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1 ..000 March to Tree Gary Tyler AUGUST 6, 1976 25 CENTS VOLUME 40/NUMBER 31 A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY /PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE Militant/Harry Ring CALIFORNIA ·Admits July burglary SOCIALIST ol Denver socialists BALLOT DRIVE -PAGE 7 TOPS 100.000 -PAGE 4 1.. 000 march to RACIST MOB tree Gary TYler EYEWITNESS DETAILS ATTACK ON CHICAGO OPEN-HOUSING MARCH. PAGE 28. TEACHERS WILL AFT CONVENTION BACK BUSING? PAGE 9. - MIIIT"n"·'""' Aber CHICANOS New Orleans, July 24. Protesters from throughout the South demand DEMAND FEDERAL INDICTMENT freedom for Black frame-up victim. Page 3. OF KILLER-COP. PAGE 27-. ERA Peter CameJo's AUGUST 26 ACTIONS PLANNED FOR EQUAL RIGHTS. PAGE 8. ROOTS OF RACIS OLYMPIC II A ERICA WOMEN SPECTACULAR SHOWINGS SPARK DEBATE ON SPORTS Excerpts lrom new book ROLES. PAGE 28. In Brief TIBBS GETS NEW TRIAL: The Florida State Supreme Rogers. The workers were seeking a >L1 percent increase in Court has reversed the murder and rape convictions of wages. Delbert Tibbs. With the death penalty about to go into effect The city fired all li17 strikers and hired scabs. On ,July 1i1 in Florida, the thirty-five-year-old Black man's life was in city officials announced that all the jobs would be filled by imminent danger. The high court ordered a new trial for the next day, prompting a number of strikers to return. THIS Tibbs because of conflicts in trial testimony. Union leaders called off the strike July 16. Fewer than one­ Tibbs, a writer from Chicago, was hitchhiking through third of the strikers were rehired. Those rehired lost all sick WEEK'S Florida at the time of his arrest in February 1974.Although leave and other benefits. he did not resemble the description of the assailant, he was brought to trial and convicted by an all-white jury. A COMPUTERIZED MILITANT: Beginning with the MILITANT August 27 Militant, our entire mailing operation will be 3 1 ,000 march in La. This is the last issue of the Militant before our two-week computerized .. This will make it easier to expand our to free Gary Tyler summer break. We will resume our regular weekly circulation, but there are bound to he bugs in the new system. Let us know if your subscription does not arrive or schedule with the is~ue dated August 27. 4 Calif. petitioning: if the address contains errors. over 100,000! 'HANDS OFF REFUGEES IN ARGENTINA': More 5 Roundup of SWP REPRESSION AND POETRY: "A moving, disturbing, than seventy-five people attended a meeting July 2:~ at the petition drive and profoundly terrifying book of poems." This is how the United Nations Chapel in New York to protest the July issue of Library .Journal describes God's Shadow: 6 Carter woos Chicanos: persecution and murder of political refugees in Argentina. prison poems. Reza Baraheni, the prominent Iranian poet. empty promises Speaking at the event were U.S. Rep. Edward Koch (D­ describes his experiences during l 02 days in the torture N.Y.), Rev. William Wipfler of the National Council of chambers of the shah. The book is available for $6.% from 7 FBI informer confesses Churches, and Eddie Kaufman of the London Secretariat of Abjad Publications, 85:3 Broadway, Suite 414, New York, Denver break-in Amnesty International. Mirta Vidal, executive secretary qf N.Y. 10003. Abjad Publications also distributes a Persian 8 N.Y. parents: 'Day the U.S. Committee for ,Justice to Latin American Political edition. For those attending the upcoming Socialist Workers care, not welfare' Prisoners (USLA), chaired the meeting. party convention, the book will be available at a reduced Three days later a group of thirty people picketed the rate. 9 How can teachers defend Argentine consulate. jobs, wages, schools? These protests were sparked by the ,June murder of two NEWSPAPER GUILD WINS AT D.C. 'POST': In a Uruguayan legislators and last week's kidnapping of thirty 25 Phila. city workers National Labor Relations Board election at thl' Washinf.{ton more Uruguayans in Argentina. face cutbacks Post ,July 17-21. Newspaper Guild Local ;~;) defeated the company-sponsored "Washington Newspaper Union." The 26 USSR: the bureaucracy FBI PROMOTES CROOK: Six groups that have been results are a setback for the Post management's efforts to consolidates its power victims of FBI attacks protested the promotion of Chicago break other newspaper unions after driving out the press FBI .head Richard Held to the number two position in the operators last winter. 27 San Antonio Chicanos demand bureau. Despite this victory, victimizations by the Post's manage­ charges against killer-cop At a July 27 news conference in Chicago, the groups ment continue. On ,July 21 a federal grand jury indicted 28 Chicago mob attacks charged that the G-man withheld documents in a civil suit eight more press operators for alleged "destruction of open-housing march that accuses the FBI and local authorities of conspiracy in property" and "rioting" during last winter's defeated strike the murders of Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark at the paper. 30 Santucho killed Clark. Held's credentials also include directing attacks on in Argentina the American Indian Movement at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. COPS HARASS WORKERS LEAGUE: Huntington, 32 Steel union activist shot Participating in the news conference were: American California, cops dug up an old city ordinance to harass in Houston Indian Movement, December Fourth Committee \a group supporters of the Workers League. On ,July 10, cops raided a publicizing the civil suit charging conspiracy in the deaths dance sponsored by the group. They arrested elevPn people 2 In Brief of Hampton and Clark), Socialist Workers party, Puerto for "dancing without a license." Sheila Leburg, WL candidate for Congress, charged police with delilwrately 10 In Our Opinion Rican Socialist party, CASA (an antideportation group). harassing her campaign. -Ginny Hildebrand Letters and National Lawyers Guild. In a related development, Minneapolis lawyer Ken Tilsen 23 National Picket Line revealed th.at Held once sent an anonymous poison-pl'n By Any Means Necessary letter to a Minnesota prosecutor to discredit Rlack students. 24 The Great Society The students were facing state charges for occupying a La Lucha Puertorriquefla university hall. Their Government OLYMPIC FIRINGS: "Security." That's the reason-the 11-22 International public reason-why the Organizing Committee of tlw Socialist Review Montreal Olympics has fired dozens of employees. Among the targets are members and supporters of: Young Social­ ists/Ligue des Jeunes Socialistes; Gay Coalition Against Repression; League for Socialist Action/Ligue Socialiste Ouvriere (Canadian section of the Fourth International); THE MILITANT and Groupe Marxiste Revolutionnaire (sympathizing group of the Fourth International). VOLUME 40/NUMBER 31 Several of those fired have filed a complaint with the AUGUST 6, 1976 Quebec Commission on Human Rights. They are also CLOSING NEWS DATE-JULY 28 demanding that all police files be opened and illegal spying Editor MARY-ALICE WATERS and harassment ended. Managing Editor LARRY SEIGLE Business Manager ROSE OGDEN . Special Offer Southwest Bureau: HARRY RING MINERS' WILDCAT: Miners have walked off the job in Wash1ngton Bureau: NANCY COLE West Virginia. Their protest against being •'kicked around" by federal judges is spreading through Ohio and is expected Published weekly by The Militant Publishing Ass'n .. For New Readers 14 Charles Lane, New York, NY. 10014 Telephone: to reach into Pennsylvania. Miners began the wildcat strike Editorial Office (212) 243-6392; Business Office ,July 19 in response to a $50,000 fine slapped on a United The Supreme Court has sanctioned the murder of (212) 929-3486. Southwest Bureau: 1237 S Atlantic Mine Workers of America local near Charleston, West hundreds of prisoners on death row. The Militant will Blvd., Los Angeles. Calif 90022 Telephone: (213) Virginia. A federal judge penalized the coal miners for not bring you the reactions of the men and women inside the 269-1456. Washington Bureau: 2416 18th St. NW, returning to work after a grievance-inspired walkout. Now prisons. It will cover protest actions against this barbaric Washington, D.C. 20009. Telephone: (202) 265- ruling. And it will continue to report on the struggles of 6865. miners are demanding that pending injunctions and fines Correspondence concerning subscriptions or against all UMW A locals be droppt>d and that there be no Gary Tyler, J.B. Johnson, Stanton Story, and other victims of racist frame-ups. Subscribe today. changes of address should be addressed to The reprisals against the strikers. Militant Business Office, 14 Charles Lane, New York, N.Y. 10014. Second-class postage paid at New York. NY. BLACK RIGHTS SUPPORTERS MEET: Leaders of the The Militant-10 Weeks/51 Subscriptions: U.S , $7 50 a year; outs1de U.S . New York Student Coalition Against Racism (SCAR) met $13.00. By first-class mail U.S .. Canada. and Mex1co, ) $1 for ten issues (new readers only) .July 20. Students and parents from Queens gave reports on $35.00. 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