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

Angry over a · -man hter convict· in Florida - page 11 Do we want another Mayday action?/5 Black women support abortion struggle/10 Socialist candidates visit prisons/14, 15

VOLUME 35/NUMBER 39 MAGEE WINS SHOW CAUSE ORDER: The state of an Oct. 15 Senate speech "the grisly story of Dr. Saenger's California was ordered by federal judge Leonard N. Gins­ work," Saenger has begun vehemently protesting that burg Oct. 15 to show cause at a Nov. 10 hearing why "this is a helpful way of treating patients." However, THIS Ruchell Magee should not be released from prison. The Washington Post writers Stuart Auerbach and Thomas ruling came on a writ filed by Magee June 29 maintaining O'Toole pointed out in an Oct. 8 article that "other ex­ WEEK'S that his 1963 and 1965 kidnap-robbery convictions are perts in the use of radiation to treat cancer patients dis­ invalid because wrong pleas were entered over his ob­ agree." MILITANT jections by court-appointed attorneys. If the Nov. 10 hear­ ing finds that Magee was illegally imprisoned at the time AMERICAN INDIAN MOVEMENT CONVENTION: 3 Sub drive still ahead at of the August 1970 Marin County Courthouse shoot-out, _More than 100 delegates from 11 cities and three reser­ end of fourth week a guilty verdict in his upcoming trial for conspiracy, vations met at Camp Owendigo, Minn., Oct. 12-14 for 4 Hundreds of schools assault, and murder in connection with the August 1970 the first national AIM convention. The group approved plan to strike Nov. 3 incident would not carry the automatic death penalty that a charter for a nonprofit corporation to serve its present 400 at N.Y. meeting on applies to prisoners convicted of assault on non-prisoners. 18 chapters, placing it on a collision course with the 27- Nov. protest year-old National Congress of American Indians, which 6 JAPANESE PUBLISH TROTSKY'S WRITINGS: A Jap­ 5 Do we need another represents 135 tribes. AIM leader Dennis Banks said the anese translation of Writings of Leon Trotsky 1939-1940 older organization is "very ineffective" and compared Mayday? has been brought out by Tsuge Publishers in Japan. it to the League of Women Voters in contrast to the action­ 8 Interview with an activist oriented AIM. Banks and others founded AIM in Minne­ in prisoners union 10,000 ASK FOR KENT INVESTIGATION: A petition apolis in 1968. Since then, it has gained national pub­ 9 N.Y. prisoner writes of signed by 10,000 students and others is to be presented licity especially through occupations of abandoned federal brutal treatment to Nixon by Kent State University President Glenn A. property. Olds this month, asking him to overrule Attorney Gen­ Why Black women sup­ 10 eral John Mitchell, who earlier this year closed the books port the abortion COURT JUSTIFIES ANTI-GAY RULING WITH GOD'S on the Kent State massacre, claiming there was "no cred­ WORD: The Minnesota Supreme Court, following the ex­ struggle itable evidence" of conspiracy in the deaths of four stu­ ample of the California State Assembly which voted down 11 Shirley Wheeler con­ dents and the wounding of many others on May 4, 1970. a gay law reform last month with speeches about Sodom victed of having an and Gomorrah, rejected on Oct. 15 the appeal of Jack abortion RAZA UNIDA CANDIDATE IN RUNOFF Baker, University of Minnesota Student Association pres­ 12 Nixon escalates war in LOS ANGELES- Raul Ruiz, Raza Unida Party can­ ident, and Mike McConnell, who are seeking the right Cambodia didate for the California 48th Assembly District to marry. Marriage is a unique male-female arrangement, 13 The illusion of with­ seat, qualified for the Nov. 16 runoff by winning the court declared, "as old as the book of Genesis." drawal 1,378 votes (3.89 percent) in the Oct. 19 primary. LESBIANS HARASSED AT NEW HEADQUARTERS: Ten candidates ran in the primary. Ruiz will run 14 Why won't McGovern The Daughters of Bilitis in New York moved from its debate? against Bill Brophy (R) and Richard Alatorre (D) old headquarters on Prince Street a few weeks ago to a Ballot rights fight in the runoff. new location on East First Street. On Oct. 9, the second announced week the group had been in its new headquarters, cops 15 Jenness inspects Cook EMETIC OF THE WEEK: A photo caption in No. 175 barged into a dance and seized Rose Jordan and Alma County jail for 1971 of Democratic People's Republic of Korea D­ Routsong, allegedly because the serving of beer at the lustrated Monthly with a color-retouched photograph of Pulley in three-day tour dance ~as a possible violation of Alcoholic Beverages Kim ll Sung's birthplace reads: "Every blade of grass Control regulations. The real reason, as Jordan said, of Houston and every piece of tree is permeated with the lofty will was simply harassment of the lesbian group. About 60 16 Radioactive waste of revolution." DOB members demonstrated outside the Ninth Precinct creates hazard for three hours until. Jordan and Routsong were released. 17 Shah of Iran throws a PARK CHUNG HEE CALLS OUT THE ARMY party AGAINST STUDENTS: When his cops failed, after three ELLSBERG'S MOTHER-IN-LAW HELD IN CON­ 18 Why should unions call weeks of attacks on student anti-government demonstra­ TEMPT: A Boston federal judge found Idella Marx, Dan­ congress-of labor? tions, to subdue the demonstrators, South Korea's pres­ iel Ellsberg's mother-in-law, in contempt Oct. 13 after ident called out troops Oct. 15. As 2,000 troops stormed she refused to testify. before a Boston federal grand. jury 19 Back-to-work order an­ Seoul's campuses with armored vehicles, closing down investigating the publication of the Pentagon papers dis­ gers dock workers the schools and occupying them, they rounded up close closed by Ellsberg. She refused to testify under the so­ 21 Nixon nominee exploits to 2,000 students. The Oct. 16 New York Times reported called "immunity statute" granting grand jury witnesses La Raza that all but about 300 of those arrested were later re­ immunity from prosecution in the case under investigation 24 Davis defense compels leased. According to the Oct. 17 Times, the South Korean but leaving open prosecution on other charges that may state to reveal illegal opposition New Democratic Party, is making an issue be touched by their testimony. Action from the Boston evidence of the president's use of force. grand jury may result in new indictments superceding Soledad pretrial hear­ the indictment handed down against Ellsberg in August GUSANOS ATTACK CUBAN VILLAGE: The Oct. 15 by a Los Angeles federal grand jury for "illegal posses­ ings held Washington Post reported that Jose Elias de Ia Torriente, sion" of the Pentagon study. Despite the fact that it has New York-based Cuban counterrevolutionary exile, already brought an indictment against Ellsberg, the L.A. 2 In Brief claimed responsibility for the previous day's shelling of grand jury has continued its investigation. Among the wit­ 6 In Our Opinion a fishing village on Cuba's north coast. Two villagers nesses called to testify in L.A. while Idella Marx was Letters were killed and four others injured when two boats from being cited for contempt in Boston were Ellsberg's 15- 7 The Great Society the U. S. strafed the village from offshore waters Oct. 14. year-old son Robert, called Oct. 12, and his brother­ Radio Havana charged that the gusano attack was made in-law, Spencer Marx, called Oct. 13. Women: The Insurgent with the complicity of the U. S. government. Ma;ority CORRECTlON 9 By Any Means Nec­ PENTAGON USES HUMAN GUINEA PIGS: Charity The dates for the Congress on Racial Equality con­ essary cancer patients in Cincinnati are used in a Pentagon­ vention given in the article "CORE convention: No 19 The National Picket Line funded study to test the influence of radiation on the ef­ change from reformist course" (Oct. 22 Militant} 21 La Raza en Accion fectiveness of combat troops, bU"t they are told the whole­ body radiation exposures they receive are part of a "thera­ were incorrect. The article stated the convention peutic" experiment. The study has been going on for 11 was held Oct. 14-17. The correct dates were Oct. 7-9. THE MILITANT years under the direction of Dr. Eugene Saenger at the ALASKA NATIVES FILE SUIT: On Oct. 5, the Arctic VOLUME 35/NUMBER 39 University of Cincinnati. Whole-body radiation exposure kills large numbers of white blood cells, generally leading Slope Native Association filed suit in Washington, D. C., OCTOBER 29, 1971 to infection. Patients given the treatment suffer nausea and federal district court, asking that the Alaska state gov­ CLOSING NEWS DATE- OCT. 20 pain that they might not otherwise undergo. A number of ernment's land grab of 76,000 square miles of their ter­ recent articles and a book- The Great American Bomb ritory, sanctioned by the Interior Department, be inval­ Editor: MARY-ALICE WATERS Machine by Roger Rapoport- have begun shedding light idated. Beginning in 1964, the state arbitrarily began Technical Editor: JON BRITTON Business Monoger: SHARON CABANISS on Saenger's cynical manipulation of helpless cancer pa­ selecting for itself tracts of land on the North Slope, about Southwest Bureau: HARRY RING tients to further imperialism's megadeath capacity. The which the suit says, "For as far back as anyone knows, doctor has published very little about his work in pro­ the plaintiff Eskimo people have occupied, used and ex­ Published weekly by The Militant Publishing Ass'n., 14 Charles lane, New York, N.Y. 10014. Phone: fessional journals, confming ·his discussion of the project ercised dominion over the entire Arctic Slope Region of Editorial Office (212) 243-6392; Business Office (212) mainly to annual reports to the Pentagon. Now, as Sen­ Alaska. . . at the very least, the plaintiffs have what 929-3486. Southwest Bureau: 1107 1/2 N. Western ators Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Mike Gravel (D­ is known as aboriginal title. . . . " Ave., los Angeles, Calif. 90029. Phone (213) 463- -LEE SMITH 1917. Second-class postage paid at New York, N.Y. Alaska) have begun spotlighting what Gravel called in Subscription: domestic, $6 a year; foreign, $7.50. By first-class mail: domestic and Canada, $22; all other countries, $24. 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THE MILITANT/ OCTOBER 29, 1971 3 400 at N.Y. meeting November 6 on Nov. 6 protest By PETER SEIDMAN rna Becker, a coordinator of the Viet­ Countdown A second meeting of the united New nam Peace Parade Committee, and ~ appeal fro~ the United Secretariat of the Fourth International, printed York antiwar movement was held Oct. Jerry Gordon, a national coordinator m the Oct. 9 1ssue of the French revolutionary-socialist newspaper Rouge, 16 at the headquarters of District 65, of NP AC. Becker underscored the need ca:lls on "workers, students and all anti-imperialist forces to demonstrate Nov. Retail, Wholesale and Distributive for an all out push on leaflets and 6 in a:ll capitals together with the hundreds of thousands of people who will Workers Union, AFL-CIO. Over 400 literature for Nov. 6. Gordon stressed take to the streets in response to the call by the American antiwar movement." people representing more than 30 col­ the value of the unity achieved in New leges, 16 high schools, 54 political York for making the Nov. 6 demon­ The Oct. 16 Rouge reports that the French Front Solidarite Indochine (Indo­ and community antiwar organiza­ stration successful. china Solidarity Front) appealed to trade unions and other political groups for a united front action in Paris Nov. 6. Among the organizations belonging tions, and a number of trade unions NPAC staff member Nat London met at the call of the National Peace reported that NPAC has so far dis­ to the FSI are the Ligue Communiste (Communist League), French section of the Fourth International; Lutte Ouvriere (Workers Struggle); Temoignage Action Coalition, the People's Coali­ tributed over one million pieces of Chretien (Christian Witness); and the Conference Chretienne pour la Paix tion for Peace and Justice, the Vietnam literature in New York City for the (Christian Peace Conference). Peace Parade Committee, and the Stu­ demonstration and that two million La Ligue des Droits de l'Homme (The League for the Rights of Man) has dent Mobilization Committee. Reports more pieces are on order. NPAC has endorsed the Nov. 6 action, but is not a member of the FSL The Communist were presented on the progress in set up a volunteer literature distribu­ Party and the trade-union federation it dominates, the CGT, declined to partici­ building the Nov. 6 mass antiwar tion center in its offices at 150 Fifth pate. in the action, and the Socialist Party and its union, the CFDT, said they action in New York and a broadly Avenue. representative coordinating committee would not participate either, since the Communist Party was not participating. Reports were also heard from the The Parti Socialiste Unlfie (United Socialist Party) belongs to the FSI and for the action was elected. United Women's Contingent, the Black endorses the Nov. 6 action. Task Force, the Dominican Task The meeting began with reports on Force, and the Gay Contingent. In the activities that occurred on Mora­ An Oct. 15 mailing from the National Peace Action Coalition includes NPAC's addition, plans for a number of feeder ca:ll for international actions Nov. 6, "March with us on every continent," and torium Day, Oct. 13. SMC members 'marches and community contingents reports that Gls stationed in Heidelberg, West Germany, plan to demonstrate and representatives of community from the Upper West Side, Queens, Nov. 6 for immediate withdrawal. peace organizations told of actions and Staten Island were announced. at numerous high schools and cam­ The meeting voted to constitute it­ The button pictured below can be ordered for 50 cents from the NPAC Trade puses. Community rallies in the self as the New York November 6 Union Task Force, 150 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y. 10011. Bronx, the Upper West Side, Washing­ Joint Peace Committee and elected a ton Square Park in lower Manhattan, 41-member coordinating committee mar~h and Queens, in addition to the labor representing a:ll sections of the anti­ NOV. 6 rally held in New York's Garment war movement. The coordinating District, were also reported. committee will finalize plans for the The spirit of these reports was sum­ New York action and present them med up by Al Evanoff of District 65 for approval to a third meeting of and the Vietnam Peace Parade Com­ the New York Joint Peace Committee mittee when he pointed to the good set for Oct. 27 at Loeb Student Center, start made with the Moratorium and New York University. For more in­ the need to turn out "the masses of formation on the New York antiwar people on November 6." action, call NPAC at 741-2018 or These remarks were echoed by Nor- SMC at 741-1960.

Support for Nov. 6 from the organized labor movement in Minneapolis-St. Paul continues to grow. The St. Paul Typographical Union Local 30 on Oct. 17 joined its sister local, Minneapolis Typographica:I Union 42, in endorsing Hundreds of schools the aetioh. Norm Hammink, president of Local30, said he and his local would be joining the labor contingent Nov. 6 to say "no wage freeze to pay for Nixon's war and to demand that all the troops be brought home now!" In plan to strike NoV. 3 the week prior to the St. Paul typographical union's endorsement, the action By LEE SMITH Both meetings agreed to a Nov. 3 ~eceived the endorsement of United Electrical Workers ( UE) Local 1139; Amer­ OCT. 19- Student Mobilization Com­ program of antiwar meetings in all ICan Federation of State, County, and Municipa:I Employees Council 6; and mittee chapters at colleges and high the schools, a 2 p.m. rally at the Service Employees International Union, Local 26. schools across the country are at work Selective Service office, and a 3 p.m. preparing for the Nov. 3 antiwar stu­ rally at the Board of Education that The Mayor, City Council and Board of Education in Berkeley, Callf., have dent strike that, according to the latest will be joined by teachers. all endorsed Nov. 6. In a message to the Oct. 13 ra:lly in Provo Park in Berke­ issue of the SM C's Student Mobilizer, The national tours of SMC Coor­ ley, Mayor Warren Widener said, "On Nov. 6, the voices of literally millions so far has been endorsed by more dinator Debby Bustin and SMC staff gathered in San Francisco and other cities must amplify our voices today in than 100 officers and leaders of stu­ member Ernie Mailhot are helping to demanding Out Now!" · dent governments and other student publicize and win support for the stu­ Berkeley City Council member D' Army Bailey, who spoke at the Oct. 13 organizations, including four high dent strike. Provo Park rally, has agreed to· represent the antiwar movement in its attempt school student councils in Minneapo­ .. Bustin has appeared on 14 radio to secure permits to allow Berkeley demonstrators to march to the San Fran­ lis. and TV programs, been interviewed cisco action across the seven-mile-long Oakland Bay Bridge. Th~ request is A news conference in New York City by 14 newspapers, and spoken to 25 unprecedented and asks for two lanes on the upper, westbound level of the Oct. 14 announcing plans for the meetings at high schools and colleges, twin-level, five-lane suspension bridge. strike in the city was addressed by including an all-school assembly at Jennie Bremer, Barnard College stu­ Cleveland Heights High School, dur­ A front-page story in The Dally Oklahoman reports that more than 7 5 stu­ dent government presedent; Jerry ing her visits to Philadelphia, Detroit, dents at the University of Oklahoma in Norman demonstrated against ROTC Goldman, New York University All Minneapolis, Cleveland and Tampa, outside the chalked boundaries of an Army ROTC drill field Oct. 12. Informed University Student Congress presi­ Fla., this month. She is presently in in advance that they would be arrested lf they crossed the cha:Ik lines, the dent; Paco Padin, student government Washington, D. C., where her tour is. students deliberately kept the protest on adjoining territory where Vietnam president at Lehman College; Tony continuing to be a success. Veterans Against the War (VV AW) staged a guerrilla theater mock search­ Scanlon, Hunter College student gov­ and-destroy mission. ernment president; Neil Simon, Brook­ Mailhot has also appeared on radio, The following day, according to an article in The Oklahoma Journal, twice lyn Law School Student Bar Associa­ been interviewed by newspapers an~ as many students, includihg high school and junior high school students as tion vice-president; and John Swenson, spoken to campus meetings in Austin well as U of Okla. students, marched to the armory, the administration build­ president of the Manhattan College and Houston, Texas; Denver, Colo.; ing and the student union demanding an end to the war and an end to ROTC student government. and San Diego, Calif. His tour is con­ on the university campus. At the armory, the students ra:llied next to an anti­ An Oct. 12 meeting at San Fran­ tinuing in California. aircraft gun on which they hung an eviction notice before proceeding to the cisco State College, chaired by SFSC The groups organizing Nov. 3 see other buildings. The Oct 13 action was organized by the VV AW. student body president Ken Maley, the student strike as a day of student set plans for Nov. 3 in the Bay Area, organizing for the Nov. 6 regional John Wright, president of the Atlanta Labor Council, AFL-CIO, keynoted the where there is broad endorsement mass antiwar demonstrations. The Oct. 3 regional antiwar conference in Atlanta. Attended by 125 persons, the among student leaders for the actions. SMC national leaflet for Nov. 3 states, conference was one of the most broadly representative meetings of its kind The Berkeley Board of Education "The demand of 'On strike, open ever held in the Southeast. Wright and other trade-union officials participated has "requested" administrators to set it up!' on Nov. 3 will enable us to use in the conference labor workshop, discussing how to maximize working peo­ up antiwar programs "in all schools the campuses of this country to help ple's participation in the Atlanta Nov. 6 march. Thousands of labor leaflets and classrooms" Nov. 3, as well as organize the largest contingents of la­ printed by the Atlanta Peace Action Coalition have been paid for by the city's endorsing the Nov. 6 mass antiwar bor, Blacks, Latinos, women, gays, Alliance for Labor Action. action in San Francisco. G Is, veterans, students, and other sec­ Other workshops included Blacks, women, Gls and vets, SMC, and high City-wide meetings of the Philadel­ tions of the population in the most school. Mary Nell BoCkman of Gracly High School told a high school work­ phia high school SMC and college impressive actions against the war shop with wide geographic representation about plans to distribute the High SMC were both held there Oct. 17. ever" Nov. 6. School Bill of Rights as a way of promoting high school involvement in the fall antiwar offensive. The conference received extensive coverage in the news media in Atlanta and the rest of Georgia.

4 the breach in the antiwar movement porting Nov. 6 in words only. Their the Oct. 25 action is. "Nonviolent dis­ had been healed. intent was to try to substitute relative­ ruptions," he writes, "should be seen ByLEWJONES NPAC's desire for unity around ly small, elite co~frontation actions as attempts to crystallize an imminent A few weeks ago, the People's Co­ mass actions against the war was not like the Mayday actions last spring crisis, or furnish a spark that will alition for Peah and Justice (PCPJ) new, but in fact was intrinsic to the for actions of the April 24 type. If lead other sections of society to go began distributing literature calling for organization since its inception. Its the PCPJ action was to be Nov. 8, on strike or otherwise join us in forc­ antiwar actions in Washington, D. C., view is based on a simple concept: Dellinger and the others wanted to ing an end to the present policies." Oct. 22-27 around the theme "Evict the broadest possible unity of all op­ simply use a central Washington Nov. Nixon." PCPJ had been planning for posed to the war in Indochina is nec­ 6 action to build their own. Barring Anti-mass-action some time to hold actions during that essary to stop it. that, they sought to undercut the im­ Rather than projecting actions that period but has only recently revealed This view of the fall offensive unity pact of the Nov. 6 actions by sched­ masses of people can directly partici­ their character., These plans, along agreement was apparently shared by uling their actions first. pate in, the proposal is to keep up with their proposals for the future of PCPJ leaders, since they adopted it. with exemplary actions until one of the antiwar movement, raise serious It was certainly the view of the trade­ In an article entitled "A New Stage these "sparks" sets off the whole soci­ questions about the character of the union officials who participated. And of Struggle: Mayday and the Fall Of­ ety. Instead of the level of the strug­ antiwar movement and the intentions it certainly fulfilled a desire of the over­ fensive," published in the September gle and the tactics that flow from it ofPCPJ. whelming majority of antiwar activists. issue of the monthly pacifist maga- being defined by the level of conscioua: The "Evict Nixon" actions will be­ ness of the millions who are opposed gin with the convening of a "People's to the war, Dellinger's schema defmes Grand Jury," which will launch a "na­ forms of struggle that are not accept­ tional investigation to expose the able to them. crimes of this government." While the People's Grand Jury is not expected This is most clear when Dellinger to bring down indictments, a public discusses the possibilities of the labor opening of a People's Grand Jury ex­ movement entering the antiwar move­ hibit is' scheduled. Other events include ment. He states that "it is not enough a candlelight march with the exhibit, for labor to supply speakers and a "People's Armistice Day," and eve­ bodies for mass rallies. Until labor ning workshops to discuss "an elec­ unions hold emergency meetings of tion year strategy." their memberships to organize work The main event, however, appears stoppages, slowdowns, sick-outs or to be one entitled "Evict Nixon-Phase strikes, they are withholding their I." The purpose of this action is to strongest weapons. "serve an eviction notice on Richard Labor participation in marches and Nixon ...." This will be accom­ rallies is characterized as "tokenism, plished by holding "an early morning which is on a par with that of dove national service of mourning for Attica senators and congressmen, who call and all other victims" of oppression. for an end to the war but continue PCPJ publicly asserts that "The offices to vote the funds and draft the man­ of the presidency will be stopped for power that allow it to continue." a national memorial service that will The three social groupings named surround and close the White House." in Dellinger's article as being poten­ Considerable literature has been tial participants in the actions he en­ published by PCPJ attempting to cre­ visages are: early new leftists, trade ate the impression that this action is unionists and "professional groups, the most important this fall, if not moderate peace groups, traditional this year or this epoch. Nowhere are pacifists, and religiously oriented or­ the massive Nov. 6 regional antiwar ganizations.... " demonstrations even mentioned. Such Although Dellinger fails to explain a public stance raises questions about why he expects the trade-union move­ PCPJ's real attitude toward the united ment to begin organizing "sustained, fall antiwar actions jointly called by nonviolent, massive civil disobedience" the National Peace Action Coalition when sections of it have only just be­ (NPAC) and PCPJ. gun to participate in the organization of legal mass demonstrations, the oth­ Unity agreement er forces he names are precisely those After the success of last spring's which, together ~ith the student move­ April 24 mass actions, NP AC and ment, have taken part in the antiwar PCPJ and several trade-union officials movement since its inception. sat down to see if a common calendar The problem facing the antiwar of activity was possible for the fall movement is not, as Dellinger inti­ of 1971. The result of these discus­ mates, that it must take its present sions was a unity agreement to joint­ adherents and organize them in new ly conduct massive, nonconfrontation­ ways if it is to be effective. What it al activities Aug. 6-9 commemorating must in fact do is to continue the the Nagasaki-Hiroshima bombing; lo­ steady work of building a mass move­ cal moratorium-type actions on Oct. ment, of bringing people into political 13; and mass actions in a number of activity based on their own power, independent of the ruling class. regional centers Nov. 6. "Blocking traffic" at Justice Department last May This agreement, ratified by PCPJ Dellinger's hostility to the type of and NPAC conventions in late June massive, nonconfrontational demon­ zine Liberation, Dellinger tries to ex­ and early July, was an important de­ strations represented by those on April A reversal plain this switch. "Originally, the velopment, as the joint statement it­ Yet, even before the fall offensive 24 and Nov. 6 is in reality hostility self indicated. "All parties agreed," the Washington activity was scheduled for to the forms of activity that have al­ is over, PCPJ has apparently reversed Nov. 8, but it has been advanced to statement said, "that there is a pressing its previous view. The PCPJ "Evict ready been successful in involving mil­ Oct. 25 in order to work closely with lions of people in political activity and immediate need for unity of the Nixon" project is not viewed as just the Vietnam Veterans Against the War against the war and that promise to peace forces so that the massive power another date that is part of the fall and because of the urgency created involve millions more. of the people's opposition to the war offensive. PCPJ' s own literature de­ can be effectively exercised." Moreover, by the seven-point peace program pro­ Reports indicate that the Nov. 6 scribes it as "perhaps the most serious, posed in Paris.... " Since the Vietnam all the parties agreed that this was a political project ever undertaken by regional actions can be substantial Veterans had nothing in particular actions involving new elements pre­ step toward unity beyon.d Nov. 6. the antiwar movement." planned at the time and since adv anc­ viously uninvolved. Most impressive "The parties look upon this common While giving verbal support to the ing an action by two weeks hardly is the trade-union support for Nov. program of action as the be~inning Nov. 6 regional mass actions, and of a unification of the peace forces answers the urgency Dellinger claims, 6, which exceeds the endorsement for while PCPJ or affiliates of it in some his explanation rings a bit hollow. to bring about an end to the war ... areas are actively supporting and any previous action. In reality, Dellinger and the May­ Confrontational actions such as both are committed to the principle building Nov. 6, the national organi­ day forces were simply trying to sub­ those desired by Dellinger do not in­ that unity of all the peace forces is zation itself has planned an action stitute their own ultraleft actions for volve these newly activated forces be­ needed now." and long-term orientation that contra­ the jointly called fall offensive. In his cause the actions involve risks these Understood in this agreement was venes the intent of the unity agreement. article in Liberation, Dellinger spells forces are not ready to take. In fact, that each coalition would conduct its In the negotiations between the co­ out why this is so important. He feels the small, elite ·actions can cut across own additional activities. NP AC alitions mapping out the fall activities, a new stage of struggle was achieved the involvement of these new forces. planned a veterans action Oct. 25 and the Washington civil disobedience ac­ in the Mayday actions, a stage which There is, however, another aspect PCPJ planned a demonstration tions were planned for Nov. 8 fol­ against the Family Assistance Pro­ ought to be continued. For him, May­ to the PCPJ "Evict Nixon" plans. The lowing the regional mass actions, so day "ended the illusion that large na­ gram in early September. PCPJ also that they would not cut across those PCPJ material describes the Washing­ tional mobilizations are doomed to ton actions as the beginning of an planned civil-disobedience activities actions. Some PCPJ representatives, be utterly predictable, ritualistic, one­ "Election Year Offensive" and as an after both the Oct. 13 and Nov. 6 however, insisted that the only ac­ day events." The problem for him then "Election Year Strategy" involving actions. However, all parties recog­ tion on the East Coast on Nov. 6 nized that the common dates would becomes how to minimize the impact among other things participation in be in Washington, D. C. When NP AC of these "rituals." be the focal points for action. insisted that the regional actions take election primaries and a proposed Dellinger omits the fact that April march on the Republican Party N a­ NP AC viewed this agreement as an place as scheduled, PCPJ then blithely 24, the most recent national mobiliza­ tional Convention in San Diego. These important achievement that would announced that the Nov. 8 actions greatly aid the possibilities of mobi­ had been switched to Oct. 25. tion, was the largest ever, involving plans raise serious questions about lizing the American people against the tens of thousands of new forces in ac­ the future activities of the antiwar war. NPAC affiliates in many areas What was clear in the course of tion against the war. In fact, his idea movement and the political approach proposed the establishment of joint these discussions was that at least the of a demonstration is designed to it takes during a presidential election. fall planning committees with a com­ Dave Dellinger-radical pacifist, Rennie avoid involving new forces. We will discuss these issues in a sub­ mon staff and office, in the hope that Davis-Mayday wing of PCPJ was sup-. Dellinger explains what his view of sequent article.

THE MILITANT/ OCTOBER 29, 1971 5 Letters

Bill of Rights-for all Prisoners want Militant a new social order founded on rev­ You'll find enclosed the names of The special meeting held in the Colorado State Penitentiary at Canon olutionary socialism in its most pure prisoners who desire subscriptions to form with justice, freedom and equal­ City Sept. 29, where a dozen candidates and supporters of the Colo­ The Militant. A prisoner with whom ity for all people. rado Socialist Workers Party discussed their election platform with we correspond and who has a sub­ We need the assistance of volun­ several hundred potential supporters, sets an example for prisons scription to The Militant gathered teer workers to help us in our ef­ throughout the country. these names for us. He informed us forts to organize the prisoners and Compared to the kinds of meetings permitted in most jails and that there are several hundred pris­ expand our union. prisons, the rally was highly unusual. The real issues facing prisoners oners who want to receive The Mili­ If you or any of your associates tant. Given the large number, he felt in the United States today were discussed, and alternatives were pre­ would be interested in helping us in it best to get one name per cell block what we are doing, or if you would sented. Concrete ideas for how to struggle effectively and win were and encourage wide circulation of like to receive the Prisoner's Free debated. War, racism, unemployment, inflation, sexism, the civil lib­ The Militant in each block. Press, write to: Imprisoned Citizen's erties and rights of human begins victimized by society and thrown Many of these prisoners signed a Union, P. 0. Box 4731, Philadelphia, into its prisons- all these were topics of discussion. petition for immediate withdrawal Pa. 19134. The Colorado meetings stands in contrast to several other recent from Southeast Asia that was circu­ R.M. lated in the prison last spring, en­ State Correctional Institution experiences, in Atlanta, Houston and Philadelphia, where prison au­ dorsing the April 24 demonstration. Dallas, Pa. thorities refused SWP candidates the right to investigate conditions M.K. and discuss election issues within the prison walls. Seattle Socialist Workers Party However, even at the Colorado State Penitentiary, prison author­ ities refused to allow the candidates to bring copies of their campaign Answer to Midshipman newspaper, The Militant, to distribute. And in Chicago, SWP presidential High school strike [The following is in response to a candidate Linda Jenness was denied the right to distribute campaign I would like more information con­ letter which appeared in the Oct. 1 literature when she made a tour of Cook County Jail. cerning the Nov. 3 high school issue of The Militant.] Such arbitrary actions by prison officials constitute a denial of basic strike rumor. Could you send infor­ civil rights. mation on forming the strike, if To "Midshipman 4C, USN ROTC, Villanova, Pa.": The men and women held in this country's prisons and jails are there is one? S.D. Whose publication were you refer­ not the criminals. They are the victims of an exploitative, unjust social Utica, N.Y. ring to? I have yet to read where system: capitalism. As citizens, they are entitled to the full protection The Militant supports the Commu­ of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Freedom of speech, press, re­ Editor's reply: A high school and nist Party and the policies of the ligion, the right to petition, to vote and run for office, the right to college student antiwar strike is be­ U.S.S.R. You spoke of the faults of ing organized by the Student Mo­ communism. Have you never seen uncensored mail and reading material, including books, mOgazines the oppression in the United States? and papers, freedom from cruel and unusual punishment, the right bilization Committee. Their address is: SMC, 150 5th Ave., Suite 911, Has a wealthy capitalist ever died in to true political freedom- all these and many more are among the Indochina? Can you tell me where N.Y., N.Y. 10011. rights for which prisoners are today courageously fighting. a capitalist government is efficient Part of this fight is for the right of The Militant to be distributed enough to destroy poverty? within prison walls. It is a right we intend to win. The Militant actively supports the Imprisoned Citizens Union fight of all oppression whether it is The Pennsylvania prison system is sex, race, or political. Yes, The Mili­ barbaric, illegal and intolerable. tant is a "pouting infant" and it is Prisoners are clubbed, starved, growing, as well as its followers. Monitoring prices thrown in subterranean dungeons, Who is close-minded? An open­ and in general flagrantly denied minded person wants facts from a The majority of Americans believe that Nixon's wage freeze is not their basic and fundamental legal newspaper and does his own rea­ in their interest. They believe that prices continue to rise despite gov­ and human rights. soning. It is difficult for me to find The legislative, executive and ju­ ernment claims to the contrary. Almost 40 percent believe big business­ many facts in a profit-minded news­ dicial branches of the government paper which publishes the lies and men, bankers, industrialists and rich people in general are the chief have been not only indifferent but tidbits of information the govern­ beneficiaries of the government's economic policies. actually hostile to prisoners' rights. ment is willing to part with. The Mil­ All this was confirmed in a national survey made by the Census Many other prisoners and myself itant goes beyond public officials. Bureau in late September. have reached the conclusion that the Its coverage of Attica is proof. only way we are going to win our While more than 60 percent believe that "working people, union A. F. rights is by organizing a powerful Member Gls United Against the War members, wage earners" do not benefit from Nixon's economic meo­ statewide union of prisoners which, Ft. Sam Houston, Texas sures, and that wages have been effectively prevented from rising allied with our people on the "street," since Aug. 15, only 33 percent believe that the "freeze" has stopped will exert such heavy pressure against the government that it will price increases as well. Shah's celebration Such statistics are hardly surprising. There is no reason why any­ become responsive to our will. For this reason, we formed the In the last few weeks numerous dis­ one should believe prices have been frozen, because they haven't. Imprisoned Citizen's Union. Right torted articles have been published Compliance with the price 'freeze regulations is the exception, not the now we have over 500 members dis­ concerning Iran and the forthcoming rule. A spokesman for the American Federation of State, County and persed throughout the st.ate prison 2,500th anniversary of the Persian Municipal Employees (AFSCME) reported Oct. 19 that 90 percent of system, with local chapters in all Kingdom. A range of views can be seen, from the article in Time maga­ the nation's retailers have not drawn up the required lists of base state penitentiaries. zine full of praise for "His Imperial prices for the pre-Aug. 15 period, making it impossible for shoppers The state has been futilely trying to destroy our union by locking key Majesty" and its talk of "prosperous to confirm price increases. members in solitary confinement, Iran," to the French magazine /'Ex­ While every employer diligently enforces the wage freeze, the transferring members to far distant press which openly admitted that for individual whose income has been curtailed has little power to stop prisons, threatening to withhold pa­ the first time in decades at least the price gougers. In order to combat inflationary price increases, role, assaulting members with goon some country (Iran) is wasting more money than France has ever the working class must break through the wage freeze and win guaran­ squads of guards, having criminal charges placed against members, done! tees that wages will automatically increase with every rise in the cost and in general harassing us. Never­ In a country like Iran where there of living. And to effectively monitor prices the working class must also theless, we are getting stronger ev­ are 11.7 beds for every 10,000 pa­ rely solely on itself and its allies. ery day! tients; there still exists 26 percent During Phase One this was done to a limited extent by AFSCME. Right now we have a class-action diarrhea, 21.7 percent flu; 4.25 per­ In many cities, union shop stewards participated in Operation Price civil rights suit in the United States cent measles, 4.2 percent trachoma, 2.5 percent malaria, 2.2 percent Watch. Now the· AFL-CIO on a natioral scale has announced its in­ district court at Philadelphia against the governor, attorney general, com­ whooping cough, 1.1 percent tuber­ tention to create "watchdog units" in every state· and major city to missioner of corrections and the en­ culosis, and 2.1 percent mumps; monitor prices and initiate prosecution of merchants who violate Price tire state prison system. We charge there is only one physician for every Board rulings. Citing the need for "effective machinery" to enforce them with, among other things, sub­ 3,223 people; 40 percent of Iranian price restrictions, the plan calls for collaboration between the unions, jecting all prisoners to cruel and un­ families live in one room; the people women's organizations, consumer groups, senior citizens' organizations, usual punishment and violating of Tehran, capital of Iran, consume their civil rights. on the average less than 2. 7 pounds and civil rights groups. We are also publishing an under­ of meat per person per month- the The creation of such "watchdog units" is a step in the right direc­ ground newsletter called the Prison­ 2,500th year celebration is merely a tion. If combined with effective direct action against offending mer­ ers Free Press. It is published on farce and a show to further cover chants, public pressure may even force the rollback of some price the "street" and thus is completely un­ the hypocrisies of the government of increases. censored and uncontrolled by the Iran. The oppression and misery to state. which the Iranian masses have been The watchdog units will help expose the government's unwilling­ Our goals are freedom for all subjected by the Pahlevi Dynasty are ness to enforce price restrictions, making it increa.singly clear to all prisoners, legal and human rights only too well known to require any that Nixon's economic policies are designed to drive down the standard for all people, both inside and out­ mention here. Suffice it to recall that of living of the American working class. side the prisons, and the creation of in the past year alone many Iranian

6 The Society Saps the bodlly juices- Rear Admiral utors seem more interested in selling Solons drive hard bargain- In an Trang Van Chon, head of the Saigon distributorships thim cosmetics. On ac­ impressive reaffirmation of its con­ Navy, warned his crew to cut down quittal, Medina was offered a job by stitutional prerogatives, the U.S. Sen­ democrats and revolutionaries died on sexual activity to ensure having Turner, who, perhaps, figured he'd be ate voted to impose a $350-million at the hands of the regime's hench­ "sufficient energy to fight against the good with balky prospects. limit on U.S. support for ground war men either under torture or before Comm unis.ts." in Laos. "The administration agreed the firing squads. Pure science- Dr. Barbara Brown, to the restriction," reported UPI, "be­ An important aspect of the celebra­ Tender, loving care- In a touching a Los Angeles physiologist, reports cause the $350-million was all it want­ tions, which throws light on the na­ that her research suggests that "cig­ ed for Laotian ground operations this ture of the present monarchy in display of concern for those who suf­ fer, the administration endorsed legis­ arette smokers are more aware, more year anyway." Iran, is the. heavy emphasis put by energetic and more intelligent than the propaganda machinery of the lation to compensate food processors for losses incurred when cyclamates people who don't smoke." However, Creative approach- The head of the Iranian regime on the "Aryan roots she added, she has not yet established Illinois state pen at Joliet announced and traditions" of Iran- an ideology were banned because of their link to whether they think more efficiently. a series of concerts for inmates to borrowed and propagated by the cancer. We don't know if such com­ "I'm trying to look at things honest­ help "avoid another prison tragedy" Pahlavi Dynasty from Hitler's Ger­ pensation will cover shipping costs for the consignments shipped for sale ly," she said. Dr. Brown's research like Attica many of the 1930s. is supported by grants from the To­ Thi~ particular aspect of the cel­ abroad after the ban here. We do assume, however, that Bon Vivant, bacco Institute. ebrations and all the political crimes It was a peace signal- Some people and oppression committed by the the botulin company, is readying its claim. Tranqull Texans- A University of are carping critics. The San Antonio present regime in Iran should pre­ Texas researcher says residents of the Express reported Sept. 22, "An ar­ vent all democratic and antifascist El Paso area are uncommonly well mada of 250 U. S. planes swarmed elements from identifying themselves Likely recruit- Defense of Capt. Er­ nest Medina in the Mylai massacre adjusted because the water there is over North Vietnam Tuesday and de­ with the celebrations and from tak­ laced with lithium, a tranquilizing livered one of the heaviest raids in ing part in the 2,500th aimiversary court-martial was financed by Glenn chemical used in the treatment of man­ the North in recent years." An edi­ of monarchy in Iran. Turner, a patriot who parlayed a fast ic depression and other psychological torial in the same issue said: "The We appeal to all those who cherish sales line into a multimillion-dollar disorders. Time magazine asks, if war is over. It takes some time to democracy and human dignity to empire. The cornerstone is a cosmetic lithium really is keeping El Paso so boycott the Shah's celebration of business that sells distributorships stop it and get out." So reader David peaceful, what could it do for New H. Plylar wrote: "Your credibility gap "2,500th anniversary of Iranian for $5,000 with purchasers entitled monarchy." to recruit other distributors and pocket York and Chicago? We don't know is so wide you could fly a 250-plane armada through it" Confederation of Iranian Students ' part of the fee. Twenty states are in­ about Chicago, but in New York it could pacify the worms in the water. -HARRY RING Frankfurt, W Germany vestigating the complaint that distrib-

La Passionaria In keeping with the high standards of accuracy The Militant has always maintained and its more recent ex­ Women: cellence in covering the events of the women's liberation movement, I thought the following information might be of interest. The Insurgent Majority As reported in Mr. Baldivia's ar­ ticle [in the Oct. 8 Militant], "a 25 FOR THE SECOND TIME IN TWO YEARS, THE where the law was liberalized in 1968 but where more foot banner ... read: 'It is better to EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT was approved Oct. 12 restrictions exist than in New York. Last year, 83,849 die on your feet than to keep living by the House of Representatives in a vote of 354-23. abortions were performed in England, many on women on your knees.'" This quote was The Senate, however, has postponed consideration of the from other European countries. attributed -to Zapata. This is incor­ ERA until next year. During consideration of the amend­ rect. The author of the quote is Do­ ment the galleries were packed with women of all ages, lores Ibarruri, "La Passionaria" of the Oct. 13 New York Times reported. The Wiggins amend­ Spanish Civil War fame. ment to the ERA- which would have exempted women This quotation was actually de­ from the draft and permitted laws that discriminate against livered in a speech she gave on July women if they could be justified as promoting "the health 18, 1936, .the first of her many and safety of the people"- was defeated. speeches of the Civil War demanding Wiggins, in speaking for his amendment, said that the resistance. In this particular speech, general counsel for the Defense Department had told him she exhorted the women of Spain "to it would be "impossible for the military to operate" if fight with knives and burning oil" the ERA passed without the Wiggins rider. Perhaps tbe and ended with the slogan which Defense Department has noted the polls showing women was to become the rallying cry of are even more against the war in Southeast Asia than the Republic: "It is better to die on men, and sees that women would only help to accelerate your feet than live on your knees the growing revolt of Gis against having to participate . . . . No pasaran!" The "No pasa­ in this rotten war. ran" (they shall not pass) actually How many mor'e years will women have to wait for came from the bloody battle of Ver­ Congress to pass this amendment to the Constitution, dun (1916), the former entirely hers. which would for the first time assure women full rights The fact that the slogan certainly as citizens of this country? symbolizes the will to resist of all oppressed people, that it was said THE SEPT. 23 NEW YORK POST QUOTED GEN. AN­ by a woman, and specifically to DREW O'MEARA, chairman of the government Population women, caused a group of us in Crisis Committee, as saying that over half the women Candy Martin is the first woman member Chicago three years ago to found a who begin using the pill stop using it within 18 months of Operating Engineers Local 4E in Boston. women's center called "La Dolores." because of the bad side effects. · It is infrequent women are quoted A poll of 51 top scientists, taken by the Population Crisis THE POLICY COUNCIL OF THE VIRGINIA WOM­ and if at all, absurdly; and many Committee, revealed that scientists see many possibilities EN'S POLITICAL CAUCUS, which is affiliated to the times, perhaps their quotes are at­ for new, safe methods of contraception, such as inocula­ National Women's Political Caucus, voted Oct. 9 to sup­ tributed to a man. But when we can tions, brain hormones, and a form of diaphragm for port the striking women at the Alliance Manufacturing correct such historical inaccuracy to men. However, to develop these methods would require Company in Shenandoah, Va., saying, "The treatment the advantage of women, we should $400-million over the next five years. The U. S. currently of women factory workers in Shenandoah is a flagrant do so, don't you agree? spends only $38-million a year on research in human example of the discrimination and second class treatment As I know The Militant gives wide reproduction, and this includes research on the so-called Virginia women have been receiving for years. The Vir­ support to the Chicana struggle as "population crisis." ginia Women's Political Caucus enthusiastically supports well as our own, I would only hope the strikers' efforts to win equal, humane treatment by that in the future when the slogan is THE PRESENT NEW YORK ABORTION LAW, which a faceless factory management." For a report on this mentioned, as it surely will be, that allows a woman to choose to have an abortion done militant strike of women workers, see the Oct. 8 Mllitant. credit is given where credit is due. by a doctor before the 24th week of pregnancy, continues The Policy Council also heard from candidates and P.C. to demonstrate the great importance to women of legalizing representatives of candidates for lieutenant governor but Chicago, Ill. abortion. Due to the liberalized law, the maternal death refused to endorse any of them. Flora Crater, coordinator rate has been cut in half in New York City. Dr. David of the group, said the candidates "do not seem to be Harris, former city deputy commissioner of health, told aware of the critical issues that affect Virginia women the annual meeting of the American Public Health As­ today." The letters column is an open forum sociation that this low maternal death rate was due to Although there are no candidates of the Socialist Workers for all viewpoints on subjects of gen­ the replacement of criminal abortions with safe, legal ones. Party running in the Virginia elections this year, there eral interest to our readers. Please Clayton Fritchey, columnist in the New York Pf)st, noted are SWP candidates in many other state and city elec­ keep your letters brief. Where neces­ Oct. 11 that an estimated 400,000 legal abortions will tions this fall. The Women's Political Caucus should give sary they will be abridged. Please in­ be performed in New York this year, with 58 percent serious consideration to lending their support to the SWP dicate if your name may be used or performed on out-of-state women. candidates, who stand on a complete feminist program if you prefer that your initials be used Similarly, the Oct 14 New York Times reported that and a program for general social justice. the demand for abortions is climbing rapidly in England, instead. - CAROLINE LUND

THE MILITANT/ OCTOBER 29, 1971 7 "What once was a kind, compassionate Negro • Due process of law. The right of prisoners is now a Rebellious Black Warrior. My transfor­ to legal representatio~ in all matters pertaining mation was not willed, but forced and now that to their destiny. The right to attorneys of their it has taken place, a lot will be sorry they at­ own chosing and/ or the right of self-representa­ tempted to make a sacrificial lamb out ofthis Black tion. man. I thank them for one thing, and that is the • Freedom of speech, religion, press and asso­ awakening from my individual hate and preju­ ciation, including free access to all information, diced outlook. Other than that they have nothing including letters and printed material. coming ex:cept to taste my burning rage."- From • An end to all forms of human degradation­ a letter by a San Quentin prisoner in the August­ leg irons, handcuffs, gags, etc.- and an end to September issue of The Anvil, publication of the cruel and unusual punishment, including invol­ United Prisoners Union. untary segregation and isolation, "adjustment" cen­ ters, etc. • "The right of all members of the Convicted By HARRY RING Class to excercise all forms of peaceful dissent LOS ANGELES- The recently organized United and protest, without threat and coercion, shall Prisoners Union and its publication The Anvil not be limited." are reflections of the rising social consciousness • No restriction on the right of convicts and and militancy among long-oppressed prison in­ ex-convicts to vote. mates and the recent rebellions, the most dramatic • The right to hold membership in professional expression of that rising new consciousness. groups, unions and related organizations. The United Prisoners-"serving the Convicted • Conditions · of prison labor shall include all Class"- was officially launched last June at a con­ the rights of union members in the outside world, vention of several hundred ex-convicts meeting at e.g., minimum wage standards, disability compen­ the First Unitarian Church in Los Angeles. The sation, vacation periods, pension plans, retirement three locals of the union established since then benefits, life insurance, etc. are all in California and the organization's name, • Housing facilities to meet state requirements originally the California Prisoner Union, has been for multiple-housing health, safety, sanitation and changed to United in accord with plans to build fire standards. a national movement. • The right of conjugal visits. Three issues of The Anvil have been published e An end to system-promoted and perpetuated in less than six months. The August-September racism and sexism. issue is a well-prepared 20-page tabloid with ex­ e "... t,he right to be treated as an integral cellent contents. part of the selection process, disciplinary proceed­ There is some powerful writing, like that of Kisu ings and the upgrading of the qualifications of (Jesse Phillips), from which the above quotation all personnel within the prisons and on prison­ is taken. There are articles by and about prisoners: related bodies." an inmate's report of a strike by kitchen workers • " . . . an immediate end to the abuses of both in a women's prison; letters from two death row the indeterminate-sentence law and the fixed-sen­ prisoners; an article by George Jackson apparently tence law." written shortly before he was killed; a "jailhouse • "The Convicted Class demands that capital lawyers manual"; two pages of prison poetry, some punishment be abolished." of it excellent, and more. An additional article declares that all persons After reading The Anvil, I arranged to interview unwillingly conscripted into military service "are a staff member of the United Prisoners Union Lo­ members of the Convicted Class" and that the cal 100 here in Los Angeles. (The other two of­ Bill of Rights shall apply to them as well. It de­ fices are in Sacramento and San Francisco.) mands an end to the draft and an immediate At Local 100's well-maintained, storefront head­ end to the Vietnam war, which it characterizes quarters, I talked with Earl Hunter. His youthful as "a subtle and discriminatory form of capital appearance belies his age, even though 16 of his punishment." 41 years have been spent in Texas and California A major concern of the union is the acute prob­ prisons. lems faced by prisoners on parole. Hunter explained that his experience as an im­ "If we're going on the concept that you can poverished Black youth in Texas made it apparent pay your debt to society," Hunter said, "then the to him that working people, particularly those of union goes on the concept that once you're released minority groups, were at the mercy of greedy ex­ all your civil rights should be restored to you. ploiters and that unions had demonstrated a ca­ In California, for instance, when you get out on pacity for coping with sweatshop conditions and parole, you cannot get married, you cannot sign had great potential power for dealing with social contracts, you can't move, even in the same city, ills. "If the United Auto Workers can force a cor­ without approval of your parole officer. poration like Chrysler to terms," he observed, "that "All of this is up to the discretion of an indi­ gives you an idea of what unions can do." vidual, a parole agent. You can never bring him Inside the various institutions in which he served, to task. You're at his mercy. And if you get a he continued, he had tried to help create bodies parole officer who happens to think that going that could deal with the authorities about inmates' to prison makes a person the lowest thing on problems, but requests to the authorities to enter earth, then there's no way the inmate's going to into such negotiations "always fell on deaf ears." get a fair shake. So when he was released recently and heard "You do get good parole officers, concerned about the UPU, he attended a Sacramento meeting ones," he added. "But the system is geared so that of the group. After listening to the proceedings, they will run them off. They don't last long." and reading the organization's constitution and Hunter is confident the union will make prog­ bylaws, he decided this was "the union" he was so ress in its efforts despite .the huge difficulties it deeply persuaded was the only solution "for the ills faces. The Anvil, he said, is well received by pris­ of the prisons throughout the nation." oners and ex-prisoners. It is making its way into He attended a second meeting ·along with Bob the prisons even though each of the three issues Smith, a friend with whom he had done time. Both published so far has been banned as "inflamma­ were elected to the union's executive board and Formation of prisoners union reflects "rising tory" by the California corrections commissioner. In addition to bringing together prisoners and came down to Los Angeles, where in August they social consciousness and militancy among began the work of establishing Local100. ex-convicts, the union is seeking the support of The union's membership includes mainly con­ long-oppressed prison inmates." Revolt at At­ others concerned with the fate of the victims of the victs and ex-convicts. The by-laws provide that tica, above, was dramatic expression of that U.S. penal system. at least 10 of what will eventually be a 15-member consciousness. Circulation of The Anvil, through subscriptions executive board must be ex-convicts to ensure con­ and bundle orders, invitations for union repre­ tinuing convict and ex-convict control of the or­ sentatives to speak on campuses and elsewhere; ganization. Bill of Rights volunteer workers at the three union head­ The union has requested meetings with the state The program of the UPU is embodied in a quarters- all of these things will be warmly wel­ corrections commissioner to discuss prison prob­ "Bill of Rights of the Convicted Class~" Prepared comed. lems but he has refused to meet with them. "He'll by the union's executive board in consultation The UPU can be contacted at: P. 0. Box 2558, meet with the representatives of the guards union," with its attorneys, the Bill of Rights is based es­ Sacramento, Calif. 95812; Local 9, 1345 7th Ave., Hunter commented, "but he refuses to recognize sentially on the Folsom Manifesto, a series of San Francisco, Calif. 94122. Telephone: (415) us." demands drawn up by prisoners during a 1969 664-4315; Local 100, 4718 Melrose Ave., Los While the union will continue to seek the right protest action at Folsom Prison. This manifesto Angeles, Calif. 90004. Telephone: (213) 664-8728. to actually represent inmates within the prisons, has since been widely circulated in prisons across Anvil subscriptions are $4 for 12 issues in Cal­ it's principal activity will focus on winning change the country and reportedly was part of the body ifornia and $7 out of the state; $12 for 12 issues through legislative efforts and court actions­ of material used by the Attica rebels in drawing for libraries and institutions; $25 for law enforce­ class-action suits and suits on behalf of individuals up their own demands. ment officers. where significant issues are involved.· One of the authors of the Folsom Manifesto, Inmates' membership is $4; outside, $8. The union has incorporated in California and Martin Souza, was an initiating memb-er of the The UPU Bill of Rights is introduced by the has registered to conduct lobbying efforts at the United Prisoners Union. famed statement of Eugene V. Debs: "While there state capitol in Sacramento. The UPU Bill of Rights is available in a four­ is a lower class I am of it, while there is a crimin­ Through The Anvil, and by appearances of page tabloid at 15 cents a copy. Designed to es­ al element I am of it, while there is a soul in representatives on radio and TV as well as speak­ tablish the human and civil rights of convicts prison, I am not free." ing engagements, the union seeks also to educate and ex-convicts, the Bill of Rights deals with a The United Prisoners Union is among those the public about prison issues. variety of issues, including the following: giving a new dimension to those words.

8 1 priSoner wrnes 01 cruel treatment On Sept. 15, 1971, inmates in H we do not know and fear that the of trouble in this prison is a theat- The following letter was sent to New block were gassed in their cells, then worst is the most probable of their rical drama produced solely by La- York State Assemblyman Arthur 0. taken out one at a time and brutally fates. Brother, our position here is Vallee and his agents to fool the public Eve by Charles Spain, an inmate at beaten and taken to E block, segre- grave! into thinking that all inmates are the Clinton Correctional Facility in gation. In E block their clothes were I am enclosing a petition to the brutes and that his type [of] gestapo Dannem9ra, New York. Eve received torn from their bodies and LaVallee's United Nations Commission On Hu- wardens are necessary. This [way] he the letter unsealed Oct. 12. officers delighted themselves with the man Rights. Please be so kind as to does assure that any and all atroc- Spain instructed Eve to send the "gestapo" pleasures of beating inmates forward it to the U.N. I would also ities against prisoners can and will letter and a petition signed by 24 to the floor and ordering some to like for you to have copies made and be whitewashed with the magical word inmates to the news media, with a bark like a dog. forward them to concerned persons, "security." specific listing of: Black News, Mu- Sept. 23, a second group was organizations and media. P. S. Kindly return a copy of writ to hammad Speaks, The Militant, The brought to segregation from their cells In conclusion, I would like to say me, Thank you. Nation, the Village Voice, Amsterdam where they were held since Sept. 15. that LaVallee's terror tactics are really (signed) Charles Spain News, the New York Times, and Ram- We are now held in segregation, a,n intensification of his regular Box B, 45054 parts Press. so-called "special program," with lim- program. The tension and the sham Dannemora, N.Y. 12929 The petition, addressed to the United ited privileges. We are locked in 23 Nations Commission on Human and a half hours to 24 hours, and Rights, Prevention of Discrimination when we are taken to the yard, it is and the Protection of Minorities, is a lesson of intimidation with overt an eloquently worded request for an attempts to provoke the inmates by audience before the commission to pre- heavily armed officers. sent testimony of qualified witnesses No inmate has done anything to that the petitioners are "subjected to justify such abuse or deprivation of systematic oppression, maltreatment his constitutional rights except to may- and abuse." This treatment, the peti- be hold ideas that La Vallee disagrees tioners state, is on instructions from with. Nor was there any pretense of President Nixon. charges made when LaVallee initiated October 7, 1971 his gestapo tactics. The administra- Peace Brother, tion is· now trying to form some legal 1 am writing this letter to inform you base and justification for their actions of some of the unjust and brutal treat- by calling us to face trumped-up ment that inmates have been receiving ch.arges in front o~ an adjustment c?m- at Clinton Correctional Facility and ~1ttee that prostitutes the word JUs- the callous contempt that the admin- hce. . istration has shown for inmates' con- On Oct. 4, 1971, 10 mmates were stitutional rights. summoned t~ ans~er to the ~eigned While the public attention was drawn cha~ge~ .. of te.a~hmg revolut~onary to the tragedy at Attica Prison and taches, o;gamz.~ng ~ revolutionary th · feeli g numbed by the savage movement, and readmg a newspaper e1r n h · " all · · murders there during and after the to ot e~ mmates m segregation, reoccupation of the prison, Warden locked m our (separate) cells and af- LaVallee [J. Edwin] and his agents ter ~ept. 25, 197.1. . seized the opportunity to wage a cam- Fwe ~f these mmate~ did not r~tu~n paign of terror against the inmates an~ therr personal thmgs are still m he considers politically minded and, their cells. We know one of them was their close associates. beaten but where any of them are By Any Means Necessary MORE THAN 850,000 PEOPLE attended the sec­ Among those present were Julian Bond, Georgia growing support for Rep. Shirley Chisholm of ond annual Black business exposition in Chicago. state legislator; Carl Stokes, mayor of Cleveland; Brooklyn who says she dares to enter the pres­ Known as Black Expo '71 and organized by Oper­ Percy Sutton, Manhattan Borough president in idential primaries because 'we are tired of token­ ation Breadbasket of the Southern Christian New York City; and Willie Brown, California state ism and look-how-far-we-have-comism.' ... Leadership Conference, it featured a number of legislator. "During talks about all these proposals of new prominent Black businessmen, politicians and en­ Representative Shirley Chisholm (D-N. Y.) was strategy, happily there have been no proposals tertainers. It ran from Sept. 29 through Oct. 3, not there, although she later addressed Black Expo of a separate Black political party. We do not which was proclaimed by Mayor Richard "Boss" as an unannounced presidential candidate. believe such a move would be worthwhlle. But Daley as "Black Expo Week." Bond is reported to have proposed that Black there is a need for a stronger Black voting bloc The purpose of the exposition, as articulated favorite sons or daughters enter the state Demo­ and coalitions with other minorities, as suggested by Operation Breadbasket's director, Rev. Jesse cratic Party presidential primaries. This would by Cleveland Mayor Carl B. Stokes.'' (emphasis L. Jackson, was to garner support for Black busi­ permit the election at local levels of Black dele­ added.) ness among Black people and the heads of major gates who are not committed to any white pres­ corporations. So with this in mind, more than idential aspirant. These delegates would then pool STROM THURMOND, the rabid racist U. S. sen­ 400 Black-owned and managed businesses set up their votes at the national convention to exert ator from South Carolina, is being transformed booths displaying their wares. maximum pressure and influence on the outcome before our very eyes from an arch-foe of Black At a breakfast to kick off Black Expo, Jackson of the Democratic Party presidential nomination. folk into an arch-friend- which is to say from explained to 600 representatives of Chicago big However, despite much publicity and fanfare, a wolf into a fox. The Republican senator is up business and prominent Blacks that capitalist cor­ both Black Expo and the North Lake meeting for reelection in 1972 and Black people- unlike porations should "display the same commitment fell far short of what it is going to take to achieve six years ago- constitute 25 percent of the elec­ for building a solid economic base for the Black Black economic and political power. torate. So Thurmond, like all other foxes, is woo­ community as was shown when the United States Jackson and Johnson see .Black economic de­ ing the Black vote. sought to upgrade underdeveloped (sic) countries velopment coming through appeals and petitions When the cracker was a wolf and a Democratic like Japan and West Germany." to the white capitalist masters of America. This Party state governor back in 1948, he made a will not work because the same people they are reference at one conference to "all true white Jef­ ON THE WEEKEND PRIOR TO BLACK EXPO, appealirig to are the ones responsible for and fersonian Democrats.'' And when he ran for pres­ a group of 50 Black political leaders met in nearby profiting from the economic disaster that is the ident that same year as a "Dixiecrat," he re­ North Lake, Ill., to map out strategy for '72. Black community. To unleash the necessary re­ marked, "All the laws of Washington, and all sources for development, Black people will have the bayonets of the Army, cannot force the Ne­ to build a mass movement demanding that either groes into their (Southerners') homes, their big business be heavily taxed or expropriated schools, their churches and their places of rec­ outright in order to get at the wealth that every­ reation and amusement." body helps accumulate but which a few own, con­ But now, the cracker is trying to strike a dif­ trol, and manipulate. ferent note. "In most instances I am confident that we (referring to himself and his newly enfran­ Concerning the acquisition of Black political chised Black constituents) have more in common power, the limitations of the North Lake discus­ as Southerners than we have reason to oppose sion were expressed very candidly in an editorial each other because of race. Equality of oppor­ in the Oct. 9 Amsterdam News. The News, with tunity for all is a goal upon which Blacks and the exception of Muhamma~ Speaks, is the most Southern whites can agree." widely circulated Black weekly. It is owned jointly And a further quote from the article in the Oct. by Clarence B. Jones, a Black lawyer and former 17 New York Times describing Thurmond's turn­ stockbroker, and Manhattan Borough President about has him unabashedly stating, "I've always Percy Sutton. The editorial stated: "Several meet­ favored equal employment and equal educational ings of Black political leaders have been held opportunities . . . . I don't know any change I've recently and the possibility of a national Black made except to employ two Blacks among the political convention has been discussed. There have staff. I've been constant through the years." Mayor Richard Daley and Rev. Jesse Jackson also been discussions over entering favorite sons shake hands at Black EXPO. in primaries in various states and there has been -DERRICK MORRISON

THE MILITANT/ OCTOBER 29, 1971 9 Why Black women support the abortion

Photo by Ron Payne By MAXINE WILLIAMS teeing that the plight of many of these from a cultural past where Black pitals, schools and housing. The hous­ Each year thousands of Black and sisters seeking aid will end in death. women were encouraged to be breed­ ing shortage, air pollution, and in­ Latina women seeking abortions die Third World women unable to obtain ing machines for their slave masters." adequate hospitals are not due to "too at the hands of butchers. The same abortions are subject to the exploita­ It is not just numbers which are many babies," but to an economic government which is responsible for tion of pharmacists who charge her needed to bring about a fundamental system which produces for profit rath­ shipping thousands of Blacks to die for useless pills, castor oil, and other change in this country. What is much er than social needs. in Southeast Asia is also responsible "abortifacients." If these methods are more important in any struggle for Hamill's reactionary theory would for the deaths of these sisters. not deemed strong enough, there are total liberation is the revolutionary dictate to women when and how often Recognizing this, Black, Puerto Ri­ always the more crude methods of consciousness of our oppressed forces. they may have children. The women's can, Asian and Chicana women met knitting needles, coat hangers and Our problem as tnacks struggling for liberation movement correctly rejects in a Third World Women's Workshop soap solutions. Needless to say, these liberation, and especially Black this view. It is rejected because it does at the National Abortion Action con­ methods often prove to be fatal. women, is not to produce the babies not allow women to decide for our­ ference in New York last July to dis­ Because abortion has generally been for the revolution. Substantial forces selveS. We recognize that a woman cuss the relevance to us of the struggle looked upon as "sinful" as well as of rebelling Black people already ex­ is not poor simply because she hap­ for abortion law repeal. illegal, some of the hospitals in var­ ist, and the job of revolutionaries­ pens to have 10 children. Part of the Out of this conference came the com­ ious states force Black and Brown both men and women- is to organize struggle to control our own bodies mitment of Black, Latina and Asian women to submit to sterilization as our forces and lead a struggle against is the fight against forced sterilization women to map out plans and strategy a condition for obtaining an abor­ our oppression. and other population control schemes. for involving our Black and Brown tion. The purpose is to inflict pun­ It is true that the ruling class uses sisters in the Nov. 20 marches on ishment for her so-called sin. Arid if the racist fear of population growth Washington, D. C., and San Francisco she refuses to submit to sterilization, of Qppressed people to uphold its im­ Hypocrisy unlimited to demand repeal of the abortion laws. then she is forced to bear an unwanted perialist ideology. But what they As our struggle for abortion law It was firmly recognized at this work­ child. really fear is the present mass, inde­ repeal intensifies, our opponents have shop that part of the struggle for con­ The Women's National Abortion Ac­ pendent struggles of oppressed Black also stepped up their rhetoric with trol over all institutions in our com­ tion Coalition, which is sponsoring people. They fear the united struggle the charge of murder. In April of munities was the struggle for the right the demonstrations in Washington and of Black men and women, a struggle 1971, Tricky Dick stated that, "abor­ of women to control over our bodies. San Francisco Nov. 20, is raising which can only be aided by freeing tion on demand, I cannot square with Women are correctly demanding as its main slogans: Repeal all abor­ women from the burdens and horrors my personal belief in the sanctity of that the ultimate decision as to whether tion laws; No forced sterilization; A of forced pregnancies and butcher human life.... " This statement is al­ to have a child or not, how often and woman's. right to choose. It is against abortionists, and by allowing greater most unbelievable! This man, who is how many, be ours. We are seeing both forced motherhood and forced control over our lives. responsible for the slaughter of thou­ how the abortion laws have had the sterilization. When abortion in. this While rejecting forced motherhood, sands of Vietnamese people and is un­ effect of driving thousands of our sis­ country is seen as a legal right of all we should also reject the theory which able to wash the dried blood of At­ ters each year into the hands of butch­ women, it will be much more diffi­ states that overpopulation is the cause tica from his hands, cares as much er abortionists. We have also seen cult for doctors to get away with of our problems. In a country where about the sanctity of human life as that the majority of women who die forced sterilization of Black women. farmers are paid thousands of dol­ any two-bit mercenary. from back~alley abortions are Black By asserting the right of women to lars not to produce, or to keep their Our struggle for total liberation can and Spanish-speaking. choose, we are also fighting against food production at a minimum, the only come about· if we organize and The abortion laws have been just laws such as the one proposed in argument that we go hungry because begin to fight against such hypocrisy. another means of subjug&ting Black Tennessee last April, whereby welfare there are too many people is far from As Lawrence Lader states in his book and Brown women. In the early part mothers would be sterilized after hav­ convincing. Abortion, "the laws forcing a woman of the 1960s, many of the municipal ing two children. This is a mecha­ The population controllers generally to conception, whether aimed at birth hospitals had almost completely elim­ nism used by racist capitalist society to like to push this idea off on the na­ control or abortion, are man-made inated abortions. Most of the abor­ tighten its screws on the Black com­ tions of Asia. Africa and Latin Amer­ laws." · tions that were performed were for munity. It represents the type of bes­ ica It is said that the growing popu­ In San Francisco and Washington, white women who were private pa­ tial control which the rulers of this lation of the Third World threatens D. C., on Nov. 20, thousands of wom­ tients. The hospital abortion commit­ country would like to have over our the resource base of the planet. They en-Black, Chicana, white, students, tees set up to do the screening imposed lives. This bill was finally defeated try to argue this in spite of the fact unionists, church women and others­ rigid quota systems (justified as pre­ when welfare mothers mobilized mass that the United States, with 6 per­ will be demanding the repeal of all venting the hospital from becoming protests against it. cent of the world's population, con­ abortion laws and no forced steriliza­ an "abortion mill"), making it espe­ sumes from 50 to 60 percent of the tion. We will be there to tell Nixon cially difficult for Black, Latina and 'Babies for the revolution' world's resources. and Co., the church hierarchy, and Asian women to seek abortions. There is the other argument that the state that they will no longer1orce Thus, having very little or no mon­ since Black people constitute a minor­ Those who agree with this theory us into motherhood, that we will no ey and denied the medical care that ity force in the United States, we also state that the poor live in the longer be used . as breeding instru­ wealthy women were getting, Black should reproduce as fast as possible in midst of poverty simply because they ments, and that no longer will they and Brown women often turned to order to be able to make a funda­ have too many children. However, have control over our bodies. It is the medical quack and other incom­ mental change in this society. This as is pointed out in the pamphlet Pop­ expected that one day, we as women petents who feed on the plight of the can be called the "babies for the rev­ ulation Control in the Third World will be able to ask for and receive a poor. As a result, 80 percent of the olution" theory. (by William Barclay, Joseph Enright safe, effective and free form of con­ women in New York who died from This is a defeatist view. It negates and Reid Reynolds), Third World peo­ traception. But since this does not Y.et illegal botched abortions were Black the significance and fundamental ple "will not fmd that an IUD will exist, abortion is an essential right. or Puerto Rican. change that 20 or 30 percent of the lead to a comfortable nest egg at the The demonstrations on Nov. 20 de­ population can help bring about. This neighborhood branch of Chase Man­ manding repeal of abortion laws and Genocide concept keeps women in the position hattan." We are poor because we are no forced sterilization will bring Black Against the struggle for abortion of breeders, unable to plan and have living under a system which is based and Brown women into struggle for law repeal has come the charge that control over their lives. It also tells us on the exploitation of the many by our rights as human beings; it will abortions are a form of genocide. Ac­ that any fundamental change in our the few. let us see the power we have as a mass cording to this view, the struggle for condition will not come about from A few weeks ago the New York force; and it will serve as a vehicle the right to abortions, as well as meth­ us who are living but solely from Post columnist Pete Hamill blamed in mobilizing for our total liberation. ods of family planning, are devices the offspring which we reproduce. everything from crowded subways to Any sisters who would like to help to limit the Black population. As Florynce Kennedy puts it, "This air pollution on "overpopulation." He build the Nov. 20 demonstrations First of all, we must realize that concept of breeding revolutionaries, even had the gall to state that the should write to the Black Women's those who advocate that the Black rather than revolutions, is appropriate procreative rate of welfare mothers Task Force, cjo Women's National woman should not seek legal abor­ in a society where the old people do should be limited. Abortion Action Coalition (WON: tions because it is a form of geno­ the voting and the youngsters do the It is a reactionary illusion that with AAC), 917 15th St. N. W., Washing­ cide will be driving her into the hands fighting and dying. . . . Breeding rev­ a lower population, money will sup­ ton, D. C. 20005. We also welcome the of quacks-thereby almost guaran- olutionaries is not too far removed posedly be spent to build more hos- support of Black men.

10 Western Shirley er= lirst abortion· campatgn• u.s. convicted planned By BARBARA DE UR BERKELEY, Calif.- Over 400 wom­ en gathered at the University of Cal­ an a ifornia campus in Berkeley Oct. 15- The following article was released by or move to North Carolina. One of to obtain an abortion and had in 16 to concretize plans for the West the Women's National Abortion Ac­ the stipulations in her probation is fact had a previous abortion; that Coast campaign to repeal all abor- tion Coalition, which is coordinating that she not violate any law. In Flori­ the instrument used was a catheter tion laws. 1 a national campaign for repeal of da, as elsewhere, it is illegal to co­ inserted into the uterus; that the child At the teach-in that opened the con­ abortion laws, including mao habit with someone you are not le­ was normal; that the pictures in the ference, New York attorney Nancy marches on Washington, D. C., and gally married to. court record show that the child was Stearns told the participants the shock­ San Francisco set for Nov. 20. Shirley Wheeler said she would not a well-formed, for want of a better ing news of Shirley Wheeler's convic­ WON AAC has been publicizing and marry. "I don't believe in marriage." word, child; that the catheter she had tion. The conference voted to send organizing support for the case of She also said she was outraged that inserted cut off the food supply and a telegram of support to Shirley Shirley Wheeler since word of her sit­ at 23 she was being treated like a literally starved it to death." Wheeler and to participate in demon­ uation reached them last July. Sherry child. "I'm not the criminal; the state "The death," he said, "was caused Smith, a member of the WONAAC strations Oct. 21 to publicize her case. is," she said. by the hand of the mother and she The conference also discussed plans staff, went to Florida Oct. 14 to be The motion for retrial was argued is guilty of manslaughter." present for the sentencing. for building a massive march on San by Cyril Means at the request of the Francisco Nov. 20 to demand repeal court-appointed attorney. Means ar­ Caught in contradiction of all abortion and contraception gued for retrial on three different In his rebuttal, the court-appointed By SHERRY SMITH laws, ana no forced sterilization. grounds. He said the court could not defense attorney said that he refrained The conference was sponsored by DAYTONA BEACH, Fl'a.-ln what have proven the fetus was "quick" from objecting to the "aside remarks" could be the most serious setback to the Women's Abortion Coalition, the (that is, one which has begun to about Shirley Wheeler's "unmarried" Bay Area affiliate of the Women's Na­ date in the struggle for abortion move) because only the mother can status or her previous abortion, even rights, the state of Florida denied a tional Abortion Action Coalition. testify to that effect. According to Flor­ though the court had ruled such evi­ The opening teach-in included pre­ motion for retrial in the case of Shir­ ida law, if the fetus has quickened, dence inadmissible. ley Wheeler, the 23-year-old Daytona sentations by a large number of a woman can be tried for the more He caught Rogers in the contradic­ speakers, including Dr. Joan Ullyot Beach woman who was convicted July serious "crime" of abortion-man­ tion between his statements about a 13, 1971, of having an abortion un­ of the University of California med­ slaughter, rather than simply abor­ "well-formed child" and the fact that ical center; Elma Barrera, organizer der the homicide subsection of an tion. what Smith was referring to was an 1868 abortion law. According to Pro­ of the Chicana conference held in Tex­ Means also argued that the appli­ "emaciated, starved fetus." Roge!s sar­ as last May; and Lana Clarke Phelan, fessor Cyril C. Means of New York cation of the homicide subsection of castically argued that if the fetus was Law School, Wheeler "is the first wom­ a member of the National Organiza­ the abortion law was unprecedented in fact, as the prosecution claimed, tion for Women and a vice-president an ever brought to trial for an abor­ in that no woman has ever been pros­ viable at the time Shirley Wheeler en­ tion in the United States, and as far of the National Association for the ecuted for being an accessory to her tered the emergency ward, hemor­ Repeal of Abortion Laws. as I know, in the English-speaking own abortion. The Florida law, he rhaging from the incompleted abor­ world." Workshops discussed ways to build said, should not be interpreted as tion, then "why didn't someone per­ the abortion campaign, including leg­ Upholding the conviction, felony holding the woman responsible for form a caesarian?' court Judge Uriel Blount handed islative and court actions as well as aborting. After a brief recess the court was building support for the abortion down a sentence of two years' pro­ Means explained that the intent of reconvened. Upholding its nineteenth­ bation, saying that he was sufficient~ movement among various groups of the law was to protect the life of the century concept of justice, Judge women- trade union women, femi­ ly convinced "that you are not likely pregnant woman in a time when child­ Blount gave Shirley Wheeler a two­ again to engage in a criminal course nists, Black and Chicano women, les­ birth was many times safer than abor­ year probation sentence. According to of conduct." bians, students and others. tion as a means of terminating preg­ the Oct. 11 Miami Herald, the Flor­ At the final plenary, a caucus pro­ Blount's ruling enraged the carloads nancy. ida Supreme Court, on the same day of women from Gainesville, Fla., and posed that "free abortion on demand" "The intent of the Florida law, in the felony court convicted Shirley be added as a central demand of the Atlanta who had been notified by the order to continue to protect the health Wheeler for having an abortion, Women's National Abortion Action Nov. 20 demonstration and the cam­ of the mother, must now allow abor­ warned the Florida legislature to mod­ paign as a whole. The proposal was Coalition of the hearing and were tion as a way to terminate pregnancy ernize its abortion law or face its be­ present in court. defeated after discussion, not because because abortion is seven times safer ing thrown out as unconstitutionally of opposition to the concept of free The Daytona Beach Morning Jour­ than childbirth." vague. nal reported that photographers from abortions but because the overwhelm­ The constitutional right of a wom­ Shirley Wheeler feels her case is cru­ ing majority of women believed that the Miami Herald, Palm Beach Post, an to choose whether she will bear cial to every woman who has ever UP I, AP and area newspapers and the most powerful coalition could be children was the third issue Means had or who may want to have an built at this time around the three TV "filled the room and spilled over raised in his argument. Of the eight abortion. She hopes that her fight will into the vacant jury box." demands. agreed on at the national state abortion laws challenged on con­ help to eliminate abortion laws alto­ abortion conference in July. stitutional grounds in federal district gether, so that "no woman will have The conference ended with an edu­ Archaic conditions courts, he noted, four have been ruled to go through the hell that I have cational lecture by Dr. Josette Mon­ The conditions of her probation, unconstitutional on the grounds that been through." danaro on "Our Bodies," and a pre­ which are a further outrageous attack women have the right to control their While I was there, scores of tele­ sentation by Tyler and Harrison, a on women's rights, are that she either own bodies. grams poured in from abortion co­ female comic team. The women re­ legally marry Robert Wheeler, the The prosecuting attorney, Howard alitions in Philadelphia, Georgia, De­ turned to their local areas prepared man she has lived with for the past Smith, whose argument was punctu­ troit, Rhode Island, Austin, Minneso­ to wage a serious, energetic campaign three and one-half years, or that she ated by references to "the child" (mean­ ta, Boston, New York and Illinois, until abortion is truly a matter of move to North Carolina and live with ing the fetus), "the unmarried wom­ expressing determination to build the each woman's choice. her family. Other vague and archaic an," and "the constitutional right of Nov. 20 demonstrations for abortion conditions are that she "avoid injuri­ the child to stay alive," protested that law repeal even bigger to help win ous or vicious habits," and "avoid the defense "had no right to raise the her freedom. association with persons of harmful issue of constitutionality in the mo­ The Public Affairs Committee of the character or bad reputation." tion for a new trial." YWCA in Pennsylvania wrote, "We Shirley Wheeler told me that when The wife of the district attorney, support you in your fight for wom­ she asked the probation officer if she Smith's superior, came into the court­ en's rights." And Naomi Marus of could continue to live in Florida if room with her infant, who cried pe­ Philadelphia Women's International she lived alone or with a female friend, riodically during Smith's presenta­ League for Peace and Freedom wrote, he responded that if she refused to tion. When I spoke with Shirley dur­ "Your case is a dramatic example of cooperate he would call the judge back ing the recess, she told me she felt the necessity for the repeal of all abor­ in and he would rescind her proba­ this was intentional. She also told me tion laws . . . I stand with you in tion and throw her in jail. that Smith had requested to be al­ this struggle." She told me he also insinuated she lowed to prosecute her. When I left Florida the evening af­ was immoral and told her that the Concluding his argument, Smith ter her sentencing, Shirley told me next time she went to bed with a man said that the state "had an interest she knew now that she was no longer she had better make sure she had a in these things; that is why the state facing this thing alone- that women marriage license hanging over it. passed these laws." He indicated that all over the country were with her. According to Rogers, Shirley Wheel­ the state had proved "that Shirley She said .she would be with all her er's court-appointed lawyer, the au­ Wheeler, a woman, an unmarried sisters in Washington, D. C., on Nov. thority of the probation officer is "vir­ woman, was pregnant with a 'quick' 20 to fight for her own and for ev­ tually absolute," so that he actually cllild, that it was her intent to destroy ery woman's right to control her own can force her to either "get married" that child; that she had tried before body. Dr. Joan Ullyot Photo by Pennie Warren

THE MILITANT/ OCTOBER 29, 1971 11 telllgence sources," he writes, "thus believe that at present only about 8,000 Vietnamese Communist troops are committed to depriving tw~thirds of Cambodia from the 200,000-man Cambodian army, and the 20,000 or so South Vietnamese troops oper­ ating here at any one time.

Cambodian revolutionaries "Behind this thin but effective North Vietnamese screen, the anti-govern­ ment Cambodians have been given no great support in the building of an independent 'liberation army.' Both Communist and American • sources agree that about 12,000 Cambodians wear Sihanoukist uni­ forms [after the deposed neutralist war tn Cambodian premier]. In addition, e about 3,000 Khmer Rouge troops also carry guns. As many as 18,000 Cambodians, unarmed, may be in­ volved in supply efforts for the North Vietnamese." Allman asks why there are fewer Cambodians in the revolutionary armies than in the army of the Pnom­ penh regime, according to these figures. "The Pnompenh government, which does not like to concede that there is a Cambodian 'liberation army' at all, emphasizes that the North Vietnamese are unpopular in the countryside," writes Allman "But they ·are far less unpopular than the South Vietnamese, whose looting, raping, and indiscriminate fire-power has caused most of the de­ struction in Cambodia. The 'liberated area' is much less populous than the government-held area, less urbanized, and has less expendable manpower. Moreover, only American money is capable of sustaining a very large Southeast Asian army." There are inany similarities with the early history of the Vietnamese rev~ lution and U.S. counterrevolution, even down to the U.S. T-28 bombers which were used to drop napalm on the Vietnamese peasants who were vic­ tims of the U. S. "strategic hamlet pac­ ification" program of the Kennedy ad­ By DICK ROBERTS Craig R. Whitney on the increased had been destroyed by napalm bomb­ ministration. The Joint Chiefs of Staff have sub­ role of the U.S. military command ing." But there are also important differ­ mitted to the Nixon administration center in Pnompenh. On Sept. 1 7 Whitney reported from ences. The stakes of the war and the a five-year request for U.S. funding Whitney stated that increasing pow­ Pnompenh that "Because of economic forces committed are much greater in of the war in Cambodia, the New er in the U.S. Embassy in Pnompenh disruptions caused by 18 months of Southeast Asia today than they were York Times revealed in an unsigned was being given to the 50-man "Mili­ war, Cambodia will have to import in 1962-63. The Cambodian rebels front-page story Oct. 13. tary Equipment Delivery Team" 100,000 to 200,000 tons of rice next are backed by the powerful forces of The military officials requested headed by Brig. Gen. Theodore C. year or see many of her people starve. the North Vietnamese, which have backing_ of a "costly program of 'pac­ Mataxis. Whitney's dispatch appeared "In 1969, before the fighting in Viet­ withstood years of murderous aggres­ ification' and other unconventional in the Sept. 20 New York Times. nam spread to Cambodia, the coun­ sion by the imperialists. warfare ... which would double "American military advisers are pr~ try produced enough rice for her own The allies of the military clique in spending [in Cambodia] to about hibited in Cambodia by Congress," needs and exported 180,000 tons, one Pnompenh are the corrupt forces of $500-million a year by 1977," the said Whitney. "According to a U.S. of her few sources of foreign ex­ the detested military clique in Saigon. Times stated. official in Pnompenh, the members of change .... Only extensive U.S. military might­ This request underlines the impor­ the equipment delivery team are not "The economy has been completely of the type requested by the Joint tance of the escalated U.S. war in advisers, and are not engaged in disrupted by the war. The Commu­ Chiefs- can have the slightest chance Cambodia and reveals the true mean­ training Cambodian troops. 'They nists' biggest base areas are in the of defending the Pnompenh govern­ ing of Nixon's "Vietnamization" pol­ perform a certain logistic advisory rubber plantations, which have ment for a long period. And such icies. For several months now, there function, seeing that the right equip­ stopped production for export, and a defense will mean years of bloody has been increased combat along the ment gets to the right units and is the government has paid for the ex­ slaughter, as the South Vietnam war Cambodia-South Vietnam border, - used properly,' the official said .... pansion of the army from 30,000 to already proves and as the Joint Chiefs with extensive U.S. bombing of Cam­ "The Cambodians have been given 180,000 men in 18 months by apparently assume in their five-year bodia. six helicopters and six T-28 propeller­ doubling the amount of money in cir­ multi-million-dollar request. Nixon's "Vietnamization" policies are driven bombers," according to Whit­ culation, causing a sharp inflation." T. D. Allman summarized the out­ aimed at perpetuating the pro-Wash­ ney. "They also get air support from look for Cambodia in The Guardian ington military regime. Cambodia American jets based in Vietnam and T. D. Allman, the Southeast Asia Sept. 11. "The North Vietnamese still (and neighboring Laos) have become Thailand. The money for those air war expert, assessed the situation in have their sanctuaries and supply crucial arenas of this war. strikes is not accountable to the mil­ a series of articles in the British weekly routes, and are immeasurably more The military chiefs fear that reduced itary assistance program here." Guardian. "During the last year," All­ deeply implanted than they were before U.S. troop strength in Vietnam will man wrote Sept. 4, "North Vietnamese the war began; the Americans now require reinforcement of the Pnompenh strategy in Cambodia has evolved have the right to bomb Cambodia, government forces in Cambodia. They Napalm through several distinct phases. The which they did not have before; and want to increase the Cambodian army In previous articles, Whitney de­ early effort to topple the Lon Nol the South Vietnamese have the right, from its present level of 180,000 to scribed the devastation of Cambodia regime by small-scale surprise attacks which they frequently use, to overrun 256,000 by mid-1973 and more than already caused by a year and a half on Pnompenh's periphery ended with the eastern provinces at will . . . . 300,000 by 1977, according to the of escalated war since the U.S. in­ the U. S.-South Vietnamese invasion. "Essentially, the Cambodian war has Times. vasion in May 1970. "The invasion destroyed neither the vastly accelerated the process of Viet­ "The Joint Chiefs would provide for "Kompong Thmar used to be a town Communist supply base in Cambodia, namese expansion into Cambodia a mechanized brigade, an artillery of 10,000 people," Whitney wrote Sept. nor its divisions stationed here . . . . which Prince Sihanouk and his suc­ brigade, and coastal patrol units, as 15. "The Cambodian Army 'liberated' Since then the Vietnamese Communist cessors, through very different tactics, well as ground troops and extensive it on Aug. 31 after more than a year activities have entered a second, less hoped to stop. Little else has changed. logistic support. They would look to of Communist control. Today there ambitious phase-that of disrupting "Indeed, after all the dramatics of the Agency for International Develop­ were only blackened holes where the the Cambodian economy and is~ the Cambodian explosion, and the ment to help finance the paramilitary many wooden houses stood. The lating Pnompenh. The effort has suc­ abortive invasion of Laos, the Ind~ defense forces, including the police. nearby trees are scorched from the ceeded largely, and at minimal cost." chinese situation, militarily, has hard­ The CIA would be asked to mount heat of the fire that obliterated the In the New York Times article on ly changed over two years. Hanoi's additional programs and to provide empty town after air strikes by U.S. the Joint Chiefs' request for reinforce­ capacity to make war on South Viet­ airlift support," the Times revealed. and Cambodian bombers .... ments, the figure of 60,000 North nam has not been impaired. The Amer­ The Pentagon's request adds sub­ "An old woman ... in the un­ Vietnamese troops in Cambodia is icans have hung on, and even ex­ stance to an earlier report from Pnom­ touched outskirts of town agreed with given. Allman, citing U.S. officials, panded a war which they nearly lost penh by New York Times reporter other villagers that Kompong Thmar gives a lower figure: "American in- in 1968." '

12 Gls,vets plan antiwar actions By HUGH MORGAN As part of the buildup for GI and veteran participation in the Nov. 6 regional mass antiwar actions in 17 cities, antiwar GI and veterans groups are scheduling special GI and vets antiwar activity in several cities around the weekend of Oct. 23-25. Oct. 25 is officially Veterans Day. In Chicago, the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VV AW) and Vet­ erans for Peace in Vietnam are jointly sponsoring a Veterans Day parade on State Street, beginning at State and Wacker at noon on Oct. 25 and end­ ing with a rally in Grant Park. An ad placed in two Chicago pa­ pers by the antiwar veterans groups lists the demands of the action. Under the theme, "Don't forget Gls and vet­ erans on Veterans Day," the march and rally is demanding 1) Bring all the Gls home now; 2) A job at de­ rent pay for every veteran; 3) Full tuition, study needs and living ex­ From Intercontinental Press mentioned the possibility of further "Phase Three" was projected, during penses for every ex-GI seeking an edu­ cation; 4) Increased medical programs In "The Illusion of Withdrawal," an escalation of the war. which the U.S. would maintain "a to cure and care for disabled veterans; article published in both the October Budget statistics quoted by Kolko military advisory mission, together and 5) First Amendment rights for 2 issue of the liberal U.S. weekly New demonstrate that the Nixon govern­ with whatever small security force'S Gls. ment in fact had no intention of al­ are needed to protect this mfssion." Republic and the October issue of the In San Francisco, the Bay Area French monthly Le Monde Diploma­ lowing the Saigon regime to assume While Laird attempted to conceal Concerned Military (BACOM) is spon­ the major burden of prosecuting the the real plans of the Nixon admin­ tique, Gabriel Kolko, professor of his­ soring the first International Military tory at Toronto's York University, aggression. If the theoretical projec­ istration with double-talk, the military Rights Convention Oct. 23. The con­ exposes the fraud of Nixon's "Viet­ tions of "Vietnamization" called for a budget requests for fiscal 1972 (which ference has been publicized on bill­ snail's pace de-escalation of U.S. mil­ began in July 1971) revealed a hint namization" policy. boards, in mailings, at news confer­ my judgment," Kolka writes, "the itary activity, its reality did not even of the destructive power the U. S. rulers "In ences and through lea.flets. cultivated illusion that the President go that far. intend to use against the Vietnamese in the coming months. The air force Gls from bases all over the world has a 'plan' for which he requires The projected expense for the war are expected to attend to see films, public and congressional patience is during fiscal 1970 (July 1, 1969, to will enlarge its fleet of AC-130 gun­ ships. "US Army ammunition procure­ hear speakers, take part in work­ belied by what the record shows to be June 30, 1970) was between $23,200,- shops and an open forum on GI a quite deliberate policy of protracted 000,000 and $25,400,000,000, of ment costs fell from $1.7 3 billion in fiscal 1970 to almost $600 million rights and GI antiwar activity, and US military activity in Indochina and which only $2,200,000,000 was bud­ enjoy entertainment by antiwar pro­ less the following year, but they are a will to sustain the war and the US geted for aid to ARVN (Army of the fessional bands and singers. to leap back to $1.57 billion in 1972," presence there indefinitely." Republic of Vietnam, the Saigon pup­ The purpose of the conference is Kolka wrote. Kolko presents convincing evidence pet outfit). This was $300,000,000 to strengthen the GI struggles for civ­ Most budget data for the war is clas­ to support his judgment. less than the maximum figure allow­ il liberties and an end to the war, and sified, since its revelation would expose The "Vietnamization" policy was first able. to promote united action in such en­ the dishonesty of Nixon's claim that enunciated by Nixon in 1969, less Thus, approximately 90 percent of deavors as the GI contingents in the the war is winding down. But after than two weeks before the massive the war's cost that year was devoted Nov. 6 antiwar demonstrations. carefully culling through House of November 15 marches on Washing­ to U.S. actions, not to developing the Actions are scheduled to take place Representatives testimony on Pentagon ton and San Francisco demanded im­ ARVN, a fact that indicates the U.S. Oct. 24 and 25 in Seattle, sponsored financial requests, Kolka found proof mediate and unconditional U.S. with­ government recognized, despite its rhe­ by Vietnam Veterans Against the War that the U. S. support for the Thieu drawal from Southeast Asia. Secretary torical proclamations, that preparing and the Seattle Peace Action Coalition. of the Army Stanley Resor acknowl­ ARVN to assume the burden of the clique continues to be massive. The best estimate of the total cost A candlelight march on the evening edged that the aim of thtl policy was fighting was a hopeless endeavor. of Oct. 24 will be followed by another of the war during fiscal 1971 was to "make it clear to the enemy that • This reality was likewise reflected demonstration the next day. $15,300,000,000. "But close reading we can reduce the level of the war in the number of U. S. ground forces Both Ft. Hood and Ft. Sam Hous­ of the shifts in military spending dis­ to something that the American peo­ remaining in Vietnam. A "semi-official ton in Texas will be sites for GI-civil­ cussed in the Pentagon hearings, and ple will support for a significant peri­ and restricted Asian Development ian antiwar actions Oct. 25. Similar od." The hope was that the liberation Bank analysis" estimated that troop additional estimates in usually in­ formed US publications, suggests that actions are also scheduled in other forces would thereupon surrender to withdrawals would slow down toward cities and at other bases. the end of 1971, and there would still the full costs of the war for the fiscal the U. S. occupying force. The Oct. 13 New York Post reported be 110,000 to 200,000 U.S. ground year 1972, ending next June 30, are In November 1969 Secretary of De­ that five Navy enlisted men in Saigon, troops in Vietnam by the end of 1972. projected for at least $10 billion, and fense Melvin Laird explained that the members of VV AW, have gathered At' the end of 1970, the Pentagon more probably at $12 billion. Various new policy would have two phases. 500 signatures so far on a petition admitted that ARVN could absorb less offhand comments that [Secretary of "Phase One" would consist of trans­ asking that troops be withdrawn from than one-sixth of the U. S. helicopters State William] Rogers and other of-. ferring the bulk of combat ground Vietnam. then in use against the Vietnamese, ficials have made in recent months operations to the Saigon army, while More than 1,000 sailors on the air­ the U.S. would continue to provide and that air and naval operations hint it may run as high as $14 bil­ lion." Less than one-fifth of this craft carrier U.S. S. Coral Sea have massive air and artillery support. Dur­ would remain in the hands of the U.S. sent a petition asking Congress that "for the foreseeable future," as one ad­ amount will be spent by Saigon mili­ ing "Phase Two" the U.S. would func­ their ship not be sent to Vietnam Nov. tion in advisory and training capaci­ miral put it. tary forces, indicating that the major role in the war will continue to be 12. The nine antiwar sailors from ties, with the Saigon puppets assum­ This would indicate that achievement the U.S. S. Constellation who had played by the Pentagon. ing responsibility for their own air of Phase Two remains a remote pos­ sought sanctuary in a San Diego Despite 226,000 troops in Vietnam and artillery support. sibility at best. Phase One, Laird said church when their ship sailed for Viet­ The timetable for the two phases March 4, would be completed by the itself, 206,000 others in Southeast Asia and the western Pacific, a multibillion­ nam have been flown to the ship, depended, according to Laird, on three summer of 1971. He added, however, tried at "captain's mast" and put in factors: progress at the Paris talks, that "American ground combat forces dollar military budget for the coming year, and plans for a "residual force" the brig. An item in the Oct. 18 New the level of activity of the Vietnamese will remain in a security role to pro­ York Times reported that five sailors to remain in Vietnam indefinitely, Nix­ revolutionists, and the improvement tect US forces as Phase II progresses," from the destroyer escort U.S. S. on apparently thinks he can convince of Saigon's military capacity. and that Phase Two "will take longer Oulette jumped ship and sought sanc­ to complete" than Phase One. (Accord­ the U.S. population that "Vietnamiza­ Since the U.S. never had any inten­ tuary in a Honolulu church as an tion" will end the Indochina aggres­ tion of really negotiating in Paris, ing to government claims, Phase One antiwar protest. The five have been was a nearly two-year operation. sion. since the Vietnamese were not about placed in the Pearl Harbor brig. to scale down their struggle, and since Laird's assertion, if taken at face val­ As Kolka demonstrates, "Vietnami­ the Saigon army has always been not­ ue, would mean that Phase Two zation" is a policy in which the ad­ ed for its concern to avoid fighting, would last at least until the autumn ministration itself does not believe. On Laird carefully avoided predicting -of 1973.) November 6 the American people will rapid U.S. withdrawals, and even In addition, for the first time, a manifest their attitude toward it.

THE MILITANT/ OCTOBER 29, 1971 13 42 persons at Attica is, in my opin­ will have to face many· audiences of us blind, and the Democratic and Re­ ion, a perfect example of capitalist students and young people. And it publican politicians who maintain sex­ Georgia law and order." is already clear that only Alice Con­ ism and racial oppression, and who A chorus of booing and obsceni­ ner is saying the things that dissat­ ·keep the war in Asia going against ByJOELABER ties began to sweep the POAG con­ isfied youth want to hear. the wishes of the majority of Ameri­ MACON, Ga.-When the U.S. sena­ vention. cans." torial candidates from Georgia con­ Conner continued: "The atrocities in Joe Johnson, himself a former po­ fronted each other for the first time Vietnam and throughout Southeast litical prisoner and a leading antiwar in the 1972 campaign, the views of Asia are a daily reminder that in this Colorado activist, told the prisoners about the Socialist Workers Party candidate society so-called 'law and order' is By BILL PERDUE unanimous endorsement of the fall an­ Alice Conner became the focus of de­ used to cover up the reality that peo­ CANON CITY, Colo. -A dozen sup­ tiwar actions by the recent congress bate. Her remarks created such a ple are being murdered. porters and candidates of the Colo­ of the Colorado Labor Council, AFL­ storm that incumbent Democratic Sen­ "Law and order signs eviction no­ rado Socialist Workers Party cam­ CIO. ator David Gambrell was forced to tices which give the sheriff the right paign visited and spoke at the State Al Baldivia, former president of the cast aside his prepared notes and to evict poor and Black people from Penitentiary here Sept. 29. They were United Mexican American Students spend his entire five-minute presenta­ their inadequate housing. invited by members of the Dale Car­ ( UMAS) at Adams State College, and tion attempting to rebut what she said. negie Alumni, an inmate group that director of the Chicano Task Force The unlikely setting for the confron­ ·"In Florida, law and order tried arranges forums and entertainment for the Nov. 6 antiwar demonstration tation was the annual convention of and convicted a woman for receiving for the prisoners. scheduled for Denver, discussed Chi­ the Peace Officers Association of Geor­ an illegal abortion because some men Fern Gapin, SWP candidate for U.S., cano liberation and the Mexican In­ gia (POAG ), held here Oct. 12 and who sat. in the legislature denied Congress from Denver and a leading dependence Day march in Denver of attended by 800 of Georgia's crew­ her the right to control her own figure in the United Women's Con­ more than 15,000 on Sept. 16. cut, gun-toting, badge-studded finest. body.... " tingent, told the 300 assembled pris­ The most exciting part of the visit On display in the lobby of the Demp­ By this time, the crescendo of boos oners about the growth of the anti­ was the informal discussion with the · sey Hotel, the convention site, was and catcalls was so loud that the war and women's liberation move­ prisoners. The discussions touched on a frightening array of tear-gas can­ chairman intervened to ask the cops mentlt in the Rocky Mountain region. the conditions at the prison, why they nisters, holsters, strings of bullets, as­ to permit Conner to finish. She also explained the plans of the had been forced· into prison, and the sorted pistols and shotguns, gas Senator Gambrell was next. "I had Colorado SWP campaign to aid and state of the protest movements on the masks, etc. intended to make some light remarks," publicize the struggles of prisoners. outside. "We're here," one prisoner In addition to Conner and Gam­ he began, "but after what just pre­ "Most prisoners now occupying the said, "because we broke the system­ brell, the announced and unan­ ceded me I think I must be serious. jails are the victims of class and ra­ they say 'the law.' But they break the nounced candidates who spoke were I respect Mrs. Conner's right to say cial injustice," she stated. law all the time; that's how they got Congressman William Stuckey, former what she said, and I'll probably be Gapin offered the prisoners a free where they are." governor Ernest Vandiver, State La­ hearing a lot more of her in the six-month subscription to The Mili­ The prisoners reported that an bor Commissioner Sam Caldwell, and months ahead. But with all due re­ tant, but she explained that she could underground paper was recently a spokesman for Congressman Flet­ spect to Mrs. Conner I disagree with not show them the paper because the launched at Canon City, called the cher Thompson. her 100 percent." guards had confiscated all the copies Zenger Press after John Peter Zenger, Conner was applauded as she took Democratic Congressman William she and her supporters had brought a revolutionary· propagandist of the the microphone. That was. the last Stuckey followed Gambrell. "With all with them. More than 250 of the 300 American. War of Independence. The applause she got. As the WSB-TV its ills," he began, "this is still the prisoners signed up to receive sub­ first issue. exposed the murder of an commentator reported, "She proceeded greatest country in the world." Then scriptions. inmate by the guards in a maximum­ to blast them." he added, "It's been said that the hand Joan Fulks, SWP candidate for U.S. security cell, which was then reported Conner began by discussing the that rocks the cradle may rock the Senate, described the conditions that as a "suicide." deep social crlsil in America today, boat.... " Turning to stare at Con­ force women, Blacks, Chicanos, youth Many prisoners stayed and talked and then stated: "As an attempt to ner, he continued, "Well, I've been be­ and working people info the prisOns until the last minute before they had repress the social crisis, all politicians ginning to wonder about some of by the thousands. She was given sus­ to return to their cells. As the cam­ talk about law and order, but some­ those hands that have been rocking tained applause when she said, "The paigners got ready to leave, they were how I feel their interpretation is much cradles recently." real cl!iminals in America are the busi­ invited back and given clenched fist different from mine. The murder of In the year ahead, the candidates nessmen ·and the bankers who rob salutes.

ator McGovern will debate anyone." Spanish-language ballot. Edward T. O'Donnell Jr., reached Novack cited several examples of Why won't at the McGovern for President office discrimination the SWP had been sub­ in Washington, D. C., said he thought Ballot law jected to by the current laws. The dis­ a debate between McGovern and Jen­ criminatory regulations are made McGovern ness would be an "antidemocratic act." fight even more intolerable, he stated, by O'Donnell, executive director of the the fact that "there is not the slight­ national Students for McGovern, said est bit of uniformity" in the election debate? . that right now McGovern "is in a par­ announced laW&. The SWP, he said, has to com­ By LEE SMITH ticular kind of effort which is among By DAVID THORSTAD pile information on the laws in every Democratic Party presidential contend­ Democrats," so that debating Jenness NEW YORK, Oct. 19- The Commit­ state. The maze of laws is so com­ er George McGovern announced in "is not relevant." tee for Democratic Election Laws plex, however, that "in some cases, Washington, D. C., Oct. 15 that he McGovern "is not running against (CoDEL) today announced its forma­ even after inquiring with the secretary was proposing to Democratic Nation­ a socialist candidate and he's not run­ tion at a news conference in the Ho; of state we could not find out the al Committee Chairman Lawrence F. ning against Richard Nixon now," tel McAlpin. CoDEL National Secre­ requirements." O'Brien a series of monthly debates O'Donnell said. "Whereas I'm sure tary Judy Baumann said that the com­ "We did win in the courts in 1970,"., beginning in December between the he'd challenge Nixon to debate after mittee "will unite political parties, Edith Tiger added, in reference to the contenders for the party's nomination. he got the nomination, for him to groups and individuals in order to decision by a three-judge federal court The same day the senator made debate Nixon now or for him to de­ challenge in the courts restrictive and to strike down as unconstitutional the his announcement, the Chicago Sun­ bate the socialisf candidate now would unconstitutional election laws." Such New York law requiring that signa­ Times carried an article by James be out of place," the Students for Mc­ laws, she said, exist in many states, tures be collected in each of the state's Campbell about Linda Jenness, the Govern director said, "because it and they are used to make it diffi­ counties. The legislature has subse­ Socialist Workers Party candidate for would be an antidemocratic act say­ cult or impossible for parties other quently rewritten the law, adding dis­ president in 1972. In the article, ing 'I'm going to win .these primaries,' than the Democratic and Republican criminatory provisions. CoDEL plans Campbell reported that Jenness crit­ and I think he wants to let the peo­ parties to obtain ballot status. to challenge this new law, she said, icized McGovern for refusing to de­ ple decide that." O'Donnell added, Also present at the news conference "to reaffirm the victory we had." bate her when she and the senator "And then, I'm sure the senator would were George Novack of the Social­ Spock said the existence of these were both at the University of Wis­ be glad to debate anybody." ist Workers Party National Campaign laws was "contrary to the spirit of consin in Madison Oct. 2. In her Sun-Times interview, Camp­ Committee; Benjamin Spock, co­ the Constitution." He said he would "Asked to respond to the .:barge by bell reported, Jenness reacted "like the chairman of the New Party; and Edith "wholeheartedly support the efforts of telephone," Campbell wrote, "McGov­ fighter she is. She called the McGovern Tiger, executive director of the Na­ CoDEL." ern campaign officials in Washington people liars." tional Emergency Civil Liberties Com­ A statement was also presented to didn't seem to know what to say." "McGovern got out of debating me mitte. General counsel for the com­ the press from Jose Angel Gutierrez, Campbell reported that one "campaign this time, but the capitalist politicians mittee is well-known civil liberties law­ leader of La Raza Unida Party in boss" had said Jenness was a "kook will be forced to debate me," Camp­ yer Leonard Boudin. Crystal City, Texas, and Tito Lucero, and a Trotskyite." bell quoted Jenness as saying, "It's The committee announced plans to of the Oakland, Calif., Raza Unida When The Militant contacted him the youth of this country that lead challenge laws in New York and Mis­ Party. by phone in McGovern's senate of­ all the movements seeking change and souri requiring a distribution of sig­ A partial list of CoDEL sponsors fice Oct. 18, McGovern campaign there are 25 million of us now who natures on an independent candidate's includes, in addition to Spock, Linda press secretary Jeff Gralnick said he are ·sick and tired of the policies of nominating petition; loyalty oaths in Jenness of the SWP; Dwight MacDon­ didn't believe anyone on the staff the Democrats and Republicans. Louisiana, Texas and Oklahoma; ald; Rep. Paul McCloskey; Morris would say that. Gralnick reiterated "I represent the youth and if peo­ and filing fees and fees levied on can­ Kight, founder, Gay Liberation Front, McGovern's stated reason for not de­ ple like McGovern think they're going didates in Florida, North Carolina Los Angeles; New Party of Florida; bating in Wisconsin: "She is the nom­ to appeal to youth, they'll have to and Maryland. In some suits the com­ and Michael Parisi, lllinois state co­ inee of her party. The senator is not debate us on our ideas," Campbell mittee plans to champion the voting ordinator, Peace and Freedom Party. the nominee of his." Gralnick added quoted the socialist presidential can­ rights of prisoners and the right of that "after he gets the nomination, Sen- didate as saying. Spanish speaking minorities to a

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Photo by Dove Saperstan Chicago campaign rally Photo by Scott Aptan Linda Jenness meeting with newsmen after touring Cook County Jail in Chicago.

By DAVE SAPERSTAN porters were waiting to interview her. lllinois abortion laws, and William subscriptions to The Militant were re­ CHICAGO, Oct. 17-One of the high Glenda Sampson reported in the Oct. Pelz, secretary-treasurer of the Roose­ ceived in the mail. points of Socialist Workers Party pres­ 17 Chicago Today that Jenness "flat­ velt University Student Senate. Both Jenness' other media coverage in­ idential candidate Linda Jenness' four­ ly told inmates, 'The wrong people strongly endorsed the 1972 Jenness­ cluded feature articles i~ three of the day tour of the Chicago area was in this country are in jail. Our laws Pulley ticket and urged their friends four major Chicago daily newspapers, a fact-finding visit to the Cook Coun­ and penal system reflect very clearly ty Jail that turned into a dramatic our social priorities in this country. Jenness vs. Mayor Daley confrontation. George Jackson was sentenced to 10 CHICAGO, Oct. J 9-Two American Civil Liberties Union lawyers, Sy­ On the morning of Oct. 15, Jenness years in jail for a $70 theft while and five of her campaign .supporters an Illinois stockholder convicted of bille Fritzsche and Barbara O'Toole, filed a suit in the U.S. District went to the jail, which is reputed to embezzling $4-million got one year.'" Court today against Mayor Richard Daley on behalf of Linda Jenness, be a model among penal institutions. Other activities included an enthu­ the Socialist Workers Party presidential candidate. The suit asks for a A reporter from radio station WGOD siastic wind-up rally at the Loop ruling on the right of the SWP to assemble and deliver political and a film crew from CBS-TV news YWCA Oct 15. Richard E. Rubenstein, speeches in Chicago's Civic Center Plaza. A Sept. 20 request by the were there to accompany Jenness on a Roosevelt University professor and SWP to use the plaza for a campaign meeting for Jenness Oct. 12 the tour. a leader of the Harrisburg Defense was denied. Another request to use the plaza Oct. 25 has not been Warden Winston Moore was waiting Committee, spoke at the meeting and answered. The suit, in addition to asking for a judgment on the con­ for Jenness at the entrance to the jail. stated: RLet me make one thing per­ He stepped forward and admonished fectly clear, as that idiot in the White stitutionality of the ban, is requesting a court order permitting use of her to re-think what she was doing. House is so fond of saying. I don't the plaza on this date. A hearing is scheduled for Oct. 21. He said, "I will not allow anybody · support Linda Jenness merely because to make a political issue out of my she provides a socialist alternative to to support it as well. The rally raised along with articles in three college prison and my prisoners, and you the capitalist political parties. I sup­ $550 for the 1972 campaign from the newspapers. cannot bring any of your literature port her because she is better quali­ 125 people present. in here." fied to be president of the United States Another indication of the widespread A fitting climax to Jenness' success­ Jenness then stated that prisoners than Richard Nixon, Edmund Muskie, support for the 1972 campaign was ful Chicago visit was an appearance have the same rights as all other cit­ Edward Kennedy, George McGovern, the excellent response to Jenness' ap­ on RKup's Show" televised Oct. 16. izens to get first-hand information on John Lindsay, or any other nominee pearance the morning of the Oct. 13 Irving "Kup" Kupcinet, a Chicago all the issues facing them. With the or potential nominee interested in be­ Moratorium on the Stan Dale radio Sun-Times columnist, hosts the most CBS crew filming, and Jenness stand­ coming president." show, "Confrontation.R Almost every widely viewed TV talk show in the. ing up for her right as a presidential Rubenstein's position clearly echoed telephone call taken on the two-hour Midwest area. Because of the wide­ candidate and as a citizen, Moore. be­ the sentiments of the 50 people who talk show was friendly to the ideas spread response to Jenness' visit in came angered and flustered. Contrary signed up to support Young Socialists of the campaign. After hearing the Chicago, Kup himself called up the to normal procedure, he then also for Jenness and Pulley at the five cam­ show from his car radio, a Vietnam campaign headquarters to ask for Jen­ refused to permit the press and pho­ pus meetings held for Jenness during veteran stopped by the Midwest SWP ness to appear. With Jenness on the tographers to enter. Jenness and her the past week. campaign headquarters on his way show were astronaut Wally Schirra; supporters put down their literature Appearing at the rally with Ruben­ to work, and during the days follow­ William Benton, former U.S. senator and went on a 90-minute tour of the stein were Dianne Rupp, an activist ing the show many people who had from Connecticut; and John Gardner facilities. When Jenness came out, re- in the struggle to repeal the restrictive heard it called the headquarters. Four of Common Cause. Pulley in 1 e·day ta af By TANK BARRERA wound up the day at Sam Houston ton Post, the Daily Cougar (the U arrest, this time for "loitering" in the HOUSTON, Oct. 18-The Socialist State University in Huntsville, Texas, of H campus newspaper) and a 15- city of Spring Branch. The Socialist Workers Party 1972 campaign has where he spoke to a meeting of over minute interview with Pulley was Workers Party and the Young Social­ made a resounding impact here in 80 people, sponsored by the Black broadcast on K UL F radio. Pully fin­ ists for Jenness and Pulley, along with Houston with the arrival of Andrew student group on campus. ished his tour at the Houston head­ other community and high· school Pulley, SWP vice-presidential candi­ quarters of the Socialist Workers Par­ groups, plan to take further act~on date. After a two-day stay in Louisi­ On Oct. 14, Pulley appeared on the ty a~ a meeting attended by 50 cam­ against this attack on civil liberties. ana, where he spoke at Louisiana RMorning Show" of KHOU-TV for paign supporters. During Pulley's tour in this area State University and Southern Uni­ a half hour interview. Afterwards he Earlier that day, Pulley had been about 75 people signed up to be ac­ versity in Baton Rouge, and Louisi­ spoke at an outdoor rally at St. scheduled to speak at Spring Branch tive in the Young Socialists for Jen­ ana State University in New Orleans, Thomas University and then to a High School at an after school rally. ness and Pulley, over half of these Pulley arrived in Houston for three meeting of 40 Black students at Yates However, the reactionary administra­ from Louisiana, and many subscrip­ days of intensive campaigning. High School. Later that afternoon, tion at the high school decided to tions to The Militant were sold. On Oct. 13, after a city-wide news Pulley was on the widely viewed "Steve enforce a ruling barring ~oiteringR on · Pulley continued his Texas tour with conference, Pulley addressed 1,000 Edwards Show," also on KHOU-TV. school grounds, and after Pulley and a meeting at North Texas State Uni­ students at the University of Houston Pulley finished the day with a public several campaign supporters were versity in Denton and a news confer­ noon Moratorium rally. His talk was meeting at the University of Hous­ threatened with arrest, Pulley was ence at the Alamo. Pulley is scheduled aired live by Pacifica radio. Pulley ton. He also met with the U of H barred from speaking. The crowd then to speak at the YMCA in San An­ then spoke to a rally of 75 Black Black Student Union and gained sev­ went off the school grounds into the tonio, where he will address G Is from students at Worthing High School in eral BS U members as SWP campaign city of Spring Branch and attempted Ft. Sam Houston and Lackland Air Houston and to a meeting at Rice supporters. to hold the rally there. They were Force Base. Pulley's tour continues University. He then addressed the city­ Oct. 15 was devoted to press inter­ greeted by the sheriff and 15 police­ in Austin and then in Phoenix and wide Moratorium rally of 500 and views. Articles appeared in the Hous- men and were again threatened with Tucson, Arizona.

THE MILITANT/ OCTOBER 29, 1971 15 Radioactive waste L.A. students protest creating a hazard • to health in Colorado mar1nes on campus By MARTIN ROTHMAN clustered around them, angrily de­ tailings were "too low" for significant By ANTONIO CAMEJO and JIM LYTTLE manding to know why they permitted What could well turn out to be the statistical information. Continued concern by doctors and LOS ANGELES, Oct. 20- Three Los themselves to be used for such a pur­ environmental scandal of the year has Angeles City College students arrest­ pose. One Black student requested a come to national attention in the past citizens led to financing of the study by Colorado Governor John A Love. ed as the result of a campus protest recruitment interview. Asked to give few weeks. his name, he spelled it out: "U-N­ Although the complete findings will against the presence of marine recruit­ Some 150,000 to 200,000 tons of ers were arraigned Oct. 19, and a C-L-E T-0-M." not be available until next year, the radioactive "tailings" (a fine sand by­ trial date of Nov. 15 was set. Oct. 3 New York Times states that product of uranium-ore mining) were The three- Larry Mitchell, Richard given away free by at least one Colo­ already, "chromosomal abnormalities Spear, and Marshall Givens- have Students surrounded the recruiters' rado ore-processing mill to local con­ not frequently found in children have table and helped themselves generous­ been observed." been hit with trumped-up charges of tractors, who proceeded to use the "malicious mischief" and "resisting a ly to the free Marine literature. They material in the construction of schools, When the problem of the tailings indicated their opinion of it by de­ was brought to the attention of Dr. peace officer." homes, and other buildings. The Oct. Seven hundred Los Angeles City Col­ positing it in nearby trash baskets. 4 New York Times now reports that Jesse L. Steinfeld, the U. S. surgeon One student, Larry Mitchell, was general, in July 1970, he indicated lege students demonstrated Oct. 13 in a "careful study by the state has shown defense of the three students. dragged off by campus police and tailings at 4,984 building sites in Junc­ that it would take some time to get taken to their office. After about an tion City, all at levels that the sur­ precise readings, but that "the addi­ The three were released on $650 hour of angry student protest, they geon general of the Public Health Ser­ tional health risks from continued ex­ bail each. Bond was arranged by the released him, explaining his appre­ vice has said suggest the need for re­ posure over this time period are of Student Mobilization Committee, or­ hension had been "a mistake." medial action." lesser consequence than the economic ganizer of the anti-recruiter demon­ But two days later, city warrants Fifteen schools, plus the administra­ and social discomfitures of precipi­ stration at which they were arrested. were issued for him, Givens and tion building in Mesa County, Colo., tous action." The "discomfiture" troub­ The protest against the recruiters Spear. The latter fwo were taken into have tailings underneath them, the ling the surgeon general is the $20- had been given added intensity be­ custody by campus police and turned Times reported. On Sept. 27, Times million it would cost to dig out the cause the marines had been invited over to waiting city cops. When Mit­ correspondent Anthony Ripley report­ tailings in Colorado alone. Nine other on campus by college president Dr. chell learned that a warrant was out ed that state health officials "found states may be affected. Louis Kaufman despite a poll con­ for him, he went to the police station an additional 1,507 abnormally high The Atomic Energy Commission ducted by the student government last with SMC members and, like the oth­ radioactive readings ... in 10 other could have originally removed 90 per­ semester in which a big majority had ers, was bailed out. small Colorado cities and towns." cent of the radium in the tailings by voted against the presence of military The SMC had originally proposed a chemical process, but didn't because recruiters. that the student council sponsor the When the· question of safety was of the cost. Instead, an estimated 83 The administration, in justifying the anti-recruiter demonstration. A motion raised back in 1966 with the Atomic million tons of radioactive tailings invitation, argued: a) not enough stu­ to do so was defeated by one vote. Energy Commission (AEC), its reply have been allowed to pile up in Colo­ dents had voted, b) there were a lot The council did, however, adopt a was that "at the present time, we find rado, Utah, Wyoming, South Dakota, of new students whose views were un­ resolution urging the school president it difficult to conceive of any mecha­ Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Wash­ known, and c) "the students don't have to respect the student referendum and nism whereby the radioactive material ington and Oregon. the right to make such a decision in keep the recruiters off the campus. which is now so widely dispersed The Colorado State Health Depart­ the first place." An ad hoc defense committee for the could become so concentrated as to ment, the Federal Environmental Pro­ The initial demonstration Oct. 4 was three was established at a rally of exceed current applicable standards tection Agency and a six-man medi­ spearheaded by Black and Chicano several hundred students Oct. 7. The for protection against radiation." cal committee have unanimously rec­ students. The Black students were par­ committee, initiated by the SM C, has According to the Times, radium, the ommended removing tailings at least ticularly incensed by the presence of won the support of other cam­ main radioactive element in the sand, ten feet from habitable structures. In Blacks among the recruiters. They pus groups and of faculty members. decays into a gas called radon, which spite of the danger to human life, is capable of going "through concrete both the AEC and the U. S. Public and spreads radioactivity inside build­ Heal~h Service voted against this rec­ ings." The radon further decays into ommendation. S.F. cops murder numerous radioactive elements, Dr. H. Peter Metzger, head of the among which are polonium, radioac­ Colorado Committee for Environmen­ tive lead and bismuth. These latter tal Information, produced a letter Black in cold blood elements are known causes of lung which warned about the danger of By NORTON SANDLER unlawful murder are indicted, prose­ cancer. While cancer may not show the tailings as early as 1961. The SAN FRANCISCO- With dozens of cuted, and convicted. And we will stop up for 20 to 30 years in adults, it letter, which had been sent to state people from the Hunters Point Black at nothing to see that is done." can have more immediate effects on agencies by the health division of the community as witnesses, Clarence children, whose cells are rapidly grow­ AEC, has mysteriously disappeared Johnson, 37-year-old Hunters Point Pitcher angrily added, "Johnson laid ing. from both federal as well as state resident, was brutally murdered Oct. in the street for 45 minutes or more "At Pomona Elementary School," the health department files. 5 by Richard Lewis, a white San with his brain and skull all over the Oct. 4 Times reports, "radioactivity The lack of concern with this dan­ Francisco policeman. place." Another man shouted, "The levels in Classroom A-1 build over­ gerous situation on the part of both After seven hours of silence, Chief people in Hunters Point are tired of night to a level 38 times the 'action the AEC and the U. S. Public Health Police Inspector Charles Barca re­ having police officers practice on them suggested' level. Once the room is ven­ Department· was made abundantly leased a statement on the murder. -they have a rifle range." tilated, however, the radioactivity clear in an observation by New York Thomas Johnson's car, Barca The following day, Oct. 6, Deputy quickly drops below the surgeon gen­ Times writer Anthony Ripley. "Even claimed, was stopped because it Police Chief William Keays attempted eral's safety level." today," he wrote, "anyone with a truck matched an anonymous informant's to exonerate the police force when he Dr. Robert M. Ross Jr., a pediatri­ or· car can drive past the single 'keep description of a car involved in a told a press conference that the de­ cian, inquired months ago about a out' sign on the road to the city sew­ Hunters Point burglary. Officers Ed­ partment was "actively pursuing the study into possible chromosomal age treatment plant and drive into ward Epting and Lewis ordered John­ investigation." However, the hypocri­ damage to infants. The AEC was the pile of tailings. There are no son out and instructed him to place sy of the statement was revealed when asked to finance it but refused on fences. There are no radiation dan­ his hands over the top of the car. he added, "There had been no action grounds that the radiation levels in ger signs." Lewis, according to the police account, taken against the officer who did the was in the process of bolstering his shooting, and he will remain on duty gun when Johnson "swung around until the investigation is concluded." with an elbow ... [and] in a reflex This followed the disclosure that no defensive action Lewis came up with stolen items were found in Johnson's the gun in his hand to ward off the car. blow, and the gun went off." Barca The Socialist Workers Party candi­ added, "In my opinion, it was an date for mayor, Nat Weinstein, im­ accident. He didn't mean to shoot mediately released a statement blast­ him." ing the police department's handling CE. ~{)\)·~ ~Tt~E Hunters Point residents, however, of the shooting, the second of an un­ have another version of Johnson's armed Hunters Point resident within death. At an angry community gather­ one week. "The officer involved must ing following the killing, witnesses re­ be indicted for murder," Weinstein 1h(RC ~)~S;:~ ~\_IKE peatedly stated that Johnson was said. "This killing must be investigated spread-eagled over the top of the car by a neighborhood review board com­ when Lewis fired a .41 magnum bul­ posed of Hunters. Point residents. The let into the back of his head. Alex Hunters Point community has a right Pitcher, chairman of the Model Cities to determine the composition of the Program for the Bayview-Hunters police force that serves it, including Point community, angrily told report­ the formation of a new police force ers, "We intend to see that the police for the community if it is desired by officers responsible for this killing and the people of Hunters Point."

16 whether royal or not, were accustomed to good hotels, roads, and $480,000 worth of Christmas eating. So special attention was given to the menu tree and other lights. By DAVID THORSTAD for the royal banquet Oct. 14. Despite the indecent wastefulness of it all, the OCT. 18-Last week, the Shah of Iran threw Maxim's of Paris handled all the food, except week-long affair had much about it that was com­ what is thought to have been the biggest party the caviar- which was the only thing besides the ic and ridiculous. The shah himself set the tone in world history. The estimated cost was between location that was Iranian about the celebration. at the inaugurating ceremony Oct. 12 at the tomb $50- and $300-million, but most observers settle It transported in 10 tons of champagne and wine, of Cyrus the Great when, in the presence of ap­ for the round figure of $100-million. The excuse 14 tons of other beverages, and 18 tons of food. parently straight-faced dignitaries from ·around the for the bash, held at the site of the ancient city The wine arrived a month early so the fine vin- world, His Imperial Majesty, the Shahanshah of of Persepolis, was the 2,500th anniversary of the . tages would have a chance to rest. And it cre­ Iran. King of Kings, Sun of the Aryans, Center founding of the Persian empire and the longevity ated a special dish for the occasion- poached of the Universe, Occupant of the Peacock Throne, of its monarchy. quail eggs stuffed with caviar. (At a trial run called out to the spirit of the founder of the Per­ Not one of Iran's millions of impoverished peas­ of the dish at his birthday party a year ago, sian empire: "0 Cyrus, great King, King of Kings, ants, whose poverty is their unbroken link to those the shah discovered that he did not like caviar, Achaemenian King, King of the land of Iran, I, 2,500 years, was invited. So little has their lot so he was served an artichoke while everybody the Shahanshah of Iran. offer thee salutations improved that they may be wondering what the else downed quail eggs.) The piece de resistance from myself and from my nation." Not a snicker celebrating was all about. "When you take off was partridge stuffed with foie gras and truffles, was heard. into the hills," one economist said, "you are vir­ according to most reports (NBC said it was pheas­ Most newspaper reports of this party organized tually back in Biblical times." ant). The· meal was cooked in a $200,000 kit­ by one of the world's most brutal autocrats did not It is not easy to put on parties like this one. chen by 30 chefs and pastry cooks flown in by even try to hide their feeling that it was perhaps ex­ Preparations began more than 10 years ago. For Maxim's, and was served on a 198-foot-long solid travagant in a country of 28 million where most are poor and 90 percent are still illiterate. An exception was U.S. News & World Report, which ran an article in its Oct 18 issue entitled "Shah of Iran: King and Revolutionary." According to this report, the purpose of the party was to cele­ Shah of Iran throws brate the success of the shah's "revolution from the throne." Among the successes it attributes to this "revolution" are the fact that "child-labor abuses have been reduced" (not eliminated), "wom­ a at Persepolis en can vote now" (in a country where elections are manipulated, the px:ess censored, and all op­ position ruthlessly suppressed), and "literacy has more than doubled in the last decade" (at this rate, assuming it's true, it would only take 180 more years to wipe out illiteracy). Protests Despite the great dangers and difficulties for pol­ itical oppositionists in Iran, efforts were made to call to the attention of the world the barbarism of the shah's regime. Most newspapers did their best to ignore these efforts. Prior to the festivities, there were a number of guerrilla actions inside Iran, Including, on Sept. 2.8, an apparent bomb explo­ sion in the-central police station in Tehran. The Sept. 30 issue of the Paris daily Le Monde reports that during the third week of September, five urban guerrillas tried to kidnap the nephew of the shah. Two were said to have been arrested, but three managed to escape. According to the Sept. 27 lrandefence, the news bulletin of the Organisation for the Defence of Human Rights in Iran, guerrillas also "completely destroyed" a radio station the government had in­ stalled in Shiraz "in order to directly broadcast the farcical proceedings of the Persepolis celebra­ tion. ... " The same bulletin reports that "the num­ ber of people arrested in Tehran alone in the past Persepolis ruins with tent city in background month in preparation for the monarchal celebra­ tions has reached several thousands." months, two chartered jet airliners and truck car­ mahogany table covered with a one-piece hand­ Newsweek reported Oct. 11 that "recently, an avans left Paris for Persepolis bearing the crystal · embroidered tablecloth by a team of 295 captains imaginative band of rebels rented a small plane chandeliers, fine china, gold cutlery and tons of and waiters from Maxim's and other jet-set hang­ to fly over Tehran and drop hundreds of anti­ French furniture destined for the 50 opulent tents outs in Europe. They wore special uniforms, each government leaflets denouncing the ostentatious that were to house the guests. Flower gardens, containing about three pounds of gold thread and anniversary pageant" water fountains, and a small forest of trees ( im­ designed by Jansen of Paris. Prior to the Persepolis pageant, the World Con­ ported, like almost everything else, from France) federation of Iranian Students circulated an inter­ had to be- installed on the barren desert to shield For five months, platoons of women worked national appeal calling for a boycott of the shah's the guests from the sands. Complex protocol prob­ on gifts for the guests. These included 40 hand­ celebrations. The appeal was signed by a number lems had to be ironed out since both royalty and woven silk carpets, each with a portrait of a head of prominent labor leaders and left intellectuals commoners were invited (some commoners, after of state against a background of Persian and in the U. S., Britain and Europe, among them all, have replaced kings and queens as heads of Medean soldiers patterned after bas reliefs at Noam Chomsky; Jean-Paul Sartre; Simone de state during the past 2,500 years); and this was Persepolis. All were in living color, except for Beauvoir; 14 British Labour Party MPs; and lead­ an imperial occasion, where even the weakest king that of Hungarian President Pal Losonczi, for ing figures on the Italian left. should take precedence over any commoner- no whom a color photograph could not be found. "The oppression and misery to which the Iranian matter how influential his country. His was done in living black and white. masses have been subjected by the Pahlevi Dynasty The guests included one emperor, nine kings, A small, .but conspicuous, chunk of the expen­ are only too well known to require any mention 17 princes and princesses, 1 0 sheiks, one grand ditures went for a $5-million arch-and-pyramid here," it stated, recalling that "in the past year duke, one cardinal, two sultans, 15 presidents, monument to the shah, 250 Mercedes-Benz lim­ alone many Iranian democrats and revolution­ and two vice-presidents (one of whom was Spiro ousines for the guests, and uniforms for the Royal aries died at the hands of the regime's henchmen Agnew). More than 60 were heads of state. All, Guards at $1,200 apiece. Others went for tou.rist either under torture or before the fll'ing squads."

By RUSSELL BLOCK After an hour of picketing, there of protecting Western oil concessions SAN FRANCISCO-Nearly 500dem­ was a short rally featuring speakers in Iran and intervening against the onstrated in front of the federal build­ from the Iranian Student Association. Arab .revolution in neighboring coun­ 500 ing in San Francisco Oct. 15, in op­ the A~ab Student Association. as well tries. position to the Shah of Iran's cele­ as Robert Scheer, a former editor of The rally was followed by a march bration of the 2,500th anniversary of Ramparts magazine. The speakers to the site of the Iranian consulate the Persian monarchy and to U. S. pointed out that the Shah's extrava­ in San Francisco, which had been in S.F. support to the Shah's regime. The gant claim to a 2,500-year monarchal rocked by a bomb blast the night demonstration was called by the Iran­ heritage was false; that in fact the before. Local papers gave banner ian Student Association of Northern Shah owed his position to a CIA­ headlines to the bombing, and printed California in conjunction with a sim­ engineered coup in 1953 that over­ accusations by consulate officials that protest ilar demonstration in Washington, threw the government of Dr. Mossa­ "leftist extremists" were responsible for D.C. degh, who had attempted nationaliza­ the incident Local authorities "de­ The demonstrators, many of whom tion of Iran's rich oil resources. They plored" the bombing, and called in the wore head coverings to protect them­ drew the connection between the lav­ FBI to investigate. It seems likely that shah's selves from identification and repri­ Ish celebration and increased U.S. whoever is responsible for the bomb­ sals by the Shah's secret police, pick­ arms shipment to the Shah's govern­ ing, the U. S. and Iranian govern­ eted the federal building, chanting, "A ment. They branded the celebration ments will try to use the incident to hungry nation does not need a cele­ as an attempt to give the Shah's re­ discredit the protest against the Shah's party bration," and "The people's history­ pressive regime an image of stability regime and to witch-hunt Iranian ac­ not the king's." to show that the Shah was capable tivists in the United States.

THE MILITANT/ OCTOBER 29, 1971 17 men and women are joining these economic plan. Some are critical of independent political action by labor demonstrations in growing numbers the high-handed way Nixon and Con­ can do this. because they realize that they are nally have imposed these measures, By FRANK LOVELL among the war's victims. hoping that such hypocritical criticism A healthy response Hit by the government wage freEZ~ Another social evil is unemployment. will disguise th~ fact that they too One of the fll'st reactions in many working men and women everywhere Industry is laying off, not hiring. It support the fundamental character of unions was to propose defying the are looking to the union movement is encouraged to do so by the policy the actions. wage freeze, to call for a general pro­ to enforce wage agreements entered and example of government. The rail­ This is a new fact of life for many test strike. This was a very healthy into with the employers before the road industry is preparing to lay off in' the union movement who for years response. A general strike even of 24 freeze was imposed. It is widely rec­ thousands more workers. The reor­ have been told by their officials to hours' duration would have demon­ ognized now that this wage freEZe is ganized U.S. Postal Service likewise give money and votes to the Demo­ strated the power of organized labor. a frontal assault on the living stan­ is reducing its work force. The federal crats because "this is the party of la­ It would have compelled the Nixon­ dard of the working class. But what government itself is cutting the num­ bor." It now becomes clearer to mil­ Connally gang to hesitate and to take can be done about it? That is the ques­ ber of employees by 100,000. lions of workers that the Democratic a second look at the forces they were tion most often asked. Unions have an answer to this prob­ Party is the party of capital, not labor. dealing with. It would also have in­ No anti-working-class action of such lem of unemployment. They will de­ Most workers are convinced that la­ spired great self-confidence in the mil­ a sweeping kind has been so openly mand a shorter work day' with no bor must participate in politics. And lions of workers. undertaken by this capitalist govern­ reduction in take-home pay as the as disillusionment with the Democratic But such an action could not have ment since enactment of the Taft-Hart­ been called by local unions. It would ley law in 194 7. Then as now, the have required the agreement of a size­ government moved against the work­ able section of organized labor, if not ers as a class in order to protect and all unions. The AFL-CIO Executive advance the class interests of the em­ Council has the authority to call a ployers. Many understood at the time Why shoUld 24-hour general strike but lacks the that the Taft-Hartley law was designed unions will or political inclination to do so. to bring the union movement under Despite abundant evidence that the government control in order to render employers and their agents are in­ the workers defenseless against direct capable of managing this society, attacks upon their paychecks. The these "statesmen of labor" continue to same question was raised 20 years call a congress nod and bow before those masters ago: What can be done about it? in high places who have brought on Instinctively, the union movement the present crisis. The top union bu­ seeks to join forces when it comes reaucrats, by experience, training and under attack. One of the flrst and of labor? conviction- and most of all by their most natural reactions to Nixon's present way of high living and their Aug. 15 wage-freeze edict came from association in the big-time business Painters Union Local 4 in San Fran­ and political circles- are quickly con­ cisco. At a regular meeting on Aug. vinced that international currency sta­ 23, the membership voted unanimous­ bility comes before escalator clauses ly "in opposition to the so-called wage­ in union contracts. They feel that a price freeze," and called on the Bay· favorable balance of U.S. trade must Area labor movement "to convene a be established - with protectionist mass congress of labor organizations measures if necessary- before unem­ in the area to plan united strategy and ployment can be eliminated, that an action in defense of our living stan­ armaments industry to defend U. S. dards." investments abroad is more important More recently, in Cleveland at a than new homes for the millions of regular business meeting of Typo­ poor in this country. graphical Union No. 53 on Sept. 19, Working men and women in their the membership voted unanimously local · unions do not share this pro­ to take a stand "opposed to the wage capitalist outlook of the top union freEZe and the rest of President Nixon's bureaucrats. The workers want a so-called economic stabilization pro­ whole new set of public policies, pro-· gram ..." and called "for a national tection of wages and jobs, more social emergency congress of labor.... " welfare and public health care, and In the case of the Cleveland printers, an end to racial discrimination. They the call for an emergency congress of are not concerned with defense of labor arises from the earlier history profits. of that union in its fight against the This is why the idea of a congress Taft-Hartley law. In 1948, one year of labor can take hold. It is an at­ after enactment of Taft-Hartley, the tempt by union members in their local International Typographical Union at unions to call together larger repre­ its ninetieth convention called for the sentative bodies. It is a way to get convenipg of a national emergency Section of picket in Detroit AFL-CIO anti-Nixon demon- together to solve their economic, so­ congress of labor in Washington to stration Sept. 23. cial and political problems right here fight government-by-injunction. at home before anything else. unemployment crisis becomes more Party develops, as it surely will, the Idea not new Some local unions, and even some acute. Some will strike to stop the sentiment for a labor party is bound AFL-CIO central labor bodies in ma­ As these examples show, the idea layoffs and win a guaranteed annual to grow. jor cities, will urge that a congress of a congress of labor is not new. It wage for everyone in a particular in­ Until now, the union movement has of labor be called immediately. But is a good idea that has yet to be dustry. The East Coast longshoremen attempted to solve the economic prob­ primarily, they will be busy finding realized. It is an idea that will per­ are defending such an agreement now. lems of organized workers on an in­ ways to answer the provocations of sist, that will be introduced with great­ The union movement is demanding dustry-by-industry basis, leaving such er insistence in more local unions as local plant managers or trying tocir­ of the federal government that a pub­ broad social issues as housing, educa­ cumvent the decrees of the government the wage freeze cuts into the living lic works program be inaugurated im­ tion, racial discrimination, health standards of millions of workers. Pay Board These-local actions, often mediately, as a stopgap measure to care, child welfare, social security, involving desperate, drawn-out They will seek ways to maintain reduce unemployment and to meet ur­ even unemployment, and of course their present standard of living and strikes, may lead to the convening gent social needs. war- all of which were considered in of regional labor congresses such as to raise it by striking for cost-of-living These three big issues-the wage the general category of "political mat­ payments provided for in the escalator that proposed by the San Francisco freeze, unemployment, and the war­ ters" - to be looked after by the Painters union for the Bay Area. clauses already in their union con­ are closely linked All are related to "friends of labor" in government tracts, for basic wage increases al­ Such a congress would bring togeth­ the economic crisis. All are political · The wage freeze helps expose the er representatives from all unions in ready in their union contracts, for issues requiring a political solution. weakness of such a position. It is basic wage increases already negotiat­ the area. It would also consult with considerably harder now for one and prepare joint actions with the na­ ed and agreed upon, and for further Democrats exposed union alone, even such powerful wage raises as prices continue to tural allies of the unions: the power­ The modern union movement, tied unions as the United Auto Workers or ful forces of the oppressed national climb. as it is to the Democratic Party, fmds United Steelworkers, to win even the Very few workers have bought the minorities struggling for self-determi­ that it does not have its own represen­ most elementary economic demands. nation; the women's liberation move­ fatuous notion that higher wages tatives in government. The Democratic The_ members of these unions natural­ ment; the antiwar movement, includ­ cause inflation. They know that their Party is owned and controlled by big ly look to the rest of the union move­ unions fight for wage increases in or­ ing antiwar Gis; the students; and business, just as the Republican Party ment. They have no where else to all others oppressed and exploited by der to keep up with rising prices, that is, and the Democrats in all branches look. cost-of-living escalator clauses in capitalism. of government w:e just as ardent ad­ Such a congress either on a regional union contracts become effective only vocates and defenders of the wage or national level, would reflect the after prices have risen. freEZe as the Republicans are. The This is convincing evidence to many growing conviction that the labor There is a growing realization that man responsible for implementing the that whatever is done to maintain a the primary cause of the present in­ wage freeze is Treasury Secretary decent standard of living, or in any movement must come together for mu­ tensified inflation is the war in Viet­ John B. Connally, a life long regular other way to improve the conditions tual protection and to draft a plan of actian.. , It_ will be talking about nam. As though this cruel and unjust Democratic Party politician; The Eco­ of this society, will have to be fought war were not bad enough, the $SO­ nomic Stabilization Act of 1970, the for and won by working men and strikes to stop the layoffs, about an billion annual military budget also legislation for the wage freeze, was women themselves with the help of escalator clause in every contract, maintains a huge armaments industry originated and adopted by the Dem­ all the allies they can muster to sup­ about a shorter wqrkday to combat for the same type of military adven­ ocratic Party majority in the U.S. port them. It no longer appears so unemployment, about an end to the tures in other parts of the world when Congress. No leading Democrat, in reasonable to look to the "friendly" war. It will begin to work out a pro­ the occasion arises. Hundreds of thou­ or out of government, has yet voiced politicians in the service of the cap­ gram to solve the basic problems of sands are demonstrating against this the slightest opposition to the wage italist class to bring about any basic society that the bankers, industrialists terrible war in Vietnam, and union freEZe or to Phase Two of Nixon's change in government policy. Only and politicians have failed to solve.

18 The National Picket Line LACKING ANY PLAN OF OPPOSITION to the says, "We suggest that if this country's labor chiefs The longshoremen's wives had wanted all the government wage freeze and disoriented by the are so unstable ·as to openly defy the executive women to picket the offices of the shipowners, capitulation of the AFL-CIO Executive Council branch of government, suitable provision be made but those who had chartered the buses said there on Oct. 12 to "help try to make" the wage freeze for them in the nearest federal brig." wasn't time for that. work, the union movement has been floundering These employers have been encouraged by the The antistrike publicity stunt was turned into in a sea of indignation and frustration. Some government drive against wages to reveal their an expression of support for the strike. unions have received "suggestions" from their top deep class hatred, but they are not satisfied that international leadership. Local unions h~ve tried Nixon has gone far enough. "Our only regret," THE NEW YORK TELEPHONE CO., which is independently to resolve their disputes over wages they say, "is that President Nixon did not act using strikebreakers to starve out 38,500 skilled with local management, ending in stalemate. In to take a more liberal stand on investment credits. linemen and phone installers who walked off the many instances strikers and their closest allies The 10-percent, first-year credit, with 5 percent for job July 20 for higher wages, now claims, ac­ have continued the fight for a living wage. The subsequent years, is a partial help, but certainly cording to the Wall Street Journal, "more than rules of collective bargaining have changed and should not be considered the answer to the in­ 700 incidents of cable cutting, overturned trucks, the problem for the unions is how to stay in the vestment problems of printers and other business­ vandalized pay phones, and at least one bomb game. men." threat." "Overhead telephone lines have been brought A CONTRACT between the Pacific Coast Metal IN PORTLAND, ORE., a group of women from down by shotgun blasts," the report says, while Trades District Council and the Pacific Coast Ship­ the Willamette Valley grain belt came to the docks "underground lines have been dug up, cut and, builders' Association was signed last Aug. 8 and more than a month before Nixon invoked the in some instances, tied to the backs of cars and ratified by the union membership, who had re­ Taft-Hartley law against the striking West Coast ripped from the earth." jected the previous proposal. Basic terms include: longshoremen. The women demanded that long­ Daniel Keenan, president of Communications a 32-cent across-the-board raise, up from an av­ shoremen go back to work immediately and "per­ Workers of America Local 1103, denies the im­ erage of about $4 per hour; an additional 17 mit the free flow of goods through our seaports." plied charge that strikers are responsible for these cents in fringe benefits on Sept. 1; a 20-cent raise They had been organized and brought to Portland attacks on company property. "I've told our and a five-cent-minimum cost-of-living adjustment in two buses by a seed broker and an economic people we're not going to settle the strike with on July 1, 1972; and third-year adjustments the consultant claiming to represent fQ.rmers. violence," the CWA local president said same as the second year's. These women from the farm area were met at This inadequate wage settlement is typical, con­ the docks by wives of the strikers. A report in THE WAGE FREEZE in this country has eco­ trary to the common misconception that skilled The Oregonian by Ann Sullivan said the meeting nomic consequences in other countries, as intended,. workers are overpaid. Moreover, it leaves out of the two groups of women was "amiable and but some were not anticipated. On Oct. 13, about of account the severe unemployment in the ship­ unusual." .5,000 members of the United Auto Workers in building industry. But for those still on the job, The strikers' wives invited the women from the Canada went on strike against U. S.-based Doug­ some of them only part-time, the agreement was farm area to the union hall for lunch, and there las Aircraft. They walked out when a company abrogated Aug. 15 by the government wage freeze the issues in the strike were explained to them. negotiator refused to make a wage offer to them edict. According to the union paper, The Dispatcher, because of the wage-freeze edict issued by the pres­ one of the women who had come to Portland ident of the United States. The present base pay OUR CORRESPONDENT IN LOS ANGELES for­ said as she was returning to the valley, "I'd never is $2.98 an hour for office workers, and $3.33 warded a copy of the September issue of Printing have got on that bus this morning if I'd known for production workers. Magazine, presenting the attitude of publishers. It then what I know now." -FRANK LOVELL

~. f· 1.. · Wives and children of striking longshoremen mobilized in Portland Photos from The Dispatcher Taft-Hartley fails to cool dock workers By ED HARRIS tion by the employers, represented by company men, and were rewarded ac­ eral judges to comply with Section SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 19-Work the Pacific Coast Maritime Association cordingly. They no longer use the 9.43. In both areas the union has stoppages and slowdowns have (PMA). The PMA is on the offensive, · union hiring hall. The employers call complied, formally. The men are marred a smooth reopening of the feeling that now is the time to estab­ them to work from their homes. They called by name by the shippers- but · 24 Pacific Coast ports closed for 100 lish on the job the kind of working got up to seven days a week work dispatched from the union hall. And days by striking longshoremen of the conditions it wants in any new con­ plus overtime, while the other union at the end of the week they "quit," International Longshoremen's and tract. members were getting two to three and return to the union hall. Warehousemen's union. First of all, it wants "steady men," days.. Harry Bridges, international pres­ One week after the preliminary Taft­ key men who will wotk directly for Local 10 (San Francisco) called for ident of the ILWU, has objectively Hartley injunction was issued Oct. 8, the company, bypassing the union­ removal of Section 9.43 from the been playing the role of PMA fire­ the Los Angeles-Long Beach and San controlled, job-rotating and work­ coast contract. Bridges refused. The man, flying up and down the coast Diego ports were still closed. In Se­ equalizing hiring hall, which is the local countered by sending delegates trying to put out the frres of rebel­ attle and Portland about one-half of very heart of the exte.nsive job con­ to all major locals up and down the lion. His last stop was Seattle, where all longshoremen were being fired trol still held by the ILWU. coast and succeeded in gaining full employers claim production is down daily for "low productivity." In Oak­ The language of the last ILWU­ support for its position. Bridges still 50 percent. Bridges spoke against land, longshoremen were locked out PMA contract negotiated by the refused. such tactics as slowdowns, urging full of the huge Sealand Corporation con­ Bridges leadership granted steady Local 10 has said it will not ratify compliance with the reinstated con­ tainer docks, which handle most of men. ILWU locals have clauned that any contract that grants steady men. tract. the West Coast military cargo. In San Section 9.43- the steady-man clause­ So at present it is a standoff between At present ILWU-PMA negotiations Francisco, 400 men walked off Amer­ is in conflict with an older section, Bridges and the ranks of the union. are stalled. The PMA has offered ican President Line docks over a which guarantees the union's right to During the strike, when some ships about one-half of the ILWU demands. "safety issue." rotate work in order to equalize earn­ were worked, all locals refused steady The government tactic of applying On the job, the mood is angry and ings. This right was won in the 1934 men on any job, including military the Taft-Hartley at first only to the defiant, and the men are fighting back strike. jobs. Since no contract was enforced West Coast, thus impairing joint strike with the means that they have. Thus far the PMA has been unable during the strike, employers had to efforts between the ILWU and the East The federal government, represent­ to enforce Section 9.43 in any port go along. But now that the Taft­ Coast ILA, has made the PMA even ing the shipowners, has taken the except San Francisco, simply because Hartley injunction has reestablished more bold and arrogant. It evidently ILWU to court, charging violation the men refuse to take the jobs on the old contract, they are pushing for feels that it can force the unions into of the Taft-Hartley law. Meanwhile, a steady basis. In San Francisco, full compliance. The PMA has shown a settlement on its terms before Christ- the preliminary 1 0-day injunction was ILWU International President Bridges no hesitation in locking out the union mas. extended to a full 80 days by court took the PMA's side and was able and thus stopping military shipment edict in San Francisco Oct. 16. This to force the union to comply. at Sealand in Oakland The ranks of the ILWU have not means that the striking longshoremen The result of compliance in San In Los Angeles-Long Beach the lost the will to fight. Their actions and ship clerks will be legally free Francisco during the last two years PMA is attempting steady men where show that. They are especially solid to strike again on Christmas day. has alerted the whole coast to the they have not had them before. on the issue of the hiring hall, which The trouble on the waterfront is dangers. The hundreds of steady men In both San Francisco and Los An­ they say they will not. allow to be mostly a result of aggressive provoca- in · San Francisco became effectively geles the union was ordered by fed- Continued on poge 22

THE MILITANT/ OCTOBER 29, 1971 19 Lut. week The' Militant devoted tile major·(JtOJ!tilltll ·Of ,~ye1hiatric Institute where Vladimir had been kept much In Beview to excerpts from an Open Letter to the 24th of the summer. She reports that a doctor told her, in Congress of the Soviet Communist Party by Pyotr Yakir, · the presence of a secret-police agent, that her ·son was one of the leading left.wing opposltloidsts in the Soviet not cooperating with the psychiatric examination and Union today. In that letter be referred to the widespread that he was "seriously ill" physically. His rheumatic fever use of psyeblatrle hospitals as prisons for the "treatment" had apparently worsened. of dissident intelleduals. The artlde below, reprinted from Intercontinental Press, The police and authorities apparently do not feel they In can rid themselves of the troublesome Bukovsky with takes up the spedfte ease 'of Vladimir Bukovsky, a young Soviet writer who is today being held in the notorious just another trial. The reference of his mother to the dan­ Serbsky Institute in Moscow where be is being forcibly ger of his being turned into a "complete cripple" is a real ••treated" for his polltieal ideas. · one. Rather than holding trials where defendants can Review proclaim their views and thus win more support, the While not our usual kind of review feature, we are pub­ lisblng this material as part of the international cam­ heirs of Stalin have been resorting more and more to paign to defend the lives-and, quite literally, even the locking dissenters up in prison-hospitals until they "regain The minds-of the new generation of Soviet oppositionists. normality" by abandoning their dissident views. This pro­ Among these leaders of the fight for a return to the Lenin­ cess is accompanied also by forced injections of debili­ ist norms of socialist demoeraey are some of the Soviet tating drugs. The effect of these drugs, especially AmiDazin, of· Union's most gifted artists, poets and authors. according to testimony from Soviet political prisoners, is to render the individual completely limp and apathetic, the aim being to suppress dissidence by destroying the . dissenters' mental capacity. "I absolutely do not repent for organizing this demon­ ; case stration. I find that it accomplished what it had to ac­ Besides the appeal by Nina Bukovskaya there have complish, and when I am free again, I shall again or­ been a number of protests in behalf. of Vladimir Bukov­ ganize demonstrations, of course with complete observa­ sky. Forty-seven Soviet citizens, including such prominent Vladimir tion of the law, as before." oppositionists as Pyotr Yakir, Zinaida Grigorenko, Alek­ These were the words of Vladimir Bukovsky, young sandr Yesenin-Volpin, and Anatoly Yakobson, signed a writer and political dissident, in his final statement at statement affirming their personal acquaintance with Bu­ Bukovsky a trial in September 1967 at which he was sentenced kovsky. · to three years imprisonment. Convicted for "disturbing "None of us ever had the slightest doubt that he was the peace," his real offense to the bureaucracy was that absolutely sane," they declared. "On the contrary, we all he had organized a demonstration, in Moscow in January know Bukovsky as a well-integrated and mentally bal- 1967, protesting the ar~sts .of two other young dissenters, anced person. , Yuri Galanskov and Aleksandr Ginzburg. "Alarmed by the prolonged examination of Bukovsky Released in early 1970 (his pretri,al detention had been and lacking any guarantee of its objectivity and honesty," credited to his sentence), Bukovsky was true to his word. they continued, "we declare that if he is adjudged men­ He immediately resumed organized efforts to struggle tally incompetent, we will be unable to regard that as for democratic rights and to publicize violations of these anything but a crime, exceeding the authority of the of­ rights by the bureaucrats who have controlled the Soviet ficials involved." government from Stalin on. Similar, separate appeals were reportedly made in Bu­ For more than a year Bukovsky carried on his ener­ kovsky's behalf by Academician Sakharov, one of the getic and often quite dramatic efforts. He gave an inter­ founders of the nongovernmental Committee for Human view to the Washington Post describing conditions in Soviet Rights, and by Mikhail A. Leontovich, also a nuclear camps, prisons, and "special" psychiatric hospitals. He physicist. gave a television interview to newsman William Cole, Support for Bukovsky has also come from some Western then working for CBS, along the same lines. He appealed psychiattists, along the lines of his appeal of last Janu­ to Mikos Theodorakis, the Greek composer and dissident ary. Forty-four members of the department of psychiatry Communist, to intervene in behalf of Soviet political pris­ oners as a former political prisoner himself (of the Greek at Sheffield University in Britain called on psychiatrists throughout the world to oppose the Soviet government. colonels). Finally, in an open letter of January 28, .1971, to psychiatrists in the West, he appealed for protest against misuse of mental hospitals. Their September 17 letter to the use of psychiatric hospitals for the forced detention the London Times urged psychiatrists to raise the issue with Soviet colleagues and at international conferences. of mentally sound dissenters. With this appeal he included Pyotr Grigorenko: "Obviously, if exact copies of diagnoses made by KGB-minded psychi­ They cited Bukovsky's case in particular. the only 'normal' Soviet citizen is atric "experts" in the cases of five oppositionists, including . Also, there is some confirmation in fact for Nina Bukov­ one who bows his head to every that of Ivan Yakhimovich (who has since been freed skaya 's assessment of the secret police intentions. In late bureaucrat who exceeds his pow­ from such detention but has not been heard from polit­ September, before the· six-month period expired, the in­ er, then I am certainly 'abnor­ ically). Bukovsky asked Western psychiatrists to express terrogator Korkach took the unprecedented step of calling their opinions on whether the diagnoses contained enough mal.'" Grigorenko, a former Red in two Western newsmen, James R. Peipert of the Asso­ evidence to require the confinement of the individuals ciated Press and Andrew Waller, bureau chief of Reuters Army general, is among those involved. He also urged psychiatrists attending inter­ news agency. Korkach told Peipert that the questioning Soviet citizens who have been in­ national professional conferences to raise the question had to do with a case involving Article 70. (Peipert and carcerated in mental hospitals be­ of such abuse of psychiatric facilities for repressive pur­ Bukovsky were attacked and beaten by agents while meet­ cause of their political views. poses. ing in downtown Moscow last January.) At the same time, Increasing attention has been called to the internment a number of Bukovsky's Soviet friends were called in of Soviet dissidents in prison-hospitals. Buk9vsky's role for questioning in his case. in calling the attention of progressive world opinion to The KGB officer warned the American and British news­ this violation of human rights has been an important men not to reveal the subject of the interrogation under one. (He himself suffered from this form of official re­ pain of prosecution by Soviet law. This way of dealing prisal earlier in his career- in 1963, after organizing with the Western press, unprecedented in the recent period, a showing of "underground" abstract art;. and in 1965, indicates how fearful the bureaucracy is lest information after organizing a demonstration against the arrest of on the Bukovsky case get out. Its case must have been Soviet writers Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel.) shaky indeed. And psychiatric "treatment" is chosen as The Brezhnev regime has apparently decided not to a desperate way out. leave this twenty-eight-year-old gadfly on the loose any It is urgent that people on the left, unionists, activists - longer. He was rearrested on the eve of the Twenty-fourth in the antiwar, women's, and other radical social move­ Congress, on March 29, and despite protests in his be­ ments speak out, as well as psychiatrists and bourgeois half, including one by nuclear physicist Andrei D. Sa­ politicians, in defense of the Soviet oppositionists.. An in~ kharov, an investigation was begun that pointed toward dication of the urgency of international support for these a trial under Article 70 of the Russian Republic Criminal courageous fighters for true socialist democracy can be . Code prohibiting "anti-Soviet propaganda and agitation," seen in the fate of former Red Army General Pyotr Grigor­ carrying penalties of up to seven years imprisonment. enko, an oppositionist-minded Communist who defended Now it has come out that the KGB has transferred Soviet power, arms in hand, in World War II. Bukovsky to the notorious Serbsky Institute in Moscow Following the example set by Bukovsky last year in for "psychiatric exl,lmination." making a filmed interview for television,. Soviet dissidents In the f"rrst days of October an appeal by Nina Bukov­ have smuggled out a film in which they appeal for sup­ skaya, Bukovsky's mother, began to circulate in samizdat port in the struggles for "Human Rights in the Soviet in Moscow. This open letter calls on "all people of good Union," the film's title. will" to help save her son from being turned into a "com­ Zinaida Grigorenko, in the film, describes her husband's plete cripple" by Soviet prison psychiatrists. condition now that he has 'been detained for over two Nina Bukovskaya asserts that the normal six-month years in a special psychiatric hospital. On her last visit period of pretrial detention has expired and that the KGB to him, at the time of filming (several months ago), he (the secret police) can no longer legally justify her son's told her: "I go around with compresses of urine on. My detention. body is covered with sores. The gastritis is worse. So is "His· only crime is the fact that he recounted for the the cistitis. I am very, very ill." whole world the practice of confining people who dissent In her filmed· plea to public opinion, Zinaida Grigor~ in psychiatric hospitals under the pretext of mental ill­ enko also says: ness." Pointing out that "the investigation is now in its "It is a fact that my husband is condemned to solitary seventh month," she stresses that investigators found "no confinement where he is not even allowed to have a pen­ kind of actual violation of the law by my son," cil or piece of paper to write on, where they. order him "Seeking a way out of his ~mbarrassment," she writes,· to stand, like a stone statue.. That means either physical "the KGB investigator, Captain Korkach, has sent my death or madness. People- help me to save my husband, son to a special institute of forensic psychiatry for an to save those like iny husband who are suffering for their examination of his psychiatric condition." opinions." Nina Bukovskaya had been summoned to the Serbsky -GEORGE SAUNDERS

20 celed their bond deduction~ Queried to the Oct. 7 New York Times, that As it turns out, Nixon shares Ba­ on this, a union staff member said "Mrs. Banuelos is well known as an nuelos' appreciation for cheap Mexi­ this was clearly not the case, since employer of aliens.-" According to Im­ can labor. The Oct. 18 issue of Time Federal he had personally turned in more can­ migration officials, this was the sixth revealed that "Before he was nabbed celation forms for workers than that raid in three years on Banuelos' food by FBI men, Francisco Martinez and others had turned theirs in in­ packing plant. Llamas, an illegal Mexican alien, employees. dividually. It is estimated that there are at least worked for two days last summer as one million illegal Mexican nationals, a gardener on the grounds of the so-called mojados or "wetbacks," Western White House at San Clemen~e." cancel working in the United States. Because Banuelos claimed that the raid at they are subject to immediate depor­ Ramona Foods was an attempt by tation if caught, they are targets for Democrats to prevent her appointment U.S. bonds Nixon the worst kinds of abuses by employ­ as Treasurer of the United States, but By HARRY RING • ers. Many factory owners hire illegal in reality she was the victim of a LONG BEACH, Calif.- Civilian em­ Mexican nationals through enganchi­ stepped-up attack on illegal aliens by ployees at the Long Beach Naval nom1nee stas, or contractors, on the basis of the ruling class and the labor bureau~ Shipyard responded to "Phase One" seasonal work such as in food pro­ cracy. In the face of rising unemploy­ of Nixon's wage freeze by canceling cessing plants. The workers are told ment, the U. S. ruling class already their government savings bonds. They exploits that they will receive the bulk of their has underway a new campaign of acted at the urging of their union, the low wages at the completion of a spec­ pointing out the "injustice to U.S. res­ Federal Employees Metal Trades ified time period. But just prior to idents" of having Mexican nationals, Council, AFL-CIO. La Raza the end of the time period, employers Dominicans, and other Latinos work­ In mid-September, a union leaflet By ANTONIO CAMEJO have been known to call the Immigra- ing in the U.S. was issued to the shipyard workers, Nixon's nominee.for U.S. Treasurer, In 1970, the number of deportations headed: Nixon's Scapegoats Unite." Romana Acosta Banuelos, is a per­ went up to 317,016, a 240 percent The leaflet reported that at a Sept. son after his own heart. Starting out increase from 1967. The ruling class 13 Metal Trades Council meeting, "the in 1949 with one automatic tortilla hopes by this method to force Raza Council delegates unanimously adop­ machine and her aunt, Banuelos built aliens to suffer the brunt of the ris­ ted a strongly worded resolution urg­ up the Ramona Mexican Food Prod­ ing unemployment and thus minimize ing all employees to immediately can­ ucts Company into a $6-million busi­ a radicalization among U. S. workers. cel their U.S. Savings Bond deduction. ness with over 300 employees. After In periods of prosperity, the Border Thus, all employees . . . are urged the first two years, she bought out Patrol and the Federal Immigration to support this program as a means the aunt, added another machine and Service look the other way while em­ to demonstrate to the president that a truck driver, and was on her way. ployers indiscriminantly superexploit we, the Federal Employees, will not In 1964, she helped found the Pan Raza workers who come here hoping stand still for this unfair and inequi­ American Bank in a predominantly to find a better life for themselves table method of adjusting the economy Chicano section of Los Angeles. Her and their families. of this country. main contribution was to put the bank The appointment of Banuelos would "The Federal Employees," the leaf­ on a firm financial footing by tight­ mak.e her the first Mexican-American let continued, "must rise up to take ening .up on "high risk" loan appli­ to fill such a high government post. this 'wage' burden off our backs. cants. Nixon, like other capitalist politicians, Those few extra dollars we are now For those of us who marvel at her is grooming himself and brushing up investing in U.S. Savings Bonds will unquestionable success, she has these on his Spanish for the Chicano vote supplement our income until the freeze words of advice. "I would say to any­ in 1972. Ya Mero (Sept. 25), a Span­ is lifted. . . . CANCEL YOUR one who wanted to start a business­ ish language Chicano paper from Mc­ BONDS TODAY." if they had no money- that they must Allen, Texas, noted however that be­ Romano Acostd Baiiuelos A subsequent leaflet indicated the be willing to work very, very ing U.S. Treasurer "is a job with union leadership is not ready to op­ hard.... " little power, with responsibility limited pose the wage freeze in principle but In addition to hard work, Banuelos tion Service reporting that they sus­ to signing your name on American intends to focus their fire on the par­ had something else going for her. A pect some of the workers of being paper money. ticular inequities imposed on federal raid by the Federal Immigration and "wetbacks." The workers are then "The real manager of the financial employees. The leaflet said federal Naturalization Service on one of her rounded up and deported, without re­ matters of the U.S. government is workers "are not opposed to the theory plants in Los Angeles revealed that ceiving their final pay. not the treasurer but the secretary of of a wage and price control as long she had a number of illegal Mexican The work force of 300 at Ramona the treasury, the title of which is held as it is equitable.... " nationals employed there. Professor Foods is made up mainly of women. by the ex-governor of Texas, John The assistant to the shipyard com­ Rudy Acuna of the Chicano Studies Thirty-six of them were captured in Connally, an individual known in his mander asserted that only some 160 Department at San· Fernando Valley the raid and deported back to Mexico, home state as a conservative, a racist of 7,000 employees had actually can- State College commented, according although one demanded a hearing. [and] anti-Mexican.... " iLa Raza en Accicin! USE OF SPANISH IRKS MONOLINGUAL RAC­ cruiting methods used by growers. ing to Roybal, "over half of GS- 1 jobs, or the ISTS: El Chicano, published in San Bernardino, "Carmen Olguin and 40 others were sent nearly lowest federal pay category, are filled by minority Calif., reports in its Sept. 8 issue that the use 2,000 miles by the Calexico, Calif., [Farm Labor] groups, while only 2 percent hold GS- 18 posi­ of Spanish by two students and a guest speaker office to lllinois to work for the Green Giant Com­ tions, or the highest white collar category." at a high school graduation ceremony earlier this pany for $2 an hour. Less work and more de­ Of the 2.6 million federal employees, fewer year brought sharp reactions from several school ductions than expected cut this to 36 cents an than 3 percent are Spanish surnamed. In the top officials. "Addressing commencement exercises of hour, Mr. Olguin said, and when he complained echelon of government, only 0.33 percent are Span­ Gambetta School [in Castroville, Calif.], where to the Calexico office upon returning [having paid ish surnamed. This is completely out of proportion more than 400 of the approximately 500 students his own way there and back], 'they just laughed to the figure of at least 6 percent Spanish surnamed are Mexican-American ... the speakers spoke first at· us.'" (Now you know why the Green Giant in the population as a whole. in Spanish and then in English. is so jolly.) The Civil Service Commission, charged with ex­ Although the Chicano parents were extremely In another incident, Janson reports that "Esme­ ecuting the equal employment program is one happy about this, the culturally arrogant adminis­ ralda Sanchez, of Texas' Rio Grande Valley, was of the worst offenders. Out of a total of 5,300 trators were incensed. "It was a disgrace to let referred with a large group of workers to Ohio employees, only 140 or 2.6 percent are Spanish it happen. It should never have been allowed to tomato fields but found little work on arrival be­ surnamed, with 75 percent of them in the lowest happen," was the reaction of Judge Kenneth Blohm, cause the grower had 4,000 harvesters on hand paying jobs. Likewise with the Equal Employ­ a trustee. School board chairman Leonard Shir­ rather than the 1,000 he actually needed." ment Opportunity Commission. Out of 700 em­ rel demanded that "Before something like this hap­ The Farm Labor Offices, ostensibly set up to ployees· only 64 are Spanish surnamed, with not pens again the board should know about it." The protect farm workers, do quite the opposite. Terry one in a top level position. The same story is principal, Paul Murray, obviously outraged that Y. Feiertag of the lllinois Migrant Council put to be found in the Departments of Commerce; Chicanos should use their native language, stated it this way. The farm labor network "exhibits no \Labor; Health, Education and Welfare; and Hous­ flatly, "It won't happen again." awareness that it is to function in any way as I.tg and Urban Development, where less than 2 a government protection against exploitation of percent of the employees are Spanish surnamed. 50,000 FARM WORKERS STRANDED: The Oc­ the worker, but rather acts as an all-too-willing Most revealing is that the Office of Economic tober Frontline Strike News of the United Farm partner of the employer in just such exploitation." Opportunity (OEO), supposedly set up to help Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC) reports the poor and minority groups, has only 894 em­ that "about 50,000 workers are stranqed [in the ployees listed as from a minority out of 2,400. Midwest], unable to earn enough money to get FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SETS EXAMPLE: As Although Spanish-surnamed people make up about back to Texas. National Strike Director Jim Drake most people know, the federal government is 27 percent of the poor, only 3.6 of those employed reports that there are about two workers for every charged with enforcing the 1964 Civil Rights Act by.the OEO are Spanish surnamed. available job at 70 cents an hour. Families are and Executive Orders 11246 and 11478, all of Even the vendido Roybal was forced to con­ doubled up in housing. which deal with nondiscrimination in federal con­ clude that "The government has acted immorally This tragic situation for Chicano workers re­ tracts. and illegally. By its indifference, it has perpetuated sults directly from the conscious policy of over­ The pattern of discrimination against nonwhite this occupational caste system and turned the ideal recruiting by growers, with the full cooperation workers of course continues. But a speech by Ed­ of equal employment into another American myth." of the Texas Employment Commission, California ward R. Roybal (D-Calif.) in the Sept. 23 Con­ We should add that expecting Roybal's party or Labor Offices, and Midwest state employment of­ gressional Record indicates that federal employ­ the Republican Party to do anything about it is fices. In a special article in the Oct. 3 New York ment practices regarding government workers is falling victim to still another myth. Times, Donald .Janson reported some of the re- as bad or worse than the national pattern. Accord- -ANTONIO CAMEJO

THE MILITANT/ OCTOBER 29, 1971 21 Socialist Workers Party mayoral candidate Jean· Sav­ At the time of his death, he was After retiring from the construction age will present her program and interview repre­ involved in a legal battle involving trade, John joined an art league and sentallves of the Student Mobilization CommiHee, Women United for Abortion Rights, and the Philadel­ desegregation in Atlanta schools. became a potter and designer in ce­ phia Peace Action Coalition. Savage will also be _seen Rindskoprs untim-ely death will be ramics and glass to gratify his. cre­ in a special broadcast on Chonnel6 on Wed., Oct. 27 mourned particularly by those from ative instincts. On several occasions at 9:30 p.m. and has toped a show for WIFI radio ·in recent times he and his wife, Anna, that will be broadcast Sun., Oct. 24, at_ 9 P·'!'· Call Atlanta's Black community and anti­ WAS-4316 for further Information. war and radical movements who knew made their home and spacious that they could call him any time, grounds in Perkasie available to the SEA mE day or night, _and receive legal as­ Young Socialist Alliance for picnics. OICANO UBERA110N AND THE '72 ELEcnONS. Among John's last political acts was Speaker: Mirta Vidal, author of Chicano Liberation sistance. and Revolutionary Youth, frequent contributor to the his participation in the November Calendar International Socialist Review and The Militant. Fri., 1969 antiwar demonstration in Wash­ BOSTON Oct. 29, 8 p.m., at 5257 University Way N. E. Dono­ ington, D. C. SOCALIST WORKERS PARTY CAMPAIGN '71 meets lion: 51, h.s. students 50c. Ausp. Militant Labor Forum. every Thursday, 7 p.m., at 295 Huntington Ave., Room Dinner served at 6 p.m., $1.50 (Dinner and forum 307. You ore invited! combo-52.25). For further information, call 523-2555. WHICH DIREcnON FOR THE ANTIWAR MOVEMENt? Veteran TWINCmES A discussion of perspectives for the antiwar move­ THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT. Speaker: Mary ment by representatives of the two notional antiwar H...... son. Socialist Workers Party. Fri., Oct. 29, 8:30 coalitions. Speakers: Don Gurewitz, a coordinator of p.m., at 1 University N. E. (at E. Hennepin), Second Greater Boston Peace Action Coalition; and Andy ...dock Aaor. Donation: $1, h.s. students 50c. Ausp. Militant socialist Continued from poge 19 Himes, staff member of Boston People's Coalition for Labor Forum. Peace and Justice. Fri., Oct. 29, 8 p.m., at 295 Hunt. altered, come hell or high water, PMA ington Ave., Room 307. Donation: $1, h.s. students or Bridges. .SOc. Ausp. Militant Labor Forum. dies Along the waterfront still stand- as LOS ANGELES if expecting reoccupancy- the make­ ALIENA110N: A PERMANENT C()NDmON OF HU­ shift picket shacks erected during the MAN LIFE? Speaker: Dr. Morris Storsky, Marxist phi­ in. Penn. PERKASIE, Pa. -John Knisely died 100.day strike. Painted on the side losopher. Fri., Oct: 29, 8:30 p.m., at 1107 1/2 N. of these plywood and tarpaper struc­ Western Ave. Donation: $1, h.s. students SOc. Ausp. Atlanta here Oct. 7 at the age of 65. Across tures is the slogan, "We shall return!" Million! Labor Forum. For further information, call the· years since he was born in Allen­ 463-1966 or 463-1917. town, Pa., he had made many con­ NEW YORK: LOWER MANHATTAN rights. tributions to the trade-union and rev: By JEAN SAVAGE THE PADILLA AFFAIR: AR11S11C FREEDOM IN CUBA­ olutionary-socialist movements.. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 20- Striking A symposium featuring Susan Sontog, writer; Irwin After only six years of formal members of the International Long­ Silber, staff writer lor the Guardian; David Thorstod, schooling, John went to work in a shoremen's Association, AFL-CIO, staff writer lor The Militonl; and Sandra levin, author lawyer lust returned from Cuba, editor of the recently pub­ pants factory where he became a vol­ were ordered back to work in this lished book Venceremos Brigade. Fri., Oct. 29,8 p.m., untary organizer for theAmalgamated port by a common pleas court injunc­ at 706 Broadway (4•:o St.), Eighth Floor. Donation: Clothing Workers Union. Later he tion Oct 17. A federal district court 51, h.s. students :iOc. Continental dinner served at 6:30 p.m., $1.25. Ausp. Militant Labor Forum. For killed was- made an official organizer for the upheld the injunction the follow­ further information, call 982-6051. By DOUG JENNESS union and assigned to the New En­ ing day. On Saturday Oct 9 Atlanta civil rights gland area to organize pocketbook The 6,000 Philadelphia dock work­ FLY OVER TO 706 BROADWAY (4th St.), Eighth Floor, attorney Peter Rindskopf was killed workers. In preparation for this as­ ers walked off the. job Oct. 1 in re­ on Sot., Oct. 30, 7 p.m., lor our spirits and wlkhes party-on extravaganza of dinner, games, prizes, danc­ in an automobile accident. Rindskopf, signment the union had sent him to sponse to the East Coast strike call ing and other delights. Eat, drink and be merry with 29, was a partner of Howard Moore, Brookwood Labor College in NeW of the ILA. All- Atlantic Coast ports us. Donation: 52. Ausp. Socialist Workers Party. chief defense co,unsel for Angela Davis, York State. During the 1930s he was are closed and the union is urging also supporter of the National Un­ all Gulf Coast ports· to comply with FALL SOOALIST EDUCA110NAL SERIES: 'History of in the law firm of Moore, Alexander, a the Young Socialist Alliance,' the second of three lec­ and Rindskopf. employed League, especially in his the strike call as well. tures on the current radicalization by Caroline lund, Rindskopf was widely respected in native territory of eastern Pennsylva­ The court action here could serious­ staff writer for The Militant. Sun., Oct. 31, 1 p.m., Atlanta for his legal competence and nia. ly cripple the strike, which seeks to at 706 Broadway (4th St.), Eighth Floor. Admission: John joined the Trotskyist move­ extend the guaranteed-annual-income 50c. Ausp. Socialist Workers Party. For more infor­ his willingness to defend those unfair­ ootion, call 260-097 6. ly treated by this racist society. He ment in the mid-thirties and in 1938 provision of 2,080 hours pay ( 40 handled housing and job discrimina­ he became a founding member of the hours for 52 weeks) won by long­ NEW YORK: UPPER WEST SIDE Socialist Workers Party. During the shoremen in the port of New York IN DEFENSE OF CARLOS FELICIANO. Fri., Oct. 29, tion suits, draft cases, defended G Is and represented the NAACP in sev­ upsurge of labor struggle following under the contract that expired Sept. 8:30 p.m., at 2744 8roadwby (105th St.). Donation: World War II he was an active mem­ 30. S1, h.s. students SOc. Ausp. Militant Forum. For further eral court cases. He was a principled The baclt-to-work injunction here information, call 663-3000. defender of civil liberties. ber of the SWP's Tri-city branch of Allentown, Perkasie and Reading. Af­ was granted on the flimsiest basis: In 1970, as a lawyer for the South­ UPPER WEST SIDE SOCIALIST WORKERS P.ARTY C~ ter the branch was dissolved in the a joint union-management statement PAJGN KICft.OFF RALLY AND PARTY. Sot., Oct. 30, ern Legal Assistance Project, he rep­ period of cold war and intensive witch­ Sept 22 which said that "based upon 8 p.m. Speakers: David Keepnews, SWP high school resented Linda Jenness, who was then hunting, he became a supporter of the the extension of the present contract candidate for New York State Assembly; Stacey Jos­ the Socialist Workers Party candidate lin, SWP candidate for U.S. Congress; B.R. Wasl>­ party's branch in nearby Philadelphia. . .. all of the ILA locals in Phila­ ington, SWP candidate for U.S. Congress from Har­ for governor of Georgia, in a suit Having become a skilled carpenter delphia would continue to work . . . lem; Julie Simon, chairwoman, Columbia University against the state of Georgia's discrim­ and cabinet maker by the mid-forties, until the termination of the presiden­ SMC. All invited ln. oHend. To be held at the Upper inatory election laws. The section pro­ West Side SWP campaign headquarters, 2744 Brood­ John went into the building construc­ tial wage freeze." way (1 05th. St.). Call 663-3000 for further informoiian. viding for high qualifying fees was tion business on his own, together with Charles Brown, terminal workers overturned by a three-judge federal his son. His earnings enabled him to ILA secretary, said that the men were PHILADELPHIA court in the summer of 1970. Earlier NIXON-MAO-VIETNAM: Speaker: Stephanie Coontz, make substantial fmancial contribu­ as resentful about conditions now as Socialist Workers Party. Fri., Oct. 29, 8 p.m., at 1004 this year, Rindskopf argued a case tions to the SWP. At critical moments when the strike began. They show no Filbert St. (one block north of Market). Donation: $1, before the U.S. Supreme Court against during the fifties, which were .rough inclination to return to work at any t.s. students and unemployed 50c. Ausp. Militant La­ the excessive number of signatures financial times for the party, he made of the piers in this port The union bor Forum. needed for Georgia nominating peti­ key contributions directly to the SWP is appealing the court ruling to the THE JEAN SAVAGE SHOW will be aired on Phil­ tions, but the court upheld the state national office and he helped to keep Federal Court of Appeals for the adelphia's Channel 3 Iues., Oct. 26 cit 10:30 p.m. law. The Militant going. Third Circuit.

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THE MILITANT/ OCTOBER 29, 1971 23 TH£ MILITANT Soledad . pretrial Angela Dav1s ~efense c~mpels hearings state to reveal1llegal ev1dence held By NORTON SANDLER der station between Tijuana, Mexico, vated Hardin to ask Davis, "Are you SAN RAFAEL, Oct. 20-The open- and San Diego. Murre! claimed that a Black Panther or what?' By MICHAEL SCHREIBER ing of the trial of Angela Davis may in a routine spot check- performed SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 13-Judge be delayed again while Judge Richard on one-third of the cars that go However, State of California Bureau Spiro Lee Vavuris does not allow the Amason rules on important defense through the border station- he dis- of Investigation and Identification in­ clenched-fist salute in his court. The motions asking that the trial be moved covered in the trunk of the defendant's spector Richard Merc\.\rio, in a report press calls Vavuris "the cool-it judge," from Marin County to San Francisco car "subversive literature" and subse- dated Oct. 23, 1970, states that the as he presides over pretrial hearings and calling for the suppression of evi- quently directed the car to a secon- defendant's 1959 blue Rambler was in the Soledad Brothers' murder case dence confiscated in illegal searches. dary inspection area. searched solely because of the late­ like a straight-tailored business execu­ In proceedings yesterday and today, The '1iterature" included copies of ness of the hour, and the "unusual­ tive addressing his board of directors. defense counsels Margaret Burnham the newspaper People's World, pam- ness of Blacks crossing the border at Vavuris was appointed to "cool" the and Howard Moore Jr. submitted 42 phlets containing information on the that time of night." Soledad case after authorities were em­ examples of damaging publicity the Soledad Brothers, and the book The Mercurio, in a barely audible voice, barrassed by the Aug. 28 courtroom police attack, in which club-swinging defendant has received in Marin Coun­ cops injured many spectators. ty which could prejudice the trial. The Angela Davis defense campaign has been marked by demonstra­ But Vavuris' melodious "Good The pretrial motion to suppress evi­ morning, Mr. Cluchette and Mr. dence charged to have been illegally tions at home and abroad. More than 30,000 people from all over France took to the streets Oct. 3 in Paris, demanding freedom for Drumgo," does little to modify the at­ obtained was submitted by Moore Oct. mosphere of an armed camp in which 5. The hearings on that motion forced Davis. Fania Jordan, Angela's sister, addressed the throng at a sub­ the two Soledad Brothers are being the State of California to reveal some sequent rally, before going on to other European countries. There tried. Judge Vavuris has instituted an of the evidence it plans to use in its were a series of demonstrations in the U.S. Sept. 25, the largest of elaborate security routine, which in­ prosecution of Angela Davis for mur­ which was in New York where close to 3,000 turned out for a rally cludes a clothing search and photo­ der, kidnapping and conspiracy. in Central Park. In addition to these actions, there was recently a pro­ graphing of all court spectators. After Davis is charged with purchasing test in New Delhi by students and faculty of Delhi University outside passing a police guard armed with the weapons and masterminding a a submachine gun, the spectators must kidnap and escape attempt that led the U.S. Embassy. And in Cuba, at the University of Havana, a Free view the trial from behind a bullet­ to the death of Jonathan Jackson Angela Davis Committee has been formed. proof partition, as they in turn are (George Jackson's brother), and three observed by closed-circuit television. other men, including Marin County Floyd Silliman, attorney for John Judge Harold Haley on Aug. 7, 1970. Mass Psychology of Fascism by Wil­ admitted under oath that his report Cluchette, and Richard Silver, attor­ Davis asserted in the hearings on helm Reich. . was an accurate reflection of his con­ ney for Fleeta Drumgo, charged in Oct. 5 and 6 that the state had ob­ The second inspection was executed versations with Murrel. court that the security measures tained its evidence in a series of il­ by Thomas Hardin, who claimed on The defense motions also forced amounted to intimidation and would legal searches, and that the suppres­ the witness stand that it is his "duty prosecutor Albert Harris to introduce prejudice jurors into immediately con­ sion of this evidence could have a to protect the U.S. from any trea­ into evidence a list of items confis­ cluding that the defendants were dan­ direct bearing on the state's ability sonous literature ... that advocates cated by the FBI in a search of the gerous. to prosecute her when the trial for­ the violent overthrow of the govern­ defendant's Los Angeles apartment, However, on Oct. 13 Judge Vavuris mally opens Nov. 1. ment." According to Hardin, further including a letter from Ruchell Ma­ denied defense motions to change any The hearings before .Judge Richard searching led customs inspectors to gee that had been forwarded to security procedures. The American Amason revealed that on .July 30, discover a receipt for a gun purchase Davis, unmailed letters to "George," Civil Liberties Union of Northern Cal­ 1970, Davis and .Jonathan .Jackson and a .32 magnum bullet shell, which signed "Angela," and some undevel­ ifornia has announced that it will chal­ were stopped by customs inspector were both forwarded to the FBI. oped film. lenge the constitutionality of the court­ Hobert Murre! at the San Ysidro bar- These discoveries apparently moti- The search, it was later revealed, room security measures in a suit, had been executed on a warrant which will probably be filed next week granted in Los Angeles Aug. 18, even in federal court against the sheriff, though the affidavit for the warrant chief of police, and the city and coun­ was not submitted until Aug. 25. ty of San Francisco. The majority of the testimony on ACL U spokesman Charles Marson Oct. 6 was provided by special FBI stated, "We think the security measures agent Warren Monroe, who conducted exceed all reasonable demands.... the arrest of Davis and David Poin­ "Women are being stripped naked, dexter in a New York motor lodge compelled to spread their legs and Oct. 13, 1970. submit to examination of their vagi­ After questioning by Moore, Monroe na. This is done to all female spec­ admitted that it was extremely unusu­ tators, regardless of whether there is al to book people at the place of ar­ reason to believe they are suspicious rest, and conceded t.hat he could not or dangerous." recall a similar procedure in his sev­ On Oct. 13, attorney Floyd Silliman en years as an agent. argued in vain before Judge Vavuris During his examination of Monroe, that the state should help to pay for prosecutor Harris asserted that An­ defense costs, or allow him and Rich­ gela Davis was planning to go into ard Silver to withdraw from the case. "exile" in Cuba. This assumption was Silliman maintained that supporters largely based on some notes left be­ of the Soledad defense had raised hind by the defendant along with an about $30,000, but that these funds introductory Spanish language text­ were exhausted long ago to pay for book. travel expenses, interviewing witnesses Later, State Attorney General and and filing pretrial motions. former FBI agent Evelle Younger, in Vavuris also denied the motion of an attempt to counter the ludicrous John Thorne, former attorney to courtroom proceedings, told a state­ George Jackson, that either Jackson wide radio audience, "Our court sys­ be tried in death as co-defendant with tem ... faces perhaps for the first the Soledad Brothers, or that the state time a situation in which the people's dismiss the case against Jackson with case has been prejudged to an almost the admission that he was innocent. unbelievable extent. Through deliber­ The state had routinely dropped all ate or accidental deception, many peo­ charges when Jackson was shot down ple have actually come to believe that at· San Quentin Aug. 21. Judge Va­ Angela Davis is being prosecuted be­ vuris .ruled that the state did not have cause of her sex, race and politics. to build a case against Jackson, but "We don't hold political trials in Cal­ conceded that since he had never been ifornia- regardless of who the victim proven guilty, the law therefore pre­ or the defendant is," Younger con­ sumed Jackson innocent of the Sole­ New York women's liberation demonstration, Aug. 26, 1971. cluded. dad murder. The trial of the Soledad Brothers is scheduled to begin Oct. 27.

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