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Tothe Atomic Brink MILITANTPublished in the Interest of the Working People By George Novack Vol. 31 - No. 34 Monday, September 25, 1967 Price 10c The Pentagon has widened the air war in North Vietnam by de­ liberately bombing closer than ever to China, and bombing the port facilities at Hanoi and Hai­ phong for the first time. Accord­ WetWar Vote Set ing to U.S. military sources in Saigon, these attacks on the clocks were made in response to those who have been calling for some means of closing the channel short of mining ft. InSan Francisco Johnson decided to escalate the By Mary Kraft air strikes after a prolonged con­ troversy between the Joint Chiefs SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 18 - visors had adopted a resolution of Staff and certain members of A major victory for antiwar and commending President Johnson the administration who resisted civil liberties forces was scored "for his stand on the present Arab­ further extension of the bombings. here when the state Supreme Israeli crisis." The court said that Court overruled a lower court and the city charter allowed people, The raids came only two weeks ordered an anti-Vietnam-war re­ after Defense Secretary McNamara as well as elected officials to ferendum to be placed on the bal­ adopt such resolutions. ' had told the Senate Preparedness lot in San Francisco. This ruling Subcommittee that bombing of the The Citizens for a Vote on Viet­ that the people have a right to nam met this evening to lay plans port area was too risky because express themselves on the war for a massive campaign to get the Soviet, Chinese and other Com­ will give a big boost to antiwar people of San Francisco to vote munist bloc vessels might be hit. fighters in other cities where offi. Attacks on such targets, he tes­ "Yes" in November. A mass meet­ cials have blocked similar referen­ ing is planned for Saturday at tified, run "the risk of direct con­ dums from being placed on the Galileo High School, at which the frontation with Communist China ballot. leading speaker will be Dr. Spock. or the Soviet Union" and these The referendum will place be­ Neighborhood meetings are dangers outweigh the military de­ being planned all over the city, sirability of striking them. fore the voters of San Francisco the following proposition: "It is and the group will enlist the aid The overriding of McNamara's of every artist and sp.eaker it can arguments indicates that the Presi­ the policy of the people of the city and county of San Francisco get. A small pamphlet is being dent is now bent on maximizing prepared, which the group hopes the air war even though that in­ that there be an immediate cease­ fire and withdrawal of U.S. troops to put in the hands of every voter. volves greater risk of conflict with It will explain why immediate China and the Soviet Union. Be­ from Vietnam so that the Viet­ PREPARE DEFENSE. Young North Vietnamese women working namese people can settle their own withdrawal is the only alternative hind and beyond this decision to on defense project. problems." to American involvement in Viet­ press ahead regardless of conse­ nam. Ads will be placed in news­ quences looms the specter of the The Citizens for a Vote on Viet­ ghastly, irrational and inhuman Its occupant has considered re­ nam had submitted over 22,000 papers and magazines. There may nuclear mushroom cloud. even be a Citizens for a Vote on General Curtis Le May, former that many people incline to con­ sorting to atomic weapons at sev­ signatures on a petition to the eral junctures over the past 15 San Francisco registrar of voters, Vietnam float in the local Colum­ head of the Air Force, who has fuse their spontaneous revulsion bus Day Parade. been demanding total destruction against such a possibility with its years. Kennedy, the most liberal Basil Healy, on Aug. 22 (12,000 postwar Democratic president, was are required to put an issue on Chairman of the group, Ed Far­ of the port of Haiphong and all rejection by the U.S. military ley, feels "We'll win the vote, be­ installations allowing North Viet­ strategists. However, the Pentagon ready to bring nuclear weapons to the ballot). Healy at that time bear in the 1962 confrontation would not even accept the peti­ cause the overwhelming majority nam to receive supplies from has prepared contingency plans for of the American people are un­ abroad, is also one of the most nuclear warfare which can be set with the Soviet Union in the Carib­ tions, declaring that the Vietnam bean. vote issue was not a proper con­ alterably opposed to Johnson's in­ vociferous advocates of wiping out into motion whenever the com­ sane war." He cited figures from China under the steamy slogan of mand comes from the supreme On Sept. 10 C.L. Sulzberger, cern of the city board of super­ visors, and therefore the people a recent poll, not yet released "let's nuke the Chinks." hea<} of the armed forces in the diplomatic correspondent of the which had been taken for one locai The idea of an atomic war is so White House. (Continued on Page 3) couldn't vote on it. Healy was upheld when the citizens group candidate for office. The poll appealed, but the Supreme Court showed 43.6 percent of the people ruling now places the issue on the here for the declaration, 42.l per­ THE FORD SHUTDOWN ballot. cent against, and 14.2 percent un­ decided. Chief Justice Roger J. Traynor Bay Area residents are urged to said that the court's majority held attend the mass meeting at Gali­ that the purpose of local govern­ leo High School on Sept. 23 at 8 Whatthe Strikers Are Saying ment was to represent its citizens p.m., and to come to the head­ before the legislature and Con­ quarters of Citizens for a Vote on By Frank Lovell after they finish with Ford. Emil discussion of strike strategy. The gress in matters over which the Vietnam at 55 Colton Street Mazey, Secretary-Treasurer, wants picket lines are limited in nwn­ local government had no power. DETROIT, Sept. 18 - As the (phone 415-861-1866) to begin $200 million in the strike fund by bers and token in character. Of­ Traynor's opinion noted that work on the massive publicity UAW strike against the Ford Mo­ 1970 according to unofficial re­ ficial policy is to allow all super­ tor Company stretches to the third only recently the board of super- campaign that lies ahead. ports. This idea is being propa­ visory employes into the plants. week, when strikers begin to col­ gated at meetings of local union Strikers are requested to report lect benefits of $30 a week for officials where UAW staff men only once for picket duty every 11 !!lm111m11m1m11001a1m1mmm11m1mm•111111oom11111111m1m1m111111111m1mm111111mm1m1m11mm111 family men and $20 for the single come to explain what is expected days. No machinery is set up for man, serious attention now cen­ of the Special Convention. serving the pickets' needs. ters on the conduct of the strike Above all else they stress an There is no effort on the part over the long haul. Some of the increase in dues from the present of the UAW leadership to keep questions on the picket lines and $5 a month to $6.50. They talk the strikers informed about the around the union halls have to do about a $25 monthly assessment conduct of their strike; the stif­ = Oct.21 News with the over-all demands. How for the duration of the strike on fening attitude of the employers; much can we pry out of the auto all employed members, $20 of the present state of negotiations ~111111111111111111111111m11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111m111111111111111111111111111111111111m11111111111mm111111111111111111111111111111111111111111m1m1m~ corporations? What will we be which will be used to swell the (which have eroken down com­ willing to settle for? How much the strike fund. Little is said about pletely) ; the ever-present threat Activities are u n d e rw a y 5,000 buttons; and 4,500 copies of is "equity"? increasing cash benefits for those of federal intervention and what throughout the country and abroad three multi-color, professional­ Other questions are about the on strike, and no exact figure of this will mean in light of anti­ to build the massive antiwar Con­ looking posters calling people to conduct of the strike and ways to what the strike benefits ought to labor legislation now pending in frontation scheduled to take place Washington on October 21. Local make it more effective. How long be. Washington; the full meaning of in Washington, D.C. October 21. groups are also putting out their can Ford hold out? Why can't The strikers at Ford Motor UAW contract demands and how The action has been called by the own literature. workers still on the job at Chrys­ Company gates are expecting the they can be won. National Mobilization Committee Even more impressive is the ler and GM assess themselves UAW Special Convention to sub­ All this is left to the speculation to End the War in Vietnam, orga­ scope of the distribution: Organ­ enough to raise strike benefits stantially increase union benefits, of the striker based on what in­ nizers of the giant April 15th Mo­ izations in 45 states are working substantially, to $75 a week across especially now that it appears the formation he gets from the daily bilization that brought out 400,- to build October 21 using material the board for every striker, as strike will be a long one. When newspapers (which give the em­ 000 people in New York and 75,000 from the Student Mobilization in San Francisco. notice to Ford that the UAW will asked by one of the daily press ployers' side of the story and ex­ Committee. take care of its own for as long reporters how long strikers could plain all developments according One of the chief builders of the Following are a few of the high­ as the auto corporations choose to hold out, (a question now of great to the needs and hopes of corpora­ October 21 Confrontation is the lights of the reports that have continue the struggle? concern to the auto bosses) one tion spokesmen). There is no sign Student Mobilization Committee come in to the Student Mobiliza­ These are the questions that will of the strikers answered "forever." that strike strategists at UAW (SMC) which reports a signif­ tion Committee from around the be more widely talked about and But this answer presumed that Solidarity House have considered icantly greater response both na­ country and the world. debated as the strike continues. UAW strike benefits will be in­ issuing a daily strike bulletin for tionally and internationally to the * * * At this stage the matter of "how creased. A $75 weekly strike bene­ the information of UAW mem­ call for the October 21 action than TWIN CITIES, Minn. - 50,000 to win" has precedence over fit would make it possible for the bers. Local union papers, which has been seen in any previous brochure-leaflets are being drawn "what do we want." One of the strikers to hold out "forever," and appear monthly or bi-weekly, give demonstration. · up for widespread distribution in reasons for this is the Oct. 8 would convince the corporations little or no information about the The SMC itself has already dis­ the region. Buses have already Special Convention of the UAW, that their present freeze-out policy real issues of the strike and have tributed 35,000 brochures on the been reserved. called to consider and act upon a is impractical, and could serve to long since discontinued the prac­ October 21 Confrontation. They * * * strike assessment. bring them back to the negotiat­ tice of encouraging rank-and-file have sent out more than 75,000 BOSTON, Mass. - The Boston Top officials of the UAW are ing table. discussion in their pages. stickers; 30,000 copies of the last SMC reports that tickets for a talking about a $100 million.strike The manner of conducting the Ford Facts, the official publica­ two issues of the Student Mobil­ 1,500-people antiwar train are fund to take on General Motors strike discourages rank-and-file (Continued on Page 2) izer, the SMC's tabloid newspaper; (Continued on Page 6) Page Two THE MILITANT Monday, September 25, 1967 A Lopsided View of Black-White Unity HarryBridges Smears Carmichael By Elizabeth Barnes self, and his own kind in the union "Black and white unity," - this movement, because if any black is the verbal position of the bu­ and white workers' solidarity is The Morse Railway Board sell drivers on giving up favorable reaucratic union leadership today. to be achieved, it will only be on handed down its terms for settle­ conditions and higher wages they But their present actions are lead­ the basis of full support of the ment of the six shop craft union now have in order that a uniform ing in the opposite direction, to­ black struggle by the union move­ demands against the nation's rail­ contract covering everyone can be ward more clashes with the black ment. It will mean - not attacks way lines last week. The unions achieved. Accordingi to the above movement. on Stokely Carmichael, but at a involved have already accepted quoted Mr. Adelizzi, "the union In New York, the teachers' minimum, opposition to the gov­ the terms but the railway com­ will find it difficult to sell in­ union has opposed the demands of ernment's attempts to forcefully, panies are threatening to take the dividual locals a contract that the black community for black violently, put black power mili­ issue to court on the grounds that would take away benefits they control of ghetto schools. And in tants behind bars. Johnson's compulsory arbitration now enjoy. But the truckers can­ San Francisco, Harry Bridges, If .the unions do not learn this board "had exceeded its legal not accept the prohibitive costs · that would stem from granting the president of the International on their own, the development authority." Longshoremen's and Warehouse­ of an uncompromising black liber­ 'most favored' provisions contained The five-man presidential panel, ation movement is going to drive in each of the individual con­ men's Union, recently launched a headed by Democratic Senator vicious attack on Stokely Carmi­ it home to them - by its increas• Wayne Morse of Oregon, and in­ tracts ... the job is to find some­ thing in between." chael in the union paper. ingly sharp opposition to racist cluding AFL-CIO President George Bridge's article in the Aug. 18 union policies. This opposition will Meany, recommended a two-year It is more than a bit difficult Dispatcher presents his own ver­ show that the ultimate success of contract that would raise basic to imagine truck drivers standing sion of "workers' solidarity" and union battles is dependent on unity wages on the average, about 5.5 still for having wages and work­ is a typical example of the atti­ with the black community, and percent a year and provides ing conditions they have fought tudes which will have to be driven therefore upon union support for skilled workers with an average of for and won taken away. It would out of the union movement if real the struggles of black people. nearly 9 percent annually. seem Mr, Fitzsimmons and Mr. black and white solidarity is to be Stokely Carmichael Not only this, but in the long This settlement is considerably Adelizzi have a tiger by the tail. achieved. run unions can win in the in­ less than the 137,000 workers could * * * The article begins by saying prejudice, but scares a lot of sin­ tensifying battles with the govern­ have won had the government not One does not generally associate that the Longshoreinen's union, cere liberal thinking people out of ment only if they learn from what prevented them from using their the glamorous Rockettes, the Corps "supports the fight of black peo­ the struggle that is already taking Carmichael is saying, only if they strike power. de Ballet and the singers at Radio ple," and Bridges even goes fur- place." learn that the way to survive is It underlines the scabby role of City Music Hall with labor mili­ Attacking Carmichael's concur­ by fighting, not by pandering to AFL-CIO President George Meany tancy but that is exactly what 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111rence with Che Guevara's call for the "sincere white liberals," as in accepting membership on the these young people are demonstrat­ "more Vietnams," Bridges writes Bridges advocates. Morse board, thus putting his The complete text of Stokely Car• that, "w h e n Carmichael says ing in a strike which began on mlchael's speech at the OLAS con­ Harry Bridges does concede in stamp of approval on the strike­ Sept. 15 - the first strike in the ference In Havana Is available In that '50 m ore Vietnams' are his column that in the history of breaking compulsory arbitration 35-year history of this New York World Outlook. Send 50 cents for a needed, this invites a military his own union, "the use of violence measure put through last summer landmark. Instead of performing copy to P.O. Box 635, Madison Sq. police state at home that could has always been an . important by Johnson and Congress. Meany their precision dances on stage the Sta., New York, N.Y. 10010. make Hitler's Nazi regime look element in our growth." He writes has joined forces with the capital­ Rockettes are now marching up 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111like a tea party . . . Once aggres­ that, "Those of us old enough to ist class in dictating settlement and down in front of the theater sive armed violence becomes the remember the National Guard on terms to the railroad workers. with picket signs outlining their ther than most union officials in order of the day, then, believe me, the waterfront in 1934 may also As a matter of fact, he never demands. condoning, at least in words, black those who really do have the police remember that we were deter­ left that side of the fence, In De­ These include a wage increase power. But, after these formali­ power - with all the weapons and mined to fight if we had to." cember 1955 he addressed a meet­ of 40 percent, payment for the 40 ties, he launches into an attack wealth at their command - will The parallel between defending ing of the National Association of hours per week they now rehearse on Stokely Carmichael which in­ destroy every vestige of Negro yourself from the National Guard Manufacturers and presented his without compensation, and a cludes a distortion of his views and minority group struggle for a in San Francisco in 1934, and credo in these words: change in work-hours. At present which could compete with any better American society." defending yourself from the Na­ "I never went on strike in my the wage scale ranges from $99 a appearing in the capitalist papers. To top it all off, Bridges ends tional Guard in 1967 in Detroit life, never ran a strike in my life, week to a maximum of $126.50. After going through the now with a little sermon about how and Newark does not seem to never ordered anyone else to run The management has offered 10 to familiar routine of charg~ng Car­ the Longshoremen's union has al­ occur to Bridges. a strike in my life, never had any­ 15 percent increases but The michael with advocating violence, ways won its battles through And he shows the same "blind­ thing to do with a picket line." American Guild of Variety Artists Bridges explains that, "Carmi­ "solidarity," and "that's the way ness" in criticizing Carmichael's John L. Lewis once described has turned it down. chael's call for the use of guns in black power will ultimately win, desire for "more Vietnams." The the American labor movement as There are 49 Rockettes - 36 of urban communities ... is not only shoulder to shoulder with Ameri­ fight against U.S. aggression and "A lion led by asses." Lewis was whom form the line in each of four dangerous but suicidal." Further­ cans of all color." oppression at home and abroad a genius at the apt turn of a performances a day. The girls more, he says, "A call such as this, Bridges would do best to direct can only succeed, as Carmichael phrase! work four shows a day, seven not only feeds already existing his "solidarity" speeches to him- says, through struggle. * * * days a week for 21 days, then New York and New Jersey have one week off. They rehearse Teamsters locals agreed on Sept. a minimum of 40 hours a week 14 to extend their contracts for a without pay. Each girl must con­ second time while negotiations be­ form to rigid weight and meas­ NovackReplies to 'Worker'Attack tween the Teamsters Eastern Con­ urement scales, as well as mini­ ference and the Empire State mum and maximum height. At the By George Novack believe that socialism was being the Roosevelt leadership is an es­ Highway Transportation Associa­ age of 26 they are retired as "too built in the Soviet Union," the sential part of the developing tion continue. old." In an unfavorable appraisal of Worker reporter concluded. He democratic front against monopoly the Third Socialist Scholars Con­ missed the main point of my in­ capital." There are 16 truck drivers' local The Corps de Ballet are hired ference in the Sept. 17 Worker, unions involved, covering 40,000 at an average of $120 per week, dictment. Browder's 1940 election plat­ Richard Greenleaf was especially form sang a different tune. "The men employed by 2,500 trucking but they must pay for their own incensed by the panel on "Radical This was not only that 1Jhe companies. Each local has had its ballet shoes which they wear out CPUSA misinformed its members Democratic Party is the party of Intellectuals in the 1930s." He Roosevelt and Dies, of the Garners own contract in the past and now on an average of one pair a week. wrote that "the chief monstrosity" and sympathizers about what was an attempt is being made to bring In addition, each girl in the really happening within the Soviet and Woodrums, of the du Fonts at the first session was the paper and Cromwells, of the Boss Hagues all the various local unions under Corps must take at least three I gave on the pernicious influence Union under Stalin's misrule and one central contract - which, ac­ private ballet lessons a week, at therefore many became disillu­ and KeUeys, of Tammany and the of Stalinism on American intel­ KKK. It is the party of 'liberal' cording to Joseph M. Adelizzi, her own expense, in order to lectuals during that decade. sioned as they began to .find out managing director of the employ­ maintain her skill - this in addi­ part of the truth. No less repre­ promises and reactionary deeds ... ers' association, is a difficult task tion to the 40 hours per week "His picture of the 1930's con­ hensible was the fact that the CP Both parties are war parties, M­ indeed. rehearsal time she contributes to sisted almost entirely of an attack leaders, in both the ultra-left and Day parties, parties of imperialism, the management. When you de­ on the Communist Party, U.S.A. opportunist phases of their policy, reaction and hunger." Frank E. Fitzsimmons, acting for having led the intellectuals to head of the International Brother­ duct all the taxes, federal, state, deluded and disoriented their fol­ By 1944 Browder announced to hood of Teamsters while James city and social security, the cost lowers about the principal political the CP National Committee: "We Hoffa is in prison, is being brought of shoes and ballet lessons, the developments within the United know, as we go into it boldly ..• into the negotiations. It will un­ "glamor" fades drastically. States during that period. that the Teheran Declaration which was signed by Churchill, doubtedly be his task to try to -Marvel Scholl Let me cite the following illus­ trations of the CP's twists and Roosevelt and the great Marxist turns that, for lack of time, I had Stalin represents the only program to omit from my presentation: in the interest of the toiling masses How the mentality of that gen­ of the whole world in the next ••• FordStrikers' Views eration was warped and confused period." by the gyrations of the counterfeit Irony is virtually disarmed be­ (Continued from Page 1) A young production worker, Re­ Marxism of the CP may be gauged fore such prescient and mutually tion of Ford UAW Local 600, pub­ dus Garwood, reported what these by the opposing appraisals of the annihilating judgments. lishes weekly and is one of the men are thinking about. He said, Roosevelt regime given by the better local papers. When opinions "When we young members got Stalinist leadership from 1934 to of the members appear in its together this morning and dis­ 1944. First, Earl Browder's report column such opinion is solicited cussed the company proposal we to his Central Committee in April CbeGu.evara and edited. Even so, when the were glad the huge strike vote 1934: "Roosevelt's program is the editor went out for a sampling of was recorded last week. We need same as that of finance capital the what workers at the River Rouge more money to buy the things world over. It is a program of Vietnamand World plant thought about the Ford offer young people need." hunger, fascization and imperialist he came back with clear state­ Another young worker, Frank war ... The New Deal is not Revolution ments about what these workers Wiecha, in the tool and die unit, developed fascism. But in political need and want. simply observed that Ford's offer essence and direction it is the same His declaration from some­ One of them, D. T. Smith, En­ "does not keep up with the cost as Hitler's program." where on the guerrilla front gine Repair, said, "I feel that the of living." Of the more than 30 By 1938 General Secretary 20 cents company has failed to take into workers quoted in the survey all Browder was acclaiming the al­ consideration our working condi­ spoke about the need to improve liance with Roosevelt as follows: MERIT PUBLISHERS tions - more relief time, produc­ working conditions and raise "With all its weaknesses and in­ 5 East 3rd St. tion standards, and retirement wages to meet the rising cost of adequacies, its hesitations and con­ New York, N. Y. 10003 with full benefits at an early age." living. George Novack fusions, the New Deal wing under Monday, September 25, 1967 THE MILITANT Page Three

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DETR<;)IT, Sept. 18 - Teachers solidarity on the part of the teach­ terviews with parents upset b~ here ended their 13-day strike to­ ers. The board's first contract of­ fer was overwhelmingly rejected cause their children were missing Vol. 31 - No. 34 .... 345 Monday, September 25, 1967 day with a 3,445-411 vote to ac­ school. Threats of court injunc­ cept a new two-year contract call­ by the teachers during the last week of school. tions were frequent. Editorials ing for a salary raise of $1,700 Pressure was put on the union lambasted the teachers almost ($850 this year and an additional $850 for the 1968-69 school year), all summer to accept the inade­ daily. quate board proposals and to avoid The reactions to the picketing 1 a reduction in the school year BlackSchool-C ontrol a strike because of the "devasta­ teachers, however, were very dif­ from 40 to 39 weeks and some tion suffered by the city" during ferent on a neighborhood level. control over class size, textbooks the July ghetto uprising. Parents would tell the pickets, and curriculum. The total eco­ Governor Romney threatened to "Keep it up ... We're with you ... nomic package represents the most "put teeth" into the state's Public You're right. You got to fight for Is Backedby Boutelle substantial victory to date for Employment Relations Act which what you believe in, what you Detroit teachers although it falls prohibits strikes but includes no want ... I'm a union man myself NEW YORK, Sept. 19 - Paul ents' picket line and helped break short of some of the original de­ penalties for striking public em­ and that's the only way we ever Boutelle, Socialist Workers Party the boycott. mands: a salary raise of $1,700 for ployes. The governor proposed got anything - by striking." candidate for Vice President, said "The fight of black people to the 1967-68 school year alone and changes in the law which would During the first week of the here today that "the SWP whole­ control their own communities is two weeks paid vacation to cover make it an unfair labor practice strike over 100 new members heartedly supported the demands at bottom a struggle against the the Christmas and Easter lay-off to refuse to bargain with public joined the union, statements of whole racist ca'pitalist system and periods. The salary schedule now of black and Puerto Rican parents the government which runs that employes and would make it man­ support came from the UAW and for control over the schools in going into effect will start begin­ datory for courts to issue injunc­ the union office received many system. The teachers should un­ ning teachers at $6,650 and pro­ their own communities. This is derstand that the capitalist gov­ tions if a school strike were called calls from citizens saying, "Don't part of the general struggle of vide $10,350 for top seniority give up. We're with you!" The ernment that oppresses the black before fact-finding panels issue black people to win control of teachers with a B.A. degree. DEA was forced, through this community is also the same gov­ recommendations. their communities, a progressive Other Demands Two weeks before schools were show of unity and strength, to ernment the teachers are current­ and revolutionary demand. ly waging a strike battle against. Although the economic demands due to reopen, Superintendent solidarize itself with the DFT and "The frictions between the strik­ Instead of demonstrating hostility attracted the most attention, non­ Drachler announced that the De­ support the picket lines. troit system would be short 530 During the course of the strike, ing teachers and the black and toward the demands of the black economic demands which would Puerto Rican communities," the community to control their provide better schooling for the teachers. On Sept. 6 the Detroit the teachers twice rejected pro­ school system was short 11,500 posals to have a citizens commit­ vice presidential candidate said, schools, the teachers' union should children were fought for and won "a're a result of the hostility the support those demands whol~ to some degree by the AFL-CIO teachers. The teachers again re• tee resolve the contract differences jected the board's contract offer by setting up a package which bureaucratic officials of the United heartedly and coordinate its union Detroit Federation of Teachers struggle with the struggles of the and went on an "extended summer would be binding on both the Federation of Teachers have dem­ (DFT). A Class Size Review onstrated toward this just demand black community." Board, composed of three teach­ recess." The DFT argued that board and the union. The board since the school calendar was a was willing to accept such a com­ of the black and Puerto Rican ers and three administrators, has parents. been set up to review and correct negotiable item there was no of­ pulsory package rather than admit classes exceeding 39 students for ficial opening day until a contract that the teachers had the power "The Socialist Workers Party all schools in the city and classes was ratified by the teachers. Since and the right to determine school stands one hundred percent with exceeding 30 pupils in 50 selected there was no opening day, there policy issues. The teachers refused the black and Puerto Rican · par­ inner-city schools. Last year more was no "strike'' either because to give up their right to decide the ents in their fight for control of than 51 percent of Detroit's ele­ teachers were not walking off issues themselves. their schools and against the racist mentary school classrooms had their jobs - merely continuing One of the major achievements attitude of both the board of edu­ from 35-49 students. Also included their summer lay-off. of the strike was to establish the cation and the UFT bureaucrats. in the contract are provisions to Under the slogan "No contract, DFT as a power to be reckoned We also stand one hundred per­ further racial integration of no work" daily picket lines were with in the running of the schools. cent behind the teachers in their school staffs and to provide for a set up around every school in the Inroads were made in the tradi­ battle with the board of education city and frequent demonstrations tional dictatorial powers of the and against the slave-labor RAT curriculum consultant to coordi­ law. · nate and develop material on were held at the School Center school board. The medieval meth­ Afro-American history and litera­ Building. The daily newspapers ods of financing public education "The outright racist hostility to­ ture. kept up a steady barrage of state­ were held up to public review ward the black and Puerto Rican The teachers, engaged in their ments from community leaders de­ and pressure was built up to re­ communities on the part of the first strike in the history of the ploring the "unprofessional" con­ place current school tax elections UFT officials," Boutelle continued, city, remained firm and united in duct of teachers who were sup- with a more adequate method. "was demonstrated last year when the face of attacks by the school parents organized a boycott of In­ board, state officials, the mass termediate School 201 in Harlem. communications media and the ri­ The parents wer,e demanding a: val Detroit Education Association voice in the selection of the prin­ (DEA). Shortly after contract N.Y.C. Te,achers cipal, and wanted the current negotiations began last March, the white principal replaced. The UFT union was faced with a collective backed the white principal, and bargaining unit election forced by UFT members crossed the par- Paul Boutelle the DEA. The union won the Standing Solid election with 62 percent of the total vote - an even larger mar­ By Jeff Miller gin of victory than the 59 percent . JohnsonEdges to Brink of the vote received in 1964 when NEW YORK, Sept. 19 - As the maintaining a babysitting opera­ • • tion during the walkout and has the DFT first won the right to be mass walkout of the city's teach­ (Continued from Page 1) "The Radford theory was that the sole bargaining agent for De­ ers enters its second week, the called upon the board to close the N.Y. Times, pointed out that top schools. Mrs. Ostroff announced the relative advantage of the troit's 11,500 classroom teachers. schools remain shut down tight. men at the Pentagon were eager The union returned to the bar­ that at a meeting to be held to­ U.S.A. was fading, that the Rus­ The teachers' action remains firm to open their nuclear arsenal early gaining table stronger than ever night a recommendation would be in 1954 when the French were sians were catching up, and that and has gained ground in the face made that the city's 1,100 assistant defeated at Dienbienphu. They not China itself would eventually be of the union-busting Taylor law principals not report to work on only sought to limit the victory of a threat. What he really wanted passed early this year by the state Wednesday. the Vietnamese but to wage pr~ was to get involv,ed in a preventive ConcludeAidEffort legislature. The Taylor law is bet­ Meanwhile, State Supreme ventive war against the entire war against China - and even ter known among city workers as Court Justice Emilio Nunez has Communist bloc. Here is what perhaps Russia - without letting the RAT law - for Republican adjourned the criminal contempt Sulzberger wrote: the American people know." InDebs Hall Case Governor Rockefeller and Demo­ DETROIT - The Emergency trial of Albert Shanker, UFT "Admiral Radford, Eisenhower's Eisenhower vetoed Radford's cratic Speaker Travia, who com­ president, for a third time. Shan­ Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of course and turned instead toward Medical Fund for Bernard, Gar­ bined to push the bill through. rett and Graham, has announced ker and two other union leaders Staff and profoundly influential the Geneva accords which cut The RAT law declares strikes have been accused of violating that it is concluding its work. on Secretary of State Dulles, Vietnam in two and led to the by public employes illegal. The the court order prohibiting a walk­ The fund was set up after a wanted to intervene with tactical present situation. city has secured a court ruling out. atomic bombs to help France at In the light of the .new develop­ crazed anticommunist gunman en­ that the mass resignations by the tered Debs Hall here on May 16, The city has asked in its con­ Dienbienphu. But, according to ments, is there much doubt that teachers constitute a strike, but 1966 and shot three young social­ tempt motion that under the RAT men then prominent in American what the head of the Joint Chiefs ists. Leo Bernard was killed, and the courts have not attempted to law, the union be fined $10,000 a officialdom, his real hope was to of Staff was urging more than 13 apply the penalties in the law Jan Garrett and Walter Graham day for each day of the walkout get the United States engaged first years ago within the Republican against the United Federation of for violation of the strikebreaking in Indochina, then in China, in administration is again being pro­ were severely wounded. Teachers so far. The total amount contributed to Taylor Law. The RAT law pro­ order to provoke a preventive war jected by the nation's top generals the fund was $2,809.01. Of this, There were 117 fewer teachers vides for fines of $250 and/ or 30 against the latter before it became within the present Democratic ad· $538 paid Leo Bernard's funeral in the schools this week and the days' imprisonment for persons a great power. ministration? That would account expenses, and the remainder was number of "volunteers" dropped to found to be in violation· of con­ "Radford realized that more than for the warnings that have come used to help defray medical and 3,528 from a previous high of tempt orders. Chiang Kai-shek's troops on Tai­ from Senator Mansfield and other rehabilitation expenses for Jan about 8,000. The walkout is over Apparently the court order has wan would be needed to crush highly placed figures in Washing­ Garrett and Walter Graham. 90 percent effective among the not deterred the teachers from Communist China. This meant the ton over the past two months. Professor David Herreshoff and city's 55,000 teachers. manning the picket lines, which use of .American m,i.litary force. The ominous extension of the Dr. Paul Lowinger, co-chairmen Student attendance has also have been maintained throughout Radford reckoned that if the So­ air attacks in North Vietnam fol· of the fund, wish to thank all con­ dropped off considerably but the the city since the action began. viet Union were to intervene in lowing the flights of planes over tributors for their generous dona­ board of education is still trying In another attempt to frighten such a war it would have to be Chinese territory, is fraught with tions. Jan Garrett's operation this to maintain the fiction that schools the younger teachers back to hit with thermonuclear weapons tremendous dangers, especially summer was successful and he are operating normally. school, the board has sent the and the Strategic Air Force. At when this reckless policy brings and Walter Graham join the co­ Mrs. Betty Ostroff, head of the names of 50 draft-age teachers to that time Russia was just edging the U.S. imperialists no closer to chairmen of the fund in sincere ap­ Association of Assistant Princi­ local draft boards for reconsidera­ into the super-weapons race and victory in Vietnam than it has preciation for the contributions. pals, has accused the board of tion of their deferments. had no long-range delivery system. done up to now. Page Four THE MILITANT Monday, September 25, 1967 Latin-American View of OLAS [The following a.re extensive ex­ • "In many countries," the spe­ cerpts from an article, datelined cial conditions "make guerrilla from Havana. which appeared in war the fundamental expression the Aug. 11 issue of Ma.rcha. The of the armed struggle." . . . author is Carlos Maria Gutierrez, The main points of the general one of the editors of the Urugua­ declaration to be made by OLAS yan weekly, who attended the July include: 31-Aug. 10 conference of the Or­ • Marxism-Leninism guides the ganization of Latin-American continental revolutionary move­ Solidarity (OLAS). ment. [As will be seen, the author is • Armed struggle constitutes of the opinion that the outcome the fundamental line. of the OLAS conference was the • "All the other forms of formation of a new international. struggle must serve and not hold While this would seem to be at back the development of the fun­ least a premature conclusion, the damental line of armed struggle." conference, with its claim to speak for all of Latin America, could • "In those countries in which certainly be taken to represent a this task is not posed in an im­ step in that direction. mediate way, the development of a revolutionary struggle must in [The article is of unusual inter­ any case be considered its an in­ est in our opinion, because of the evitable perspective." . . . facts it offers on the struggle that went on in the closed sessions over • "The leadership of the rev­ some of the most important issues olution requires, as an organiza­ that faced the delegates. tional principle, a unified political [The translation is by World and military command to guar­ antee success." Outlook, a labor press service. The full text appeared! in their Sept. • "The most effective solidarity 22 issue.] which the revolutionary move­ ments can display toward each Today, Wednesday [Aug. 9J, the other is to develop and bring to OLAS conference was supposed to Photo by Joseph Hansen a culmination their own struggle have ended, but things fell behind within each country." DELEGATES AT OLAS CONFERENCE. Delegate5 listen to speech by Stokely Carmichael at final schedule and the agenda will not In all these documents the new be completed until possibly Fri­ session of conference. revolutionary thesis is unequivo­ day the eleventh. This was due to cally paramount, and each of its two factors that were not counted things began happening in the The vote was conclusive: 15 in was likewise passed with 15 votes postulates runs counter to the on at the opening: first, the cap­ work of the commissions begin­ favor, 8 abstentions (from the for a'nd 3 against ( among them, Soviet strategy for Latin Ameri­ ture of two groups of CIA agents ning last Wednesday ... The me­ delegations who were neutralized the Uruguayan delegation), the ca and the schemas that up to on the coast of Cuba ... , then the chanics of the conference was as by their parity composition) and OLAS condemns "the bungling, now were imparted by the Com­ monolithic resistance put up by the follows: 3 opposed. El Salvador, Bolivia opportunist position of the rightist munist parties to the liberation Communist parties adhering to the The four work commissions ela­ and Uruguay voted in defense of leadership of the Venezuelan CP, movements: Soviet line, or the delegations they borated resolutions of a general the policy of the USSR. . . . which by abandoning the road of • The national bourgeoisie is control, to the majority theses of type .... Next, the presidium of In the morning, before voting, armed struggle betrayed revolu­ rejected as a revolutionary factor, the conference. the conference worked up a draft the Chilean Communist deputy, tionary principles and is serving or rather what is rejected is the The Cubans and the other dele­ declaration which was approved Jorge Montes, played the final the interests of imperialism and CP notion about forming "broad" gations sharing their views did by everyone and which would card: the Communist parties, he the oligarchies and all their poli­ or d em o c r at i c - b our g e o is not wish, in the opening days, to complete the group of general re­ said, would withdraw from the cies of oppression." "fronts.'' ... force their hand; this atmosphere solutions. Hence the importance comm1ss1on ( and perhaps from In turn, Commission II issued • All implications are dropped of unity . . . also included certain of the declarations in the com­ the conference) if the condemna­ four basic declarations that ob­ that the existing political van­ delegations of antithetical com­ missions, whose deliberations were tion of the USSR was insisted viously systematize the new line guards ... are the necessary points position such as the Uruguayan not mere rough drafts of personal upon. of the Latin-American revolu­ of crystalization for the forces in­ (with its mosaic of organizations) views or discussions but the ex­ tion. . . . on the economic penetra­ volved and this function is trans­ Armando Hart had the reply ferred to the armed struggle as and the Chilean in which the So­ pression of the definitive thought ready: tion by imperialism, on its politi­ cialists and Communists held pari­ of the two clashing lines. co-military intervention, on its proof that the political vanguard ty. But by the third day of the Commission I, in a relatively "They accuse us of being anti­ is really revolutionary. Communist and anti-Soviet be­ cultural and ideological penetra­ deliberations, the basis of the brief time, worked up its draft of tion, and on the OAS. The most • All other forms of struggle dispute was well defined and the a general resolution; and Com­ cause we are going to pass this are made subordinate to armed motion. This signifies accusing important conclusions are as fol­ attack leveled against the orthodox mission IV, charged with drawing lows: struggle. Communist parties . . . had be­ up the statutes for the OLAS, also Compafiero Fidel Castro of being It can already be said, as a con­ come so sharp as to cut off further completed its task without anti-Communist and anti-Soviet. National Bourgeoisie sequence, that a new Marxist­ verbal offerings on the altar of trouble .... You can reach even this absurdity. Economic penetration: "In the Leninist international has just unity. One comrade has indicated that present historical conditions of been created. Tacitly or explicitly, Birth Pangs he would withdraw from the com· The parity delegations, like the Latin America', the national bour­ it has broken with ideological and On the other hand, the deli­ mission. Everyone has the right geoisie cannot lead the anti-feudal strategic dependency on Moscow one from Chile, simply began to berations of Commission III were to withdraw, but this constitutes neutralize ea'ch other a voting; in and anticlass struggle ... The ma­ without lining up with any of the marked with incidents, delays and a threat. You must know that the jor task of breaking up the neo­ other camps. Headquarters natur­ the others where the CPs exer­ heavy birth pangs which brought Cuban Revolution has never cised cont;ol they began to rigid­ colonial structure belongs to the ally gravitate to Havana. . . . out - openly, late last night - bowed to threats from anyone. If workers and peasants of the And its appearance, without ly apply th~ system of majority the real objectives sought by the anyone wishes to leave, he should rule ... Americas, in an indestructible al­ doubt, falls within the regroup­ two contending sides. The revolu­ understand that the door he takes liance, along with the most pro­ ment of revolutionary forces that But on top of the internal dis­ tionary process in Latin America is to the right." putes of the delegations, significant gressive sectors of the intellec­ is occurring in the world socialist appeared to have reached a point Backing of Oligarchies tuals, students and other middle camp .... where the narrow political layers." schemas of the orthodox Com­ The resolution on Soviet aid - which is not to be given to the Politico-military intervention: munist parties were not sufficient "Against the complex scaffolding to contain the new theses. . . . press but communicated to the Cuban Art USSR and the socialist countries, of penetration, intervention, sub­ Lahor~s Insistence on respect for disci­ version, occupation and politico­ pline under threat otherwise of is short - scarcely a page. It is entitled, "Denunciation of the tech­ military hegemony of the United being considered against unity or States in Latin America . . . the Exhibited something worse (this old alter­ nical a'nd financial aid which some Giant countries grant to the puppet gov­ Latin-American peoples must op­ native with which the CPs have pose a common revolutionary been trying to intimidate the left ernments of Latin America," and it says in its whereases, "that at strategy, based on a profound In London in Latin America) no longer feeling of solidarity, aimed at tak­ Step works. present a tendency is developing in some states of the socialist camp ing power by means of armed The "first exhibition of Cuban In Commission III, during all struggle." ... contemporary art" will be opened this, it was Armando Hart [who to grant technical and financial - 20 Years in London, according to the Sept. headed the Cuban delegation] aid to these puppet govern­ As a summary of the spirit and 3 Sunday Telegraph. It is spon­ himself who said, with regard to ments" ... positions contained in the docu­ Of the CIO sored by Ewan Phillips who re­ the discipline to which the de­ This a'id "contributes to enlarg­ ments of the commissions, the cently visited Cuba'. fenders of the Venezuelan CP ap­ ing the resources of the oligar­ draft of the presidium's general By Art Preis Phillips told the London news­ pealed as an argument in order chies and to mitigating the grave declaration indicates positively ... paper that Cuba is the "first Com­ to avoid being condemned for economic difficulties confronting the line that triumphed in the con­ munist regime to advocate experi­ repudiating the guerrillas: these governments, and all this in ference. The explanatory part con· The dramatic story of the mental art." He said that Che "The cult of discipline ·above manifest contradiction with the tains these postulates: birth and establishment of maa Guevara had played an important everything is a'n absurdity which aspirations of the oppressed and • Revolutionary violence offers industrial unionism comes to role in creating this atmosphere. we do not understand. Discipline the exploited." the most concrete and manifest life in this comprehensive, "Cuban artists a:re quite free to does not stand higher than a rev­ Also that "It operates against possibility for defeating imperial· swiftly-paced historical work by paint what they like," Phillips stat­ olutionary line." . . . the revolutionary movements in ism. an outstandir19 labor and so­ ed, "but it's difficult for them to It was specifically in Commis­ those countries where an armed cialist journalist. get paints and so on. And it's dif­ sion III where the criticism of struggle is being mounted because ficult for them to live through Soviet strategy in Latin America the a'id brings additional resources their art; there's no great buying was voiced mainly in two resolu­ to the puppet governments that • by the trade unions as in other tions .... are trying to stamp them out" ... The BlackGhetto 538 pp. socialist countries. Up until five o'clock this morn­ "That the technical and finan­ "They have to do other work, ing, in an impressive work session cial aid offered to the puppet gov­ By Robert Vernon $7.50 like teaching or poster design. that began 20 hours earlier, Com­ ernments by the socialist coun­ Cuba has the best posters I've mission III discussed to the bitter tries violates the principles of 35 cenh • ever seen, and I'm hoping there'll end the matter of condemning the solidarity and, consequently, MERIT PUBLISHERS be a show of them here later on." economic aid which the USSR is should not be granted." MERIT PUBLISHERS 5 East nlrd St., 5 East 3rd Street Phillips' exhibition will be at 22a granting to the continental oligar­ In the resolution on Venezuela New York, N. Y. 10003 Madox Street, W.1. chies. prepared by Commission III which New York, N. Y. 10003 Monday, September 25, 1967 THE MILITANT Page Five "Toward a Radical Tammany"? BehindNew. Politics Parley By Harry Ring and blacks can do it as well as SANE antiwar rally in Washing­ whites. After Chicago, they are ton in late November 1965. Editorial reaction to the New both ready to begin.'' "The NCNP board came out of Politics convention held in Chi­ Kopkind'!; estimate is, in our that gathering, and two present­ cago Labor Day weekend has been opinion, unduly optimistic. To be· able and (at that time) exciting varied. gin with, the New Politics conven­ political figures were rounded up For example, The Worker, voice tion was a gathering of very het­ to serve as co-chairmen: Julian of the Communist Party, took a erogeneous forces which did not Bond, the young ex-SNCC Georgia rather dim view of the conference succeed in arriving at any common assemblyman, and Simon Casady, because it failed to field a 1968 agreement. There is every indica­ the recently fired chairman of the presidential ticket as the CP had tion that each of the various California Democratic Party. Both strongly favored it doing. Accord­ groupings will now go their own were suffering for their antiwar ing to Worker correspondent Mike separate ways. stands; Bond had been denied his Davidow the fact that so many But there is an even more de­ seat and Casady got the axe from young activists at the conference cisive reason why, in our view, the Pat Brown. Both were in the Dem­ opposed fielding a ticket and suc­ local organizers will not be able to ocratic Party. Both were putting ceeded in winning a hairline ma­ build New Politics into a mean­ almost all their energies into elec­ jority against it was evidence of a ingful radical political force. That toral politics, and both were busy certain sectarianism on their part. factor is the total absence of a disassociating themselves from the Acknowledging the generally anti­ clear-cut principled political orien­ extremes of their respective Photo by Shannon capitalist outlook of those opposed tation on their part. The absence scenes. AT NCNP CONVENTION. Arthur Waskow, bearded, looking at to a third ticket, Davidow wrote of such an orientation leaves the "Given the new location of the camera, discussing issues with other delegates. Sept. 17: local organizers open to domina­ political center, NCNP was then "But as often happens, many of tion by those workng with them not much more than a jazzy model those in the first flush of radical­ in New Politics who do have a of an ADA. During the election strike; and thus is most likely to marize: the new politics ought to ization did not address themselves political line - a line of working primaries of the Spring of 1966, replace the existing society with a hang loose, in every conceivable new one. There is probably con­ to the crucial problem of how to in and around the Democratic NCNP began operating in a num­ way. The New Politics ought to unite with the far greater number Party. ber of localities. Money was raised siderable truth in the argument. see itself as a party in the form who though discontented were not from wealthy liberals wisely "The argument for syndicalist of a movement sometimes; and a Democratic Party? yet disillusioned with either the placed on the board of directors, organization,'' he c on t i n u e s movement in the form of a party, capitalist or two-party system but It is interesting to note, in read­ and funds were parceled out on learnedly, "suggests that members sometimes. It ought to be a radical who were ready to vote for an al­ ing the various reports of the New the basis of the sketchiest prior­ of the new professions can be Tammany not only in content, but ternative to President Johnson or Politics convention, that virtually ities. more easily radicalized at work - also in form." (Empasis in orig­ a Republican supporter of his war none of those reports seriously "Thousands were given to How­ where their bosses and the system inal.) policy in '68." assess the role of those partic­ ard Morgan in Oregon, a 'dove' deprive them of freedom and Tammany Hall ipants in the National Conference dignity - than at home, where Previously, in the Sept. 10 Democrat who ran a disastrously We admit to confusion on any for New Politics whose line is to life in the suburbs is fairly com­ Worker Davidow decided that the dull race against Robert Duncan number of thoughts that Waskow develop a liberal power base fortable. There is probably con­ convention had been, after all, not in the Senate primary. Morgan advances, perhaps including his within the Democratic Party. siderable truth in this argument very broad or representative. The was a hopeless candidate from the use of the Tammany example. But True, several references were too. question of whether or not there start. But only small amounts went we are intrigued by it. Our under­ made to the remarks at the con­ will be a "peace" ticket in '68 is to Robert Scheer for his much "What both arguments lack, standing of the nature and func­ ference by Peter Weiss and Ted still to be determined, he assert­ more promising, and more radical, however," he adds, "is a sense of tioning of New York's Tammany Weiss of New York. Both are ac­ ed, and will be determined "by Democratic primary campaign in the interaction between neighbor­ tive in Democratic politics and Hall Democratic machine was of a what happens on the issue in the California's seventh congressional hood and the work institution ... strikingly simple operation. The peace and freedom movements both argued against what they re­ district against liberal Jefferey the new-politics form should be gard as the futility of working politicians built a local machine whose scope is considerably wider Cohelan. It was one thing to spend seen not as antagonistic to the by suckering people into deliver­ than the forces represented in outside the Democratic Party. against a 'hawk,' and another to communitarian or syndicalist Both were very poorly received by ing votes in return for petty favors Chicago." spend against a liberal." forms, but as complementary to and, in the case of those who de­ the convention. them." But in the leadership of the More Radical livered significant blocs of votes, Approves New politics, he explains some­ jobs that either paid well or of. A different and much more fav­ NCNP there is an entire grouping Since then, Kopkind says, what dialectically, is both a move­ fered unusual opportunities for un­ orable view of what happened in that has the perspective of build­ NCNP has moved toward support­ ment and not a movement. It is official remuneration. Precisely Chicago was offered by Andrew ing a power base by involving the ing things of a more radical char­ not a movement in that it is "a what the "radical" counterpart of Kopkind in The New York Re­ young, politically uncommitted acter like Scheer's Community for mode of action" for other move­ Tammany would be is not too view of Books Sept. 24. Kopkind radicals in capitalist machine pol­ New Politics, the Mississippi Free­ ments. He lists "five identifiable clear to us. Or would it possibly was apparently sympathetic to the itics on a precinct level. Such a dom Democrats, the Lowndes large 'movements' of people in not be that different? "New Left'' forces which counter­ perspective was most graphically County Freedom (Black Panther) action toward the left ... the stu­ posed local community orga'nizing summed up by NCNP leader Party and the Connecticut Amer­ dent movement, the Negro move­ Waste of Time? to a third ticket. He was greatly Arthur Waskow with the phrase ican Independent Movement. It is ment, the peace movement, the "toward a radical Tammany.'' worth noting that the only one of Now, some people in New Pol­ heartened by their victory. liberal reform movement (as in itics will argue that we should Those leaders of NCNP who these which is completely inde­ the New York reform clubs or For Kopkind, the typical mem­ have such a political perspective pendent of the two parties, on not have spent so much time on ber of the local organizing or the California Democratic Coun­ the political notions of an Arthur were entirely sympathetic to the principle, is the Black Panther cil) and the religious movement ... " "radical" caucus at the conven­ stand of the "local organizers" who Party which, to our best knowl­ Waskow - that he and people tion was the young white radical oppose a third ticket even though edge, has received minimal assist­ "Preoint Work'' like him simply aren't that in­ "organizer" who has been build­ their motivation may be quite dif­ ance from NCNP. fluential among the young radi­ ing local antiwar groups and With a bit of something for ev• cals. That may be. But that's not ferent. Such a move would be in line eryone in the New Left, Waskow working among poor whites, ur­ with the efforts to persuade the the point. ban and rural. Third Ticket explains how "creative disorder'" young radicals who are not par­ (like a civil defense protest or Like it or not, the Waskows "First they called themselves ( Curiously, the ones a:t the con­ ticularly attracted by pleas on the have a political program. Stripped the Vietnam Summer caucus, then lunch-counter sit-in) "can overlap vention who most closely shared need to exercise "leverage" in­ with electoral organization. The of the radical verbiage and gob­ the SDS caucus, then the organiz­ this pro-Democratic Party orienta­ side the Democratic Party (Ted bledygook, it is, as we have tried ers caucus, and finally, simply, the same ward, precinct and district tion were the Communist Party Weiss) or on the virtues of stay­ groups that support a candidate to demonstrate, a conscious pro­ 'radical caucus.' members and other like-minded ing in such "mainstream" move­ gram of suckering young activists "The members seemed to can stay useful between elec­ people among the third-ticket par­ ments as the New York Reform tions .. .'' into capitalist politics. And so long sense," he added, "that they were tisans. Their argument simply Democratic Clubs or the Califor­ as there is no serious move within now at the heart of the New Left boils down to the contention that nia Democratic Council (The CP Tossed into the pot is "institu­ New Politcs for a break with cap­ and that in effect they were the in '68 the only realistic way to pitch). tion-building" of a "radical Tam­ italist politics in all its forms - only 'new politics.' The organizers line up people for the "liberal" Arthur Waskow presents a ver­ many" model. This would include local or national, inside the two are the 'movement.' " or "reform" wing of the Demo­ sion of his view of New Politics such things as local consumer capitalist parties or a "third" com­ Summarizing the views of the cratic Party is to offer them an in a position paper in the New groups and community schools. petitor to them - the Waskows local organizers, including their "alternative" on the presidential Politics News (undated) and en­ And, we learn parenthetically, will inevitably succeed in persuad­ favorable view of "local radical line to the thoroughly unsaleable titled: "Perspective on '68 and "(The community school will turn ing a certain number of young out to be a useful place for the election campaigns,'' Kopkind con­ LBJ. That's why, for example, Beyond: Toward a Radical Tam­ people into joining their game. cludes: they favor a third ticket but op­ many." precinct committee to meet, "That at last is a new politics, pose even advocacy of a third etc.).'' No Real Alternative party.) Tittle's the Clue Turning to the third-ticket idea, At the New Politics convention, However, the initiating leaders The article must be rather care­ Waskow argues there should be no not a single delegate spoke for PengShu-tse Interview of NCNP were not ready to com­ fully deciphered. It is difficult to move in this direction unless all the need to break with capitalist mit themselves to that kind of a even determine if much of it is five previously listed groups are politics and to build a polit­ ReprintedinHong Kong move. Their general approach is really meant seriously. But the willing. "If the Reformers are not ical movement in opposition to The June issue of Ming Pao, a quite well described by Kopkind title really is the message. Since ready to leave the Democratic Par­ the capitalist system and all of liberal Chinese monthly published in his previously referred to ar­ Waskow has played a key role in ty,'' he states, "and the Students its attendant evils. This was true in Hong Kong, carried the inter­ ticle. It is worth quoting, even NCNP and was a leader of the lo­ are not yet willing to put full ener­ of the supporters of all three pol­ view with Peng Shu-tse entitled though somewhat extensive: cal organizing caucus in Chicago gy into electoral politics, we ought itical views - local organizing, "Mao's 'Cultural Revolution'" "NCNP was white from the very it is worth trying to understand not commit the silliness of 'com­ third ticket and third party. This which appeared in the Feb. 13 and beginning. It was formed nearly what he is saying. promising' between those views to was the fatal defect of the conven­ Feb. 20 issues of The Militant. two years ago in a Washington He writes: "The argument for go third party . . . tion and of NCNP. The translation into Chinese was loft belonging to a legislative as­ dropping out into urban kibbut­ Hang Loose All of the great issues of our done by the well-known translator, sistant to a liberal congressman. zim [Israeli farm cooperatives] time are political and those who Kao Shung. Its shape was defined by Arthur that are sexually and economically "Will the energy that might be seek solutions to these problems Ming Pao, "A Non-Profit Maga­ Waskow, a hard-working imagina­ unrepressive (the hippie argu­ spent on organizing to win a local are inevitably driven to seek pol­ zine for the Promotion of Knowl­ tive Fellow at the Institute for ment) suggests that presenting the Democratic primary or hold an itical solutions. And, at the risk edge and Cultural Exchange," has Policy Studies. On occasion, Was,. society with the utopian vision in election for local neighborhood of sounding dogmatic, in a cap­ the largest circulation of any kow describes himself, perhaps too actual practice is most likely to school board be frittered away on italist society, people must finally Chinese magazine outside of main­ narrowly, as 'the last liberal.' attract people who begin to realize gathering petitions for a national opt for either procapitalist or anti­ land China. Its stand can be judged NCNP was a bit that way too. that no longer need one work to third party?" capitalist political solutions. Those from the fact that it supports the Waskow and a few companions in­ eat; is most likely to bring to bear Asserting that New Politics who do not find their way to anti­ work of the International War vited a number of 'la'st liberals' against the modern corporate sys­ should neither commit itself to capitalist solutions can all too easi­ Crimes Tribunal initiated by Ber­ and the new radicals to a discus­ tem the one conceivable counter­ staying in or leaving the old par­ ly wake up in bed with "radical trand Russell. sion during the weekend of a vailing power - the consumer ties, Waskow states: "To sum- Tammany" politicos. Page Six THE MILITANT Monday, September 25, 1967 GreekRevolutionists Assess Victoryal MilitaryClique New cracks have appeared in the imperialist army with the case An important document from of Pvt. Thomas Tuck of Cleve­ the revolutionary Marxist under­ land, a black antiwar GI sta­ ground movement in Greece ap· tioned at Ft. Knox, Kentucky. peared in the Sept. 22 issue of Tuck was given a summary court­ World Outlook, an international martial Aug. 4 and sentenced to 30 labor press service. It is the first days in the stockade at hard labor. political evaluation to reach the His offense was that he twice West from inside Greece itself of refused to pick up a gun. the reasons for the success of the Tuck was given a day's notice April 21 military coup, the char­ for his court-martial and was de­ acter of the new military regime nied the right to have a civilian and the organization of under­ lawyer. The Cleveland Draft ground struggle against the dicta­ Resistance Union has hired New torship. York lawyer Conrad Lynn, who Datelined Athens, the report has filed notice of an appeal on written in August declared that the basis of a soldier having the "Only permanent mobilization of right to due process of law. the masses and deepening of the mass movement could have count­ Antiwar Stand ered the reactionaries' strategy ... The deeper question involved is from the time the masses were the fact that Pvt. Tuck, although drawn from the streets into audi­ he has only been in the Army toriums for formal demonstrations since July 3, is part of a group or were mobilized in passive flocks of 12 antiwar black soldiers re­ to hail and applaud barnstorm­ ferred to as the "Dirty Dozen." ing 'democratic leaders' . . . the Ten of them are from Cleveland. schemes of the reactionaries began DENOUNCE GREEK DICTATORSHIP. Over 3,000 Greek­ The "Dirty Dozen" argue against to show progress." Canadians marching in Toronto show their hatred of military the war and are attempting to They sharply criticize the lead­ government. reach more Gis with the facts on erships of the liberal capitalist the war at Fort Knox. This action raises the question of the right of parties and many of the left par­ years. It warned of the threat of on the state repressive apparatus. soldiers to speak freely about the ties as well: dictatorship and denounced the It has no base among the masses "The Center Union and the EDA war. Members of the "Dirty Do­ reactionary utopia of peaceful of the people . . . [Enosis tes Demokratikes Ariste­ zen" often get extra work details. democratic progress. "The April 21 dictatorship is not ras - Union of the Democratic A lot of the soldiers going "In setting the overthrow of the fascist. Its similarities to fascism Left] leaderships, for their part, are formal and superficial (its through basic training with Pvt. functioned as a barrier a·gainst the monarchy as the immediate strate­ READS ANTIWAR LEAFLET. gic objective, it sought to pop­ methods and demagogy). It lacks Tuck are very disturbed about the Soldier at Fort Dix, N.J. read­ upsurge of the masses thus facil­ the support of the petty-bourgeois war. Some of them have gone itating the evolution toward dicta­ ularize the 'referendum' slogan, ing leaflet on case of Fort Hood and envisaged a general strike and masses enjoyed by fascism. It is AWOL, and several have slashed torship ... a court-military dictatorship of their wrists with razors. Three, last year. "The EDA's political objectives a popular uprising. It called for Bonapartist character. Pvt. Tuck's brother David re­ (and those of the Greek Com­ building a worker-peasant-student "This kind of regime has a turned from Vietnam in February They should. And I also agree munist Party) went no further front as the tactical means for ac­ short life. If the masses do not where he saw combat with the with them that say white teach­ than such empty nostrums as 'a complishing these objectives. succeed in overthrowing it by rev­ artillery. David says he saw for ers who picketed here and turned democratic solution and return to "It must be noted, however, that olutionary means, it will collapse himself that the U.S. was inter­ in their resignations can never normal democratic life,' 'support its prediction in February 1967 on its own due to the impasses vening in a civil war, using poor come back here and teach. They a rea'lly democratic government,' " that 'all signs indicate that the elections will take place in May' created by its mere existence. For black and white people and Puerto better heed the warnings of the etc. this reason it is preparing the way Ricans to suppress the Vietnamese. community and stay away from The document discusses the role was a grave error. This view was for its successor, which will ob­ He says that the guerrillas have here forever." of the Greek revolutionary Marx­ based on circumstantial and super­ ficial evidence ... " viously be a reactionary one but wide support and a stronger will ists: more 'respectable,' if more hypo­ * * * The underground fighters draw to fight than anyone else. On Sept. 16, Robert 35X Smith "The Greek Internationalist critical - rule by the royalist na­ a balance sheet on the character was gagged and handcuffed in Communist Party [the Greek sec­ tionalist parties, with the military * * * and stability of the new military court for protesting his "speedy" tion of the Fourth International] junta still in control behind the Black power advocate Dr. Na- regime: trial. Smith, described as a "Black correctly noted in time the court's scenes, based on a constitution re­ than Hare, who was kicked out Muslim," was being tried for at­ absolutist orientation in recent "The new regime rests solely modeled along absolutist lines, of Howard University by the hand­ with a pseudoparliamentary facade kerchief-head administration, will tempted murder of three detec­ and a ban on left parties . return to Washington, D.C., this tives last March. The cops ap. "The dictatorship's primary goal time as a professional boxer. Hare proached him and Smith allegedly is to annihilate the left move­ fought in 1962 and 1963, so he is started firing at them, according . . . NewsAbout Oct. 21 ment, to terrorize the masses, and no stranger to the profession. At to the cops. present, he is chairman of the re­ Smith protested that he didn't (Continued from Page 1) dents for a Democratic Society at to honeycomb the state apparatus cently formed Washington Com­ think his court-appointed lawyers being printed and extra buses are California State College at Hay­ with police agents." mittee for Black Power. were adequate, and that the trial being arranged for. ward is beginning work for the Despite the massive terror, jail­ October 21 confrontation. ings and the filling of concentra­ After he was ousted from was being given a rush job. After * * * tion camps, the underground fight­ Howard, Hare was offered teach­ Smith was gagged and handcuffed, SEATTLE, Wash.-"I am going * * * ers have begun the difficult and ing positions at the City College on order of Justice Barshay, the to Washington, D.C. on the 21st. KAILUA, Hawaii - The Ha­ of New York, University of Tulsa, good judge told the jury of 11 waii Committee to End the War dangerous work of building a re­ Put me in contact with others in sistance movement: Colorado State, University of Il­ Italian-Americans and one Afro­ the area that have indicated they in Vietnam has started work on Opposition linois, and San Francisco State. American, "Remember there was want to go. I will organize in this October 21 by ordering SMC post- He rejected these offers because no prejudice of any kind, direct area if you send me some stuff ers. "For the time being, the mani­ he intends to fight for reinstate­ or indirect in anything you may to do it with." * * * festations of opposition to the dic­ ment at Howard. Summing up his have seen in this courtroom today. PARIS, France The French tatorship are of small-scale and feelings, he told one reporter, "My This case must be decided on * * * conspiratorial nature. They ema­ MADISON, Wis.-Several buses National Vietnam Committee is major interest is making Howard evidence alone." The detectives nate from vanguard elements. But have been reserved by the Madi­ planning major activities for Oc­ a black institution." Smith is accused of wounding are these manifestations are occurring son Mobilization Committee to tober 21. all Italian-Americans. carry Madisonians to Washington. * * * more frequently as time goes on * * * ATLANTA, Ga. - The Atlanta and are becoming more systematic Because of the racist attitude -Derrick Morrison * * * Alliance for Peace "officially en­ and spreading from city to city ... of the United Federation of Teach­ DURHAM, N.H. - From Viet­ dorsed the October 21 Confronta­ "The revival of the mass strug­ ers, an attitude which embraces nam Summer: "Persons in our tion in Washington at our last gle will bring down the dictator­ both the leadership and many rank Special to Readers group will be organizing for the meeting. The focus of our activi• ship. It is the supreme duty of the and filers, the UFT strike has met Of The Militant October 21st march on Washing­ ties is now to get as many people revolutionary Marxist vanguard to open resistance from the black ton to end the war. We will be as possible from Atlanta and the bring this about. By making every community in New York City. The working in the community, the South up to Washington." effort to increase the number of hostility was especially manifested University of New Hampshire, ThreePamphlets * * * clandestine centers, by spurring in Harlem, where on Sept. 12, and this whole area of the state." LONDON, England - "We are the masses on to demand that black parents attacked the teach­ * * * preparing for the largest Vietnam their elementary needs be met ... ers picket line at Intermediate On MalcolmX BERKELEY, Calif. - From the demonstration ever seen in this to compel acceptance of the right School 201. Campus Mobilization Committee: country , . . at our rally in Tra­ to strike and other trade-union and The UFT has a history of dis­ Only 60c ".,.Weare preparing a large cam­ falgar Square on October 22." democratic rights which have been regarding the demands of black paign when school opens on Oct. abolished as well as a general am­ parents, who want to have some 1. We are planning to initiate very * * * • Two Speeches by Mal­ DETROIT, Mich. - "We are nesty for the militants, we will say in the running of the school colm X soon a call for car caravans to trying to plan tours to colleges continue, together with the masses, system. At several picket lines, Washington from the West Coast and universities in the Michigan to build a worker-peasant-student Harlem parents have taunted • Malcolm X Talks to Young . . . it could be called a 'drive-in' area, hitting them with SMC post­ front against the dictatorship and teachers to the point where the People to Washington." the palace, against capitalism and ers, calls, coupons for transporta­ teachers felt it necessary to leave. • Malcolm X, The Man and * * * tion, etc., in order to contact stu­ imperialism. These are cases of chickens com­ A GI WRITES FROM THE dents who have never before been "As this front goes forward, it ing home to roost for the UFT. His Ideas by George Breit­ SOUTH - "I plan to make the involved in the antiwar move- will lay the groundwork for a Black militants and parents have man march in Washington on October ment ... " socialist solution to the crisis.'' been raising the idea of black order from 21 if my leave days are the same. * * * The full text of this important people controlling the schools. . . . I have friends that will back For more information write to document can be obtained from H. Rap Brown told reporters MERIT PUBLISHERS and help me 100 percent." the Student Mobilization Commit­ World Outlook, P.O. Box 635 Mad­ after making an exit from I.S. 201, 5 East Third St. * * * tee, 17 East 17th Street, New York, ison Square Station, New York, "This community is insisting on New York, N. Y. 10003 HAYWARD, Calif. - The Stu- N.Y. 10003. Phone 255-1075. N.Y. 10010. The cost is 50 cents. controlling the schools in this area. Monday, September 25, 1967 THE MILITANT Page Seven

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[This column is an open forum Our government in the U.S. is Soviet scientist would· like to at­ board she was pregnant. I say it's effect bars them from certain jobs for a!.l viewpoints on subjects of run solely by the white man. They tribute to Trotsky. The Russians none of the board's damn business, and discriminates against them, general interest to our -readers. use processes like gerrymandering, have a saying that some sinners and certainly they shouldn't fire not for them. Please keep your letters brief.\ re-zoning, re-districting and other in their atonement like to beat her because of it. They also want to see want ads Where necessary they wiU be' political gimmicks such as fixing other people's breasts instead of As she says in an article in the integrated by sex, as well as by abridged. Writers' initials wm be votes which decreases the percent­ their own. Aug. 29 Philadelphia Evening Bul­ race. I, for one, have had to look used, names being withheld unless age of representation. Another panelist, Philip S. letin, "I think the board over-em­ under the Male column for com• authorization is given for use.] This is what we are fighting Foner, who is better versed in phasized my private life and puter programmer jobs, and I when we say bla'ck power. It only American than ~viet history, had under-emphasized my intellectual would certainly appreciate an end means political, social, govern­ in this case only one objection, capabilities." ' to this discrimination. Antiwar Vote namely, that the first author of the Baltimore, Md. mental and economic equality. What happened was that she I agree with Bob Gebert's letter Over the past years the white theory "the. worse, the better" was took a: year's sabbatical to study On Sept. 12 a phone-in poll was not Trotsky but DeLeon ... in the Aug. 21 Militant and am man has defined black power to and received half pay for it. She glad to see letters from men in held here on WMAR-TV (CBS) on you. He has defined whether a The first encounter of the Soviet became pregnant in the middle of the following question: social scientists and American so­ favor of women and against male march was peaceful or violent to this sabbatical and didn't know it, chauvinism. I'd like to see more "Should U.S. troops be uncon­ you. He says that we are violent cialist scholars had - without any so didn't tell the board. She fin­ doubt - a:positive effect. It could of them. ditionally withdrawn from Viet­ but he will kill his own for per­ ished her studies, so it wasn't as Amy Lowenstein nam now?" The results were: YES sonal gain. He killed a whole race have been even more fruitful if though she was taking advantage 64 percent; NO 36 percent. the Soviet scientists could get of people for the U.S. He killed of the board by claiming she was Immediate Withdrawal A few weeks ago a question as for his independence from En­ more libe-rty in assessing all the studying and not really doing so. to whether the listeners thought gland. He killed in World War I facts of their own past and present They are punishing her for being Providence, Ky. the war in Vietnam was morally and World War II, where he and the American socialist schol­ a woman, if you ask me. I'm sure The war in Vietnam is futile, justified brought a response of dropped an atomic bomb on Hiro­ ars had been engaged with them they don't ask men who are about disgusting, asinine, useless, unnec• YES 33 percent, and NO 67 per­ shima. in a serious and blunt discussion, to be fathers to report this fact to essary, idiotic, barbaric, aggressive, cent. Korea and Vietnam are no ex­ animated by critical sympathy for the school board or get fired. brutal, and any other adjective of ceptions. He is bombing now in the Soviet Union. In line with things like th.is, the a horrid nature one can imagine, This is how the poll is taken: A. Bin_!1er Every evening at 7:30 a question is Vietnam, using germicidal war­ National Organization for Women America has only one choice as far announced. The listeners are then fare, killing old men, women and has among its goals the abolition as the future of this hideous con­ children in order to impose or im­ Women's Rights of certain work laws which pro­ flict is concerned: that is im­ asked to call one phone number if Phila., Pa. they wish to vote YES and another press upon them what he calls hibit women from working more mediate withdrawal. to vote NO. After the 11 p.m. news "good old American democracy."' Lenin says that in no bourgeois than X hours a week, which in R.C. the result is announced. You as an Afro-American, black country do women enjoy equal Les Evenchlk man, red man, yellow man, brown rights with men in fact, and they don't even enjoy equal rights by man, you know, as I know how Thought for the Week Black Power much our forefathers have suf­ law, not even in the most "demo­ Houston, Texas fered and how much our parents cratic" countries like the U.S. . "This man in the White House is probably the cutest, smartest, Mrs. John Hill of Pittsburgh was throatcuttingest political ()IJ)eratOTI have ever run into." -Barry We have suffered for 400 years have suffered. If you don't, then or more under the Man's injustice what does it take for you to wake fired from her teaching job be­ Goldwater, Sept. 18, and inequality, I'm sure that you up? Do you plan to remain a dead cause she didn't tell the school all know that he has determined man, a walking tombstone,. and re­ and still is determining the eco­ main suppressed for. the rest of nomic, social, political and govern­ your life? The white man doesn't • mental status under which we are care for you any more than he It Was Reported ID the Press said to have voice. cares for me. However, through our suffering If you're a brother who is awake Free-Wo,rld Contribution - The We don't know if they have mink­ customers apparently take a dim and prolonged oppression in all to these facts that I have previous­ U.S. Mission in Saigon reported lined seats, but that also sounds view of his doing so. One evening these categories, the truth of the ly mentioned, then I sincerely hope Sept. 13 that 819 million propa­ a lot more practical .than a stole Man's statement has been proved we can join hands together, regard­ someone put a number of bullet ganda leaflets have been dropped that you only get to wear a few false. According to the percentage less of what civil rights groups on North Vietnam since the pro­ times a season. holes through his front window. of the population, the so-called you are in, in order that we may gram began in 1965. We don't Servicing the Commuter American Negro has been highly fight for the cause. Suggestion - Congressmen are know if the North Vietnamese are misrepresented. An Afro-American Brother getting a lot of antiwar mail, ac­ Someone sent us a New York-New We are misrepresented in Con­ suffering a shortage of toilet tissue cording to U.S. News & World Re­ Rochelle train schedule. Among its gress in both houses. Locally our Reads Between Lines but this should certainly help ease port. Wrote one man from Clair­ ads for Broadway musicales, hair­ representation is still under par. Cortland, N.Y. any possible scarcity. ton, Pa.: "I would like to suggest dressers, etc., is one from an em­ Therefore we cannot have a voice I must say that I find The Mili­ Rulers Falling Out? - We hope tha:t we withdraw from Vietnam ployment agency featuring: "En­ politically. tant interesting but that I look for it won't be regarded as the op­ while making the claim we have glish-Speaking Trinidad Maids. Economically our percentage is the truth somewhere between your portunist reaction of a lonely obtained our objectives. I don't Able, Mature & Eager to Please. far less due to our jobs, homes, bias and that of the loca1 press. crusader, but we do see new know what our objectives are and All experienced, with special train­ communities and education. This is You are at least as honest edi­ evidence of a rift in U.S. ruling I don't think anyone else does. ing for American homes! Live factual to the extent that there is torially as they are! circles with Bobby Kennedy's dec­ Hence we can define a new set of in . ; . from $50 a week." a greater percentage of poor black R.H. laration that cigarettes should be objectives, which are things al­ Apartment-Bunting? - We people than 'there are middle class. regarded as "a deadly weapon." ready accomplished. We can point don't know if it's still available The social level of the black man Soviet Scholars We recognize, however, that he out what a great job we have done, because a friend read it in the is considered lower than many New York, N.Y. probably won't go beyond demand­ then pull out." June 13 Look at her dentist, but ethnic groups. We are considered The Socialist Scholars Confer­ ing negotiations with the tobacco Used Car Dealer - Edgar Jurist, anyway the magazine reports: "To lower than the Latin Americans, ence was attended by two Soviet industry. a:Nyack, N.Y., used car dealer is be 'in' is to rent an apartment in poor white Americans, Japanese scientists, sociologist Yuri Zamosh­ Stoic - Joseph Timon, a South­ offering a Rolls Royce Phanton IV, the new building at 1045 Fifth Americans and others. kin and economist Timur Timo­ that used to belong to the Emir of Avenue in Manhattan. Special at­ feev, both from the Institute of west community developer, says the long-term trend is against poor Kuwait, for $50,000. His problem traction: Jackie Kennedy lives the World Labor Movement in is that people treat it like an or­ next door. The few remaining Moscow. people. By the year 2,000 he says, a balcony seat to a play will run dinary used car, kicking the tires apartments that offer the same WeeklyCalendar T. Timofeev, speaking on "The $12.50 and orchestra seats will be and so on. Mr. Jurist takes a dim view of Central Park that Jackie Working Class in the World going for $50. "The pity of it," view of this and has ejected sev­ enjoys run from $620 to $670 a Arena," presented the general out­ opines Mr. Timon, "is that there eral such potential customers month." BOSTON line of the official Soviet strategy: from the premises. Some of the -Harry Ring THE GHETTO REBELLIONS- An is nothing we can do but face the the stress on economic develop­ inevitability of it." Eyewitness Report From Newark. Speak• ment in the socialist countries and er: Lawrence Stewart, black socialist and It Figures - A spokesman for trade unionist. Fri., Sept 29, 8: 15 p.m. a peaceful increase in the role of -, 295 Huntington Ave. Hall 307 (one the working class in the capitalist the mayor of Nagasaki said that FOR block from Mass. Ave.). Ausp. Militant countries, He expressed confidence the people there had a different at­ Labor Forum. in the growth of the Communist titude toward the U.S. than the I • parties in the West because they people of Hiroshima. "There is not CHICAGO do not any more - as in the old the bitterness in Nagasaki that one I finds in Hiroshima," he said, "and NEW READERS THE ANTIWAR MOVEMENT AND days - base their policy on the THE 1968 ELECTION. Speaker: Lynn maxim "The worse, the better." I feel this is due to the strong ~ I Henderson. Fri. Sept. 29, 8 p.m. 302 S. In connection with this the Christian influence here." If you are a new reader and would like to get better Canal St. Contrib. 75 cents. Ausp. Fri­ young Soviet scientist made an Clear-Eyed View - Dr. Arthur I acquainted, you may obtain a special four-month Intro• I day Night Socialist Forum. astonishing "discovery" during his Steele, president of Clearwater, current visit where he found the Fla:., Christian College, warned I duc:tory subscription by sending this blank and $1 to I • proceedings of the early congresses against doubters in the fold. He LOS ANGELES of the Communist International. It disclosed that less than one-third THE GHETTO UPRISING - A Black turned out - according to him - of the ministers responding to a Socialist View of the Afro-American that the real father of the theory questionnaire said they believe in Liberation Struggle. Speaker: George "the worse, the better" was . . . such biblical teaching as miracles, I I Davis, Chairman, L. A. Alexander De­ Leon Trotsky! THE MILITANT the immaculate conception, Satan fense Committee. Fri., Sept. 29, 8:30 We leave aside the rather com­ p.m. 1702 East 4th St. Ausp. Militant and the hereafter. "The danger is 873 Broadway ical situation that a Soviet social not fallout," he wal'Iled. "It's sell­ Labor Forum. scientist has to find documents New York, N. Y. 10003 • pertaining to the history of the out." NEW YORK Comintern in capita1ist America. Sparkling Bathroom - Do you I ALIENATION UNDER MONOPOLY In a more serious vein, we would spend a lot of money on jewels Name CAPITALISM. First of two talks on The advise him to study a little the that you then keep locked out of -·· ..-- .....,-··-···-··---, ...... -·-·--··----- ...... ,_.. ,,,,, ______,_ J Problems of Alienation Today. Speaker:­ so-called Third Period of the Com­ sight most of the time? If so, George N-ovack, author of Origins of intern from 1929 to 1933. check with Paul Associates, a New I Street ..,-·-·------..··-·---·-·· ..·-·---·--· ...... ______,,,_,____ Zip .. ____ , Materialism. Fri., Sept. 29, 8:30 p.m. York shop. They offer bathroom 873 Broadway near 18th St. Second talk, At that time the Communist par­ Alienation In Post-Capital'ist Countries, ties under Stalin's dictation devel­ fixtures in combinations of cut will be announced. Ausp. Militant Labor oped the whole set of adventurist, crystal and 14-karat gold plate. ICity -·-·--- ..····---·---- ..·----·----- ...... State ...... --· l Forum. ultra-left ideas which the young Faucets start for as little as $216. ------~· --· Page Eight r ff E MILITANT Monday, Sep-her 25, 1967 SANETrade Unionists Slate NationalParley for Nov. 11

The Trade Union Division of the er of the Amalgamated Meat c'ut­ "The annual cost of the war to National Committee for a· Sane ters and Butcher Workmen; and America will soon reach 30 billion Nuclear Policy has issued a call Emil Mazey, secretary-treasurer dollars a year. This enormous di­ for a "National Labor Leader­ of the United Automobile Workers, version of human wealth and ener­ ship Assembly for Peace" to be sponsored the call. gies into war has grievously un­ held in Chicago Nov. 11-12. The "The continuing escalation of dermined every program to meet conference will be open to "all the war in Vietnam has created a the needs of our cities and has trade union leaders, of whatever situation unique in American his­ intensified the undercurrents of persuasion, to join with us in tory," the call says. "There has violence in our own land. these deliberations at this most never before been a time when the "Young men who deserve bet­ crucial hour in the nation's his­ American people have been so ter are dying in a war whose pur­ openly skeptical of the methods, Photo by Hermes tory." pose they do not understand. The The call for the conference is the purposes and the goals of their culture of our country is being NATIONAL GUARDIAN PICNIC. Paul Boutelle, Socialist Work­ issued in the name of three prom­ own government while actively brutalized by a logic which seeks ers Party candidate for Vice President, speaking on black power at inent union leaders. Frank Rosen­ engaged in war ... to justify the use of the most in­ National Guardian meeting on Sept. 16. Boutelle had just returned blum, secretary-treasurer of the "Within most of the Third humane weapons of war whose from Montreal, Canada, where he spoke under the auspices of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers; World our Vietnamese adventure primary victims inevitably are the is viewed as a classic example of Ligue Soeialiste Ouvriere. Patrick Gorman, secretary-treasur- population of Vietnam - both a powerful white nation pitted North and South. against a small country of colored "We share UN Secretary Gen­ people. eral U Thant's view that there is an alternative creative role for Havanaand Paris: 2 Approa,ches America in the world today and that 'the labor movement can be PARIS - The overwhelming give change or even to demand in other occupations. The remain­ a very powerful force in produc­ majority of Parisians take their payment. This is left up to the der were either on vacation or had ing the changes in attitude which vacations in July and August. This control of the passengers. While taken out retirement. will be required.' year upon returning they were waiting at a bus stop they must Labor Movement greeted with an unpleasant sur­ arrange with ea·ch other to make Besides lowering bus fares in "This possibility is of the great­ prise. During their absence, the change. Four people can enter a Havana, Cuba's revolutionary gov­ est importance to the American government decreed the biggest bus by dropping a 20-centavo ernment has instituted another labor movement, which has al­ jump in transit fares since 1958. piece in the coin box. highly subversive innovation - ways prided itself on its heritage The obvious idea was to catch the If a passenger does not pay, the free public telephones. of independence, forthrightness subway and bus riders by surprise other passengers are asked to call The Ministry of Communications and moral leadership to the nation so as to make protest actions more the oversight to his attention. If announced the new benefit to the in times of stress. difficult. he refuses his name can be cited people on July 17. Telephone "We believe the moment is The average fare was boosted at his place of work for mora1 workers began rewiring the coin long past due for a thoroughgoing some 60 percent for the city and censure. boxes the same day and by July examination of the impact of 30 percent for the suburbs .. Stops for buses are now man­ 26, the fourteenth anniversary of American foreign policy on our For the average Parisian trans­ datory at every designated bus the famous attack led by Fidel lives today. port costs have tripled since 1958. stop. These are about five blocks Castro on the Moncada barracks, "-on our economy apart. the changeover had been complet­ "--on our social development HAVANA - On Aug. 1 a num­ By the end of August, the im­ ed throughout the island. "-on the culture of our times." ber of measures went into effect provements had worked out so Now when you want to make a For further information, write: in the capital of revolutionary well that Havana residents were local call from a public telephone Assembly Headquarters, Chicago Cuba to improve bus service. under the impression that many in Cuba, you don't start by fum­ Joint Board, Amalgamated Cloth­ Formerly bus fare had been 8 more buses had been added to the bling for a coin; you just lift the ing Workers of America, 333 centavos [1 centavo=l U.S. cent]. fleet. Schedules were being fol­ receiver off the hook and dial the South Ashland Boulevard, Chi· A transfer cost 2 centavos. The lowed much more rigorously and number you want. Frank Rosenblum cago, Ill. 60607. fare is now a straight 5 centavos because of the speedier service the and transfers have been eliminat­ buses seemed less jammed. ed. For many bus riders this meant Still more surprising, it was dis­ an immediate saving, covered that the number of people BlackGI Tells Besides transfers, the issuance using bus service had increased ''Worker''Suffers a Rebuff of tickets has been eliminated. You considerably, the increase oscillat­ simply drop a 5-centavo piece in ing between 150,000 and 200,000 ArmyHe Won't a coin box. daily. ForIts Hatc·hetJob on Poet The 3,765 conductors suffered The number of workers on the Goto Vietnam By George Saunders buses was cut in half, all conduc­ no loss inasmuch as their wages tors being shifted to other jobs or were guaranteed until they found Pvt. Ronald Lockman, a black That poem in The Worker at­ sorship with such doggerel as: placed on the retirement list. other jobs. The Aug. 22 Granma GI who has received orders to be tacking Soviet poet Andrei V oz. "The CIA loves you," and "In Bus drivers are not required to reported that 3,264 were already sent to Vietnam, has announced nesensky, which was reprinted in reading you, I smell the reek of that he will refuse to go. Lockman, the Soviet paper Literaturnaya Svetlana." (For more details, see 23, is a member of the W.E.B. Du­ Gazeta, has apparently boomer­ last week's Militant.) Bois Clubs. He first announced anged. This is indicated by no less The second view, says Yaris, his intentions at the New Politics a source than The Worker itself. agrees with the first but feels The Feder,al Court Voids convention held Labor Day week- In its Sept. 12 issue Moscow cor­ Worker went too far in referring \ end in Chicago. He also held a respondent Harry Yaris acknowl­ to the CIA and Svetlana. He hasti­ press conference in New York at edged that a significant section of ly adds that people of this view 'Ky. Sediti,on St,atute the DuBois Club convention Sept. Soviet opinion "deems" the attack still supported publication of The 8-10. "a grave injustice to Voznesen­ Worker poem in the Soviet paper. LEXINGTON, Ky., Sept. 15 - A The law had been declared in­ Lockman appeared at a press sky." "A third · viewpoint not only special U.S. court has killed the valid in 1956 after the Bradens conference in San Francisco Sept. "Reprinting of the poem from considers those references uncalled 13, the day he was to report to Kentucky sedition law in a his­ were arrested under it. At that The Worker," reports Yaris, "has for but deems the entire letter a toric case involving five civil­ Oakland Army Base for shipment aroused a discussion, which as far grave injustice to Voznesensky." rights and poverty workers. Yes­ time they were accused of trying to Vietnam. He was accompanied as I can see, is taking three chan­ Perhaps most revealing is Yaris' terday the judges on the court to "overthrow the government" by by his lawyer, DuBois Club leader nels." observation that he can't tell ruled, 2 to 1, that the law violates selling a house in an all-white Terrence Hallinan. The first viewpoint, presented "which view is the most widely the U.S. Constitution. neighborhood to a black family. Reading a prepared statement, quite sympathetically by Yaris, is held." The very fact that this source feels obliged to mention the The court ordered the release of Braden served eight months of a Lockman declared: "My position that of the editors of Literatur­ Carl and Anne Braden from the on my orders is NO!! I won't go. naya Gazeta. (These are the same "third view" at all ( and he does jail at Pikeville, Ky. The Bradens 15-year prison sentence. I can't go, I will not be used any literary bureaucrats whom Vozne­ it with obvious reluctance and em­ are executive directors of the In the latest case, Ratliff -ac­ longer." sensky denounced for their deceit­ barrassment) is a good indication Southern Conference Educational cused them and the others of try­ Lockman entered the Oakland ful and arbitrary methods in deal­ that the resentment against The Fund (SCEF), an interracial group ing to "overthrow the govern­ Army Base, but was not arrested. ing with Soviet writers. It was that Worker poem is quite widespread. working to end racial discrimina­ ment" by organizing what he He is scheduled to fly to Vietnam denunciation, in a letter to Pravda No wonder, it was fully in the tion, poverty, and other injustices called "our poor." Sept. 22 and expects to be arrest­ June 22, that set off the current spirit of the most diehard, retro­ in the South. Mulloy and his wife, Karen, had ed then when he refuses to board controversy.) grade old Stalinist hacks. The ruling also stopped further been especially active in organiz­ the plane. Holders of this view seem to be Yaris concluded his curious dis­ prosecution of the Bradens; Alan ing opposition to the stripping of on the defensive, to judge by patch with a half-hearted apology and Margaret McSurely, mountain mountain land to obtain coal. Yaris' account. They "do not im­ for The Worker's blooper. While organizers for SCEF; and Joseph Prosecutor Ratliff founded and is Does your local library have pugn the loyalty of Voznesensky "politically immature p o e t s former president of the Indepen­ Mulloy, an organizer for the Ap­ a subscription to THE MILI­ to the Soviet Union [which The shouldn't meddle in political af­ palachian Volunteers. dent Coal Operators Association Worker poem did] nor his con­ fairs," he commented, "newspapers The five had been indicted for (ICOA), a national group which TANT? If not, why not suggest siderable talents as a poet," said should be careful in publishing sedition after Thomas Ratliff, the has its headquarters in Pikeville. that they obtain one. Librarians Y aris, apologizing for them. "They political views in the form of poet­ state's attorney in Pikeville, ac­ The McSurelys work on SCEF's are often pleased to have pa­ do charge him with political im­ ry." We might add that so-called cused them of "trying to over­ Southern Mountain Project. This maturity, and consider that the American Communists who meddle throw the government of Pike is designed to organize black and trons call t h e i r attention to poem published in The Worker in the struggle of Soviet intellec­ County." Ratliff is candidate for white citizens for joint action to publications that they should correctly makes this point." tuals against censorship and for lieutenant governor of Kentucky solve their political and economic have available. The Worker poem attacked Voz­ socialist democracy deserve to be on the Republican ticket. problems. nesensky for his stand against cen- rebuffed.