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Support Mushrooms for March on Washington 6) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- — — — Unions Charter Buses, Trains THE MILITANT For Members PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE W ORKING PEOPLE By Henry Gitano Vol. X X I - No. 18 267 NEW YORK, N. Y., MONDAY, MAY 6, 1957 P R IC E 10c While a cheering throng greeted the raising of a 35-foot banner blazoning forth: “Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, Washington, May 17 at 12 noon” across Harlem’s -S' main thoroughfare at 125th St., one old man, bent with age, was heard saying: ‘‘It don’t matter Southern Racists how I get there, but brother I’ll be there with bells.” From coast Deal Out a Fresh to coast and across the mid Jordan Military Dictatorship lands, his words are being echoed 50,000 and 100,000 times Dose of “Justice” over, as ¡preparations for the march on Washington are swing •Last week, the world was pro ing into high gear, spurred by vided with what it needed continued racist violence in the least—a new example of South South. ern racist “justice” in action. In Birmingham, Ala., a Negro Mahalia Jackson, world famous Product of U.S. Intervention was sentenced to death for al gospel singer announced, April -< h leged ¡burglary and in Texas a 30, that she would be “delighted white man who freely admitted to sing” at the May 17 mammoth Mass Demonstration in Jordan the wanton killing of a Negro rally. Rev. Martin Luther King youth was released in short or of Montgomery; A. Philip Push Drive State Dep't Backs up Hussein Randolph, president of the der. ii , Brotherhood of Sleeping Car In the Alabama case, Charles Porters; and Roy Wilkins of the Hamilton received the death sen NAACP, who constitute the pil For Laws to In Wipinq out Democratic Rule tence, April 24, after a one-day grimage strategy staff will trial and less than an hour of By Fred Halstead address the greatest mass deliberation by the jury. Hamil demonstration against Jim Crow. ton was arrested last October in The United States Government in its first use of the Eisenhower Doctrine One thousand students from Hogtie Labor the home of >a white couple who has enabled a reactionary, feudal king to overthrow the democratically elected gov Howard University will sing claimed they found him standing hymns. Marian Anderson who By Herman Chauka ernment of Jordan and establish a bloody dictatorship in its place. The doctrine has outside their grandmother’s bed once sang before 75,000 on the been invoked in Jordan as part of the plan of the U.S. government to beat back the room door. Hamilton insisted While still treading softly, both Lincoln Memorial Grounds after that the grandmother had led the Eisenhower Administration rising Arab national independence movement and to consolidate U.S. domination of him into the house indicating she being refused premission to sing and Democratic Congressmen are the Mideast through usings had been robbed a*nd needed in the DAR’s Constitution Hall moving ahead to utilize the Sen the feudal monarchies of is expected to attend. help. ate labor probe as the vehicle to The demonstration of support loist new restrictive legislation Iraq, Saudi Arabia and The jury turned in its verdict for the fighters for equal rights, on the unions. Jordan as its main props. Bring the Sixth after the prosecutor declared, (Continued on page 4) "True, Hamilton did not ravish W ith pious talk about holding The government openly pro anybody. But are you going to back stringent anti-labor legisla claimed support for King Hus Fleet Back Home! wait until a man like this ac tion, Eisenhower and Secretary sein, when he labelled his op of Labor Mitchell announced, complishes his purpose before position “communist.” This is An Editorial A p ril 25, a series of legislative giving the extreme penalty?” A the “ code word,” according to measures they were proposing 1935 Alabama statute provides Joseph C. Harsch in the April to Congress. These included reg The American working people should demand the the death sentence for “night 26 C hristian Science M onitor, time burglary.” Hamilton was istration, reporting and disclo immediate withdrawal of the Sixth Fleet from the sure of funds deposited under “which can invoke United States not accused of having actually aid.” Under cover of the atomic Mediterranean. The U.S. Navy, equipped with nuclear taken anything. welfare and pension plans. Mitch weapons, was sent into the vicinity of Jordan, not to ell indicated that the adminis armed US Sixth Fleet (with the ■On the same day, Perry Ros§, tration would follow up with a aircraft-carrier Forrestal in the defend that small nation from the mythical “communist a white defendant in Longview, Tart of demonstration in Jordan, April 12. Banner in fore proposal for Congress to author van) and backed by offers of an menace,” but to bolster a reactionary monarch in his Texas, was found guilty but giv ground reads: “The people in cooperation with the Army ize the Labor Department to immediate $10 m illion grant en a five-year suspended term demand formation of a strong' national union government that attempt to establish a dictatorship. .make public the financial reports from the U.S., Hussein is con after he confessed that last Oc would reject the Eisenhower'¡.Rian and achieve confederation which unions are required to file ducting a pui’ge of all opposi The United States is using its military might, not tober, after a drinking bout, he with Syria and effect purge in the internal front.” under the Taft-Hartley law. tion to the puppet government to guarantee the independence of Jordan as the State and several other white hood which he appointed April 25 Later, Mitchell said, the admin Department claims, but to destroy the measure of inde lums decided to “go on a raid— istration may ask Congress for after dismissing the elected gov which was the name used fo r authority to review and audit ernment. He has outlawed ail pendence th a t was won by the revolutionary Arab masses shooting at the Negroes.” John 1,500 Turn Out for United these financial statements. political parties and declared when they expelled their British exploiters. E a rl Reece, 13, died from their martial law. bullet fire and two other Ne Meanwhile, Sen. McClellan King Hussein at the instigation of the U.S. plotters (D-Ark.), head of the Senate’s groes were wounded. The defense A. PHILIP RANDOLPH, Muy Du y Rully in New York A HATED GOVT. provoked the Jordan crisis by dismissing a cabinet that President of the Brotherhood labor-probing committee, pro attorney argued: “This boy All political leaders who op expressed the anti-imperialist sentiments of the people (Ross) wanted to scare some of Sleeping Car . Porters, posed in a recent television in By Harry Ring posed Hussein’s coup, including body and keep the niggers and shares official leadership of terview that the courts rathei NEW YORK, May 1—A thousand New Yorkers jammed .of Jordan. The elections of last October recorded their than international union oliicers the m a jo rity of the elected 40- whites from going to school to Prayer Pilgrimage movement into Central Plaza tonight to join in a united May Day desire for unity with the other Arab nations against all should be empowered to put member parliam ent, have been gether. > . , This is the result of with Roy Wilkins and Rev. imperialist powers. unions into receivership where celebration, and an additional 500 were turned away for arrested or forced into hiding or other trouble.” M. L. King. the union did not have "proper” lack of space. Called fo r 8 o’clock,® exile. Hussein’s appointed1 gov It is highly doubtful that King Hussein, with only the main auditorium, which holds meeting. In both audiences a leadership. ernment, according to all ob the backing of reactionary Bedouin chiefs, could impose 700 people, was filled to capaci- splendid, animated spirit of unity servers including those from the' Employers confronted with his will on the revolutionary people of Jordan. The Big militant unionists in the leader ty by that hour. A second hall, and solidarity prevailed. “Soli- U.S. capitalist press, is bitterly Move to DeportCalifornia ship of a local certainly would holding 300!, was filled in a mat- darity Forever” and “ Hold the hated by the majority of Business government in Washington understood this from not pass up the opportunity to ter of minutes. As representa- Fort” , were sung with gusto, Jordan’s population. It remains the beginning and undoubtedly gave Hussein advance send a company stooge into court tives of various radical view- Solid applause greeted Clif- in power, all agree, only because assurance of U.S. military backing. to sue fo r a court-appointed points finished their speeches in f ° rd T. McAvoy as he welcomed U.S. finances and the threat of Packinghouse Organizer the main auditorium they went everyone to the first joiitr Sixth-Fleet intervention are sup union receiver. While it is true One can understand Wall Street’s desire to establish a down to address the second May Day meeting in almost LOS ANGELES. April 25 — The United states that in several unions, the in porting Hussein’s army, in its dictatorship in Jordan that will serve the interests of meeting. 1 thirty years of various social- brutal suppression of the popula Immigration and Naturalization Service has initiated ternational officers have helped U.S. imperialism. Big profits are at stake in the Middle out ,the employers by taking over The meeting in the auditorium j st trends and declared his ¡h°Pe tion.