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Socialist Workers Convention Urges: All Out for Washington March To Win Jobs and Freedom! NEW YORK — All-out support to the March on Wash­ derstand that the Negroes are doing them a favor in should be in Washington August 28 to back up the ington for Jobs and Freedom was voted by the delegates leading this March and that to support it is a matter Negroes on this March.” to the 20th National Convention of the Socialist Workers of bread-and-butter self interest. The March has been officially called in the name Of Party held here in July. “In addition to the vital problem of discrimination, James Farmer, national director of CORE; Martin Luther In a statement authorized by unanimous vote of the the March is intended to dramatize the problem of un­ King, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Con­ delegates, the convention presiding committee declared: employment which weighs most heavily on Negro work­ ference; John Lewis, chairman of the Student Nonviolent “Right now, the number one job of the party branches ers. A giant march by those who suffer from these evils Coordinating Committee; A. Phillip Randolph, president across the country is to mobilize all members, supporters w ill strike fear into their enemies on Capitol Hill. The of the Negro American Labor Council; Roy Wilkins, and friends to help build the August 28 March on Wash­ sponsors of the March have pointed out that the strug­ executive secretary of the NAACP; and Whitney Young, ington. The Negro people in this country have taken the gle for decent jobs for Negroes is ‘inextricably linked head of the National Urban League. lead and are making a tremendous contribution to the with the struggle for decent jobs for all Americans,’ and Special buttons to be worn by the marchers and a development of a ‘creative crisis’ in which a great blow have called for a federal ‘massive works program to booklet of instructions entitled “Organizing Manual No. can be struck against the exploitation of man by man. train and employ all Americans at decent wages and 1” are now being distributed by various sponsoring or­ “For revolutionists it is a question of simple human at meaningful and dignified labor.’ ganizations. The address of the national headquarters of justice to support this struggle by the Negroes for equal­ “Every unemployed worker, every militant unionist, the March is: March on Washington for Jobs and Free­ ity. It is also our duty to help make white workers un­ every revolutionary socialist who can possibly make it dom, 170 West 130 Street, New York 27, N. Y. THE Brooklyn Fight on Job Bias MILITANT Points Way for Rights Cause Published in the Interests of the Working People V o l. 27 - No. 28 M onday, A u g u s t 5, 1963 P ric e 10c Indiana Jury Re-Indicts Three Young Socialists By Charles Gardner Three officers of the Indiana been in session over a week and University chapter of the Young heard some ten witnesses. Much Socialist Alliance were re-indict­ ado was made about this being ed in Bloomington July 18 on two an exceptionally “independent” counts under Indiana’s state sedi­ grand jury. tion law which provides a max­ Criticism had been levelled at imum sentence of three years im­ the way the May 1 indictment was prisonment on each count. arrived at. The jury then had met Ralph L e vitt, 25, James B ing­ only briefly and was said to be ham, 25, and Tom Morgan, 22, under undue influence from the were charged with assembling on witch-hunting prosecutor in the March 25 and May 2 for the pur­ case, Thomas A . Hoadley. Hoadley pose — as the indictments put it — had devoted his office since he “of advocating and teaching the was sworn in last January to the doctrine that the government of cause of pressuring the IU Admin­ the United States and the State of istration into withdrawing recog­ Indiana, should be overthrown by nition from the campus YSA. force, violence and any unlawful The March 25 meeting referred means, voluntarily participating to in the first indictment was a therein by their presence, aid and public talk on the IU campus by instigation.” Leroy McRae, national organiza­ The two July 18 indictments tion secretary of the Young So­ Militant photo by Jack Arnold were identical in wording to the cialist Alliance, entitled “Black single indictment handed down CHAIN-IN. Cops had a hard time at Downstate Medical Center site in Brooklyn when anti-job- Revolt in America.” McRae, who against the three on May 1. Only bias demonstrators padlocked themselves to a long chain and sat down at gate to block delivery is a Negro, had spoken on this the word “or” used in the May 1 trucks from entering. Cops had to secure a bolt cutter and then cut each individual loose. Mean­ topic at dozens of campuses on a indictment was changed to “and” nationwide speaking tour this while sit-downers sipped cool drink brought by fellow demonstrator. Cops weren’t offered any. and the May 2 count was added. spring. Hoadley distorted McRae’s The indictment came after the remarks on Negroes’ right to de­ By Leslie Evans Side. But the center of the fight Monroe County grand jury had 42 demonstrators at the Brooklyn fend themselves against racist at­ NEW YORK, Aug. 1 — A new is taking place at the Downstate site were arrested and charged tack and made these the basis for wave of militancy in the fight Medical Center building site in the with disorderly conduct for stand­ the charge of advocating violence against job discrimination on heart of Bedford-Stuyvesant, ing in the path of trucks to prev­ against the government. construction projects here has re­ Brooklyn’s Negro community. ent them from entering the proj­ In This Issue The May 2 meeting — at which sulted in the arrest of more than The demonstrations began at ect. One of those jailed was violent overthrow was again al­ 650 civil rights demonstrators this site July 11 as CORE, the Reverend Taylor who commented: legedly advocated — was, in fact, since July 11. The determination NAACP and the Urban League “Most of the prophets spent time a private meeting of the defen­ of the demonstrators is being issued a demand for the hiring in jail. This is a long tradition. The Test-Ban Pact; dants and fellow students the pur­ deepened by the callousness of of more Negroes and Puerto Ricans When a government is corrupt, as The Sino-Soviet Rift P. 3 pose of which was to discuss the the cops and instances of violence on the $25,000,000 state-financed this one is about discrimination, it first steps of the legal defense. by them. Yesterday, at the dem­ project. The rights groups were must be challenged . .” This meeting to plan the defense onstration in Brooklyn two teen­ joined by Brooklyn’s Negro clergy, That night an overflow rally SWP Convention was held one day after the first age girls were in ju re d and re­ led by Rev. W illiam A. Jones, Rev. of 1,500 at the Bethany Baptist indictment and took place in the moved in ambulances when the Milton A. Galamison and Rev. Church heard speeches by the A report P. 6 rented basement apartment of cops shoved pickets behind bar­ Gardner C. Taylor. church leaders who had been ar­ some friends of the defendants. ricades to keep them from barring Even Mayor Wagner’s “action rested in the morning. Black Nationalism The landlord of the apartment, approaching trucks from the con­ panel” on job equality confirmed Representatives of civil rights one Harold Wilkes, told the press struction site. the justice of the demonstrators’ organizations and the ministers Force for Freedom P. 5 — according to a July 19 In d ia ­ These demonstrations are setting demands in a July 12 report that addressed a demand to President napolis Star report — that he had an important pattern for the fu­ stated that a number of unions that (Continued on Page 2) taped the May 2 meeting from up­ ture of the civil rights movement “ represent several very significant, CP Smears Muslims stairs through a ventilator. Wilkes, because they hit at the very heart highly skilled and highly paid an acquaintance of prosecutor of the Jim Crow system — the Charges "Racism" P. 5 trades . either have a token "Labor with a white Hoadley, was one of the witnesses denial of decent jobs to people number of non-whites or none at heard in the week-long grand jury because of the color of their skin. all.” It said these unions were skin cannot em anci­ Report from Cuba session. Demonstrations and arrests are “reputed to have resisted all at­ pate itself where labor Hoadley’s comments to the taking place throughout New tempts to integrate them.” with a black skin is New Self-Reliance P. 2 press revealed how he hoped to York: in Queens, the Bronx, Har­ The first large scale arrests branded."— Karl Marx (Continued on Page 4) lem and Manhattan’s Lower East came on Monday, July 15, when Page Two THE MILITANT Monday, August 5, 1963 ..imiiiimmiiiiiiimiimniiiiiiimiiiimiiimimiiimmiimmiimmiiiimiiiiim ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. CUBA: Report by a Canadian Journalist A Miracle of Inventiveness, Baling Wire and Self-Reliance [This spring Jack Scott, wide­ ican can come here to look for is as constant as the crude oil ly-read daily columnist of the Sun himself. shipments in mighty trans-Atlan- in Vancouver, Canada, made a I t ’s less than five years ago that tic tankers flying the hammer- second visit to Cuba and wrote Cuba was almost totally reliant on and-sickle.

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