internationalism we will explain to other soldiers how and Self-Determination.' 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THE MILITANT/ NOVEMBER 12, 1971 31 THE MILITANT Angela L.A. Raza Unida Party rallies Davis trial support for Nov.16 elections moved to By MARIANA HERNANDEZ gin to work full-time to build La Raza LOS ANGELES-"People are begin­ Unida Party." ning to take us seriously." This was Supporters feel that the community San Jose the overwhelming sentiment at La Ra­ is responsive to the idea of building By NORTON SANDLER za Unida Party headquarters after La Raza Unida Party. The problem, and MICHAEL SCHREIBER their success in the Oct. 19 primary they said, was that they were not able SAN RAFAEL, Calif., Nov. 2-Judge in Los Angeles' 48th Assembly Dis­ to reach all the people who would be Richard E. Arnason today denied a trict. R UP candidate Raul Ruiz won sympathetic. Campaign workers in the defense motion to suppress illegally a place on the Nov. 16 ballot. Ac­ office said they consider both parties seized evidence in the Angela Davis tivists in the party explained in a to be the same: The Republican Par­ trial but granted the motion for chang­ Militant interview what their short­ ty is just more outwardly racist, while ing the site of the trial. The judge ~nd long-term goals were for La Ra­ the Democrats operate more behind moved the trial to San Jose, in Santa za Unida Party. the scenes. Clara County. Rosalio Munoz of the Chicano Mor­ Rosalio Munoz, who is working full­ During yesterday's hearing on the atorium explained that the short-term time for La Raza Unida Party, ex­ motions, Howard Moore, chief defense goal was to get Raul Ruiz elected, plained that Alatorre has made efforts counsel for Davis, pointed out that but that the main goal was to begin to discredit the party and has clearly although Davis was indicted by a Cal­ to lay the basis for future indepen­ distinguished himself from it. None ifornia grand jury, federal agents con­ dent political action by Chicanos. of the workers in the office believe ducted five of the six searches that They have taken Mexican-American that they should support a Mexican­ led to the seizure of Davis' posses­ Democrat Richard Alatorre head-on American within the Democratic Par­ sions. These searches were illegal, by leafletting and going door-to-door ty. Moore charged. None of the items explaining that the Democrats are run­ A MECHA ( Movimiento Estudiantil confiscated- though submitted to the ning a Mexican-American who is con­ de Chicanos de Aztlan- Chicano Stu­ grand jury and used as the basis trolled by interests outside of the Chi­ dent Movement of Aztlan) member for the original warrant for Davis' cano community and who does not from Los Angeles City College stat­ arrest- demonstrated motivation or have the community's interests at ed, "This campaign is beginning to intent to commit a crime. heart. Damaging to Alatorre has been show what the Democrats really are." One illegal search was executed on the night of July 30, 1970, by cus­ his attempt to pass himself off as an Besides door-to-door campaigning, Photo by John Gray Italian to the Italian community. Ac­ the headquarters is planning a rally toms agents at the Mexican border los Angeles, Aug. 29, 1970 near San Diego. cording to Raza Unida supporters, for Nov. 14 and plans to confront literature from his office has listed national presidential hopefuls who Campaign supporters at the office Davis and Jonathan Jackson, George all the Italian support and never men­ have announced plans to visit the Chi­ stated that they were in complete Jackson's brother, were stopped while tions that he is a Mexican-American. cano community. They see this as an agreement with a statement that ap­ crossing the border, because, officials stated, "They had no apparent motive Raza supporters are redoubling attempt by liberal Democrats to get peared in the Cal State Times: "This for a trip south of the border." their efforts to build for the Nov. 16 Chicanos to vote Democrat and for party is a party that will work 365 In Los Angeles, police and the FBI elections. Gilbert Cano of the Chicano Alatorre. days a year for Chicanos." ransacked Davis' apartment after the Moratorium said, "We thought that Ruiz has endorsed the Nov. 6 anti­ The Raza Unida Party has three Aug. 7, 1970, Marin County shoot­ this was so important that we dropped war demonstration in Los Angeles. offices in Los Angeles and hopes to out. The materials stolen demonstrate everything else we were doing to be- Both he and Munoz will be speaking. open more. the ethereal nature of the evidence upon which the state is building a case of conspiracy to murder and kid­ nap. It includes posters advocating free­ Firsthand report on British dom for the Soledad Brothers, notes for a speech, the pamphlet Problems of Women's Liberation, A Marxist Ap­ terror campaign in N. Ireland proach by Evelyn Reed, and other materials. FBI agents shuffled By GERRY FOLEY 18 to the Northern Ireland Civil was so severe that he collapsed and thmugh the wastebaskets, closets, and DUBLIN- After the mass arrests and Rights Association about his son's when he was lying on the ground he drawers of the apartment andobtained internment of suspected Irish repub­ treatment. The statement is printed be­ was kicked by the military-booted sol­ an unidentified photograph, a pair licans touched off a virtual insurrec­ low. During the time I was in Bel­ diers in the stomach, pelvis, and the of men's shoes, a camera, a passport, tion in the Catholic areas throughout fast October 20-22, the Civil Rights lumbar region of his back. A mili­ and other "criminal evidence." Northern Ireland in the early morn­ Office was filled continually with par­ tary doctor was then called and upon The deputy prosecutor arguing the ing of August 9, the British army ents seeking help in finding out what examination the doctor recommended state's case typified in his summary resorted to a sustained campaign of the military had done with their sons. that Seamus Lynch be taken imme­ speech the depths to which the FBI terror to intimi£late and wear down diately to the Casualty Department and state officials will sink in their the nationalist population. Any man of the Royal Victoria Hospital. zealous effort to convict Davis. He or boy found on the streets in the • offered as evidence of conspiracy a early morning hours in the nation­ Before he was removed to the hos­ box of Davis' personal letters, includ­ alist districts is liable to immediate The father of Seamus Lynch, a 26- pital, Mr. Lynch was physically forced ing correspondence with George Jack­ arrest and is almost certain to be year-old docker from the New Lodge to sign a statement that his injuries son, and memoirs seized from the badly beaten before finally being Road area of Belfast, today dis­ were sustained whilst he "accidentally apartment. He quoted one passage turned over to the prison authorities. covered his son in the Royal Victoria fell out of a lorry"! When his parents addressed "To George," which was dat­ The arrests seem sometimes to be Hospital, suffering from a dislocated saw him this morning he was in agony ed June 2: "My love, your love rein­ made almost at random, without even shoulder and numerous bruises on and had bruises on his face. In full forces my fighting instincts that in­ a close look at those arrested. For his back and other parts of his body. view of his parents he was lifted and struct me to go to war." example, a youngster about twelve Seamus Lynch told his father and half-carried, half-dragged from his The deputy prosecutor stated that who was guiding me through the maze mother today that he had been arrest­ bed in the hospital to a waiting car, although such quotes may presently of housing developments on the Upper ed by the Army in Carrickfergus on driven by a special branch policeman seem irrelevant, after the trial begins Fails Road in Belfast told of being Sunday 17th October at 9.30 p.m. with a military escort, and his par­ "This letter to George may turn out picked up by the soldiers and released and taken to the local police station ents were told he was being taken to be the principal item of conspir­ only after complaining, "I'm a wee with eight other of his friends who to the Military Wing of the Musgrave acy." girl." had also been arrested with him. From Park Hospital. When his parents in­ In rebuttal, Moore concluded, "How Patrols repeatedly break into homes there he was taken in a military con­ quired there they were told initially can the love that Angela Davis felt in the nationalist areas, smashing voy to Belfast to the Military Bar· that Seamus was not there and then for George Jackson and her people doors and furniture and dragging off racks at Girdwood Park. En route the authorities admitted that he was be considered a crime, unless one be- whatever men they find at home. to Belfast in the armoured car, the there and was in fine health and not . lieves that such affection ·in itself is These men can be held indefinitely soldiers beat and kicked him so se­ injured at all. One would wonder in a crime? How can a spirited political without charge or trial and days may verely that his shoulder was dislocated. that case why he was there at all. conscience be considered a crime, un­ elapse before their relatives and On arrival at Girdwood he was The Northern Ireland Civil Rights less one says to Black people that intellect and learning is criminal?" friends can even find out where they dragged over the rough ground bodi­ Association demands that Mr. Faulk­ are being held. Many of these miss­ ly and his clothes were ripped to ner [the Northern Ireland Prime min­ ing men, moreover, finally turn up shreds. ister] retract his lying statement over seriously injured in the "military" The soldiers attempted to put Mr. the weekend that the allegations of wards of hospitals. This was the case, Lynch through the usual torture rou­ brutality were unfounded and we chal­ for example, of Seamus Lynch, whose tine, of being spread-eagled up against lenge Mr. Faulkner to disprove these father made a statement on October the wall- but the pain of his shoulder undisputable facts.

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