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Parade in New York MILITANT Published in the Interest of the Working People To Protest Viet War NEW YORK, Sept. 21 — A mass are individuals from liberal groups be other activities the same week Vol. 29 - No. 34 Monday, September 27, 1965 Price 10c march by New Yorkers opposed such as the Committee for a Sane end, including a demonstration at to the war in Vietnam has been Nuclear Policy, the traditional the Manhattan induction center scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 16, pacifist groups, the New York on Oct. 15 and a discussion work in connection w ith the Oct. 15-16 Committee Against the War in shop on Oct. 17. Details for all “International Days of Protest” Vietnam, Students for a Demo these events w ill be announced Freedom Labor Union against U. S. m ilitary intervention cratic Society, the Young Socialist later by the various sponsoring in the Southeast Asian country. Alliance, DuBois Clubs, Progres committees and w ill be reported Demonstrations for the same sive Labor and Youth Against in The Militant. weekend are scheduled in over 100 War and Fascism. Also involved The Oct. 15-16 International cities across the U. S., as well as are officials of the Teachers Com Days of Protest originated with a Presses Miss. Drive in other places in the world. mittee to End the War in Vietnam call by the Vietnam Day Com The New York march is being SHAW, Miss., Sept. 14 — W ork underway. In the summer, the and District 65 of the Retail, mittee in Berkeley, Calif., which sponsored by a committee com shops are being held here to dis union struck domestic workers and Wholesale and Department Store grew out of the huge Vietnam posed of leading individuals from cuss a fall strike centered around cooks at some restaurants and Union, AFL-CIO. teach-in held on the University of virtually every group here which the cotton picking season spon motels. There are still several Plans call for a march on Fifth California Berkeley campus last has protested the war as well as Avenue, a traditional route for sored by the Mississippi Freedom hundred on strike in six counties, May. The Berkeley group w ill di numerous community, cultural large parades, and a rally at the Labor Union (MFLU). A ll Negro but an important test w ill occur rect its protest at the Oakland and occupational groups. Included cotton pickers, choppers, gin oper this fall when the cotton picking finish point. In addition there w ill Army Base which is the main ators and tractor drivers in Sun season begins. The union is now West Coast supplier to the U. S. flower, Panola, Coahoma, Pike, preparing for the cotton picking forces in Vietnam. A teach-in Leflore, Washington and Bolivar strike, and is in great need of fi originating put of the Berkeley counties w ill be asked to partici nancial and other material aid. campus is expected to be followed pate in the strike. An MFLU The strikers need food and by a massive civil disobedience spokesman, Mr. Germain Hawkins, clothing, tents — for the families action centering on the base. said “ this strike w ill include maids who are put out of their houses who are now working six days a when they' strike plantations — Call for Protest week for an average of $14. Our and other items such as automo In the call for the days of pro main demand w ill be $1. 25 an biles for roving pickets and test the VDC said: “Indiscriminate hour for all labor. ” stationary and stamps for mail bombings of peasant villages by A state committee set up at the ings. They need money for bail the world’s most massive m ilitary workshop on Sept. 13, and work and lawyers. machine has outraged the con ing out of the MFLU office here, The spring strike helped spread science of the world. The tim e. has w ill be responsible for distribution the idea of the union and begin come to go beyond debates about of all foodstuffs entering the state its organization, but did not win the politics of the war; it is time for the strikers. union contracts or the union's for the peoples of the world to Another committee was assigned wage demands. The pressure of say to the U. S. A.: ‘Stop! ’” to draw up a constitution for the the strike, however, did result in “The Vietnam war has also il union so it can register with the a raising of wages in the Delta luminated the political crises in National Labor Relations Board. area from 30 cents an hour to 35 the United States. The people have Representatives from the Tennes or 40 cents an hour. lost control of the government. see Freedom Labor Union (TFLU) A number of unions in the The Congress has abdicated its are attending the workshops and North have contributed modest function of leading and transmit William Springfield, regional di amounts of money to the MFLU ting popular discussion. The rector of the TFLU says: “We — the United Auto Workers sent American people are treated as plan to strike near the end of this $8, 000 — and a great deal more objects to be ignored or manip month. We’re also going to work is needed. This is an issue which ulated; they voted for peace, but in. close affiliation with the MFLU can be taken up on the floor of they received a policy- of war t . " in Mississippi. ” Four counties in local unions with proposals to Clifton DeBerry, Socialist W ork Tennessee w ill be involved: Hay send financial and other material ers Party candidate for Mayor of Photo by David Stevens wood, Tipton, Fayette and Harde aid. New -York, and one of the many man. Information can be obtained SHUTDOWN. Members of New York Newspaper Guild, AFL-CIO, sponsors of the New York march, from and aid sent to the union’s picket New York Times after striking Sept. 16 for new contract said he expected “many thousands, The Mississippi Freedom Labor state headquarters at the follow including guarantee that no employee will be fired because of particularly students from the Union began among Negro farm in g address: M F L U , B o x 547, automation. All but one of city’s remaining seven major dailies various campuses in the city” to workers in Shaw, Miss, last April Shaw, Mississippi. The address of participate. Peter Camejo, SWP and spread to several counties then locked out their workers to back up Times’ owners. The the Tennessee Freedom Labor candidate for President of the City during the spring when the work Guild is an industrial union which organizes all workers at news Union is P. O. Box 277, Somer Council, appeared on WNBT-TV of chopping (weeding) cotton was papers but printing trades, which have separate craft unions. The ville, Tenn. tonight in a debate w ith the other crafts respected Guild picket lines. Reporters and editors in Guild candidates for the office and face no immediate threat from automation, but office, building, urged the viewers to join the Oct. and labeling workers under Guild jurisdiction do. Uncle Sam and the MONSTER 16 m arch. There’s this monster, you see, named INTERNATION A L COMMUNISM. It’s out there somewhere, lurking in the Fulbright Exposes Johnson's Lies dark shadows of Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, etc., and ev ery time dear, sweet bumbling old Uncle Sam tries to do something for the poor and downtrodden of the world, the monster rages and slobbers and breathes fire. It has already On U. S. Role in Dominican Crisis gobbled up the people of Russia, Cuba, China, Indonesia, and the central and Eastern European countries. Now it’s By Harry Ring sion has reached even into sec • “... no American lives were after the democracies and it knows that it can’t get at them The Johnson administration was tors of the country’s ruling cir lost in Santo Domingo until the until it does away with Uncle Sam. dealt a stunning jolt w ith Senator cles. Marines began exchanging fire Meanwhile, Uncle Sam, pure of heart, thinking only of Fulbright’s slashing expose of its These are some of the charges with the rebels after April 28. ” the good of mankind, dreaming of when all men can live in lying, reactionary role in the against the Johnson administra • “. the United States was Dominican crisis. In a Sept. 15 tion regarding the Dominican in peace, prosperity and brotherhood, staggers on under his intervening for the military arid Senate speech, the Arkansas tervention which Fulbright con inherited “white man’s burden, ” trying to bring the slaver for the oligarchy — to the detri Democrat charged that the Amer firm e d : ing monster to the conference table where the two can “sit ment of the Dominican people... ” ican people had been lied to about • “. the reaction of the down and reason together. ” But, of course, Uncle Sam, what was happening in the United States at the time of acute • “U. S. policy was marked by like all the boy scouts, must Dominican Republic and that crisis was to intervene forcibly a lack of candor and by misirifor- be prepared. He must recog President Johnson was prominent and illegally against a revolution mation. The former is illustrated: nize that maybe the monster among those who lied to them. which. might have' produced by official assertions that will not be reasonable. If Fulbright established that the a strong popular government military intervention was pri that’s to be the case, then U.