N. Y. Jailing o f CORE Leader MILITANT Threat to A ll Rights Forces Published in the Interests of the Working People By William Bundy NEW YORK, April 29 — The Vol. 28 - No. 18 Monday, May 4, 1964 Price 10c savage, 13-month sentence meted out two days ago to Arnold Gold- wag, community relations director of Brooklyn CORE in a trespass­ ing case, is an attem pt by this DeBerry, in Chicago Debate, city’s power structure to intimi­ date all civil-rights demonstrators. It signalizes the officials’ new Hits Major Parties on Rights “get tough” policy towards the entire civil-rights movement. This policy began in earnest on the CHICAGO, April 24 — Clifton cation. Nothing the Democratic opening day of the World’s Fair DeBerry, Socialist Workers Party Party proposes w ill change any of with the deliberate setting of a candidate for President, ended a that.” bloody precedent in the brutal and unnecessary clubbings of subway highly successful week of cam­ Asserting that Congress was demonstrators by the Transit paigning in this area April 22, now considering civil-rights legis­ with a debate on “Which Road Authority police. (See adjacent lation not because of the human­ story.) for Negro Political Action?” De­ itarian impulses of liberal Demo­ Berry’s opponent was Timuel crats but because of the continu­ Brooklyn CORE is the first and Black, chairman of the Chicago ing direct-action struggle of the foremost target of reprisals by chapter of the Negro American black people, DeBerry declared: this city’s courts, cops and politi­ Labor Council and a leader in the “Demands made in these dem­ cians. It was Brooklyn CORE’s local movement called Protest at onstrations require political solu­ call for a stall-in which precipi­ the Polls. tion. The Freedom Now movement tated the publicity and demonstra­ Black supported the position of needs a political arm. The Demo­ tions which made civil-rights the Protest at the Polls in entering cratic Party is not it! Freedom in Photo for Bob Greger overriding theme of the opening of the World’s Fair. Democratic Party primaries to op­ this country is incompatible with BINDING THEIR WOUNDS. Mrs. Elaine Bibuid, well-known civil- pose such figures as Congressman the present social order. The Free­ rights fighter, prepares head wound of CORE demonstrator in The reprisals are directed ini­ W illiam Dawson. dom Now movement began be­ New York City for treatment. The young man was savagely tially at the militant spearhead of cause of the do-nothing policies the civil-rights offensive in this Contrasting an independent clubbed by Transit Police during a demonstration in subway the power bloc to an independent par­ of the Democratic Party. To tell city. The aim is to break off the day the World’s Fair opened. City police then put bloodied and ty, he stated, “The civil-rights this movement to stay in the movement’s point, its cutting edge. injured demonstrators in .cells so packed there was no place to movement . has certainly Democratic Party is a betrayal of The liberal politicians, alarmed heightened a very severe weak­ the direct-action struggle of the sit and denied them medical attention for long periods. by the trend of demonstrations to ness in our system. Somehow our last few years!” expose them for not enforcing system-does need revamping. This Calling independent political ac­ existing laws against discrimina­ I w ill not challenge. The economic tion a powerful unifying force for tion and segregation, are trying system of competitive capitalism the Negro struggle, DeBerry char­ How Transit Police Clubbed .to blunt the whole civil-rights is not the system which w ill af­ acterized participation in the movement. Because some of the ford the greatest good for the most Democratic Party primaries as more conservative sections of that people. But I’m not sure that a taking part in a “test run for the movement’s leadership have en­ third party will meet the chal­ machine.” He said that any sup­ World’s Fair Demonstrators gaged in irresponsible public criti­ port of the Democratic Party and lenge of bringing about the neces­ By Bob Greger cism of Brooklyn CORE over tac­ sary change.” any attempt to channel support tical differences, the local power ' Black agreed that there was lit­ away from independent political At 7 p.m. Wednesday morning, tenements in satisfactory condi­ structure thinks the movement is tle difference between the two action and back into the two-party April 22, a group of young people tion; 3) immediate integration of divided and that it can with im­ major parties but felt this was be­ structure was, in reality, support from CORE gathered on the 74th junior and senior high schools punity strike at the exposed van­ cause of the lack of a third force for the actions and policies of the St.-Broadway IRT elevated plat­ and a timetable for the desegre­ guard. to bully them into living up to Southern Democrats. form in Queens. They were part gation of all New York City their campaign promises. As far The SWP presidential candidate of those who had responded to the schools; and -4) creation of a cit­ The Real Target as a third party was concerned, explained this by pointing out that call issued by Brooklyn CORE for izens’ review board, composed of he said: “A third party would as long as Democrats are a ma­ demonstrations on the opening day members of minority groups, to Let no one have any illusions weaken the strength of the Negro jority in Congress, those Demo­ of the World’s Fair. investigate all complaints of police about this. It is the entire civil- because he would not be able to crats with the most seniority w ill The demonstrations in the sub­ b ru ta lity. rights movement which is the use the bargaining power of the control all committees that have way system were parallel in aim The demonstrators were them­ target of the courts, cops and threat of going from one party to anything to do with civil rights — to the proposed stall-in on the selves about to get an intensive politicians who have shown noth­ another.” and those with the most seniority highways — to persuade people education on police brutality from ing but contempt for state and city He also expressed a fear that come from the one-party South. not to go to the Fair’s opening or New York’s transit police. laws against discrimination in the the Negro would isolate himself He closed by urging all those to discourage them from going by All of the information which construction industry as well as from potential allies by breaking who are sincerely for Freedom the prospect of the delays they follows was given to The Militant in other fields. from the two parties and also be­ Now to engage in independent would meet in travel. The tech­ in interviews with young people It was Brooklyn CORE which cause such a party would have an political action, supporting inde­ nique and justification was to con­ who participated in the demon­ first sparked the picketing last “implicitly nationalistic tone.” pendent black candidates for of­ front the passengers and those strations described and had been summer at the Downstate Medical In contrast to those views, Clif­ fice and attempting to guide the who worked in the subway system beaten and arrested or had per­ Center construction site in an at­ ton DeBerry strongly advocated direction of the movement from with the plight of the Negro in­ sonally witnessed the beating and tempt to get enforcement of the independent Negro political action. inside rather than standing on the habitants of the New York Metro­ arrests of fellow-demonstrators. state law against discrimination in He pointed out' that the Negro has sidelines. politan area and the demonstra­ A 21-year-old NYU student employment on such projects. The voted as a bloc for many years, DeBerry also spoke to hundreds tors’ four demands to end the sit­ described how the transit police NAACP has just now announced first for the Republican Party and of college students at Northwest­ uation. had beaten him and a young wom­ a forthcoming series of construc- then, since the time of the New ern, Elmhurst, Roosevelt, and Il­ These were: 1) im mediate h a lt­ an out of a doorway of .-the Flush­ tion-site demonstrations to force Deal, for the Democrats. He went linois Institute of Technology on ing of construction on all sites ing train they and 20 other Brook­ Mayor Wagner and Governor on to say, “ On the basic question, the real issues in the 1964 election until the work forces on them lyn CORE demonstrators were in. Rockefeller to apply the laws very little has changed. Within campaign. The SWP banner bear­ were fully integrated; 2) legaliza­ “The cops started in whamming against discriminatory hiring on 100 years whether it was under er’s presence and statements in tion of rents strikes, that is, the our hands, arms, legs with their these public projects. But both a Republican or a Democrat, the Chicago received good radio and withholding of rent from land­ clubs . hitting the girl on the mayor and governor have shown Negroes have been the last hired newspaper coverage. lords who refuse to maintain their (Continued on Page 5) they have no intention of upset­ and the first fired, they still live ting the prevailing patterns by in­ in ghettos, go to inadequate voking the law if they can pos­ schools and receive inferior edu- A CRUEL FRAUD ON POOR sibly avoid doing so.