Conrad Lynn to Speak at New York Forum

gtiiinimmiimiHi JOHNSON MOVES TO EXPLOIT HEALTH ISSUE THE Medicare As a Vote-Catching Gimmick By M arvel Scholl paign promises” file and dressed kept, so he can toss them around 1964 is a presidential election up in new language. as liberally as necessary, be in year so it is not surprising that Johnson and his Administration dignant, give facts and figures, President Johnson’s message to know exactly how little chance deplore and propose. MILITANT Congress on health and medical there is that any of the legislation He states that our medical sci Published in the Interests of the Working People care should sound like the he proposes has of getting through ence and all its related disciplines thoughtful considerations of a man the legislative maze of “checks are “unexcelled” but — each year Vol. 28 - No. 8 Monday, February 24, 1964 Price 10c and a party deeply concerned over and balances” (committees to thousands of infants die needless the general state of health of the committees, amendments, change, ly; half of the young men un entire nation. It is nothing of the debate and filibuster ad infini qualified for military services are kind. It is a deliberate campaign tum). Words are cheap, campaign rejected for medical reasons; one hoax, dragged out of an old “cam- promises are never meant to be third of all old age public as sistance is spent for medical care; Framed-Up 'Kidnap' Trial most contagious diseases have been conquered yet every year thousands suffer and die from ill nesses fo r w hich there are know n Opens in Monroe, N. C. preventives not used. The life span has been extended by sev By George Lavan eral years but this gift of added life carries with it the threat of MONROE, N. C., Feb. 19 — The room only as an associate of illnesses peculiar to old age — trial of the four defendants in Kunstler, the attorney retained diabetic blindness and cataracts, the so-called “ kidnap” case began for John Lowry by the Southern rheumatism, arthritis, heart and yesterday. It found a defense in Christian Leadership Conference kidney malfunction, and cancer — an almost total state of disarray. almost immediately after his ar none of which have been con Attempts to delay trial on the rest in Sept. 1961. quered. ground that at least a little time When Mrs. Mallory’s new at As medical science grows more was needed have been consistently torney, Walter S. Haffner of Cleve complicated it also becomes more denied by Judge Walter E. Brock land, arrived late yesterday after and more expensive. Existing pri and already a number of the pre noon, he immediately asked Jor vate health insurances cover only trial motions have been disposed time to acquaint himself with the a small portion (25 per cent) of of. This afternoon selection of the case. He told the court that he the $34 billion annual medical jury began. had arrived thinking that he was bill. Old people either cannot get At 9: 3t) yesterday morning the to be just Mrs. Mallory’s lawyer such insurance at all or the cost case o f the State vs. Richard and had only learned just then is beyond their means. The aver Crowder, Harold Reape, John that he was also to defend age social security pension fo r a Lowry and Mrs. Mae Mallory was Crowder and Reape with whom retired worker is $77 a month, called. he had not even had time to con $67 for a widow. The average However, the long-awaited trial fer. daily cost of a hospital bed is $37! did not begin because Mrs. Mal Haffner said that although he Existing old-age state medical lory, Crowder and Reape in had been Mrs. Mallory’s attorney assistance plans (under the Kerr- formed the court that they were in the latter part of her fight Mills Bill) do not fill the bill without lawyers. against extradition in Ohio this either. In all states which par It appears that the previous did not qualify him on the case ticipated in the Kerr-Mills pro afternoon Mrs. Mallory had dis because ertradition does not deal gram (the federal government missed her attorney, Len Holt of with the merits of the charges pays half the bill) pensioners must Washington, D. C. She told the in a case. Consequently, he w ould take a means test to prove they court that she was expecting a need to do much studying of the are “ medically indigent. ’. ’ In some new lawyer in a few hours and facts, interviewing of witnesses, states, so must all of their chil asked postponement until his ar etc., in order to furnish the de dren. riv a l. fendant with an adequate defense. Therefore President Johnson And he reemphasized his total un urged the passage of the current Others Dismissed fa m ilia rity w ith the cases of King-Anderson Medicare bill Similarly, defendants Crowder Crowder and Reape. which would provide limited hos and Reape informed their attor The judge, however, was adam Photo by D. L. W. pital, nursing home, skilled home neys the night before trial that ant. He told Haffner that hie sym nursing, and out-patient diagnostic they were dismissed. They were pathized with his position as a IN THE WORLD’S RICHEST CITY. This young dweller in one care for all persons over 65. being represented by Conrad Lynn lawyer but that if he granted a of New York’s East Side tenements pitches in with the rest of He also asked for the extension of New York and Richard Scupi delay now there was nothing to the family trying to cope with the leaks that constantly develop to 1969 of the Hill-Burton Hospital of Washington, D. C. Scupi had stop Mrs. Mallory from further in long worn out plumbing. Now her family is doing something Construction Act with a shift in been in Monroe for several days preventing trial simply by firing more effective. They’ve joined the growing rent strike movement. emphasis to rehabilitating and re preparing the pre-trial motions. (Continued on Page 2) For more on that see page 2. novating existing large city hos Conrad Lynn was planning to fly pitals; the building of schools of dow n, as soon as the court set nursing and scholarships for stu a definite time for the trial prop dents; the financing through fed Baltimore Minimum Wage Fight iiimiiiimiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiimiimimmimiiiiimiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiimiif er. eral mortgage insurance and loans Scupi remains in the courtroom of private group medical and den as attorney for defendant 'John tal facilities; the extension of a Lowry, whose principal attorney program for training public health is W illia m C. K u n stle r of New Rights Group Moves Onto Labor Front personnel; he asked for appropria York. Like Lynn, he engaged tions to implement the recently BALTIMORE — On the evening ized the demonstration. His organ should not have to tolerate con Scupi to prepare and plead pre enacted program to study the of Feb. 4 a predominantly Negro ization, the Civic Interest Group ditions where 38 million Ameri trial motions. Kuntsler himself growing rate of mental retarda picket line marched outside city (CIG), is spearheading the organ cans live on less than subsistence has just arrived in town. tion, and for putting the amend h all demanding a $1. 25 m inim um ization of Baltimore laundry wages. No man who works for a Both Holt and Scupi had ap ments to the Food and Drug Act wage and a 40-hour work week. workers in co-operation with an living should be paid less than peared in court Monday for their (1962) into action. Such wages and hours — erron AFL-CIO organizing drive. the minimum needed for living. ” respective clients of that moment. He wants legislation to control eously assumed by some to have Neither they nor observers had “A dollar and a quarter is just Charles Della, president of Ma the manufacture and sale of pesti been universally won by Ameri any inkling that three of the four survival money, ” commented Pur ryland and District of Columbia cides; to investigate the effects of can labor — are sorely needed well-represented defendants would ty. “The laundry workers make AFLCIO, told how for 13 years air, water and food pollution on by tens of millions of families be unable to go to trial the next 70 cents and 80 cents an hour. organized labor has been trying the general public health. throughout our nation who are day for lack of counsel. It’s a miracle they can live. ” to get a similar bill for the entire This message, read w ith no not covered by federal minimum Holt is a militant young civil In some seven weeks of inten state. previous knowledge of “what wage and hour laws because of rights attorney whose practice was sive activity, CIG has succeeded Claten Jones, leader of the makes politicians run, ” makes so-called “ loopholes. ” mainly in Virginia until racist in obtaining petitions for elections Laundry Workers Union, showed (Continued on Page 3) persecution drove him out. He Abysmally low wages and mis in five of the city’s eight laun the councilmen wage stubs for as has had previous cases in M on erable working conditions are not dries. In the other three (the little as $29. 91 take-home pay for roe and was here immediately restricted to Southern, rural and largest laundries in town), daily a 431/2 hour week, $2. 00 of which after the August, 1961 white su migrant workers.

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