Gov't Sets New Attack On Peace ovement THE Dr. Spock Indicted MILITANT In Boston Published in the Interest of the Working People By Barry Sheppard JAN. 9 The indictments Vol. 32 - No. 3 Monday, January 15, 1968 Price 10¢ handed down by a federal grand jury in Boston against five anti­ war figures is an attack on the whole antiwar movement. (See editorial, page 3.) Indicted are Dr. Benjamin Costro S Speech Spock, the pediatrician and well­ known opponent of the war.; the Rev. William Sloane Coffin, Jr., chaplain of Yale University; Michael Ferber, a Harvard grad­ uate student; Mitchell Goodman, On Gos Rotioning an author; and Marcus Raskin, co­ director of the Institute for Policy By Harry Ring Studies. Raskin was a member of the White House staff during the HAVANA, Cuba, Jan. 2- The of an excruciating problem - an Kennedy administration. enormous problems confronting insufficiency of the oil which is The five are charged under an Cuba, and the determination of so indispensible to the economy. unconstitutional law which vio­ the Cuban people and their leaders Since the U.S. economic block­ lates the right of dissent, making to meet those problems in a rev­ ade, Cuba has been compelled to a "crime" of certain political state­ olutionary way, were given dra­ rely almost exclusively on the ments and protest. The indictment matic expression today as half a Soviet Union for oil. Today Fidel accuses the five of conspiring to million Cubans massed here to said the USSR has "helped con­ counsel, aid and abet young men celebrate the ninth anniversary of siderably" in meeting Cuba's to refuse to serve in the armed their revolution. In a two-hour ad­ needs. But, he added, in the face forces. dress, Fidel Castro spoke bluntly of sharply increased needs, Mos­ "Justice Department sources," cow could be expected to give says the Jan. 6 New York Times, only "limited" additional assist­ "said the men had been indicted in ance. Nor, he stated, would it be­ Boston apparently because the first fit Cuban dignity to ask the So­ overt act of the conspiracy [!] HAVANA, Jan. 9- It was re­ viet Union for an earlier delivery took place there. This was a rally ported that after an extended of future commitments. at the Arlington Street Church on period of e:xploring, Cuba struck Citing a mass of data, Fidel ex­ Oct. 16, at which a number of oil yesterday just 20 kilometers plained to the people gathered in draft cards were collected to be (about 12% miles) outside of the Plaza of the Revolution how turned over to the Justice Depart­ Havana. Geologists are studying the development of the Cuban ment.'' Dr. Benjamin Spock the strike and have not yet de­ economy has accelerated the need Several statements by the de­ for oil. With the huge number of fendants were cited in the indict­ termined tlie extent of the de­ The indictments themselves are posit, although it is said to look trucks, tractors and bulldozers ments. Dr. Spock and Rev. Cof­ Parade Committee said, "is an at­ now employed in agricultural de­ fin were charged with distribut­ an indication of the administra­ tack on the basic democratic right promising. tion's growing fear of the anti­ velopment, and expansion of other ing a statement last August en­ of freedom of dissent. We con­ The strike came just six days war movement. Washington hopes industries, the consumption of titled "A Call to Resist Illegiti· sider the indictments an attack on after Cuba · instituted rigid con­ to frighten and crush the antiwar gasoline has increased enormously mate Authority." They, along with the antiwar movement as a whole. trols over the use of gasoline be­ opposition, but indications are that since the revolution came to Raskin and Goodman, are also We are outraged at this action and cause the supply from the Soviet the antiwar movement is deter­ power. charged with making public ap· will do everything in our power Union no longer meets Cuba's ex­ peals for young men to resist the mined to intensify its efforts in to defend these five." panding needs. (Continued on Page 4) draft, and with sponsoring a na­ the face of the government at- · RESIST, an adult organization tionwide draft resistance program tack. that supports draft resisters, is that would include disrupting the The New York Fifth Avenue circulating a statement saying, induction process at induction Vietnam Peace Parade Committee "We stand beside the men who centers. said it "condemns the attack of have been indicted for support of Ho Chi Minh's Letter Ferber is charged with making the federal government on five draft resistance. If they are sen­ a speech at the Oct. 16 rally en­ outspoken critics of the war ... tenced, we, too, must be sen­ titled "A Time to Say No," and "An attack on anyone because tenced. If they are imprisoned, with having helped collect draft of his opposition to the United we will take their places and will To Peace Supp,orters cards at the rally. States policies in Vietnam," the (Continued on Page 5) [On Dec. 30 the United Press to be wounded in vain on Vietnam International carried on its wires battlefields. the following New Year's greet­ Each year the United States Government spends tens of bil­ ings from Ho Chi Minh of North Why Jones Got 3 Years lions of dollars, the fruits of the Vietnam to Americans opposed to American people's sweat and toil, By Elizabeth Barnes even his life." U.S. involvement in the civil war to wage war in Vietnam. lectures, parties - whatever is in Vietnam. While many papers In a word, the United States LeRoi Jones, black playwright, The charge against LeRoi Jones wanted by the community. in the United States may have aggressors have not only com­ poet, and essayist, was sentenced was for illegal possession of two Jones and his two co-defendants, referred to the message, few pro­ mitted crimes against Vietnam, to two and a half to three years revolvers during the Newark re­ Charles McCray and Barry Wynn, vided the text.] they have also wasted United in jail and a $1,000 fine on Jan. bellion. It included nothing about were on their way to Spirit House I send you, friends, my best States lives and riches and stained 4. The term was virtually the max­ poems. But, the judge took it upon when they were stopped by police wishes for the new year 1968. the honor of the United States. imum possible (it could have been himself to decide that it is in­ and severely beaten. They were As you all know, no Vietnamese Friends, in struggling hard to three years) and he was allowed tolerable for a black man even to arrested and later indicted on has ever come to make trouble make the United States Govern­ no probation. · write down in poetry his true feel­ trumped-up charges of illegal pos­ in the United States. Yet half a ment stop its aggression in Viet­ At the final court session the ings and reactions to 400 years of session of weapons, charges they million United States troops have nam, you are defending justice judge as much as admitted that bondage in white America. all denied. They were convicted on been sent to South Vietnam who, and, at the same time, you are the severity of the sentence was When the judge pronounced the police testimony, Wynn, who is an together with over 700,000 puppet giving us support. based on his dislike for Jones' official verdict, "You are sen­ actor, was sentenced to nine and satellite troops, are daily To insure our fatherland's in­ political viewpoint as expressed tenced on the unlawful possession months in jail and a $250 fine, and massacring Vietnamese people and dependence, freedom and unity, in a poem recently published in of two revolvers ..."Jones added, McCray, an accountant, was given burning down Vietnamese towns with the desire to live in peace ·the Evergreen Review. Judge "And two poems." a year in jail and a fine of $500. and villages. and friendship with all peoples Kapp even went so far as to read LeRoi Jones is an artist who The Jan. 8 Militant carried a In North Vietnam, thousands of the world · over, including the the entire poem aloud before the believes that art cannot be sep­ detailed statement by Jones on United States planes have dropped American people, the entire Viet­ court, characterizing it "a diabol­ arated from the whole life of the how he and his companions were over 800,000 tons of bombs, de­ namese people, united and of one ical prescription to commit murder community. As he has put it, it originally arrested and beaten. stroying schools, churches, hos­ mind, are determined to fight and to steal and to loot." should be "as essential as the Jones required eight or nine pitals, dikes, and densely popu­ against the United States im­ The poem, which was about the grocery store." Jones has put these stitches and the removal of one of lated areas. perialist aggressors. We enjoy the summer rebellions, included lines ideas into action by founding his teeth as a result of the beat­ The United States Government support of brothers and friends on such as, "You can't steal from the "Spirit House," a black community ings. has caused hundreds of thousands the five continents. We shall win, white man I He's already stolen I theater in Newark which sponsors In an interview in the Dec. 1967 of United States youths to die or and so will you. He owes you anything you want - plays, meetings, poetry readings, (Continued on Page 5) Page Two TaE MILITANT Monday, January 15, 1968 CFT Holds San Francisco Convention Calif. Teachers' Union Grows By TQny Camejo sAN FRANcisco - The cali­ LOS ANGELES - In a fast­ Union who then set up their own fornia Federation of Teachers met here in convention Dec. 27-29, CFT Res~olution breaking chain of events the picket line. This resulted in a virtual blackout of news in San showing signs of growing vitality month-old strike of the American and strength. Marshall Axelrod, Newspaper Guild (ANG) and Ma­ Francisco, as the Oakland Tribune chinists Union against the Hearst­ has refused to send its papers outgoing president of the CFT, On Vietnam War owned Herald-Examiner has es­ across the Bay into the struck pointed to the formation of 28 new locals this year, bringing the [The following is the resolution on the Viet:Dam war passed by calated into a major struggle. Like city, the recent convention of the CalifornJa Federation of Teachers, whleh In Los Angeles, the Joint Strike­ total number up to 100 throughout the recurrence of .a bad dream the,state. added to the resolution they passed last year.] from the dark ages of labor his­ Lockout Council swung rapidly tOry, we are witnessing here the into high gear, establishing well· The Los Angeles local, the larg­ WHEREAS the present course of American foreign policy is spectacle of professional scabs run . strike-lockout headquarters est local of the American Federa­ contrary to the higher aspirations of emerging nations seeking being escorted ·through the picket from which they man the picket tion of Teachers in the state, re­ democratic elections and self-gover.ning institutions, and ported recruiting 400 new mem­ lines by uniformed Pinkerton lines 24 hours a day. Hearst im­ 1 strikebreaking goons armed with mediately got an injunction from bers this fall. Dr. John Sperling, WHEREAS the United States has intervened in support of guns and billy clubs. an obliging judge limiting the president of the State College successive dictatorial regimes which deny the right of self­ The present showdown began picketing to tokenism. Council, said they are recruiting determination to the people of Vietnam, and about 150 new members a month. at 11 a.m. Dec. 15, 1967, when The Strike-Lockout Council iri­ '·WHEREAS the massive military escalation of the war in some 1,200 members of the ANG itiated plans for a nationwide boy­ Union membership on the various and Machinists District 94 lost cott of Hearst products, a labor state college campuses is expect­ Vietnam has transformed it from a civil war into a war by the patience with management's far­ boycott of advertisers who patron­ ed to reach 2,000 by June. ·The U.S. against the Vietnamese people, resulting in their indis­ cical negotiation gestures and ize the struck newspaper, informa­ CFT has experienced a growth of criminate slaughter as well .as a slaughter of American and struck the paper. Typographical tional picket lines at all Hearst about 12 percent this year so far, Vietnamese fighting men, earning for our country the condem­ and Mailers Union members who newspapers across the country, bringing membership over the nation of world opinion, and had been working for nine months and issuance of strike bulletins, 10,000 mark. without a contract refused to as well as furnishing nourishing A highlight of the convention WHEREAS, we, as teachers, are concerned both with the handle struck copy trickling down food to the pickets. was the declaration, by San Fran­ impact of this brutalizing ,war on the minds of American chil­ from the editorial office, and were Support has come in from other cisco Federation of Teachers Pres­ dren and on the atmosphere of free inquiry necessary for the ousted from the building on threat unions, · among them the United ident Jim Ballard, that the SFFT pursuit of knowledge, and Auto Workers Local 887, Retail of arrest. will seek a strike vote against the WHEREAS, we, as citizens and teachers, see that the mount­ They were joined by stereo­ Clerks Local 770, and members of boaEji of education. The 350 dele­ typers, electricians, maintenance the American Federation of TV gates and visitors greeted this an­ ing expense of this war results in the abandonment of neces­ men, web pressmen, paperhandlers and Radio Artists who marched nouncement with sustained ap­ sa;y progressive domestic programs, especially those dealing and building service employes in with picket· crews in a demon­ plause, an indication of the grow­ with the welfare and education of America's poor, we recom­ what the L.A. County Federation stration of unity. The State AFL- ing militancy of California teach­ mend the following statement of policy to be reaffirmed: . CIO termed the Herald-Examiner's of Labor called one of the greatest ers. BE IT RESOLVED THAT this convention oppose the pres­ importing of professional ~;trike­ displays of labor unity in Southern Ballard indicated that the main ent Johnson Administration policy in Vietnam; that we seek California in a generation. breakers a major threat to the demand of the strike would be for Sanetion from the county Fed­ trade union movement of Cali- an election in which teachers an immediate United State~~ withdrawal of military forces eration of Labor resulted in refhsal fornia. . . would vote for a formal collective­ from Vietnam and an end to all military aid to Vietnam; and by the 200-member News Vendors It doesn't look like Hearst means bargaining representative. The furthermore we call for an immediate end to all bombing of Local 75A to handle the scab­ to permit a speedy resolution. SFFT presently has about 1,400 North and South Vietnam, and produced rag being delivered by Nominally, the central issue in the members out of the 4,000 teachers BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT this convention call nonunion drivers. (The union dispute is wages. The Guild's top in the city. drivers are coveted by the Guild scale at the Hearst paper is $174 upon the National AFL-CIO to disavow its support of the pres­ Convention delegates broke up ··:nt Johnson Administration policy in Vietnam; to seek an im­ and are walking the picket lines.) a week, compared to the nonunion into some 15 committees to discuss Then the Teamsters voted to sup­ Los Angeles Times scale of $209. resolutions presented by various mediate U.S. withdrawal of military forces from Vietnam and port the strike and Longshoremen (All union employes at Hearst's locals. The most heavily attended an end to all bombing of North and South Vietnam, and refused to handle Hearst news­ Los Angeles newspaper are at the committees were Teacher Wages print on the docks. Newsprint con­ bottom of the totem pole, nation­ BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT this convention in­ and Working Conditions, Socio­ struct the CFT delegates to the California State AFL-CIO Con­ tinues to come in via railroads and ally,when it comes to wages;) Ro- . Political, and Educational Policy. is carted through picket lines by bert Rupert, chief Guild nego- vention to introduce the CFT position on the Vietnam war and scab drivers with .Pinkertons rid­ . tiator, charges that the scabs are The Socio-Political committee fight for its adoption as State AFL-CIO policy. ing shotgun in their cabs. being paid as much as $10 an had a lively discussion on such ·hour. And William H. Williams, topics as racial discrimination in On Jan. 4 came the news of the sanctions as all other ·citizens, and sympathy walkout by brother ITU representative, says that one unions, the war in Vietnam, and a resolution calling for support to of the strikebreakers is rec:eiving the suspension of students at the WHEREAS the deprivation of the registration drive of the Peace union members at the San Fran­ educational opportunity should not cisco Examiner and Chronicle, who $100 a day plus expenses for a University of California at Ber­ and Freedom Pa,rty. Neither or three-day week. keley and San Francisco State be used for punitive purposes, these resolutions got to the floor or refused to cross the informational "THEREFORE BE IT RE­ picket line set up by tll.e Guild. The union members are asking College. the convention, as all committees for a lot less than that. A resolution calling for the im­ SOLVED that the CFT opposes were restricted to presenting three­ This was followed the next night the suspension or expulsion of any primary resolutions. by the strike vote of the Mailers -Lee Stevem mediate withdrawal of troops from Vietnam was passed by the com­ college or university student for The freedom of discussion and mittee, and passed overwhelming­ 'any reason other than inadequate complete absence of any red-bait­ ly on the convention floor, with grades." ing was in welcome contrast to the­ not more than 10 to 15 delegates Discussion in the Socio-Political meeting of the AFL-CIO executive­ opposed to it. The resolution was committee on the California Peace council in Florida last monthp presented by Local 1570, teaching and Freedom Party, Senator Eu­ where AFT President Charles Co. assistants at the Berkeley U.C. gene McCarthy's campaign, and gen was catcalled and booed by campus. the • formation of a labor party Meany's gang for refusing to en­ A resolution on racism in the demonstrated the disillusionment dorse LBJ's line on Vietnam. unions, originally presented by of many AFT members with the Local 1688 in 0akland, was passed Democratic Party's performance unanimously. It read .in part: "BE in regard to labor and its role in IT RESOLVED that the 1967 Con­ the Vietnam· war. . Droit Boss A resolution was passed in the LAGUERRE EST FINIE its existential theme. The hero is vention of the CFT go on record trapped between reality· and an as condemning all union discrimi­ committee strongly condemning Now that "LaGuerre Est Finie" both the Democratic and Repub­ got the New York Film Critics authority that he lmows to be nation such as: membership refu­ Celebrotes lican parties a,nd calling for the Award for best foreign film of the wrong, and he can't do anything sal on any basis other than regular about it. · qualifications; discriminatory prac­ CFT to "cease/ support" to either year I decided to go see it again. party, for "the formation of . a Unfortunately, it didn't help. I still Well, it might be true if what tices in the apprenticeship train­ Anniversory you're talking about is Stalinism ing program; and lack of Ininor­ political party based on the labor . think "La Guerre" is a somewhat movement, responsible to the la­ sentimental, often dull, existential and if you rule out the possibility ity group protection in dealings Each year the Selective Service of bypassing the Stalinist leader­ with management, especially in bor movement,· controlled by the System publishes a most remark­ vision of revolution that is a few labor, movement, which can ef­ decades out of date with the times. ships. They have sold out over and areas of hiring, promotion, and able document. AppeariJag on the over again; they did give a lot working conditions." fectively fight for labor's inter­ "anniversary of the Director's join­ The plot, you remember, is ests." The committee also endorsed ing Selective Service," it is nothing about a middle-aged Communist of orders to thousands of people A resolution · backing the sus­ which did not correspond to re­ pended students met with some less than a blow-by-blow, day-by­ who has been working under­ day account of General Hershey's ground in Spain and receiving ality. resistance on the convention floor, For instance the Communist but was passed over the protests Tribunal Leader life, beginning with his birth in orders from Paris. Suddenly all of Steuben County, Ind. his comrades are being rounded· Party of France disarmed the re­ of a few, including one delegate up and he barely escapes back to sistance following the second who made the incredible, charge Ba~rred from U.S. It is filled with such fascinating France. world war and entered a capital­ that the resolution would give stu­ tidbits as the dates on which The ist government. And, the CPF dents the right to beat up profes­ Vladimir Dedijer, the distin­ Director· graduated from public There, however, he finds that members in .the French govern­ sors. This resolution, introduced guished Yugoslav author and presi­ school, became a member of a the high command has decided ment voted war credits to crush by Local 1388 of Southern Cali· dent of the International War sandlot baseball team, reached the upon a general strike. Our herp the Algerian revolution in the fornia, read as follows: Crimes Tribunal, has been barred sublime degree of master Mason lmows it won't work and argues 1950s. "WHEREAS students ·are sub­ from entering the U.S. by the State of the North Eastern Lodge. .against it. But if that's what ''La Guerre" ject to the same criminal and civil, Department. He was to have given A date that every schoolchild He's been working in Spain for is really about, why doesn't it a series of lectures at a university should memorize is March 28, years and these long-time emigres come right out and say so? There's in Boston. The government in­ 1957. On that historic occasion The can't possibly understand the sit­ also the possibility the theme is Note to Subscribers voked the Immigration and Nat­ Director was "presented with a uation. So the Communist com­ revolution in general and we're Some subscribers to The Mili­ uralization Act to "legalize" its handwrought traditional flintrock mand removes him and tells him supposed to learn from it you can't tant may have missed the Dec. 18 ban. rifl~. . . . It measures 62-% inches to "think things over." At the last really change anything, I venture issue, as a number were destroyed The act prohibits anyone from over-all and has a 46-%-inch octa­ minute he is reinstated and, as he to say that's why "LaGuerre" got in a pre-Christmas fire in a New entering the U.S. "to engage in gonal barrel filled with eight embarks on a dangerous mission, film critics' award. And if that's York post office. A limited quanti­ activities which would be prejUdi­ grooves.... " his girl friend joins him. the case, it's the wrong theme in ty is available for subscribers on cial to the public interest or en­ Oops, we almost forgot. This What is supposed to make "La the wrong epoch. request - on a first-come first­ danger the welfare, safety or se­ weighty document is published at Guerre" into a serious movie is -J.W. served basis. curity of the United States." our expense. Monday, January 15, 1968 THE MILITANT Page Three OUR MAN IN HAVANA THE MILITANT Some Cops Are Girls Editor: BARRY SHEPPARD Business Manager: BEVERLY SCO'l"l' Published weekly, except during .July and August when published b!weekli, HAVANA, Cuba (Free Terri­ by The Militant Publishing Ass'n., 873 Broadway. New York, N.Y. 10003. Phone tory of the Americas) - One of 533-6414. Second-class postage paid at New York, N.Y. Subscription: domestic. $3 R year; Canada and Latin America, $3.50; other foreign, $4.50. By first claa the few restrictions on visiting mall: domestic and Canada, $8.50, all other countries, $14.00. Air printed matter: newsmen is the ban on taking pic­ domestic and Canada, $11.50; Latin America, $23.00: Europe. $27.00; Africa, Australia, Asia (including USSR), $32.00. Write for sealed air postage rates. tures of anyone in uniform, which Signed articles by contributors do nat necessarily represent The Militant's viewa. is a shame because it includes the These are expressed in eqitorials. young women who direct traffic in Havana. They are trim and Vol. 32 - No. 3 ~345 Monday, January 15, 1968 smart in their uniforms, created by the government's Mod-influ­ enced experimental design shop. A traffic cop in Havana is def­ Defense of Antiwar Figures initely a pleasing contrast to a The leveling of charges against Dr. Spock and four other beefy New York flatfoot. antiwar figures is a calculated attack by the federal government * * * on the antiwar movement and the right to dissent. It is based on My friend Pepe has acquired a an ·unconstitutional law which seeks to deny freedom of speech new hobby. He has purchased a and dissent. large hunting gun, and says he The response of everyone opposed to the war must be to goes hunting whenever he has time. Pepe points out that, before rally to the defense of the indicted men. We must make clear the revolution, hunting was strictly our opposition to the witch-hunt charges and our support of the for the rich. right to speak out against the immoral, unjust and illegal war * * * in Vietnam, and against the draft system used to corral young A 1914 Mack truck, right out of men to fight that dirty war. the Smithsonian Institution, was The movement must redouble its efforts against the war, wheezing up a hill. On the front Housing project in Havana. and strike a blow against these indictments by mobilizing as of the radiator, some droll com­ many Americans as possible in the international demonstrations pafiero has inscribed a current being planned for this spring, to show Washington and the world .slogan: "You can always do a lit­ yer is not needed to obtain a convey that he is glad to see a that massive numbers of Americans oppose the war and will not tle more." divorce. U.S. tourist again. The young be intimidated by witch-hunt charges or threats of repression. * * * * * * woman is equally friendly and When Fidel declared a while The new Catholic Bishop of helpful (when I locked myself out back that culture was for all peo­ Havana, is, I gather, a real of my room she had someone there ple and all countries, and Cuba swinger. He put on several masses with a key in 30 seconds flat), Workers' O,pposition to the War would no longer be hung up by with modern music and got such but there is not a trace of defer­ A Gallup poll released on Jan. 2 showed that the chauvinist, good notices that Fidel attended ence in her attitude. When I mis­ prowar, pro-Johnson stand taken by Meany's gang of bureaucratic Ulllllllllllltlllllllillll!lllllllllllllllllllllll!lllllllllllllllllllllll!llllllllllllllllllll a service. pronounce a word (which is most misleaders in the AFL-CIO does not reflect the views of rank­ Militant reporter Harry Ring * * * of the time) , she laughs and cor­ When I asked if eggs were and-file union members. is now in Cuba, and will be rects it as she would for a friend. plentiful, I was told this joke. A She conveys the feeling that she The poll found that uhionists are split in about the same writing a series of articles on man goes to a restaurant, and in is doing a necessary job, and - proportion as the rest of the population over the war, with the .his first-hand observations of response to his query, is advised by simply not trying - makes large minority of 43 percent of the opinion that the whole war the development of the revo­ by the waiter that what is avail­ you feel completely at home. was a mistake. (Fifty-one percent disagreed and six percent had lution. To be sure of receiving able is eggs. He orders some, be­ * * * no opinion.) A similar poll taken among veterans came up with the complete series, use cou­ gins to eat them and suddenly be· When the Coca-Cola plant was gins emitting sounds of whistles similar results, with 39 percent feeling that sending troops to pon on page 6. taken over in 1960 or '61, the Vietnam was a mistake and 52 percent holding the opposite and bells, like a sugar mill that managers headed for the U.S. fllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!lllllll!lllllllllllllllllllllllllllll\111 opinion. Among the population as a whole, the figures are 45 has just completed its quota. To Cuba developed its own formula astonished fellow patrons he ex­ percent and 46 percent. copyright laws, that apparently for the very popular beverage and plains, "I just ate my millionth began turning it out in brown bot­ Whatever the precise accuracy of the figures, they do dem­ was the signal for the presses to egg." begin turning out well-made qual­ tles. People would nod wisely and onstrate the widespread opposition to the war among these sec­ ity paperbacks. When I was at * * * explain that the brown was to tors of the population. The antiwar movement espedally should Pepe's house, he had just bought Students, . particularly the be­ preserve the flavor better. Then take note of this. Many in the antiwar movement have expressed cados (scholarship students), are Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Che made a speech in which he discouragement with the prospect of winning the mass of workers given such care and attention by commented, with some irritation, and a mystery by Dashiell Ham­ to active opposition to the war, but it is clear that there is already the government that some people that they made brown bottles be­ mett. In a hotel lobby I saw Mark widespread disaffection with the war within the unions. Twain's Huckleberry Finn, and refer to them as the "new class." cause they didn't know how to several of the classical Russian One punster adds, "With the make clear ones. Furthermore, he And the 50 percent or so who do not yet concede that the novelists. Paperbacks run from number of people going to school, added, it tasted like medicine. war was a mistake, are not necessarily all-out chauvinist sup­ about 80 cents to $1.20. nobody can call this a classless Today I stopped at a corner porters of the war. This has been indicated by the willingness of society." stand and had my first bottle of the rank and file of many unions to strike and fight for better * * * * * * Cuba's version of Coca-Cola. It's wages and conditions in spite of the war and in disregard of any It's an odd feeling to walk into about the same size as a bottle the lobby of the swank Hotel Pepe's father, a vigorous, alert appeals in the name of the war not to. Last year there were man of 76, attributes his longevity of coke in the U.S. and costs a more workers on strike and more strikes than in the last 14 years. Nacional and see displayed in the nickel. With a blindfold test, I and good health to wine instead Just as black people have not given up their struggle in order to lobby's tobacco shop a good selec­ doubt I would be able to tell tion of the works of Marx, Engels of milk since infancy, and a siesta get behind the "war effort," neither have the workers in general. every afternoon. I told him that which was which. It comes in a and Lenin, plus Franz Mehring's nice clear bottle. The large antiwar sentiment among veterans is another im­ biography of Marx. If you forget when we have socialism in the United States, I would see to it portant barometer of antiwar sentiment in the population. where you are, it's sort of like "' "' * The job facing those actively opposed to the war is to find finding them in the lobby of the that the siesta is instituted. An interesting food discovery ways to reach out to the workers, Afro-Americans, soldiers, vet­ Waldorf Astoria. "No," he replied, "have your is Havana's popular and very siestas under capitalism. Under beautiful new restaurant, El Cone­ erans, etc., educate them about the war and win thetn to active * * * socialism there is much work to jito. The epicurean menu is based opposition to it. I'll try to obtain more facts on be done." entirely upon rabbit (conejo). this interesting item. Both mar­ A proud headwaiter took us on riages and divorces, I'm told, are * * * a tour of the big, modern kitchen. simply a matter of record. A law- People in the U.S. sometimes as­ The decor at El Conejito is that sert that partisans of the Cuban of an English pub, but the cuisine Statement on Cyprus Crisis revolution avoid reporting serious is French, featuring wine and faults. Be that as it may, I have cognac sauces. There was a deli­ The United Secretariat of the tance of Cyprus within the mili­ Queens Party a fault to report. Cubans seem to cious-looking pate de foie - with Fourth International has released tary framework of NATO. It have a mania for air conditioning. truffles - made from rabbit liver. a statement on the l'ecent crisis points out that Makarios, the pres­ You walk into an air-conditioned We sampled some "ham" made in Cyprus., It is published in full ent leader of the state, has prom­ Will Be H~eld restaurant on a chilly evening and from rabbit meat. It looked and in the Jan. 12 issue of World Out­ ised that in the event of a unifica­ the icy blast almost knocks you tasted like good quality lean ham look, an international labor press tion with Greece, Cyprus would For 17 Accused over. A Cuban explains: "In the from a well-fed porker. service. maintain the same relationship cool weather, the air conditioners El Conejito represents an ex­ The crisis "arose from the con­ with NATO as does Greece. NEW YORK - There will be work better." periment in a new addition to the tradictory needs facing the putsch­ But "to impose a NATO solu­ soul food, soul music, and soul en­ * * * Havana diet which, by the very ist regime in Athens," according tion on Cyprus," the statement tertainment at a party in Queens, It may be a bit overgeneralized, nature of rabbits, should be of to the United Secretariat state­ declares, "imperialism will have to on Sat. Jan. 13 for the "17 African­ but I get the impression that there help increasing the meat supply. ment. confront a growing sector of the Americans Accused." Everyone in is a pronounced difference be­ El Conejito is very popular, using "On the one hand it required population. The only way the Cy­ priot people can really exercise the New York area is urged to tween the attitudes of the older 250 rabbits a day. credit for 'solving' the Cypriot self-determination is through Cy­ come and meet the defendants. and younger people in the service question; on the other hand, in The time is 9 p.m., the place, 113- * * * prus regaining all the bases, in­ trades. Although frowned upon just six order to crush the powerful, rad­ 30 Francis Lewis Blvd., Queens. ical workers' movement in Cyprus, cluding those agreed on through For instance at the Hotel Na­ months ago, rock and roll and treaties (Greek, British and Turk­ The donation is $1.00. it had been trying to set up a cional, where I am staying, some the beginnings of folk rock are ish bases). The 17 African-Americans Ac­ of the older members of the staff now very big in Cuba. "Radio military dictatorship in Nicosia cused were framed up last June in "It is necessary to put an end to continue with the air of deference Nocturno," the young people's fa­ under its representative, Grivas." the mandate of the UN and its connection with an alleged plot to that was expected in the days vorite nightly program across the But "to simultaneously achieve kill Roy Wilkins. Only two of the troops. It is necessary to guaran­ when the hotel was patronized by island, features the Beatles, the these mutually exclusive objec­ tee self-determination for the defendants were charged with wealthy Cubans and North Amer­ Monkeys and the Mommas and tives," declares the leading body Turkish Cypriots in the homo­ conspiracy to commit murder. The icans. The younger members of the Poppas. of the Fourth International, "was geneous Turkish areas, with equal­ others were indicted under the un­ the staff are just as nice to you, * * * impossible without partitioning ity in language and extraterritorial constitutional New York criminal but there is not that same feeling. Pete Seeger's version of Guan­ the island, something which the cultural autonomy guaranteed in anarchy law. For example, an older man and tanamera was picked up by Cuban immense majority of the people of the mixed towns and villages." Pretrial hearings for the "Seven­ a younger woman are the day op­ disk j.ockeys and is now a national Cyprus cannot and will not ever The Jan. 12 issue of World Out­ teen" will be held Jan. 17 at 9:30 erators of the elevator I usually hit. People are hoping Pete will accept." look may be obtained for 50 cents a.m. at the Kew Gardens Court take. From the older man I get come down here to perform. The Fourth International state­ from P.O. Box 635, Madison Sq. House in Queens. the feeling that he is trying to -Harry Ring ment calls attention to the impor- Station, New York, N.Y. 10010. Page Four THE MILITANT Monday, January 15, 1968 LBJ Moves to Protect the Dollar By Dick Roberts barriers to the flow of funds." two years. The measures Johnson On New Year's Day, President Business Week called the border enacted are designed to curb the tax proposal "a striking departure gold drain. Johnson announced a series of in trade policy from the long cam­ In addition, however, they rein­ controls limiting American foreign paign by the U.S., dating back to force U.S. competitiveness in a investment and designed to de­ the 1930s, to eliminate interna­ stagnating world market. Final fig­ fend the dollar in world trade. tional trade barriers and sub­ ures for 1967 are still not avail­ The dollar .has been under un­ sidies." able, but there is every indication precedented attack since the Brit· There fs little exaggeration in of a spectacular decline in the ish devaluation of the pound Nov. these remarks. For the first time growth of world trade. 18. in two decades, Washington has "In the third quarter, accord­ In the same week, Johnson made been forced to adopt major re­ ing to the International Monetary proposals that would put "border strictive policies in international Fund," the Dec. 6 Wall Street taxes" on imports to the United finance and trade. And there is Journal reported, "world exports States and give special tax priv­ considerable uncertainty that the were at an annual rate of $178.8 ileges to U.S. exporters. measures undertaken so far will billion, only 1 , per cent higher These measures reflect the solve the problem that is really than a year before." (Emphasis erosion of the dollar caused by at hand. added.) military spending on the Vietnam "The rise between the third war, coupled with a marked slow· Immediate Aim quarter of 1965 and the third down in the growth of world Johnson's immediate goal is to quarter of 1966 was 10 percent," trade. Dollar inflation and the correct the precipitous U.S. gold the Wall Street Journal continued, stagnation of international trade outflow caused by the British de­ "and at no time in the last five combine to bring world capital­ valuation. More fundamentally, years [before 1966] has the an· ism closer to a gold standard than the problem facing U.S. and world nual increase been less than 8 per· it has been at any time since the capitalism as a whole is a down­ cent." 1930s. turn in world trade caused by the The United States has been af­ Depressing Fact coincidence of economic recessions fected by this slowdown in world WOUNDED U.S. SOLDIER. In background is damaged helicopter. in most of the big capitalist coun­ trade and it is likely to be hit Cost of unjust war is important factor behind U.S. monetary The influential London Times tries. even harder in 1968. Including troubles. remarked that the day the finan­ Far from bolstering confidence military shipments, the surplus of cial controls were announced may in the dollar, the devaluation of U.S. exports over imports in 1967 turn out to be as important a date the pound unleashed an attack on was about $4.5 billion compared son announced his financial re­ cial subservience to the "trusted" in relations between the U.S. and it. Instead of believing that pound to about $4.8 billion in 1966. straints. dollar. other countries as the day in 1947 devaluation would indefinitely Foreign goods coming into Ger­ "The current system actually is when the Marshall Plan was an­ postpone dollar devaluation, many Prediction many will now be taxed 4 to 5 falling far short of ideal perform­ nounced. investors concluded dollar devalu­ "A number of economists," percent above their U.S. sale ance," Wall Street Journal econ­ "The depressing fact," The ation was a real possibility and states Business Week, Jan. 6, "are value, while German exporters omist Alfred Malabre Jr. conceded Times continued, "is that, whereas traded their dollars for gold. estimating that imports will rise will get certain tax rebates on Dec. 6. the Marshall Plan was expansion­ In the last quarter of 1967, Oc­ as much as 10 percent, buoyed by goods sold abroad. "Today's international business ist, the Johnson proposals are re­ tober through December, the U.S. business improvement in the U.S. "It will have the same effect on scene prompts John Exter, senior strictive." payments deficit rose to an annual But rapidly rising prices in the the German trade balance," Busi­ vice president of New York's First Similar comments were made in rate of $8 to $9 billion. During De­ U.S. may hold the export gain to ness Week economists complained, National City Bank, to remark: the American financial press. cember alone, the nation's supply only about 5 percent. If so, the "as a 2 percent devaluation of the 'You might say we're already on Business Week stated Jan. 6 that of gold dropped by $925 million. trade surplus will fall by $1 bil­ mark." a gold standard of sorts.' " A shift from the dollar stand­ the financial proposals "depart It is below $12 billion as a whole lion." Same ThiDg ard back toward the gold standard from more than two decades of for the first time since the 1930s. But it is precisely the U.S. trade efforts under the Bretton Woods A continuation of the gold out­ But exactly the same thing not only raises memories of the surplus that has allowed this coun· "gold standard" depression of the agreements to free the interna­ flow at this rate would eliminate try to sustain the big deficits would be true for the dollar, of tional financial system from such U.S. gold reserves in less than course, if Johnson's "border tax" thirties. It destroys the special caused by worldwide investment status the dollar has enjoyed in and military spending over the proposals go through Congress. A 3 percent tax on imports would international finance since World past two decades. War II, which allowed the world The slowdown in world trade "have the same effect" on Ameri­ can imports and exports as a 3 penetration of American capital· has been caused by the develop­ ism. • • • CIIStro S Speetll ment of economic slowdowns in percent devaluation of the dollar. the United States and France, and That effect would be to intensify bration. Then, the boom of a (Continued from Page 1) to actual recessions in Britain and competition in world trade at a 21-gun salute, a band played the Now, Fidel said, it is necessary Germany - four of the five ma· time when it is already slowing "July 26 Hymn," and the first con· Peostmt Protest to establish the most rigid con­ jor world capitalist powers. As down. tingent stepped forward. trols on the consumption of gaso­ the economies of these countries U.S. imperialism is beginning There was no military equip­ line. Gasoline used by private incur difficulties, competitive to pay the price in world trade Held in DtmtJRg cars will now be rationed. The ment in the parade. Contingents of for the dollar inflation caused by struggles among them for markets The U.S. government claims it is state will allocate oil on the basis the armed forces led the march are sharply increased. two decades of war spending and of carefully regulated priorities in past the reviewing stand. For ex· the dollar penetration of the en­ fighting for freedom in Vietnam. Each nation attempts to increase Yet it does not even permit Viet­ agriculture and industry. Some actly one hour separate contin­ its exports and decrease imports. tire capitalist world. That infla­ construction projects, he said, will gents, totaling 50,000, marched by tion has been brought to a critical namese to criticize the American Fiscal and monetary measures are occupation of their country. The have to be pOstponed on the basis in well-drilled formations. undertaken to increase the com­ point by the war in Vietnam. of these priorities. The gasoline Indicative of the role and weight New York Times reported Jan. 9: petitiveness of products in foreign Washington launched the post­ "South Vietnamese national po­ ration for private cars ranges of education in contemporary markets while protecting domestic war epoch of "Pax Americana" from eight to 25 gallons a month, Cuba, 22,000 of the marchers were licemen arrested about 100 peas­ markets against the invasion of with the aspiration of replacing ants in the Danang produce market depending on the size, model, and students. They ranged from uni­ foreign goods. gold and all international curren­ age of the car. versity students to elementary­ today for protesting against United The devaluation of the British cies with the almighty dollar. The States bombing and the American Despite this and other difficul­ school children, who passed the pound was the strongest measure elevation of the dollar to the st;l· military presence" in Vietnam. ties, the revolution will continue reviewing stand holding aloft and taken so far, and has brought rna· tus of a "special" currency signi­ The peasants were all women to advance. Fidel said that it is waving their weapons - their jor repercussions throughout the ficantly paved the way for U.S. and children, except for "four old an example of the dialectical notebooks. world market. Britain's devalua­ foreign investment and its im­ men." Television reports the pre­ process of history that the more There were cane-cutters with tion reduced the prices of its ex· perialist policies of policing the vious night had described the the imperialists sabotage Cuban gleaming machetes, workers and ports and increased the prices world. "criminal" demonstration merely development, the greater are the members of various voluntary British purchasers would have to But the dollar has been con­ as a "whispering campaign.'' efforts of the Cuban people to work brigades, including the cel­ pay for foreign goods. siderably weakened precisely by The local police chief, it seems, advance. ebrated Che Guevara Brigade, the military costs of imperialist has an American adviser named In a moving and eloquent way, which is doing yeoman work in At E:xpense of Others war and the U.S. imperialists' own A. Wilson Edwards, of Louisville, he asserted Cuba's dedication to clearing land for cultivation. Essentially, this was supposed international economic success. Ky. Mr. Edwards, speaking for an independent and revolutionary One contingent of young women to shift part of Britain's trade European imperialism-no long­ South Vietnamese officialdom no course. "Our policy," he declared, marched by chanting, "Create two, problem to other capitalist nations. er the lapdog it was in the days doubt, declared, "We're due for three, many Vietnams," and "We "will be that of consistent strug­ And the same principle is involved of the Marshall Plan-has been a lot more of this in the next few gle . . . against imperialism." want our children to be like Che." in the measures Johnson enacted taking advantage of the weakened months." The wave of applause, when he The applause was tremendous. New Year's Day and proposes for dollar to press its own interests cited the inspiring example of the In his speech, Fidel had evoked the future. against U.S. capitalism. Now John­ Vietnamese people, expressed the an enthusiastic response when he They attempt to transfer part son is attempting to reverse the solidarity of the Cuban people said that military training would of Washington's financial troubles attack. with them and with revolution· now be part of the education of to Europe. And in doing this, they 1967 aries everywhere. Then the Plaza women as well as men, declaring threaten to intensify the reces­ Rivalry rocked wtih cheers and deafening that this was in keeping with the sionary pressures that are already "What the U.S. has done," Busi­ applause as Fidel declared that ever increasing role women were slowing down the European econo­ ness Week states in an unusually Bound Volume 1968 would be the "Year of the playing in building Cuban society. mies. revealing commentary, "is to put Heroic Guerrilla," a tribute to It is hard to convey the deep By cutting down the amount of the burden right back on the Eu­ International Che Guevara and those who fell emotional impact of the celebra­ U.S. investment and tourism in ropeans. In instituting new rules in battle with him. tion. In every way it stood in such Europe, Johnson hopes to under­ to trim the deficit ... it has re­ Socialist In summoning the people to even contrast to the terrible lies that cut an important source of Euro­ moved some of the sting from the greater efforts, Fidel expressed are told about Cuba in the United pean dollars. This will deprive issue of dollar imperialism." the need for increased organiza­ States. I watched half a million Europe's capitalist nations of funds The heating up of interimperial­ Review tion and discipline. The progress people stand with quiet attention for developing their own econo­ ist rivalry in the economic sphere already made in that regard was in the hot sun as Fidel lectured mies. It could - Johnson fervent­ has been inevitably accompanied $10 manifested in today's celebration. for a solid half hour on the de­ ly wishes - force Europe to re­ by a tendency to force interna­ It had been announced that the velopment of the Cuban economy treat from its assault on the dol­ tional trade back onto the gold • Complete with Index event would begin at 10 a.m. as it related to the consumption of lar. standard it tried so long to get • Bookshelf size Guests were ushered onto the re­ oil. I thought of the many articles The proposed "border taxes" away from. No capitalist power is viewing stand at 9:30. Precisely at in the U.S. press painting a picture clearly illustrate the increased willing to trust forever in the Send check or money order to 10, Fidel stepped to the rostrum of a ranting demagogue haranguing competition in world trade. Similar paper currency of its competitor, 873 B'way, New York, N.Y. on top of the reviewing stand and the mob. The obscenity of the lie measures were enacted in West especially when the long-run re­ 10003. declared the opening of the cele- was never more apparent. Germany Jan. 1-the day John- sult of such trust is always finan- Monday, January 15, 1968 THE MIUTANT Page Five Boutelle on Notionol Tour; U.S. CP 'Rehabilitates' Ernesto Che Guevara [The following letter appeared America can now try to make Speoks ot N. Compuses in the Jan. 16 National Guardian. Y. Latin America's first citizen theirs. The author is Jim Kennedy, identi­ Those whose studied silence on the By Les Evans fied as an organizer for Students conference for the Organization of NEW YORK, Jan. 9-Paul Bou­ for a Democratic Society, who, Latin American Solidarity spoke telle, Socialist Workers Party can­ until last spring, was a youth ideological volumes now feel they didate for Vice President, began a spokesman for the Communist can celebrate Che - or at least national speaking tour here this Party.] his removal, his demise. ' week. The tour will last four I recently read that the U.S. Well, they are wrong. Che was months and will take him to 18 Communist Party (CP) held a a communist - he didn't just ap· cities in the U.S. and three in memorial dinner and rally to hon­ propriate to himself that label as Canada. or the late Che Guevara in Chica­ some "parties'' are wont to. He, On Jan. 7 Boutelle took part in go on Dec. 9. The principal speaker the consummate revolutionary, a debate on the war in Vietnam was Illinois CP absentee chair· cannot so easily be laid to rest. sponsored by the New York High man Claude Lightfoot - the same He is not silent. . . . School Student Mobilization Com­ who was recently quoted in Look He will never be the property mittee at St. Clement's Church in as denouncing Stokely Carmichael of those who play the coalition midtown Manhattan. as a "red-baiter, and worse, an game with the party of U.S. im­ Three prowar and three antiwar anti-Communist" because of Stoke­ perialism. He belongs only to those speakers participated in the de­ ly's attacks in Havana on the who will fight for man's libera­ bate, which drew more than 75 bourgeois policies of Lightfoot's tion. No amount of praise tongue high school students on a bitter party. Now the CP has decided to in cheek, by the reformists can CQld Sunday afternoon. Favoring hail Che - dinner, rally and all. make him safe; .no laying claim the war were Elaine Shepard, war At least the CP i!i not afraid to to his name by those who six correspondent in Vietnam and au­ speak kindly of the dead. months ago burst into anger at thor of The Doom Pussy; Jeffrey A Mighty Feat the thought of him can castrate St. John, congressional candidate his memory, his example, his call of the Conservative Party; and a It seems now that Che is gone to revolutionary struggle. spokesman for the American Le­ he can be made safe by those who gion, who left before the debate Paul Boutelle a few months ago railed against began. him and his "Message to the In addition to Paul Boutelle, spreading "propaganda" by saying John Bowne High School in peoples of the world." It becomes Blotk Opponent antiwar speakers were Jan Crumb, a new hallmark of revolutionary a veteran of Vietnam, and New that Washington killed civilians by Queens, to an audience of 50. dropping bombs in North Vietnam. In the discussion period a Cuban honesty for some to claim as theirs York City Councilman Ted Weiss. a man they so recently reviled. The debate was moderated by Dr. The civilians, she said, "are in­ emigre attacked Boutelle for his 01 Vietnom Wor jured by SAM missiles falling back support to the Cuban Revolution. Just think how cozy it must be Erik Holtzman of Columbia Uni­ - to embrace the ghost of Che versity. to earth." She also objected to the The anti-Castro Cuban charged charge that children had been that the flight of refugees from Guevara and the living leadership In Seottle Trio/ Boutelle insisted that the U.S. of the Venezuelan Communist Par­ government should immediately napalmed by American forces. She Cuba was evidence of a dictator­ ty at the same time, a mighty By Tom Leonard withdraw all of its troops, not cited a Dr. Rusk who had toured ship there. only from Vietnam but from Vietnam recently without finding Boutelle replied, "If they had feat! SEATTLE- Earnest Dudley, a American military bases through­ "a single case of a child burned not left, then I would worry about Last spring, May to be exact, the black man from Houston, Tex., out the world. He declared that by napalm." She added that "cer­ dictatorship, because that would be Communist press was strikingly faces trial here on Jan. 15 for re­ "150,000 black Gis in Vietnam are tain gasoline burns might have evidence that nothing had silent about Che's letter to the fusing to be inducted into the U.S. fighting for white power, not for been mistaken for napalm because changed. If the supporters of Ba­ Tricontinental. At the same time armed forces because of his oppo­ themselves; and the 350,000 white Vietnamese are very simple people tista remained in their old posi­ the CP press was waxing strong sition to the Vietnam war. Dudley Gis there are fighting for white and don't know how to cook with tions, then the Cuban people would with defense of the Venezuelan condemns the war as "racist, im­ capitalist power which is really gasoline stoves, and these some­ have asked what kind of revolu­ Party, under attack from Cuba moral and illegal" and believes their enemy as much as it is the times explode." tion had they made. There are because it had collaborated with the U.S. government is using the enemy of the Vietnamese." Ted Weiss urged that the anti­ three million whites who rule in the Leoni dictatorship and had draft as an instrument for be­ Jan Crumb described his ex­ war movement be taken off the South Africa. When the black abandoned the guerrillas. But heading the freedom struggle of periences in the Army in Vietnam. streets and into the Democratic African majority wins self-deter­ while the "Marxist" press, as they black people in this country by He said the Diem regime was the Party to attempt to elect an alter­ mination, it is possible that a ma­ fancy themselves, was silent, CP drafting disproportionately large first real police state he had seen native to Johnson within the two­ jority of those whites will leave leaders were not so. numbers of black men and giving at close range and that Gis could party system. Africa. Then you will tell me that At that time I was managing them the dirtiest and most dan­ gerous assignments. not believe they were fighting for St. John claimed that the gov­ is evidence of how bad that change the CP-controlled bookstore in freedom in Vietnam when they ernment was soft on the war and has been." Chicago. I had obtained from a Handcuffed 30 Hours saw the tyranny of the Saigon should never have allowed Diem That night Boutelle spoke at JOIN organizer a number of post­ regime. to be overthrown. New York University before a ers of Che for sale in the store. On April 4, while living in Elaine Shepard, speaking for the The following day Boutelle smaller but very interested group I had also purchased reprints of Seattle, Dudley was ordered to re­ war, charged that Boutelle was spoke before the Forum Club at of students. Che's article for sale. A few days port for induction. On April 14 after display of the posters, Jack he refused to take the "step for­ Kling, state secretary of the CP ward." In July he moved to Los in Illinois - and in Gus Hall's Angeles and notified the Seattle words "the Party's principal polit­ board of his change of address. He ... Jones' Prison Sentence ical officer" there - came in and was indicted for violation of the demanded their removal. Selective Service Act in Septem­ (Continued from Page 1) blocks set up all over, and we fense of Jones. Mrs. Tart, who saw ber, and in early October was ar­ Evergreen Review, Jones included were trying to get through these the scene from her porch, testified "Ultra-leftist'' rested by the FBI in Los Angeles some additional information. He various little streets to avoid the that she "saw a man with bushy Said Comrade Kling of Che's Bail was set at an exorbitant said that when he was arrested, roadblocks, but I think they ra­ hair and a beard, and he was be­ dioed all the cop cars. They spotted picture: "Our store has no busi­ $2,500. After holding him for "Local police and state police and ness displaying or selling that about three weeks in Los An­ us - they knew the car - and ing put into a police wagon." She detectives converged on us and geles, the federal government came jumping out of cars ... We they chopped us off at the inter­ said, "There was blood coming ultra-leftist's picture." transferred Dudley who was had to drop somebody off and we section and jumped on us. They down the side of his head. The During the same time, at a pub­ were trying to get back here (to pulled us out of the car." only sound I could hear was the lic discussion held by the Party chained and handcixffed for 30 Spirit House) a half-hour before During the trial, people in the sound of someone being hit." Po­ on Latin America - in which the hours in a car, to the county jail the curfew. The police had road- area of the beating testified in de- strategy of armed struggle was at­ in Seattle. A motion to reduce bail lice deny the beating. tacked - Kling, echoing the views was denied and he remained iri · · Another witness, Otis Lewis of men like Hall, termed both Che jail three more weeks while bail said, "When I got to South Sev­ and Fidel "left adventurers and was being raised. enth St., I saw a patrolman beat­ ultra-leftists." The case will be fought on the ing Mr. Jones. I saw another one Now that seems all forgotten. grounds of the general unconstitu­ stabbing at him with a stick and I With Che's pen stilled, the time is tionality of both the war and the heard Mr. Jones say, "Why don't ripe for his "rehabilitation." Those draft. The constitutionality of you stop hitting me." who placed themselves in league Dudley's Houston draft board will When they took the three vic­ with the worst sellouts in Latin be challenged on the grounds that tims to jail, Jones, bail was set there is not a single black man on at $25,000. (He calls it ransom.) any draft board in the state of In addition to all the other harass­ Texas. ment, the impression is being . Dr. Spock Contributions for the defense created that Jones was somehow • • should be sent to: Earnest Dudley responsible for the Newark revolt. (Continued from Page 1) Defense Fund, c/o Draft Resist­ A giant headline across the front continue to use what means we ance Seattle, P.O. Box 713, Seattle, of the Jan. 4 New York Post read, can to bring the war to an end." Washington 98111. "LeRoi Jones: 2-3 Yr. Term for This statment has been initially Riot Role." During the final court signed by Martin Luther King, session, the judge said that one Dwight Macdonald and Linus could suspect that Jones was a Pauling, among others. Anti-Humphrey Action "participant in formulating a plot" to burn down Newark on The American Civil Liberties Planned forM innesota the night he was arrested. Union has offered to defend the five. Melvin Wulf, legal head of The Minnesota Mobilization During the sentencing Judge ACLU, said the indictments were Committee is planning to hold a Kapp told Jones, "It seems to me unconstitutional and marked a demonstration against Vice Presi­ you are sick." "major escalation in the adminis­ dent Hubert Humphrey when he "Not so sick as you are," Jones tration's war against dissent." speaks to an AFL-CIO-sponsored replied. Earlier during the ses­ In New York, a meeting is being rally in St. Paul on Jan. 19, 1968. sion Jones had told the judge that held at Town Hall, 113 West 43rd The demonstration will be at 8 he represented "a crumbling struc­ St., on Sunday, Jan. 14, 8:30 p.m., p.m. at the Lowry Hotel, 4th & SENTENCED. LeRoi Jones and his wife Sylvia at courthouse. ture." to support the defendan~s. Wabasha, in downtown St. Paul. Page Six THE MILITANT Monday January 15, 1968

In a recent Jet magazine survey around the country. It represents on how black people would like a threat to the basic right to free to be identified, the largest per­ speech. centage voted for the term "Afro­ All persons are urged to sup­ port the petition campaign, regard­ American"; the second largest, for less of whether they agree with "black." The following table in­ the ideas of H. Rap Brown or not. dicates the results of the survey, Petitions are available from SNCC, which was based on the written 100 Fifth Ave., Room 803, New York, N.Y. 1001. REVIEWS responses of Jet readers: Afro-American ...... 37% • THE PRISONERS OF QUAI has achieved "socialism," complete Black ...... 22% The Navy _has told sailors par­ DONG by Victor Kolpacoff. with denials that there is any sig­ Negro ...... 18% ticipating in the New Orleans Mardi Gras festival to go along nificant economic or social in· African-American ...... 8% New American Library, 1967, Colored ...... 5% with the policy of discrimination 214 pp. $4.95. equality in the USSR, and praise American ...... 4% against black people, Jews and of "democracy" as presently prac­ This is a somewhat gruesome Other ...... ~ ...... 6% Italians adhered to by many of the ticed there. carnival functions. An official little novel about torturing a Viet­ Jet reports that the most "vocal" "Revival and terrifying growth Navy memorandum explained, namese youngster in an American of the replies came from those army prison camp. The "prisoners" of the oppressive functions of the "Whether or not this meets with preferring "Afro-American." A 29· your personal or official approval, of the title are court-martialed state?" Mandell scoffs - why "I year-old musician from Highland American soldiers forced to sit spent three hours one day last it is the way things are, and we year arguing the' Sinyavsky-Daniel Park, Mich., wrote, "To me there have to go along with it." through the torturing for various are only two cultures in this coun­ trial, freedom of dissent, and reasons. try - Euro-American and Afro­ H. Rap Brown everything else - in Russian - It might have started out to be AmericaJ:t. Color is too superficial. with a street crowd" in Kiev. And • an anti-Vietnam-war book in the Afro-American has more sub­ A few weeks ago the New York "White people in this country author's mind. Mandell wasn't even arrested! Times carried an article on what "Try that in front of New York's stance, qualities and roots and a are so committed to white supre­ is described as a shift in white macy that half the time they don't The narrator is a former lieuten­ Waldorf-Astoria some day," he truth." liberal opinion toward greater ac­ even realize they're letting it show. ant who refused to give his men adds, crushingly. A 21-year-old secretary from ceptance of "the black power phi­ orders which would have led to Chicago wrote, "I have chosen It showed in your Dec. 17 news Mandell finds Deutscher's essay losophy of racial separation." But article about white liberal attitudes the massacre of a "Viet Cong out­ Black because Black man means it becomes clear as you read the fit." The torture victim is a Viet­ especially irritating because Deut­ toward separatism. scher disputes and refutes the idea not to accept the system as Ne­ article that many of those so-called namese "about 18," who might "To white liberals integration that socialism, and socialist man, groes do, but fight hell out of it." pro-separatist liberals do not really know where a local guerrilla unit accept the ideas of black nation­ meant· black people winning an is stationed. have been achieved in the USSR. or China, in spite of the remark­ • alism as it is conceived by black 'equal' place in your society by But the villain is a sadistic of­ able achievements of the revolu­ people. In fact, they use their talk dint of superhuman effort to merit The Student Nonviolent Coor­ that great honor. By separatism, ficer who is carrying out the tor­ tion in those countries. Both Rus­ of "separatism" to hide an accept­ dinating Committee is circulating they mean black people accepting ture in order to gain a promotion. sia and China were too backward ance of segregation and grad· And the ·whole thing turns into a petition asking the Supreme their downward revisions of the to yet achieve the stage of social­ Court to take action against a ualism. a psychodrama of ambition, with ism, Deutscher explains, and re­ goals they set for us in the inte­ the. war almost falling out of the court ruling that bars SNCC na­ One sociologist at Columbia gration period. Massa is still massa main transitional societies between tional chairman H. Rap Brown University is quoted as saying, pii;ture<; , . capitalism and socialism, afflicted, even when he's wearing a different from traveling to any part of the "For God's sake, let's face facts. style with his title. According to the flyleaf, Victor in addition, with the distortions U.S. outside of 11 counties in New The demography of cities is such Kolpacoff wrote this while he was and crimes of Stalinism. Socialist York. The travel restriction was that it's going to take a long time "It's for sure you people don't a graduate. student in 1966 at San man cannot be produced under imposed upon Brown as a condi­ to get decent housing,- much less understand what black nationalism Francisco State. It . is his first such conditions. tion of bail after his arrest last means to black people. To us it novel.. integrated housing." means, among other things an end One of Deutscher's main points summer for "inciting to riot" in The contents of the article so -D.R. Cambridge, Md. to white folks probing our family was to rescue the idea of socialist angered one black reader that she structure, exchanging grants to man and socialism from their Sta­ The travel restriction is an ob­ sent a letter of reply to the New A REPLY,. TO ISAAC DEUT- study our communities, and die· linist distortions. For to hold up vious attempt to keep Brown from York Times, which is well worth tating the terms of our accom· SCHER · Mandell. present Soviet society as "social­ by William fulfilling his speaking engagements quoting: modation to the status quo. We ism'' drags the concept of social­ De«;'~:~l)er 1967 Political Mfairs. don't like your status quo and we ism down to the level of present don't want to be integrated into it. In September 1966, Isaac Deut­ Soviet reality. It would take a scher delivered an address to the Mandell to deny the mountains of "We think there's something Socialist Scholars Conference on evidence of the crimes of the So­ Son Fmntisto Meeting dirty and vicious about your soc­ ••socialist Man," It has since been viet bureaucracy in Stalin's time iety. And we know good and well repx:inted as a 'pamphlet by Merit down to today - the purges, the the source of the problem is not Publisbers (873 Broadway, New lack of free inquiry, the privileges black people; we're just hangers­ York, N.Y.J.0003, 35¢). Deutscher's of the bureaucrats - all the things Supports Huey Newton on here, we're not making the address. c9.ntains a sharp refuta­ Sinyavsky and Daniel and the decisions. tion.,of official Soviet views of the many other young rebels in the By Mary Kraft necessary to lift the oppressor off "The problem is with white subject. William Mandell's essay Soviet Union are fighting against. their backs, must defend him. American society and the economic is printed·.in the theoretical organ SAN FRANCISCO- Over 100 As Deutscher pointed out, "The Those who would oppose the· new an social forces which keep it of the Communist Party USA as people packed the hall at a meet­ attack on the right of the people going. an ·answer to Deutscher's pamph­ Socialist Man Stalin presented to ing here Jan. 5 sponsored by the to bear arms must defend him. "If white liberals sincerely sym­ let. the world was the hungry, ill-clad, Militant Labor Forum in support By showing our support and solid· pathized with black nationalism ill-shod or even barefoot, worker of the Huey P. Newton Defense Mandell complains in his pref­ arity, by defending Huey P. New­ (and the article claims a growing or peasant, selling or buying a Fund. ace 'that Politica~ Affairs was the shirt, a piece of furniture, a few ton, we can advance the struggle number do) then they would see only publication on the left that ounces of meat or even a piece Newton is the Black Panther for these rights." their duty as attacking the evils would touch his piece, and after of bread on black or grey markets, 'Party for Self Defense leader who A collection was taken, and of American society at their reading it, one can see why. It is working 10 or 12 hours a day is being framed uP in Oakland on $222.08 was raised to defend Huey source, instead of cr,eating a whole a sterile repetition of the old Sta~ under a barrack-like factory dis­ a charge of murdering a police­ P. Newton, including a donation class of professional meddlers in linist dogma that the Soviet Union cipline and, sometimes, paying for man. from the door proceeds of the black communities." any real or alleged offense with The main speakers were Bobby Militant Labor Forum. -Elizabeth Barnes years of forced labor in a con­ Seale, chairman of· the Black Pan­ Ssigon Bisllops centration camp. He did not dare ther Party for Self Defense, and ------to criticize a factory manager, let Eldridge Cleaver, militant black alone a party boss. He had no writer whose book Soul on Ice Criticize Tllieu right to express any opinion on will be released by McGraw-Hill South Vietnam's Roman Cath­ any major issue affecting his and in February. Each spoke of the rNew Readers the nation's destiny. He had to ulic bishops, who have long been. history of ghetto resistance ·and vote as he was ordered; to applaud the need to organize both to de· If you would like to be sure of receiving every issue I one of the most reactionary ele­ the Leader with frantic enthu­ fend the victims of racist persecu­ containtng Harry Ring's special on-the-spot series from ments supporting the U.S. inter­ siasm, as he was ordered; and to tion and to win black power - Cuba, order an introductory four-month subscription now. 1 vention in Vietnam, issued a call let his dignity and personality be black control of the black com­ In addition, you will receive FREE a copy of the November· Jan. 7 for a cessation of the bomb­ mocked by the so-called personali­ munity. Cleaver warned against ty cult. December 1967 issue of the International Socialist Review I ing of ·North Vietnam. They were the illusion that the courts are any containing Fidel Castro's speech at the OLAS conference also critical of the Thieu-Ky re· "These are the facts, now offi­ better equipped to dispense jus­ gime, although the Saigon govern­ cially so described by the Soviet tice than the racist police. "The held in Cuba last summer, and the general declaration is· ment is largely Catholic in the leaders and reflected in a vast court," he said, "has no authority sued by OLAS. Send this coupon and $1 to predominantly Buddhist country. Soviet literature with all the em­ to try Huey Newton. What the Commenting on South Vietna­ phasis of authenticity. Although in court has is power - that's all it mese officials, the bishops de­ recent years the conditions have has." clared, "How can there be peace been greatly mitigated, the pover­ A plea for support to the de· when those in responsible places ty, the inequality, the lack of po­ fense of Huey Newton was made THE MILITANT mask their false promises behind litical and intellectual freedom, by Nat Weinstein, national com­ 873 Broadway rhetoric? How can there be peace and the bureaucratic terror are mittee member of the Socialist New York, N. Y. 10003 if .laziness, hypocrisy and corrup­ still there." Workers Party. "Huey P. Newton tiop. prevail everywhere in so­ Deutscher's essay itself is the must not be allowed to become a ciety?" best refutation of Mandell's "an· martyr, a victim, a symbol of the Name ·-·-··--······--······-··---·····--·---·-·····--··----·-----······-··---·---·· The New York Times comment­ swer," and remains a fine state­ successful use of the power of ed Jan. 9 that "the once-close rela­ ment on the real potential of so­ the state to trample on the rights Street ···-·---·~ ----··-~-.. ·------···- .... -'-----·-·-··-·-- Zip .. ______. tionship between the Catholic cialism to raise mankind both col­ of the people," Weinstein said. hierarchy and the Government was lectively and as individua.J.s to new "Those who believe, as I do, in undex:going a period of strain over heights. the right of oppressed people to City -··----···-·----···--·--·--·------·- State ··-··········-····· the war issue." · -B.S. use whatever means they think is ------_j Monday, January 15, 1968 THE MILITANT Page Seven

may bring the rule of justice to our nation." Thought for the Week After demanding, "Are we going "This language, suggesting that Negroes should have a chance to mutilate what he wrote? .. to become delegates without requiring that any actually win, was What concept is that of history? unobjectionable to Southern committee members/'-Warren Weaver, And how can history be conceived Jr., in an article in the Jan. 9 New York Times on the Democratic in such a wretched manner? How National Committee stand on discrimination in Southern delegations can history be conceived as some­ to party's national convention. thing dead? As something putrid? As an immovable stone?" - Cas­ tro says, "Whoever conceives of head of the great American labor King Faisal. These people are history. as he should ... will not organization and talking "in the progressive forces? commit such an act of stupidity. name" of that organization. Most of what .you· say . about For with that criterion we would J.M. Israel is true, but it is at least a have to start suppressing all the liberal capitalist nation. The Arab writings of Carlos Manuel de Ces­ Not a Zionist ••• countries are quite a bit more op­ pedes, who expressed the thinking Austin, Tex. pressive. of his day .. .'' I would like to make a few com­ The Arabs bear at least as muck Castro goes on to say that ideas ments, having just read your in­ guilt for deliberately maint;:~ining of all previous heroes would have spired little tract Zionism and the the suffering of the refugees as Letters to be suppressed - Marti, Maceo, Arab Revolution, on your incred­ the Israelis .do for creating them. Maximo Gomez "and the other ible ideas concerning the not-too­ And why do you think there is men of that glorious breed.'' distant happenings in the Middle racism in Israel, why are a major­ From And, "We would be forced to East. ity of its Jews Asians? Because deny our very roots. . . . If we It says that Israel is not really their Arab homelands made life pursued to its end that line of a socialist country, that it has an there unbearable for them. The thought, we should come to be­ abominable foreign policy, that it property these Arab Jews left be­ Our lieve that we ... had made all of is beset by racism and exploita­ hind at least equals that taken the nation's history, forgetting the tion. from the Palestinian refugees. tens of thousands of mambises Hardly surprising. I never knew But the most serious charge Readers [19th century fighters for Cuban anyone who called himself a ·rev­ against Israel is its foreign policy. freedom] who fell; forgetting the olutionary socialist who thought It could indeed hardly be worse. tens of thousands of heroes who anything else. It ends up by say­ But who was it to turn to - Rus­ died along the way " ing that Israel should be de-Zion­ sia? Ha! The Arabs? Double•Ha! Ruth Schein ized and included in a Unified Israel was created in the face of [This column is an open forum sure, exerted in such a way as to Socialist Republic from the Atlan­ imperialism's violent opposition. fM all viewpoints on subjects of show respect for the human dig­ Faithful Lackey tic to the Persian Gulf. not its collusion. The U.S. couldn't general interest to our readers. nities, not scorn for them. Macedonia, Ohio Now I'm no Zionist - I'm not care ·less about Israel, its real goal Please keep your letters brief. T.C. It's true that George Meany's even a Jew. I think Israel should is Arab oil. The U.S. commitment Where necessary they win be policy of backing Johnson's crim­ abandon Zionism. What I would was popular, not governmental. a.bridged. Writers• initials will bE> Interesting Parallel inal war in Vietnam and accusing like to ask is, just what the hell Most capitalists backed Israel be­ used, names being withheld unless New York, N.Y. opponents of the war of being di­ do you think goes on in the Arab cause they had no direct personal a.uthMization is given fM •t.~t:.j There is an interesting similar­ rected "from Hanoi" is "libelous, countries? interests involved. ity between a point made by James slanderous and false charges" as Now I know about several None of this, however, is suf­ Antiwar Manners Forman in his Nov. 23, 1967, said Emil Mazey, United .Auto palace coups that have replaced ficient cause for a revolutionary Workers secretary-treasurer (The Berkeley, Calif. speech at the Western Region some kings with military dictators party to give political support t() Black Youth Conference [MiLitant, Militant, Dec. 25). and some military dictators with either side in a war between rival I too am from Berkeley, and I Jan. 1] and a point developed by But it should be added that this other military dictators, but an capitalist and oppressive states. should like to answer "B.C." of Fidel Castro in his speech at the pseudodefender of the working Arab Revolution? I admit that which had nothing to do with na­ Berkeley. B.C.'s letter [Dec. 25 University of Havana, March 13, class, Meany, whose annual "sal­ some brave revolutionaries no tional liberation. Militant] ridiculed "liberals" who 1962. ary" is $75,000 (if not more) al­ doubt died to bring about the suppose the Vietnamese interven­ Zionism placed in Palestine not Forman discusses the fact that ways has been a faithful lackey palace coup in Algeria. only the political state of Israel,. tion could be stopped if only dem­ of American imperialism and onstrators used better manners. a brother, attending a conference Maybe, though, you mean N as­ but aiso 2,500,000 Jewish people.. in Prague at which there were capitalism, so there is nothing un­ ser, the ex-admirer of Hitler who The only possible outcome of. an. Good manners are nothing to many representatives of the Na­ usual .in his present attitude in staffs his government with army Arab· victory would have been a ridicule. They are a sign of good tional Liberation Front and the regard to the policy of the upper­ generals and escaped Nazis; who vast slaughter. Because it was the­ leadership at all times. Lenin had government of the Democratic Re­ bourgeois, dictatorial regime of jails all opposition and starves his only way to avert this, I was high­ them; Stalin didn't. Crude violence public of North Vietnam, respond­ Johnson. people in order to buy military ly pleased by the outcome of this; can antagonize sections of the mid­ ed to the request of the Vietnamese It's a shame that such a type of equipment and gigantic pictures of war. dle class that are needed in any that "We Shall Overcome" be reactionist still is standing at the himself. Surely you don't mean M.c;. forward movement. This is espe­ sung with, "No. We don't sing that cially so at a time of high em­ song. The people who sang that ployment and general prosperity, song were crazy.... " when the middle class will not support any change at all if its And Forman analyzes this re­ feelings are hurt. action as a "faulty interpretation of our history.'' He goes on to It is indeed naive to think the point out, " ... I do not think all U.S. government can easily be of us who sang it were crazy. convinced to withdraw from Viet­ People do not sing it today for nam. But if the job is to be done, many reasons. But the brother ... it can be done best by a steady, was only in Pragu~ because there forceful, but always justified pres- was a historical relationship be­ tween his presence there and the They Took Him at His Word - wasn't from Michigan, Romney White Lie - "I've never made manner in which he got there. I Fifty Catholic youths were arrest­ lost interest. If the young man was a statement in my life that re­ am well aware that my presence ed in St. Peter's Square in Rome fortunate enough to come from flected on anyone because of race Weekly Calendar here is due to many factors, but Michigan, he received a medallion or color or national origin,'; said when they heeded Pope Paul's call with the state seal on one side George C. Wallace recently i&: if it had not been for the people for peace prayers on New Year's who sang "We Shall Overcome," and Romney's signature on the California. Just about two weeks. CHICAGO there is no question in my mind Day. The youths said the cops told other. earlier, he was quoted in a Bell­ Hear FRED HALSTEAD, Socialist that I would ~ot be here today.'' them that the orders to remove flower, Calif., speech as talking Workers Party candidate for U.S. Presi­ Romney in Vietnam, ll - In a about the criminal "who didn't,.get dent, speak on The _War in Vietnam and A good part of Castro's address, them came from the Vatican Sec­ hospital his opening remark to a on the occasion of the commemora­ any watermelon to eat when' he· the '68 Elections. Friday, Jan. 19, 8 'p.m. retariat of State. GI who had had a leg amputated was 10 years old." Debs Hall, 302 S. Canal. Contrib. 75 tion of the fifth anniversary of was, "Have you got a girl back cents. Ausp. Militant Labor Forum. the 1957 student attack on Ba­ Deathless Prose - If you weren't home?" Approaching another cri­ Off With His Head - U.S. Am­ tista's palace, in which student one of the lucky ones to receive, as tically wounded man, Romney was bassador to Italy Frederick· Rein­ • leader Jose Antonio Echevarria a personal Christmas gift from warned by the doctor that the hardt, a career diplomat who has NEW YORK and others were killed, was de­ LBJ, a colorful and lavishly il­ patient had difficulty speaking be­ held that post since 1961, has been: THE ANTIWAR TREND IN THE voted to this very same denial of lustrated book of His words, don't cause of a tracheotomy. The fired. It seems that LBJ was. UNIONS. Speaker: Farrell Dobbs, nil­ history, a denial which, as For­ fret. Twenty-five thousand copies' wounded man was a mass of tubes, piqued during his recent visit to tiona! secretary, Socialist Workers Party. man makes clear, leads to "a faulty of the 9-by-11-inch, 243-page, hard­ bottles, and bandages. Romney Rome because he had to take four Friday, Jan. 19, 8:30 p.m. 873 Broadway, interpretation." cover No Retreat from Tomorrow, asked, "Where you from, soldier?" helicopter flights over the city by near 18th St. Contrib. $1. Ausp. Milit11nt At the commemoration cere­ a collection of 23 messages the (the man was a marine). The night to throw anti-Vietnam-war Labor Forum. mony, the compafiero who read President sent to Congress in 19'67, patient could not reply because of protesters off their timetable of the fallen fighter's political testa­ will soon be made available to the incision in his throat. "Get this demonstrations. Maybe Reinhardt • ment to the people of Cuba omitted bookstores for purchase by the man's name and address," Romney TWIN CITIES should have insisted that the dem­ three lines: "We believe that the public. ordered an aide. And to the onstrators apply to the American TURMOIL IN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM. time has come for us to fulfill wounded manr "I'll tell your family A panel discussion. Saturday, Jan. 20, "Here Comes the Bird" - What Embassy for parade permits. 8:30 p.m. 704 Hennepin, Rm. 240, Min­ our pledge. We are confident that sounds to us like a better buy is you're all right.'' the purity of our intentions will Those Spoilsports Again - One neapolis. Ausp. Twin Cities Socialist the new comedy album which, Romney in Vietnam, On Forum. bring us God's blessing so that we m - sequence was canceled from .Bri­ although a take-off on the recent Christmas day he decided to give gitte Bardot's French TV debut­ Lynda Bird-Capt. Robb nuptials, little talks to the troops assembled a revealing view of the shapely In the January-February issue of spoofs all the Birds, Mac included. along his route. At one point, to a star draped in the French flag,. Sample: Capt. Robb to actor handful of Gis - including sev­ strategically ruffled by a studio· George Hamilton: "I'm in the Ma­ eral Jews - he launched into a wind machine. Aux armes, cito-· rines." Hamilton: "When's it being sermon on the virtues of Chris­ yens! Radical America released?" a journal of U. S. radicalism tianity. At another stop, after an­ other instant sermon, a black Ma­ Afraid of Brainwashing? - On The Hazard, Ky., projec:t and the evolution of the New Romney in Vietnam, I - If we were Romney's campaign adviser, rine approached a reporter in the his way into Moscow's House· Left • A strategy for radical rent-strike organizing • press group and murmured: "Is of Friendship, Governor Romney· & we would keep him out of Viet­ The nature of Debsian Socialism: James Weinstein Paul nam- that seems to be where he the Governor letting Negroes into passed a row of huge posters at-­ luhle on THE DECLINE OF SOCIALISM IN AMERICA, either gets his brain washed or his church yet?" 1912-1925 •lntellec:tuals in the 1930's: reviews of Joseph· tacking American action in Viet-­ puts his foot in his mouth. This Big Brother's Big Brother - nam. According to a UPI dispatch. son's INFIDEL IN THE TEMPLE and Cowley's THINK BACK trip his opening gambit in ap­ Now there's a computer that ON US. proaching G Is was a stock, "Where checks on other computers. A San of Dec. 18, "he appeared not to. 50¢ or $3jyr to Buhle, 1237 Spaight, Madison, Wis. 53703. you from, soldier?" - even if the Francisco wit has dubbed it the notice them." "soldier" was a marine. If the GI "Unifink.'' -Ruth Porter Page Eight THE MILITANT Monday, January 15, 1968 National Trai~blaze~s SDS Not1 (ountil Atlvomtes Turn to Antiwor Movement ~~~~t!~~~.~~!!~~~!:Socialist Workers Party presiden- we were not needed to convince tial ticket, have been carrying the them to support the campaign - By Carol Lipman campaign onto campuses around they had already come to the con­ BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - The the country, "trailblazing" new elusion to do that quite of their Indiana University campus here areas to give their socialist ideas own accord - and our main work was the setting for the winter na­ the widest possible hearing. was in discussing the types of tional council meeting and educa­ Some of these Young Socialists things they will be doing, such as tional conference of the Students have written to The Militant, let- organizing debates with Young for a Democratic Society, Dec. 27- ting us know where they have Democrats, leafleting and distri­ 31. Over 400 students from across been and what kind of response buting campaign literature, organ­ the country attended the SDS they have received for the social- izing interventions into the ap­ gathering. ist candidates. pearances of candidates and hacks During the final sessions of the One team of Berkeley trailblaz- of the two capitalist parties, and council meeting, resolutions were ers writes from Hayward, Calif., building an impressive turnout for passed calling for national anti­ Jan. 3: Fred Halstead's appearance war actions April 20-30, supporting "We had a very good reception here.... SDS's participation in the National at Chabot College. We set up a "In addition to the group of ac· Mobilization Committee to End literature table and every kid who tive campaign supporters, there is the War in Vietnam, and calling was the least bit radical came to also a group called the Afro­ for a national antiwar action aimed talk to us and read our campaign American Cultural Organization against the Democratic Party con­ brochures. We obtained 13 names (AACO) which heard about Paul vention in Chicago next August. for the Young Socialists for Hal· Boutelle independently. One of its For weeks prior to the national stead and Boutelle mailing list and members came to see us while we council meeting, New Left Notes, left 100 of our campaign bro- were here, reiterated his interest SDS's newspaper, provided a chures, several posters, and lots in having Boutelle speak, and en· forum for discussion of important of stickers and leaflets, which dorsed the campaign.... issues confronting the conference. will be displayed daily on an SDS "Students here are prepared to The discussion tended to center [Students for a Democratic Socie­ make our candidates' appearances on the antiwar movement. ty] table. the focus of a free-speech fight Educational Conference "We made arrangements to re­ if necessary, since the university turn next Thursday with a speaker The three-day educational con­ has regulations saying that no ference was a further forum for at a regular open-mike rally, and speakers from political parties not APRIL 1965. SDS march on Washington against war initiated students here are more than will­ the discussion and debate that was 'recognized' in Illinois are per· to take place later in the week at antiwar movement. ing to set up meetings and have mitted on campus." speakers on the campaign." the national council meeting. Four teams of trailblazers have Young Socialists from Boston Arthur Kinoy, nationally known of mass antiwar actions. Rather This national council meeting, written in from Indiana and Illi­ write about two trailblazing trips, civil liberties lawyer, addressed than learning from experience the however, reflected the beginning nois. Working mainly out of Chi­ one to several Maine campuses and the educational conference on the positive aspects of their own 1965 of a reversal of these abstentionist cago, they have been to campuses one to the University of New topic of "Repression and Defense.'' march, SDS tended to abstain from policies. The call for antiwar ac­ in Indianapolis, South Bend, De­ Hampshire: He accurately predicted that the the antiwar movement, trying to tions in April allows SDS support Kalb and Champaign. "A very good reception every­ government would soon attack sec­ find programs outside of the move· of a national student action in the In Indianapolis the Young So­ where. SDS has been extremely tions of the movement that they ment to build a national organiza­ same time period which is on the cialists met with local campaign cooperative on campuses where felt they could victimize, and apo tion. agenda of the Student Mobiliza· supporters and decided to organ­ they have chapters, have helped pealed to the whole movement to Rather than remaining in the tion Committee conference to be ize a public meeting at the end us set up tables, and have invited unite around the defense of the forefront of the developing move· held late in January. of January, at which a represent­ us back. victims of this impending assault. ment - participating in, organ­ The sharpest division took place ative of the Chicago campaign "Senator McCarthy was speak­ The way to win in the courts is izing and leading mass actions in a debate over whether SDS .committee will speak on the Hal­ ing at the U. of New Hampshire not only through the legal battle against the war - SDS tended to should send a representative or an stead-Boutelle ticket. the morning we arrived, so we in the courtroom, he said, but in view such actions with a jaundiced observer to the National Mobiliza· Two campaigners in South thought we would try to take ad­ the political struggle to expose the eye. The two largest political de· tion Committee meetings. The Bend, Ind., met with students at vantage of any political activity government's attack and to win monstrations in recent American council finally voted 36-30 to send the Indiana University extension, that had been created by this. It support from the American peo­ political history - April 15 and a representative. a number of whom signed up as worked out very well. There was ple. October 21 - were supported by SDS, along with· other organiza­ endorsers of the campaign. a lot of interest generated by his The national council meeting national SDS only at the very last tions, has learned through concrete Another pair of trailblazers presence plus the fact that he ap­ marked an advance over the recent minute. While local chapters of experiences in the last few months write about two days spent at parently turned off not only the SDS position on the antiwar move­ SDS were among the best builders that tactics of "disruption" can Northern Illinois University in radicals but most of the liberals ment. Ever since the April 1965 of these actions, the national or­ prove a hindrance in building the DeKalb in mid-December: as well. march on Washington against the ganization abstained from the Na­ antiwar movement and in reach­ "There are probably close to two "So when we showed up we ob­ war, which was called by SDS, the tional Mobilization Committee and ing the vast numbers of Americans, dozen people on or around the viously represented just what we organization has had a difficult the antiwar coalition which organ­ especially the working class, who campus who already support the said, 'A real alternative.'" time in assimilating the importance ized them. are opposed to the war. For exam­ ple, the council voted down pro­ posals to call the April action "Ten Days that Shook the Empire-." Mounting Unrest in Czechoslovakia Program There were other developments (World Outlook)- The Czecho­ had sharpened the differences discussions among the students. successor. Perhaps the rising pres· slovak press disclosed Jan. 5 that within the leadership. On Oct. 31 "The writers .said Novotny must sure from below led then to rally during the weekend. The confer­ Antonin Novotny had been de­ more than 1,000 students from the finally come to terms with the around Dubcek, despite Brezhnev's ence included a caucus of Southern posed as the first secretary of the Strahov campus of the Technical mistakes, the excesses, and the intercession. students who presented a resolu­ Czechoslovak Communist Party. College of Charles University crimes of Stalin," one language The Communist rulers of Cze­ tion which said, "Capitalism every­ He is to be allowed, however, to marched with burning candles to­ student observed. choslovakia face this dilemma. The where oppresses the majority, but remain as president of the coun­ ward the government's Hradcany The criticisms of the Old Guard pressures for social, economic, cul­ this is doubly true in the South, try. The new first secretary is Castle to protest the lack of light Czech boss coming from the tural and even political change which has been and is a colony of Alexander Dubcek, a member of and heat in their dormitories. The Slovak representatives, dissenting are so strong that they must be Yankee imperialism.'' Although the Presidential Council and first demonstration was spontaneous students, rebellious intellectuals, heeded without much delay. But this resolution passed almost un­ secretary of the Slovak Communist and nonpolitical. proponents of economic reform and they fear to open the floodgates of animously, it raised serious ques­ Party. other elements in the population reform too wide lest the surge to­ tions among many members. SDS The students were blocked from leader Greg Calvert saw the neeti The regime thus appears to have the government buildings, shoved, yearning for improvements, raised ward liberalization become un­ reached at least a temporary reso­ hopes that the meeting of the CP manageable. for SDS to "develop a class an. cursed and beaten. The official alysis of a class society" rather lution of the deepest crisis it has count says 12 students and three Central Committee beginning Dec. The spectacle of Brezhnev's in­ suffered up to now. 20 would see Novotny removed tervention on Novotny's behalf, than backing into a program by policemen were hospitalized, but discussing Southern regionalism. Novotny had run the Communist students estimate the injured as from office. with its reminder of the regime's Party since 1953 and was head of close to 50. However, Novotny managed to humiliating dependence upon Mos­ Probably one of the more inter­ the country since 1957. He utilized hang on temporarily to both posi­ cow, should further lower the fast­ esting aspects of the conference his double posts to impede the Repercussions tions through the intervention of fading prestige of the leadership was a paper submitted by Greg spread of liberalization in the Soviet CP Secretary Brezhnev, Calvert on "participatory demo­ Although the grievances were among the party ranks. The dif­ country. who flew to Prague Dec. 8 with­ ficulties stemming from the eco­ cracy.'' Although it was not dis­ promptly attended to, the political The current struggle began two out advance notice to argue against nomic reforms have provoked con­ cussed formally at the council months ago when all three Slovak repercussions of the fracas con­ the ouster of his friend. meeting and only informally at tinue. One student leader report­ siderable dissatisfaction. members of the Presidium - Pre­ According to New York Tlimes The Central Committee itself the educational conference, it is mier Joseph Lenart, Alexander edly remarked that some of the correspondent David Binder, be­ important to note. most convinced Communists in the acknowledged at the end of its Dubcek and Michal Chudik - de­ fore Brezhnev arrived in Prague, May 3-4 plenum that there is an Calvert's paper sharply criti­ manded that the president quit university have begun to ques­ the anti-Novotny group had grown tion the regime's action. undesirable growth of inventories, cized "participatory democracy," both jobs. They blamed Novotny to include eight of the 10 full a large volume of unfinished cap­ a sacred cow of SDS for the past for blocking the three-year-old Students at Charles University members of the Presidium. But ital construction, and a growing few years, as an organizational plans for economic reform. They believe that the police crackdown Brezhnev succeeded in obtaining gap between production and for· norm. "The primary contradiction accused him of discriminating was ordered because the govern­ concessions from the president eign trade. in SDS," he said, "involves the against Slovakia, the underdevel­ ment fears that the disaffection that induced two of the Slovaks, The masses want rising living conflict between the notion of qped eastern region of the country. of the Czechoslovak writers is Premier Lenart and Michal Chu­ standards, more freedom, less reg­ participatory democracy as a vision Dubcek's accession to Novotny's spreading to the campuses. dik, to switch sides. imentation. Will Dubcek prove of the good society and its ef­ post is intended as a dramatic con­ The speeches of the dissident It was reported that Novotny capable of satisfying these de­ fectiveness as a style and struc­ cession to this sentiment. writers at the congress of the might have been ousted in De­ mands? Or will his accession prove ture for serious radical work." Novotny's head-on collisions Writers' Union in June have since cember had his opponents been to be but the prelude to events All in all, this was a serious and with the intellectuals and students been t:1e prime topic of private able to agree at that time on a that will pass over his head? important meeting for SDS.