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The following letter of protest was sent to President Nixon have been ordered to the coast of Lebanon, and that you on behalf of the 75 Socialist \Vorkers Party candidates for have placed on alert troops from the Eighth Infantry Division public office in 15 states. It was written by Paul Boutelle, in West Germany and the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort SWP vice-presidential candidate in 1968 and currently the Bragg, N. C. I remember the 82nd Airborne as the same SWP candidate for Congress from Harlem. Paul Boutelle division that President Johnson sent to Santo Domingo to has just returned from a fact-finding trip to the Middle East. crush the uprising there in 1965, and into Detroit in 1967 * * * to crush the revolt of the Black community. President Nixon: This is not a coincidence. The struggles of the Dominicans The Socialist Workers Party demands the immediate halt and Afro-Americans, like those of the Palestinians, are strug­ to all steps toward U.S. military intervention in the Jor­ gles of oppressed peoples to control their own affairs. danian civil war. The U.S. has no right whatsoever in The United States government's support for the reactionary, Jordan. Zionist regime in Israel and its support for King Hussein's People throughout the world are just beginning to learn slaughter of the Palestinian refugees is consistent with its the scope of the wholesale slaughter that is occurring in support to reactionary dictatorships throughout the world­ Jordan right now. We hold your administration and its from Cambodia and Vietnam to South Africa, Greece and imperialist policies responsible for the bloodbath being per­ Iran. petrated upon tens of thousands of Palestinian men, women Millions of Americans, especially Black Americans, Chi­ and children. It is American arms and financial aid that canos, students, women and G Is, now see through your have enabled the reactionary Hussein regime to inflict this war in Vietnam as an arrogant and bloody interference carnage on the Palestinian refugees. in the affairs of another country. Millions of Americans Your threatened intervention in Jordan has also encour­ will also refuse to go along with anothe1· war in the Middle aged Israel to consider whether it too should invade Jordan East, a war in support of a corrupt monarchy and a war -as it did in June 1967. Such a conflict could easily bring to crush the Palestinians' elementary fight to regain the the world to the brink of a nuclear war. land they were driven from. Your administration has announced that three aircraft In Jordan, I met and spoke with the Palestinian refugees, carriers from the 6th Fleet, each carrying 80 combat planes, (Continued on page 6)

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Photo by Paul Boutelle Palestinian camp in Lebanon Page 2 THE MiliTANT Friday, Oct. 2, 1970 THE GM workers display peace symbol MILITANT Editor: HARRY RING Managing Editor: MARY-ALICE WATERS Business Manager: FLAX HERMES action in New York focused on the Striker goes to work Published weekly by The Militant Publishing presentation of a petition against geno­ Ass'n., 873 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10003. for antiwar movement cide to the U.N. Phone 533-9600. Second-class postage paid at New York, N.Y. Subscription: domestic, The second action proposal, pre­ $6 a year; foreign, $7 .50. By first class mail: Detroit, Mich. sented by Sidney Peck, a leader of domestic and Canada $15.00, all other coun­ the New Mobilization Committee, tries, $24.00. Air printed matter: domestic and There have been some encouraging Canada, $20.00; Latin America and Eu­ .mtiwar developments at my plant called for massive, nonviolent civil rope, $40.00; Africa, Australia, Asia (including (GM). Two weeks ago, at the insis­ disobedience and other mass, nonvio­ USSR), $50.00. Write for sealed air postage lent actions in Washington, D. C., in rates. Signed articles by contributors do not tence of a fellow apprentice, a Vietnam necessarily represent The Militanfs views. These vet, I started bringing peace symbol May. This proposal grew out of one are expressed in editorials. stickers into the plant. We got between presented by Mike Lerner of the Seattle 30 and 50 of these up on tool boxes. Liberation Front, which called for or­ Volume 34 Number 36 In my gang of 17 men, 13 have the ganizing 5,000 "political collectives" peace symbol on their tool boxes. The and issuing an ultimatum to the U.S. foreman has a peace sticker on his government that if the war was not desk. I now refer to our area as ended by May, the collectives plus Friday, Oct. 2, 1970 "Peacenik's Paradise." tens of thousands of others would con­ Just before we went out on strike, verge on Washington to create a gov­ Closing news date-Sept. 23 a mill hand with 20 years seniority ernmental crisis through disruption told me he wanted 20 stickers to dis­ and other forms of protest. tribute himself. Today he came to the The conferences ended by creating a new group, the Coalition Against Detroit Coalition to End the War Now At least now there is a place where War, Racism and Repression, to carry office to work and did just that. His a displaced Jew can turn to. out the projected actions. only regret was that at the moment Arabs have always had their own At the beginning of the sessions, he can't contribute financially. I've homeland. Surely the future of the Stewart Meacham, from the American For the most complete selection of the lined up several others to work at the Arab people does not rely on a strip Friends Service Committee, said that speeches and/or writings of: office tomorrow. I expect more GM of land the size of New Jersey. in his opinion the New Mobe had workers will become antiwar activists D. F. probably had its last meeting. That during the strike. [The Palestinians are not simply was the last mention made during the D.U. "Arabs" but a distinct national entity conference of the New Mobe. in the Middle East, and an increasing­ Che Ed Smith Supports Israel ly cohesive one as a result of the persecution and misery they have suf· A criticism Des Moines, Iowa fered for the past 22 years. The area Israel is said by her enemies to be they were driven out of by the Zionist Princeton, N.J. Malcolm a racist state. To my knowledge, there colonizers is not just "a strip of land As a subscriber to The Militant, I may be scattered prejudice, but the the size of New Jersey" but their home­ have found your coverage and analy­ Israeli government has no racist pol­ land. sis of domestic and foreign events icies, unless you include the free Jew­ [The Zionist state of Israel, estab­ paralleled my own ideas. Trotsky ish immigration policy. This can be lished at the expense of the Palestin­ I have been dismayed, however, that easily explained. ians and economically and militarily nothing has appeared on the Angela For roughly two thousand years dependent on the United States, nec­ Davis affair in your pages since you Antiwar, Antipollution, Arab, Native­ before the creation of Israel, the Jew­ essarily allies itself with imperialism resumed publication after a three-week American, Black, Third World, & Wom­ ish people had no homeland. They and the most reactionary Arab re­ August layoff. I hope that this vicious en's Liberation Fighters; Ernest Mandel, lived in Diaspora- almost always un­ gimes. attack on any form of dissent as is James P. Cannon, George Novack, der some kind of persecution. Usual­ [In the long run, the national lib­ being done by the U.S. government Evelyn Reed, Rosa Luxemburg, Marx, ly there was no place where they could eration struggles of the Arabic-speak­ on Miss Davis and on flimsy or FBI­ Engels & Lenin. go to escape persecution. Even in the ing peoples will be victorious and manufactured evidence will not go un­ wake of Hitler's slaughter, most refu­ Zionism will be defeated. Consequent­ noticed by your paper for too long. ATLANTA: gees were kept in concentration camps. ly, Israel does not offer a secure ha­ H. F. Militant Bookstore ven for persecuted and displaced Jews. [Your criticism is a valid one. The 1176 1/2 W. Peachtree St. 876-2230 On the contrary, Zionism has created delay in expressing our stand on the a monstrous trap for its followers in latest attempts to victimize Angela Da­ Israel. The only way out is for the vis was motivated by the desire for BERKELEY: You Can1 Always mass of Israelis to break from the more information. See editorial state­ Granma Bookstore Zionist state and ally themselves with ment on the Davis case elsewhere in 2509A Telegraph Ave. Get lhat You the Palestinian struggle for self-deter­ this issue.- Editor] mination. -Editor] 841-9744 Want. .. Fire hits underground BOSTON: newspaper ... but if you want Ia join the nation's largest Requests sub quota Militant Labor Forum and fastest growing radical youth organization, Cincinnati, Ohio 295 Huntington Ave., Rm.307 a revolutionary socialist organization that sup­ Baltimore, Md. Fire swept through the office of the 491-8893 ports and helps Ia build the antiwar movement, I want to express my pleasure in the sell-determination struggles af Afro-Ameri­ Independent Eye, a Cincinnati radi­ cans, Chicanas, Puerto Ricans and other your excellent coverage of the various cal newspaper, in the early morning oppressed nations, and the growing movement movements in the country today. Of hours of Sept. 8, causing an estimated LOS ANGELES: for women's liberation, then you can gel what particular interest to me is the cov­ $4,500 damage. No one was in the Modern Book Shop you want. erage you give to the women's and building at the time the blaze started. 1702 E. 4th St. Chicano liberation movements. Two policemen proceeded to ransack 269-4953 Sorry my requested quota [10] is the offices after the fire was put out. so small but I've already convinced Taken were radical newspapers, MADISON: most of my friends to subscribe. books, telephone lists and the Eye's Che Guevara Movement Center T.B. subscription list for the current issue. Actual cause of the fire has not been 202 W. Gilman St. SAC meets in Milwaukee determined, but arson is suspected. 256-0857 The newspaper- which publishes Milwaukee, Wis. twice a month- has given extensive MINNEAPOLIS: The second Strategy Action Confer­ coverage to the women's liberation Labor Bookstore ence was held here Sept. 11-13. movement. Co-editor Jennifer Varrone 1 University N. E. (at E. 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Box 20017, Cin­ 626-9958 STAnON, NY, NY 10003 erty, sexism, genocide, etc. and cul­ cinnati, Ohio 45220. minating Nov. 15 with a national Ellen Faulkner Friday, Oct. 2, 1970 THE MILITANT Page 3 Militant GM strike at L.A. plant

By OSCAR COOVER ceiling on the cost-of-living clause, on Tweedy Blvd. across from the GM in hiring and the upgrading of Blacks LOS ANGELES- Out of 3,100 pro­ gave a brief interview as he was on Plant. into supervisory jobs, opposed Reu­ duction workers at the South Gate GM his way to a negotiating meeting with Sprinkled among the pickets are ther's "one-at-a-time" strike policy, plant here, 2,005 voted for strike with GM representatives on local issues. many wearing blue and gold jackets, stood for a labor party, and was a resounding "Yes," while only 136 "With the way prices are going, due reminiscent of the "flying squads" of among the first to propose the cost­ opposed. Rudy Sulento, shop commit­ to the Vietnam war," he said, "we don't another era when such squads were of-living clause and 40 hours pay for teeman and veteran militant, proudly know how much of our paycheck in­ not only part of auto strike picket 30 hours work. pointed out that this is the highest flation will take away. You see, the lines but appeared on nearly every In the months in advance of the percentage to vote for a strike at any Vietnam war directly affects us by line where workers were fighting for strike, there has been a political awak­ of the 12 GM assembly plants across taxation, by raising prices, by lower­ union recognition and improved con­ ening within the local and around the the country. He added that this is ing the quality of goods we buy, and ditions. plant. The GM Workers Unity Caucus, the most militant strike sentiment ex­ by taking away our young people." The GM South Gate Local 216 is a new caucus formed four months pressed by members of UAW Local Thus far, even though they were an exceptional union in Southern Cali­ ago, is organizing around some imme­ 216 in memory. hassled the first night, supervisory and fornia as it was established through diate strike demands and selling but­ To show their militancy, these GM tons popularizing those demands. Six office personnel are entering the plant militant struggle and bitter strikes, workers shut down the line two hours on pickets' sufferance. Picket duty is whereas most unions in this region different buttons call for a "Dental in advance of the 12 midnight dead­ Plan," "Humanize Working Condi­ a requirement to collect strike benefits were "labor board unions" which were line on Sept. 14. They also slowed tions," "A Steward for every Foreman," and 40-50 pickets march at each of established by NL RB elections as ex­ down and temporarily stopped the "Voluntary Overtime," "Innocent Until four gates, but there is no effort at tensions of national contracts and cars of supervisory personnel leaving mass picketing with the aim of shutting have no tradition of struggle. Proven Guilty," and "Make the Union the plant that night and rocked a few the plant down entirely. Serve the Workers." The initial run of as well. The next day, at the largest Local 216, with a militant leader­ 1,000 buttons was quickly sold among local union meeting in many years, Picket signs merely declare, "U A W ship, was in the forefront of orga­ the GM workers. more than 2,000 further expressed ON STRIKE." A coffee truck makes its nizing drives in rubber, steel and air­ The caucus is composed of mainly their militant mood and completed the rounds supplying the men on the line, craft and the other industrial plants younger workers, some with radical organization of their strike. and a coffee bar serves the. several originally organized in the CIO. It student activity backgrounds, and it Sulento, who vigorously opposes the hundred strikers around the unionhall broke ground in many new areas, combines Black, Chicano and Anglo opposed the World War II "no-strike workers. A few are old seniority work­ policy," fought for equal opportunity ers. U.S. negotiators in Paris stumble for answer to PRG

By DICK ROBERTS als precisely on the grounds that this A new offer for resolving the war protects the Gls while they withdraw. in South Vietnam apparently caught When President Nixon first an­ Washington completely by surprise. nounced U.S. troop withdrawals, af­ On Sept. 17, the Provisional Revo­ ter a meeting on Midway Island with lutionary Government, with Hanoi's South Vietnam's President Thieu, June concurrence, declared in Paris that in 8, 1969, he stated: exchange for an agreement on the "I want to emphasize two fundamen­ withdrawal of all American forces tal principles: No action will be taken from South Vietnam by June 30 of which threatens the safety of our 1971, the Communist forces would troops, and the troops of our allies, refrain from attacking thewithdrawing and second, no action will be taken troops. which endangers the attainment of our "It's old wine in new bottles," was objective, the right of self-determina­ the reaction of David K. E. Bruce, the tion for the people of South Vietnam." present chief U.S. negotiator. When Nixon ordered the invasion New York Times top Washington of Cambodia, April 30, 1970, he de­ correspondent Max Frankel also tried clared: "After full consultation with the to pretend there was nothing new. National Security Council, Ambassa­ "American officers [in Washington]," dor Bunker, General Abrams and my wrote Frankel, "reacted to the offer al­ other advisers, I have concluded that most with contempt. the actions of the enemy in the last "They said they doubted that the 10 days clearly endanger the lives of Vietcong would wish to shoot at Amer­ Americans who are in Vietnam now ican troops during such a withdrawal. and would constitute an unacceptable They also said that American forces risk to those who will be there after were well able to protect themselves the withdrawal of another 150,000. against serious harm if they did re­ "To protect our men who are in ceive orders to depart." Vietnam, and to guarantee the con­ Max Frankel notwithstanding, it tinued success of our withdrawal and Photo by John Gray is well known to the entire world that Vietnamization program, I have con­ Washington has over and over again cluded that the time has come for Strikers at GM South Gate plant in Los Angeles rationalized its slow pace of withdraw- action." ...----EDITORIAL------. End the witch-hunt against Angela Davis!

Angela Davis has been placed on and kidnapping are only the latest ing as their reason four speeches she a period of a couple of weeks, vi­ the FBI's list of the "ten most want­ phase in the campaign to "get" her. had given at rallies. cious p,.,lice raids have taken place ed criminals." She has been described Harassment of Angela Davis began against Panther headquarters in Phil­ as possibly armed and dangerous, in the fall of last year when Califor­ Faced with the newest police attempt adelphia, New Orleans and Toledo. giving cops a license to shoot to kill. nia regents tried to fire her from her to "get" her, Angela Davis has fled, With no provocation or warning, the and this has been played up in the Angela Davis is being viciously job as an assistant professor of phi­ cops attacked- several hundred of losophy on the basis of a 1950 uni­ newpapers as "evidence" of her guilt. them in Philadelphia- breaking down hunted on charges of murder and kid­ Such an allegation only reflects the napping in connection with the at­ versity policy not to employ Commu­ doors with axes, shooting out win­ nist Party members. fact that in America today radicals dows, throwing tear gas, and shoot­ tempted escape from a courtroom of and Black people are assumed guil­ three Black prisoners in which two Angela Davis received mass support ing unarmed Black people. from UCLA students and faculty mem­ ty from the start. As demonstrated · Attacks like these, the whole history of them and a judge were killed by by the trials of members of the Black bers for her right to teach. Two thou­ of "justice" applied to Black people guards. The only "evidence" against Panther Party, any fears Angela Da­ sand students turned out to attend her in this country, and the history of her is records that allegedly show that vis might have as to the "justice" she two of the guns used by the prison­ first class last fall in solidarity with attacks on Angela Davis make it her fight. The UCLA faculty senate will get in American courts are en­ abundantly clear that she is being ers were registered in her name. The tirely justified. whole thing reeks of the odor of a voted to defy the regents if they up­ victimized because of her political be- frame-up. held her dismissal by continuing to The attitude of "the law" toward liefs. · pay her a salary, giving her a place Black people, and the lengths to which All those concerned with maintain­ The crime of Angela Davis is that to teach, and giving students credit cops will go to frame up Black rev­ ing civil liberties must demand a stop she is an openly avowed communist for attending her classes. olutionaries, are most clearly shown by to the witch-hunt against Angela Da­ and is Black. On June 19, 1970, the board of the all-out campaign to physically vis and a stop to the murderous po­ The charges against her for murder regents voted not to rehire her, cit- wipe out the Black Panther Party. In lice attacks on the Black Panther Party. Page 4 THE MILITANT Friday, Oct. 2, 1970

"I am supposed to be telling what happened when 25,000 women marched down Fifth Avenue last night on the 50th anniversary of the day 9 women won the right to vote. As is l.b . customary in my business I am sup­ Women's 1 erat1on notes posed to be telling it briskly and fac­ tually and without bias. "Fat chance. I'm so biased I can hardly think straight."

A Sept. 18 "Woman in the News" • • • column in the New York Times ex­ Almost 100 colleges will be offering pressed surprise that Mrs. Nguyen Thi women's studies courses this fall for Binh "has lasted" as chief negotiator full credit. In addition to all the major for the Provisional Revolutionary universities, special courses on wom­ Government of South Vietnam at the en are being scheduled at such small Paris talks. The column remarks, "A colleges as Loretta Heights in Denver man, it was widely believed, would and Nazareth College in Rochester. replace her as soon as the negotiations • • • got down to serious business." • • • One of the most barbaric features An indication that the campuses in of most public schools is the common this country are going to be centers practice of expelling high school wom­ of feminism this year was the first en who become pregnant. The Mich­ meeting of the New York University igan legislature is now considering, Women's Liberation Group on Sept. and will probably pass, a bill outlaw­ 18. About 90 women attended and ing the expulsion of pregnant women discussed actions around demands from high school but permitting vol­ that the university provide gynecolog­ untary withdrawal from school. ical facilities and a community day­ • • • care center. The Equal Employment Opportuni­ ties Commission, the agency charged • • • with investigating charges of discrim­ There is probably not a woman ination under Title VII of the 1964 alive who has not felt her oppression Civil Rights Act, reports that in the as a woman in one way or another. fiscal years ending June 30, it had As the ideas of women's liberation handled 3,597 complaints from wom­ spread and are weighed in the minds en charging discrimination on the ba­ of millions of women, many forgotten sis of their sex. or suppressed feelings of frustration Also, through investigations made and rage are coming to the surface. possible by· the federal Equal Pay Act This process was demonstrated by an of 1963, the Labor Department has inspiring article in the September Red­ discovered 54,000 workers, mostly book called 'Women's Lib: the Idea women, who are owed more than You Can't Ignore." $18.7-million from unequal pay since The author, Sophy Burnham, whose "Some day a.ll this will be yours.~~ 1963. More than 170 lawsuits have first reaction was to laugh when she been filed by women demanding this was given an assignment to write an back pay. article on the women's liberation of derangement occurred. I thought Still another example of how the movement, describes the impact of the I had come to terms with my life; movement relates deeply to all wom­ • • • movement on her: but every relationship - husband, en could be seen in an article written Chauvinist quote of the week: "Wom­ "No woman can hear about this child, father, mother - was brought by an Australian woman reporter, Lil­ en love to fight with a man but they searching for identity without being into question. . . . I am now offended lian Roxon, who participated in the love it more to be beaten in the fight touched herself. For me, chords were by things that would never have both­ New York Aug. 26 women's libera­ . . . they love to lose, to be sat on, struck that I thought long dead. As ered me before. I am now a feminist. tion demonstration. She wrote in the conquered, vanquished . . . to be I inundated myself in the movement, I am infused with pride- in my sis­ Sydney Morning Herald: "This is the bossed." movie star Maximilian in the literature, in the personal ac­ ters, in myself, in my womanhood." hardest piece I have ever had to write Schell. counts of troubled members, a kind • • • in my life. -CAROLINE LUND Chicago police arrest right-winger

CHICAGO - Thomas Kevin Stew­ Young Socialist Alliance and the So­ death threats in the past. grand gury investigation of the illegal art, closely associated with the right­ cialist Workers Party. In addition to Stewart, Steven Sed­ activities of the Legion of Justice. wing terrorist Legion of Justice, was The group demanded the immediate lacko, another Legion associate, is Those interested in aiding the fight arrested the evening of Sept. 14 fol­ arrest of Stewart, who had been at currently confined in Cook County against the right-wing terrorists by lowing demands made by a delega­ large for over a month despite three Jail with a $10,000 bond, awaiting making a financial contribution to the tion that visited Chicago police com­ warrants out for his arrest and bonds trial for the June raid on a Cicero defense should make checks payable mander James Riordan that morning. totaling $17,500. The warrants church rectory and robbery of four to Committee for Defense Against Ter­ The delegation, organized by the Com­ stemmed from his participation in vio­ priests. rorist Attacks, P. 0. Box 3191, Mer­ mittee for Defense Against Terrorist lent raids on the YSA and SWP head­ In another development, new evi­ chandise Mart, Chicago, Illinois Attacks (DATA), included representa­ quarters in November 1969 and on dence indicates direct ties between the 60654. tives of a wide range of social and a Cicero, Ill., church rectory and the Legion of Justice and the ultra-right­ political organizations, from the Hull Illinois SWP election campaign head­ wing Minutemen - ties which have House Association and VISTA to the quarters in June 1970. The DATA been long suspected by Legion vic­ delegation also demanded that the po­ tims. Two members of the Chicago lice department publicly support the YSA recently received threatening let­ calling of a special grand jury to ters from the Minutemen, mailed di­ investigate all illegal activities of the rectly to both of their homes. The Legion of Justice. letters contained photocopies of actual Riordan refused to take a position records which had been stolen from on the grand jury hearing although the SWP and YSA offices in the June he admitted that the police department 26, 1970, raid by the Legion of Jus­ has done so in the past in regard to tice (for which Stewart is currently organizations on the left, such as the being held), and which included the Black Panther Party. names and addresses of both recipients. Attorney S. Thomas Sutton, who in Also contained in the mailed threats the past has been the chief public was a falsified mailing list of U niver­ spokesman for the Legion of Justice, sity of Illinois students. The list sup­ attempted in vain to get Stewart's $20,- posedly "identified" each student with 000 bond lowered. In making his re­ some sort of terrorist activity by means quest, Sutton argued Stewart might of notations such as "explosives ex­ be harmed if he were locked up, say­ pert," "trained in guerrilla tactics," etc. ing, "I doubt that he would last the This grotesquely fraudulent list, a night in Cook County Jail because clear-cut attempt to frame the SWP he is a known conservative." and YSA and their sympathizers by Sutton also claimed that Stewart had identifying them with terrorist actions, skipped previous court dates because did not come from the stolen files. he was "afraid SDS Weathermen have as assassination squad looking for In light of recent events, the DATA him." This is another crude attempt Committee has expanded its activities 538 pp. cloth $7.95 by Sutton and his gang to make the to include a big public delegation to Pathfinder Press Pathfinder Press Legion criminals appear the victims to State's Attorney Hanrahan in the 873 Broadway 873 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10003 and the victims appear the criminals. very near future. The action will fo­ New York, N.Y. 10003 The Legion has issued a number of cus around the demand for a special Friday, Oct. 2, 1970 THE MILITANT Page 5

Cameio confronts Kennedy Audience cooled by Ted's "political pabluin '' By MIKE HARRIS NEWS Stall Reporter Teddy Kennedy approached the podium at Hayden Hall last Sunday night to a tumultuous applause. That was the hidl point of his evening. Ted's bright-eyed, liberal audi- They listened attentively to and they were heavy. Many in Camejo's speech, but, unlike the simply turned away as he ap- ence packed the l()()().seat hall, Ted's speech, but the candidate the audience seemed determined crowd, he was less than enthusi- proached. . , leaving several hundred more out- was straining. He gripped the to eat him alive. astic. He skirted Camejo's direc- Few of the Establishment news- side. lecturn tightly, and his voice On Vietnam - he advocated tives, and alluded only to the casters even mentioned Camejo's Peter Camejo, Socialist Work- droned. withdrawal. He would still, how- struggle for "civil rights" to intrusion, and all referred to ers party candidate for the Sen- The crowd grew restless; whis- ever, support military appropria- which he. had pledged himself at Ted's address as a "hard-driving ate, had just received a poor re- pered accusations of "rhetoric" tions for that war "as long as the Democratic Convention. speech on campus disorders," but ception after attempting to deliv- floated around the room. Polite American men are stationed He thanked the crowd and flash- . Teddy's applause meter register- there." ed his campaign-trail smile. The ed substantially less at the end When the topic turned to wo- Senator was deluged by well- of the evening than it did at his men's rights, Teddy was put on wishers on his way out, but many arrival, and that was significant. t.lte defensive. He declared his opposition to both the women's rights legislation pending in the Senate, and to legalized abortion, asserting that "the fetus has rights." The unmasking of a liberal He wasn't moved by the wrath of several women in the audience angered by his stand, but gulped when one feminist alluded to an The following are Kennedy's answers to some of the ques­ earlier speech in which she tions from the audience. charged he stated it was bet­ • • • ter that 7,000 women die each War appropriations: Will I repudiate the votes that I mad~ year from illegal abortions than in terms of military authorization and appropriation and that the state legalize destroying not vote for any more military appropriations? I'll make fetuses. every effort that I possibly can to withdraw, but to with­ A supporter of the Socialist draw immediately as long as we have American fighting Workers party then rose to In· men over there- I couldn't support that. I'm sorry. er an impromptu address. Ted's applause followed a Spiro Agnew form the crowd that Kennedy supporters had arrived hours slur, and soon the Senator was had been challenged to debate Pollution: Quite frankly, the problem isn't with private early; they were primarily inter­ through. the campaign issues several times industry.... They haven't done badly. The real problem ested in hearing Ted. The questions came quickly, by his SWP opponent. Ted agreed has been that there hasn't been the federal resources avail­ to "give Peter a crack", and the able to provide for the comprehensive depollution of any crowd, who had quickly tired of of the kinds of streams. Teddy's political pablum, this time cheered as Camejo approach· Abortion on demand: I'm opposed to it. I realize that ed the stage. this is a question where many people feel that women ought Foregoing the usual political patter Camejo addressed the is­ to have an absolute right.... Quite frankly, when they sue of racism, accused the police look back over a period of time to the America of the 1970s, of perpetrating violence in the I certainly hope that they look back not on how we were ghetto, and challenged the Sen­ able to exterminate individuals- either in Vietnam or fe­ ator to support community con­ tuses. I hope that isn't the standard by which they measure trol of police. He labeled the US us but rather, Were we able to care about these children an imperialist power and the ag­ that were born? gressor in Vietnam, and chal­ And I believe also that a fetus has some rights. And I lenged Ted, as well as the Re­ also think that the father has some rights. publican Senatorial nominee and independent candidate Bill Baird Legalization of marijuana: I'm opposed to that. I think to debate. that we ought to try and bring the law and penalties much Ted applauded at the end of more in accord with the nature of the kinds of problems. The basic reason is that I'm not sure that in our society CAMPAIGN we can afford another intoxicant. Students interested In fur­ thering the political fortune of • • • Senator Ted Kennedy or In helping SWP candidate Peter Q: Are you in favor of ending the continuing blockade Camejo spread the word about against Cuba and removing our troops from Guantanamo the true nature of the issues base? facing Amerika today are in­ A: I'm glad to see you again. Weren't you out in Belmont vited to contact the candidates. the other night? Teddy has a modest little Q: Yes, I asked you about abortion and why seven thou­ storefront on the comer of Tre­ sand women in this country should die every year. And mont and Bromfield Streets, you told me that it was better to let a fetus live and that and Peter's staH resides In the those seven thousand women should die. Militant Labor Forum on Hunt­ A: I am only for the continuation of any kind of isola­ ington Avenue. Ted's number tion of Cuba as long as they're involved in infiltration and is 357·5300, and Peter's Is 536- 6981. subversion in Latin America. 'One thing this generation wants is a little bit of truth.' The following are excerpts from That's very sweet, but the truth is some of us who don't should have Those 15- and 16-year-old people Camejo's remarks. that society has already divided, and the right to make the decision for who are giving their lives every day • • • they're being oppressed. And you can ourselves - and I'm talking about in Vietnam so their country can be I want to deal very briefly with the never talk about unity until you end women! run by Vietnamese for the first time three major questions before us. One that oppression. And you can't end Last but not least, one thing this since western imperialism arrived­ which has not been mentioned to­ that oppression until you get off their generation wants is a little bit of truth. these are not our enemies, these are night is the situation of Black peo­ backs. It is the United States that is the op­ our brothers and sisters. We don't ple in this country. What we need On the woman question, I think Mr. pressor in Vietnam and is attempt­ want to kill a single one of them. more than anything else is to stop Kennedy has made it very clear where ing to impose on them a government Not one. the violence in the ghetto that goes he stands. I can respect Mr. Kennedy against their will. And for Christ's And the people who have voted for on day and night against Black peo­ or anybody else having any sort of sake, we can hear all about how you sending over our troops must take ple by the police departments. Not theological or philosophical view say it's a tactical mistake or an er­ responsibility for that. We want to hear one word was said on that. about it. But what is wrong is when ror. But why don't you ever get up the truth. Not that you made some And how can we do it? By letting you take your own theological or and say the truth? The United States mistakes- murder in that type of war the Black people run their own com­ philosophical view and try to impose is an imperialist power, it is an ag­ is not something that someone can munities. it on everybody by law. gressor against the Vietnamese and make as a mistake. Tell the truth. Some people get up and say, "Oh, We are not saying that someone not one single Vietnamese fighting for Who is the aggressor in Vietnam? It we don't want to divide. We want to who has this philosophical point of the liberation of Vietnam is our is the United States that is the ag­ be united with our Black brothers." view has to have an abortion. But enemy. gressor in Vietnam. Page 6 THE MiliTANT Friday, Oct. 2, 1970

The real facts about the Palestinian struggle

By ROBERT LANGSTON SEPT. 23 - The deliberate mass murder of Palestinians-who compose no less than 55 percent of the popula­ tion of Jordan-has become the main apparent goal of the barbarous attack originally launched in Amman last Thursday, Sept. 17. The immediate agent of this genoci­ dal action is King Hussein's feudal­ military clique. Incapable of swiftly crushing the Palestinian liberation movement, Hussein has resorted to mass murder. His hope is to spread fear, panic and demoralization, and to undermine the mass base of the guerrilla movement. But the ultimate responsibility for the bloodletting falls on the shoulders of the U.S. and Israeli ruling classes. Both stand poised to send in their troops if the valor and strength of Hussein's victims proves too great and if they estimate that domestic and world opinion would tolerate that murderous intervention. The beneficiaries of this attempted "final solution" of the "Palestinian prob­ lem" would be U.S. imperialism, Zi­ j Photo by Paul Boutelle onism, and all the oppressive and re­ These youngsters express the spirit of militant solidarity that unites gressive forces throughout the world. the Palestinian masses in the struggle for national self-determination. The necessity for this genocidal at­ The photo was taken in a refugee camp in Lebanon. Indiscriminate tack on the Palestinians stems from the artillery shelling decimated similar camps in Jordan, killing thousands. attempt by Washington and Moscow, with the complicity of the Israeli gov­ of the Palestinian people, have refused alist policies in the Middle East since fedayeen as their real leaders, had ernment and some of the governments to accept the proposed settlement. the Six Days War. It is the key to become crystal clear. of the Arab states, to impose a Middle They have asserted time and time recent events. Secretary of State Wil­ On Monday, Sept. 14, according East "peace settlement." again that for them to come to terms liam P. Rogers' "peace offensive" in to Eric Rouleau in the Sept. 17 Le The so-called peace moves contemp­ with the existence of the Zionist state, June announced, in essence, that the Monde, Yassir Arafat, head of Fatah tuously ignored the national rights of which has usurped their homeland imperialists had resolved to crush the and of the Palestine Liberation Orga­ the Palestinian people. and driven them into the poverty­ Palestinian resistance movement. nization, told a meeting of Arab-state The Palestinian fedayeen, whose stricken refugee camps, would be to Until the end of August, a series of ambassadors in Amman: "Gentlemen, independent struggle to regain their condemn their people to national sui­ efforts were made to split, buy off, and I wish to inform your governments homeland has intensified since the cide. seek to incorporate into some "settle­ that King Hussein has deliberately June 1967 war and who constitute This resistance of the Palestinians ment" at least a section of the Pales­ prepared a detailed plan which will the only organized political expression has been the main obstacle to imperi- tinian national movement. This failed. inevitably end in a bloodbath. Not a single leader of any stature was "I possess unassailable evidence that prepared to play the required quisling he intends to liquidate the Palestinian role. resistance fighters. I assume that your At the end of August, the Palestine governments will be either unwilling Newsweek: 'The birth National Council, which serves in cer­ or unable to do anything for us. But tain respects as a Palestinian parlia­ I am obligated to inform you, so that ment, met in Amman. The details of you will not one day be able to ab­ this meeting are unknown. solve yourselves of all responsibility." of an Arab Soviet' However, despite a range of political What has in fact occurred verifies disagreements among the various Arafat's prediction to the hilt. The SEPT. 24-As we go to press, Is­ the city's chief commissar told me, wings of the national liberation forces, Jordanian regime has set out to phys­ raeli news reports are claiming that 'See for yourself how normal the sit­ there was complete unanimity on the ically destroy not only the fedayeen the Jordanian army has retaken the uation is. We are now ruling here necessity of continuing the struggle but a substantial part of the Pales­ northern city of Irbid, the second larg­ and things are working better than against the Zionist state and of pre­ tinian people who support the com­ est city in Jordan, from the comman­ before."' senting a united defense against the mandos. dos. It is not clear whether this re­ Jenkins' account continues: "To re­ inevitable attempts, from whatever Two days after Arafat's statement, port is true or false, but an article place the city administration, the com­ quarter, to crush the self-determination Hussein dismissed his "pro-Palestinian" in the Sept. 28 issue of Newsweek mandos set up on every street 'peo­ struggle. government, and appointed a military entitled, "The Birth of an Arab So­ ple's committees,' which in turn elect­ Immediately after the National government· under the hard-line anti­ viet," makes it clear why the Jordan­ ed members to larger district commit­ Council meeting, the Jordanian regime fedayeen General Mohamed Daoud. ian and Israeli regimes are so con­ tees. These groups, composed of com­ escalated its military attacks on the Immediately thereafter, the Central cerned about regaining control of mando commissars as well as leading fedayeen. These have occurred spo­ Committee of the Palestinian resistance Irbid. residents of Irbid who support the radically during the past three-and-a­ unified all its forces under Arafat's Newsweek reporter Loren Jenkins Palestinian cause, held evening meet­ half years and on several occasions command and readmitted to full mem- described how, more than two weeks ings to discuss such matters as the have reached the proportions of civil ago, the commandos set up "the first future organization of the city and war. revolutionary city-state in the Middle preparations for its defense. Although Prior to Sept. 17, it appears that East." they are similar in structure to the the regime hoped it could liquidate Supporters of King Hussein had am­ local soviets that the Bolsheviks what it called the "extremist" fedayeen bushed and massacred 23 guerrillas formed in the early days of the Rus­ organizations- the Popular Front for • • • U.S. out! from Al Fatah and the Democratic sian Revolution, the committees the Liberation of Palestine and the Popular Front for the Liberation of seemed to be a relatively spontane­ Democratic Popular Front- without (Continued from page 1) Palestine. When the mutilated bodies ous response to local events with no evoking too much resistance from the who make up 55 percent of the popu­ of the slain guerrillas were brought overt .influence from Moscow or Pek­ others. lation, who live in the most miserable to a mosque in the center of town ing.... " But it became clear that no section conditions, and who are faced with and displayed, the people of Irbid One commando leader from the Pop­ of the resistance, including F atah, the a continual struggle for survival. They responded with outrage. ular Democratic Front explained to largest and most powerful militarily, are crowded into abominable refugee Jenkins reports: "In a seemingly Jenkins, "This week you are seeing would sit by and see any other section camps. Those living in Israeli-occu­ spontaneous explosion of anger, the the birth of the first Arab liberated destroyed. pied areas suffer particularly vicious Irbidians swarmed out of the mosque area. You could call it- and I prefer At the end of the second week of treatment. The only course open to and laid seige to government build­ to call it- the first Arab soviet." September, the Hussein coterie and its them is to struggle for their freedom by ings." The government officials who "Before I left Irbid," Jenkins' account imperialist advisers decided that the any means necessary. supported Hussein deserted their of­ continues, "a 'people's congress' met moment of truth had arrived. The The Socialist Workers Party candi­ fices to take refuge in a military ca­ in the center of the city and resolved "peace talks" were foundering; if they dates demand that you immediately sern, and all government troops left to bar all pro-government officials were to be saved, the main obstacle cease all support to King Hussein's the city. from the city and to resist any at­ to their success had to be dealt with government and to the Israeli govern­ "By midweek, when I arrived in Ir­ tack by the Jordanian Army.... 'We decisively and without delay. ment. We are going to do everything bid," writes Jenkins, "the city seemed are preparing to fight here until the The dramatic hijacking of four jet­ possible to tell the American people surprisingly calm. Shops were doing end,' said Lt. Abu Kussai, a burly liners threatened to sink the talks once the truth about the just struggle of the a brisk business and people were mill­ 30-year-old Palestinian college grad­ and for all. In Jordan, the long-run Palestinians for self-determination. We ing around the fly-infested souk (mar­ uate who is in charge of the city's erosion of Hussein's authority had not are going to build massive opposition ket) or sipping thick Turkish coffee defenses. 'We are a poor nation in been halted. The implications of trying to any U.S. intervention in the Middle in side-street cafes. . . . A young a very big struggle, but we are con­ to rule over a country, the majority East. chemical engineer who claimed to be fident of victory.'" of whose population looked to the No U.S. troops to Jordan! Friday, Oct. 2, 1970 THE MILITANT Page 7

bership the PFLP, which had been ing the shooting, Ohlsson answered, suspended because of disagreement "The artillery. They are shooting with­ with its hijacking tactic. out any reason at everyone who Thursday morning, Sept. 17, Hus­ moves." sein gave the order for armored units Early in the morning of Sept. 22, to attack and wipe out guerrilla con­ Arafat reported on the guerrilla radio centrations in Amman. The military that 20,000 people lay dead orwound­ commanders apparently expected that ed in Amman. "Amman is burning a tank and artillery blitzkrieg would for the sixth day," he said. "Thousands quickly defeat the fedayeen, who had of people are under the debris. Bodies no armaments heavier than mortars. have rotted. Thousands of houses have (The Palestine Liberation Army, the been destroyed. Hundreds of thou­ regular military force under the com­ sands of people are homeless. Our mand of the Palestine Liberation Or­ dead are scattered in the streets. Hun­ ganization, does have armor and ar­ ger and thirst are killing our remain­ tillery, but it was stationed primari­ ing children, women and old men." ly in Syria and did not enter the bat­ As of this writing, there is still sig­ tle until three days later.) nificant guerrilla resistance inAmman, The Jordanian generals' expecta­ and the northern liberated zone is still tions were disappointed. "The guerril­ firmly under fedayeen control, al­ las," wrote Edouard Saab in the Sept. though, according to the Sept. 23 New 19 Le Monde, "have demonstrated that York Times, fedayeen sources report they are much more tenacious and that the city of Zerka has been 80 organized than the Jordanian general percent destroyed by artillery fire. staff had believed, many of whose The day the civil war began, a large­ officers had imagined they would be scale mobilization of U.S. military able to finish off the military action forces went into operation. Nixon in several hours." alerted airborne troops in North Caro­ In the north of the country, the fed­ lina and Germany for possible com­ ayeen quickly achieved almost com­ bat action. The U.S. Sixth Fleet in plete control. Jordan's second largest the Eastern Mediterranean was readied city, Irbid, has in fact been ruled for for battle. the past three weeks by a revolution­ The U.S. and Israeli governments ary government based on popular began an intense and coor.dinated councils-what the Sept. 28 Newsweek scare campaign about a "Syrian in­ correctly called an "Arab soviet." The vasion." Israel reiterated threats to in­ northern area was declared a liberated tervene militarily if Hussein fell. zone. The Palestinians have appealed for Unable to win a military victory support in the most critical hour that over the fedayeen despite their im­ the struggle for Palestinian self-deter­ mense superiority in numbers and mination has yet faced. equipment, the Jordanian Army But it is questionable that there has Peter Buch on national tour moved quickly into what can only been direct Syrian involvement. Al­ be described as the genocidal phase most all available eyewitness evidence of their operation. They are attempt­ -including the Reuters correspondent ing to liquidate a massive sector of quoted in the Sept. 23 New York to defend Palestine struggle the main social base of the guerril­ Times- indicates that the tanks that las- the refugee Palestinians. crossed the border from Syria are Peter Buch, a well-known Marxist country and began to search for an­ They set about systematically de­ those of the Palestine Liberation Army. spokesman on the Middle East, has swers in his early teens. He became stroying the city of Amman. They In any case, the Palestinian feda­ just begun an extensive national an active member of the American began to unleash barrage after bar­ yeen, supported by the Palestinian speaking tour on the current Mideast branch of Hashomer Hatzair, a left rage of heavy artillery fire into the masses, are standing almost alone. developments and in defense of the Zionist youth organization affiliated refugee camps in and around Amman. The cry of "Syrian invasion" is a Palestinian revolution. The tour will to the Mapam (United Workers Party), These camps are relatively small in smokescreen to obscure from the take him to virtually every corner of which is presently in the Israeli cabi­ area and densely populated, over­ American people the murder of the country, where he will address net. He spent six months in Israel in whelmingly by civilians; the main Palestinian people. It is a classical meetings sponsored by the Young So­ 1951 where he worked on a Kibbutz guerrilla military bases are not there. case of what Malcolm X called trying cialist Alliance, the Socialist Workers and attended a leadership training The almost continuous shelling of to make the victim appear to be the Party and other groups. school. He later broke with Zionism them can have only one purpose: to criminal. and became a founder of the YSA. kill as many of the civilians as pos­ But the real criminals are the im­ Buch, who is 36 and lives in New Peter Buch is the author of an ex­ sible. perialists who advised and prepared York, has appeared on numerous tended analysis of the Arab-Israeli On Sept. 22, Ole Ohlsson, a Swed­ the genocidal slaughter and who stand campuses, public forums, broadcasts conflict entitled Burning Issues of the ish photographer who was the first ready to intensify their aid to the and debates since the 1967 June war. Mideast Crisis. He is co-author of Zi­ correspondent to leave Amman since slaughterers if need be. The real heroes He was brought to the United States onism and the Arab Revolution and the fighting started, reported on na­ are the Palestinian masses and the as a child when his family fled German edited and wrote an introduction to tional CBS television news: "Civilians fedayeen, who are fighting by any fascism in Europe. He soon encoun­ the just-published anthology Leon are lying all over the streets, dead means necessary for their national tered anti-Semitism in his adopted Trotsky on the Jewish Question. and wounded. It's not possible to get homeland. to the hospitals. They are shooting This is the truth that must be taken at ambulances." Asked who was do- to the American people. Bulletin issued on L.A. arsonists who iump bail BOSTON ISRAEL By DELLA ROSSA CHE GUEVARA MEMORIAL MEmNG: CUBA AND LOS ANGELES- An all-points bul­ LAnN AMERICA TODAY. Speaker: Peter Camejo, SWP candidate for U.S. Senate and frequent visitor to Cuba letin is out for three counterrevolu­ and Latin America. Fri., Od. 2, 8 p.m. 295 Huntington tionary Cubans charged with armed Ave., Baston, Rm 307. Ausp. Militant Labar Forum. arson attacks that last spring de­ stroyed the Haymarket, a radical MIUTANT LABOR FORUM OF THE AIR: An interview movement center, and gutted the Ash­ with Eva Chertov: "The Role of Women in Cuba." Tu ... grove coffeehouse and the Socialist ,·"Y• Sept. 29, 6-7 p.m. WTBS-FM, 88.1. For more in­ Workers Party campaign headquar­ formation call536-6981. ters. Reynaldo Gonzalez, Jorge Pelaze, CLEVaAND• and Reynaldo Castro jumped bail WAR AND REVOLUnON IN THE MIDDLE EAST. Sept. 17 when they failed to appear Speakers: Almeda Kirsch, member of Socialist Workers before Judge Sherman S. Smith in a Party; and a spokesman for the Palestinian liberation hearing for revoking bail based on movement. Fri., Od. 2, 8 p.m. 2921 Prospect Ave. continued threats against the victims Donation: 51, h.s. students SOc. Far more Information of the arson attacks. call861-3862. Ausp. Debs Hall Forum. A fourth Cuban counterrevolution­ • ary, Orestes Hernandez, appeared in NEW YORK court and was released on bail. Trial MIUTANT LABOR FORUM. Fri., Oct. 2, 8:30 p.m. date for all four has been set for Octo­ 873 Broadway (nr. 18th St.). Contrlb. 51, h.s. students ber 21. SOc. In a statement issued September 21, Kipp Dawson, SWP candidate for U.S. senator from the Citizens Committee for the Right I I I I I I I N.Y. will be on WOR radio, Sun., Od.4, 5 p.m. (WOR­ of Free Political Expression said, AM710). 0 10 2.0MI. "Three dangerous terrorists are now E222] lsra!li -occupi!Zd • at large and evading arrest and trial. TWINCmES terri tor!:j . We demand that all agencies, THE AUG. 26 NAnONAl WOMEN'S LIIERAnON including the FBI's ten-most-wanted DAY-WHAT NEXT? Speaker: Ruthann Miller, coordi­ list, be used to apprehend these terror­ nator of N.Y. Women's Liberation Day Demonstration. Numbers indicate the scenes of heaviest fighting as of Sept. 23. ists." Fri., Od. 2, 8 p.m. Carl Skoglund Hall, I University Attorney for the Citizens Committee Ave. N. E. For further information call 332-7781. Ausp. is Joan Anderson. Twin Cities Socialist Forum. Page 8 THE MiliTANT Friday, Oct. 2, 1970

Open letter to Myra Wolfgang For equal rights ,rs and shorter hours

On Sept. 9, 1970, Myra Wolfgang, derive from the Equal Rights Amend­ vice-president of the Hotel and Res­ ment. Maximum hours laws could be taurant Employees and Bartenders extended to include men-just as equal Union, testified before the Senate Ju­ pay legislation has meant raising diciary Committee against the pro­ women's wages to equal men's, not posed Equal Rights Amendment for lowering men's wages to correspond women. This position is reflective of with women's. the position taken by most of the AFL­ There is both legal and historical CIO bureaucracy on the Equal Rights precedent for extending the maximum Amendment. hours laws to cover men. Much of the Wolfgang's testimony received a lot labor legislation that was won for of publicity and was played up as the and by women around the turn of position of the labor movement. But the century has been extended in some her position is just another example form to men, both in state laws and of how the union bureaucracies are also by the Fair Labor Standards lagging behind the important social Act of 1938, which applies to men struggles of today. The union bureau­ and women. This established a min­ crats are not in the forefront of the imum wage and limited hours without fight for women's rights, just as they overtime pay. Premium pay for over­ have tried to ignore the mounting time hours was intended to discourage struggle for Black liberation. longer hours. The fact that Myra Wolfgang has Today this goal has been lost sight no understanding of the meaning of of. Employers have preferred overtime the women's liberation movement was rates to hiring more workers. The indicated in some comments she made mistaken idea has been fostered that to reporters about what she thought overtime is a benefit. Men need the of Kate Millett's book Sexual Politics: additional money. Women do too. "I thought she was trying to shock. The responsibility for this trend to­ Photo by Howard Petrick H she wants to live in a commune ward the longer work week rests, as Aug. 26 women's march in New York and have communal love, let her." you know, squarely on the trade The following is an open letter to union leadership, which has gone Myra Wolfgang from Sarah Lovell, along with the employers in the ac­ onerous for the working-class woman. and inside the home. Your present a member of the International Typo­ ceptance of overtime as normal and The demands of the movement that position is simply to accept the status graphical Union and of the Socialist desirable. were raised in the demonstrations on quo. Opposing the concept of equal Workers Party. This whole development has to be Aug. 26 were: free 24-hour child-care rights for women can only help per­ • • • reversed. In the past, the principal centers, equal job and educational op­ petuate our present oppressed status. goals of the labor movement have portunities, free abortions on demand. I believe it is self-contradictory to Dear Myra Wolfgang, been shorter hours and higher pay. We can add to these, demands for oppose the Equal Rights Amendment I take exception to your testimony The unions must now return to this maternity pay, preferential training because women are discriminated in Washington on Sept. 9 opposing perspective. They must wage a cam­ and hiring of women and national against in real life. We want this passage of the Equal Rights Amend­ paign to fight for shorter hours both minorities, and shorter hours. amendment in order to help build a ment (ERA) for women and the in­ in union contracts and in legislation. If you want to speak for the "work­ movement that will end sex discrim­ ference that your view represents the We need a federal law that enforces ing women and housewives of Amer­ ination. opinion of all working-class women. uniform standards in all states. We ica," then you have to begin to work Yours for equal rights and shorter As discussion over the amendment need a uniform improvement and ex­ toward solutions to their problem of hours, proceeds, more and more working pansion of the social legislation that having a dual work load- outside Sarah Lovell women, like myself, are coming to exists now in the form of scattered and feel that working-class women will insufficient state laws. have the most to gain from this Actually, the question of hours laws amendment designed to eliminate dis­ in relation to the Equal Rights Amend­ crimination against women. Although ment is already becoming moot. While the debate goes on, hours laws are Equal Rights Amendment we are well acquainted with all the special problems women workers face, being eliminated or revised because we think the Equal Rights Amendment of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights • will help, not hurt, in confronting these Act, which bars discrimination in em­ problems. ployment. Since 1964, six states have attracts grow1ng support You said in your testimony that repealed maximum hours laws for only "lady lawyers" and wealthy wom­ women. Another six states have re­ en would benefit from the Equal Rights vised their laws in the direction of On Sept. 18 a press conference was Columbia Women's Liberation Group Amendment. I would like to explain permitting women to work voluntary held in New York by a spectrum of to you my point of view- not that overtime. organizations in support of the Equal Columbia Women's Liberation feels of a "lady lawyer," but that of a wom­ The logic of your position would Rights Amendment to the Constitution. that passage of the Equal Rights an printer and union member- in the lead, not to a struggle by the union The purpose of the conference was to Amendment Act will represent, at last, hopes that you will change your mind. to shorten the work week, but to a demonstrate support for passage of a clear, unequivocal statement on the The proposed Equal Rights Amend­ demand for repeal of Title VII! But the amendment and also to protest part of the federal government that ment states: "Equality of rights under Title VII has opened the way to pro­ the unfair way in which the Senate the law shall not be denied or tests by women workers against long­ Judiciary Committee hearings on the abridged by the United States or by standing practices of discrimination amendment were arranged, with three any state on account of sex." This is and unequal pay and the misuse of days of testimony against the amend­ a simple democratic right. The intent the protective laws to keep women ment and only one day for testimony of its supporters is to prohibit dis­ from moving into better jobs- not on­ in favor of it. crimination against women. ly in the professions, but in the plants, Several of the groups decided to What will happen to the state labor shops and on the assembly lines. organize a demonstration in Washing­ laws that apply to women only, called The demand today for equal rights ton on Sept. 24 to urge passage of the protective laws? Laws that are con­ is a reflection of a change in the mood the amendment and provide an op­ sidered beneficial should be extended and temper of women who are deter­ portunity for groups who were denied to include men. Laws that are con­ mined to put an end to discrimina­ the right to testify before the Senate sidered restrictive and discriminatory tion. This rising consciousness of Judiciary Committee to speak in favor should be eliminated. You are wrong equality is developing among all wom­ of the amendment. to assume that the ERA will auto­ en and is expressing itself in a rapidly Some of the excerpts printed below, matically eliminate them all. Which growing movement. including statements made by Colum­ laws are eliminated and which are This movement does not want to bia Women's Liberation, Women in extended is up to us- to the women, do away with legislation that helps City Government United, Phoenix Or­ the unions, and those we can mobilize women. On the contrary, the move­ ganization of Women, and the Social­ with us to struggle for better working ment is raising special demands that ist Workers Party are from statements conditions. go to the roots of the oppression of made at the New York press confer­ You are perfectly right, however, women- demands that deal with the ence. Others are taken from statements in support of the amendment given at '%- when you point to the danger of the double burden placed on women's Press conference photos by Caroline Lund elimination of the state laws which shoulders of work on the job and the Senate Judiciary Committee hear­ establish maximum hours a woman work in the home and the raising of ings. Amy Hackett, Columbia Women's may work. But this danger does not future generations, all of which is most • • • Liberation Friday, Oct. 2, 1970 THE MiliTANT Page 9

women and men are equal citizens do not protect women in the one area before the law.... clearly applicable to women only­ There are those who approve the maternity benefits and job security; spirit of the proposed amendment but they are ineffective in dealing with the are frightened that it would lead to exploitation of women through lower an erosion of protective legislation. pay than men; and they are used to First, protective legislation is al­ discriminate against women in job, ready under fire and some of it has promotion, and higher pay. They do been repealed. One must also keep not furnish a reliable basis for op­ in mind that some so-called protec­ position to the Equal Rights Amend­ tive laws are, in fact, discriminatory. ment. .. For example, in Utah a woman is not permitted to hold a job which Virginia Hauer, speaking for Wom­ requires her to lift 15 or more pounds en in City Government United in New -the average weight of a three-month­ York City old infant. This law and others sim­ We can't wait for another 50 or ilar to it are often used to keep wom­ 100 years for the courts to interpret en out of higher paying jobs.... the 14th Amendment as giving equal We do not dispute that some pro­ rights to women.... tective laws are valuable. This amend­ ment need not imply that genuinely Kipp Dawson, Socialist Workers Party protective legislation must be repealed; candidate for the Senate from New it can and should imply that this leg­ York islation be extended to men. Virginia Hauer Many of us are going to Washing­ Kipp Dawson Furthermore, if Congress proves en­ ton on Thursday, Sept. 24, to dem­ lightened enough to pass this Act, the onstrate for passage of the Equal so-called "representatives" in Con­ amendment must then be debated in Wilma Scott Heide, speaking for the Rights Amendment, to make our gress are manhandling this amend­ each of the 50 states. This will bring National Organization for Women united voices heard by the Senate and ment, and that we are going to fight the issue of sexual equality out of . . . If we are people, then we must by the people of the country and the a united battle to win the passage of 50 years of obscurity and into open be declared as people with this amend­ world. We will let them know that this amendment, and, then, go on to discussion throughout the country. ment and have all the rights and res­ we are outraged about the way our win our complete liberation. ponsibilities of the rest of the popu­ Phoenix Organization of Women lation. If we are not people, and not (Phoenix House is an organization entitled to equal rights and. protec­ that aids in the rehabilitation of drug tion under the law, then we should addicts in New York ghettos.) never be permitted to vote, we should Seattle Black workers We recognize those women who be­ not have to pay taxes and we should cause of their race and/ or past as­ not be bound to obey laws not in­ sociation with drugs would be doubly tended to protect us or grant us the stigmatized when moving to help ef­ birthright of every male.... close construction sites fect changes in our society- first, as My ability to reproduce two chil­ being women; second, as being "fall­ dren does not confer on me the unique By BILL MASSEY that it would obviously be necessary en women." These women need the ability based on my sex to care for Socialist Workers Party candidate for the Black workers themselves to backing of the Constitution in job hir­ and raise these children any more for U. S. senator from Washington enforce the law, since the government ing, equal pay and advancement as than my husband's biological ability SEATTLE - On Friday morning, has proven incapable of enforcing qualified. Those women who have chil­ to father these children disqualifies him Sept. 11, a group of about 150 Black either the federal judge's rulings or dren will be faced with welfare as the from child care. So it is with other workers closed down three Seattle con­ the 1965 presidential executive order only means of support because of the women and men as classes of peo­ struction sites to dramatize their strug­ concerning minority hiring practices in vacuum that exists in the area of child ple. Homemaking and child care are gle for jobs. By early afternoon the the construction industry. care for working mothers. These two learned social roles without biologi­ militant action had forced a federal Tyree Scott, a Seattle contractor and issues go hand in hand and must be cal imperatives as to who performs judge to hand down a ruling that con­ a Black activist who went to jail for recognized by all women as imme­ them ... tractors must hire at least 90 Black his leadership role in last fall's dem­ diate priorities. workers by Oct. 1. onstrations, came straight from his Olga M. Nadar, vice-president of the Last fall, exactly the same series jail cell to help lead the Friday shut­ Georgianna Sellers, in behalf of the International Union, United Auto of events took place: after demonstra­ downs. He pointed out how quickly League for American Working Women Workers tions by Black workers, thesamejudge the government acts in putting Blacks, . . . Women union officials should ... We are convinced that the op­ made a court ruling that 90 jobs must like himself, in jail but how it never be working for the betterment of work­ ponents of the Equal Rights Amend­ be provided for Black workers. But acts decisively to enforce the laws when ing women and men instead of try­ ment, who are seeking to vitiate it this ruling was never carried out or it comes to the white contractors. ing to kill a constitutional amendment through a substitute resolution, are enforced. This time the Black work­ The demonstrations at the three con­ that would be the first step toward a against it not because it would threat­ ers, under the leadership of the new­ struction sites on Friday were carried very realistic end of discrimina­ en positions women have already ly formed United Construction Work­ out with a conscious attempt not to tion.... gained, but because it would focus ers Association, have vowed to take alienate the white workers. At the One of the persons testifying here state and national attention on the further actions if the government does largest site there was not even a single previously called all people support­ inadequacy and discriminatory nature not immediately enforce the legal rul­ token Black on the job. All but a few ing the ERA militants. If this is true, of the laws that are supposed to pro­ ing. of the white workers left their jobs and it may well be, I suggest he get tect women, and thus set in motion In a meeting with the contractors readily when the Black workers called on the bandwagon and start waving a process of critical review and over­ prior to the Friday shutdowns, the upon them to close shop. Over and banners, because the days of anti­ haul of such legislation whose effects Black workers were told "there is a over again the Black workers ex­ feminism are drawing to a close and would be felt not only in the form lull in the economy and Black people plained that they were not against the the antiquated laws allowing discrim­ of better legislative protection for wom­ will have to wait in line." Lionel white workers but against the bosses. ination against women are passe. en and men alike, but in a new aware­ Hampton, chairman of the United The demands that Blacks be allowed Construction Workers Association, re­ The opponents of the ERA claim ness among women of the realities to work in order to feed their families plied that the economy was always in struck a responsive chord from most that it is the business and professi~n­ of their situation, and a new and great­ bad shape as it related to Blacks and al women who are pushing for the er degree of involvement by women workers. amendment and imply that this shows in the political process. that industrial women workers should In short, there is a move to "get" be against it. Nothing could be further the ERA not because it would cause from the truth. This tactic of the op­ chaos but because it would create fer­ ponents is for the purpose of trying ment. It would strengthen the posi­ to divide women who are working tion of women and women's organi­ together for their rights. I am glad zations, including unions.... business and professional women are for the amendment. ... Norman Dorsen, professor of law at New York University School of Law and general counsel of the American Civil Liberties Union . . . The fact is that the effect of the amendment on protective labor legislation provides no sound basis for opposing it. There are three interrelated points here. First, the crazy quilt of exist­ ing state protective laws reveal graph­ ically that there is no consensus on what is needed protection for either men or women, and that much of the legislation, instead of providing solutions to the real problems of wom­ en workers, actually "protect" them out of jobs they are perfectly capable of fulfilling. Second, under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, much state legislation of this type is being invalidated and will be of no long term importance. Third, such laws that confer genuine benefits can and should be extended to men under the Pat Spellman, Phoenix Organiza­ Equal Rights Amendment. ... Seattle construction workers discuss problems tion of Women ... In fact, these protective laws Page 10 THE MILITANT Friday, Oct. 2, 1970

Long Island, N.Y. 75 12 Newark, N.J. 75 4 New Haven, Conn. 60 Subscription Berkeley, Calif. 600 81 Phoenix, Ariz. 75 4 Columbus, Ohio 75 Twin Cities, Minn. 600 81 Niagara Falls, N.Y. 20 1 Boulder-Denver, Colo. 235 2 scoreboard DeKolb, Ill. 150 19 Ann Arbor, Mich. 100 4 Yellow Springs, Ohio 125 1 City Quota New subs Chicago, Ill. 1.500 187 Cheney, Wash. 50 2 Providence, R.I. 150 0 Houston, Texas 200 134 El Paso, Texas 75 9 Flint, Mich. 50 2 Venice, Calif. 100 0 Austin, Texas 300 179 Kansas City, Mo. 100 11 La Crosse, Wis. 50 2 Gainesville, Fla. 75 0 Philadelphia, Po. 500 278 Tampa, Fl~. 100 11 Oshkosh, Wis. 50 2 Oberlin, Ohio 75 0 Detroit, ·Mich. 700 233 Por~and, Ore. 100 10 Madison, Wis. 300 10 Paterson, N.J. 60 0 Mansfield, Po. 50 14 Washington, D. C. 300 30 San Diego, Calif. 150 5 Ft. Wayne, Ind. 50 0 Logan, Utah 50 11 A~anta, Ga. 500 43 Bloomington, Ind. 100 3 Fullerton, Calif. 50 0 San Francisco, Calif. 750 160 los Angeles, Calif. 1,000 81 Kent, Ohio 100 3 lit~e Rock, Ark. 50 0 Northhamptan, Mass. 20 4 Worcester, Mass. 100 8 Hayward, Calif. 80 2 Grosse Pt., Mich. 20 0 Portsmoufu, N.H. 20 4 Seattle, Wash. 400 26 Milwaukee, Wis. 150 3 Baltimore, Md. 10 0 New York, N.Y. 2,000 374 Oxford, Ohio 50 3 Orlando, Fla. 50 Youngstown, Ohio 10 0 Tallahassee, Fla. 50 9 St. louis, Mo. 50 3 Red Hook, N.Y. 50 Middletown, N.Y. 5 0 Boston, Mass. 1,000 173 Ypsilanti, Mich. 50 3 Riverside, Calif. 150 3 General 400 94 Cleveland, Ohio 600 103 Binghamton, N.Y. 150 8 San Joaquin Val., Calif. 50 GOAL 15,000 2,454 Supporters mobilize for early sales push

SEPT. 22- Chris Hildebrand is a said. dence that Mansfield would go over the for a goal of 200 subs this week, which socialist and a women's liberation ac­ "I think that the results we've seen top in the next week or two. would give us close to 600 subs if tivist in Boston. so far," she said, "show that we sell And in Detroit, Dave Katz, Militant things shape up." She also shoulders a full-time day­ best going door to door in dormi­ sub director, said by phone that a big Other major sales efforts this week time job. tories rather than street selling. In the week was ahead. "Militant supporters took place at the meetings that were She also is a principal organizer of dorms you have a chance to talk to are going on a general mobilization being called to discuss the Mideast women's liberation activities for the people." to break the back of the drive this developments as The Militant went to Socialist Workers Party in the Hub. She added another sales tip. She week," Katz reported. "We're shooting press. -WADE D. DOUGLAS At last count she also had sold 22 takes along several back issues from new subscriptions to The Militant­ May when The Militant featured spe­ with the nationwide subscription drive cial exclusive stories on the national 380 ISR subscriptions only eight days old and the prospects student strike, publishing on an emer­ looking good for the massive cam­ gency basis two issues a week. She paign to add 15,000 new readers by lets dorm residents look over the old • Nov. 15. copies, she said, then urges them to sold drive's Jst week Hildebrand is one of the socialists subscribe in order to to keep up with A drive to get 2,500 new subscrip­ Texas, with 14 ISR subs toward a in major cities across the country who the action this fall. tions to the revolutionary'" socialist goal of 50. is out selling special $1, 1 0-week in­ In addition, she sold numerous sub­ monthly International Socialist Review The magazine subscription cam­ troductory Militant subscriptions. scriptions two weeks ago at Emmanuel is off to a flying start. Responding paign is integrally tied to The Mil­ "We're putting in a lot of effort," she College, where students last year ac­ to the growing desire among youth itant drive. Individuals who purchase said by telephone from Boston. tively organized support for the grape for a magazine of Marxist theory, a sub to the newspaper are being The national objective is to go over boycott while Chicano grape pickers the ISR editors set the 2,500 goal asked a second question- would they the half way mark in the first few fought for union recognition in Cali­ with a deadline, like The Militant's, like a $1 three-month subscription to weeks of the drive so that the home­ fornia's Delano Valley. of Nov. 15. the ISR? "The response has been so stretch of the largest Militant subscrip­ The Militant, Hildebrand pointed out good," noted ISR business manager tion campaign in recent years will to Emmanuel students, has the best With the magazine drive one week Martha Rudenstein, "that you should­ be relatively easy. coverage on the Chicano movement old, theory and practice seemed to n't forget to ask that question." As the drive turned the corner on of any national periodical. be meshing. There were 380 ISR sub­ With the looks of the upcoming Oc­ the first week, 2,454 subscriptions were There was other encouraging sales scriptions already sold, with Detroit tober issue- which features a special in the hopper. news. The Mansfield, Pa., YSA re­ leading percentagewise with 33 subs article on the current radicalization Boston-"Cradle of Liberty" and set­ ported that it had already sold 14 towards its quota of 117. Close be­ by former Militant editor George Breit­ ting for an earlier revolutionary up­ subscriptions toward its quota of 50. hind were Philadelphia with 22 out man- it certainly is a good question surge- registered the largest subscrip­ YSAer Ken Evans expressed confi- of 88 subscriptions sold and Austin, to ask. tion gain last week as Boston social­ ists moved onto the campuses in an intensive sales blitz. As of Sept. 23, Boston had 173 subscriptions towards its quota of 1,000. The quota was set earlier by agree­ ment between the Boston Socialist Consistently Workers Party, the Young Socialist • • • Alliance and The Militant. In last spring's drive, Boston set week after week itself an objective of 350 subscriptions, Thousands of Arab Refugees Flee but a combination of the radicalizing In Wake of Israel's "Blitzkrieg" campuses and the growth of the revo­ THE I Use of Napalm Inflicts The Militant has lutionary socialist movement in Bos­ ~J.~b~~~:~ Heavy To/1 i~ Jordan ton caused activists there to shoot for a larger quota this fall. Jolms011Scores told the truth Double - with Subscription salesmen in Boston re­ ISIYIIJ!'s V"tttory port that they have already madesales pushes at Boston University, North­ about U.S. aims eastern, Harvard, MIT, the University of Massachusetts, Tufts, Emmanuel College, Simmons and Wheelock. in the Mideast. Teams from the three Boston YSA In hard-hitting and truthful articles, THE MILITANT locals and the SWP branch go out has consistently exposed the U.S. government's all during the week. designs in the Mideast and its efforts to crush the Chris Hildebrand, Boston's top sell­ er, says that when she's out getting mounting Palestinian revolution. To keep abreast subs she emphasizes The Militant's of week-by-week developments and to understand coverage of women's liberation. "I ex­ the real causes behind the crisis in the Middle plain to people that its the only radi­ June 19, 1967 East, don't miss a single issue. cal paper that covers the women's movement consistently," Hildebrand p •••••••••••Clip and mail• • •-• • •••• • • I _Enclosed is $1 for 10 weeks of THE MILITANT. · Want

Sept. 16 is traditionally celebrated by Chicano Moratorium held Aug. 29. and rallied on the lawn of the state but a response to the police attack on the Chicano community as the day This moratorium, or antiwar demon­ capitol. The principal speakers came the Los Angeles Chicano Moratorium Mexico proclaimed its independence stration, mobilized over 30,000 Chi­ from the Denver-based Crusade for held Aug. 29. from Spain in 1810. canos. The police subsequently as­ Justice, the Colorado Raza Unida Par­ The size of the demonstration was a This year, interlaced with the usual saulted this action and murdered three ty, and UMAS (United Mexican-Amer­ surprise to all as it was organized in activities was the growing theme of Chicanos, one of whom was the noted ican Students). two weeks in the face of an intimida­ Chicano self-determination. Initial re­ journalist and newsman Ruben Sala­ Manuel Lopez, from UMAS at Colo­ tion campaign mounted by the local ports from a number of areas bear zar. Many Sept. 16 actions protested rado University - Denver Center, police department. Radio and televi­ this out. this brutal police attack. struck home when he said, "Today is sion clamored about the prospect of Also, contributing momentum to this In Denver, Colorado, over 4,000 a demonstration against the Indochina violence. year's celebration was the Los Angeles Chicanos paraded with colorful floats war." The largest single contingent in the Rudolfo "Corky" Gonzales of the Cru­ Moratorium came from MECHA (Mo­ sade talked about Chicano control of vimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Azt­ the Chicano community. And George lan) at Moorpark Junior College, situ­ Garcia, Colorado Raza Unida Party ated 20 miles outside of Oxnard. Some Join the sub drive candidate for It. governor, also spoke. 250 students participated. For this occasion, the Denver police Among the speakers were Rosalio were totally mobilized. Munoz of the National Chicano Mora­ As an independent reader, I would like to sell subscriptions to The Militant In El Paso, Texas, over 2,000 Chi­ torium Committee, and Richard Car­ this fall. canos marched through the downtown mona of the Oxnard La Raza Mora­ area and held a rally in the barrio. torium Committee. Please set for me a quota of (circle one} 5 10 20 Organizations participating were: the A Chicano spokesman from the Brown Berets, Alianza, MECHA, United Farm Workers Organizing 30 40 50 subscriptions. MAPA (Mexican-American Political As­ Committee, AFL-CIO, spoke on the sociation), MAYA (Mexican-American question of independent Chicano pol­ D List the above quota in The Militant's weekly scoreboard Youth Association), and the Amalga­ itics. He blasted both the Democratic published during the drive. (Note: Quotas are listed mated Clothing Workers. and Republican parties. by city, not name.) Speakers attacked the war in Viet­ The rally ended with a call for a D Do not publish my quota figure in The Militant. nam and protested the death of Ruben "Free All Political Prisoners" rally on Salazar. Oct. 10. It will be held at 1 p.m. A number of Chicano clothing work­ at Plaza Park in the city of Ventura. Name (please print} ers participated. Right now they are trying to unionize Sarah, one of the Address biggest clothing manufacturers in the area. In Oxnard, California, 1,000 Chi­ City State Zip canos held an antiwar protest on Sept. School 19. This demonstration was not a direct celebration of Mexican independence, Page 12 THE MILITANT Friday, Oct. 2, 1970 Is the Democratic Party falling apart?

By FRANK LOVELL patronage system. But they were When AFL-CIO president George drawn into the broad political coali­ Meany casually remarked in his La­ tion around the Democratic Party bor Day interviews this year that largely through the influence of the "these people [Democratic Party poli­ new CIO unions upon the Black com­ ticians] just seem to be falling apart munity and the organizing efforts of all over the country," he was talking the National Association for the Ad­ about the broad vote-catching coali­ vancement of Colored People. tion around the Democratic Party. The New Deal looked like a new This is different from the central core day for the Black man in the indus­ of the Democratic Party machine, trial North, and the CIO and NAACP which is firmly controlled by the rul­ fostered this illusion. ing class. The machine is well estab­ World War II lished and richly endowed. It is intact Big economic changes and social and will remain so as long as the shifts occurred during and after World ruling class has need of it. On the War II, producing new alignments other hand, the broad coalition of within the vote-catching coalition. divergent economic and social inter­ The great expansion of industry and ests which the machine seeks to hold the mechanization of agriculture together is a constantly changing changed the rural economy of the thing. South, industrialized many southern By carefully hiding this distinction cities, sent Black sharecroppers to the between the controlling political ma­ city ghettos of both the North and chine and the vote-catching coalition, the South, and brought skilled work­ political commentators, whose job is ers from the North to construction to stimulate popular interest in the sites and new factories in the South. electoral race between Democrats and These shifts in population, combined Republicans, habitually discover that with the postwar "population explo­ one or the other of these twin parties sion," produced changes in voting pat­ is "falling apart" or on the verge of terns that could alter the outcome of disappearing from the political scene. elections. This was the pronouncement delivered In the cities, a population shift also over what appeared to be the corpse occurred, beginning shortly after of the Republican Party after Frank­ World War II. In the big cities of lin Roosevelt's landslide victory over the North, many of the old ethnic Landon in 1936. groups dispersed, mostly into the sub­ The same thing was said about the urbs, where the new industrial instal­ Democratic Party in 1948 when it lations were going up, attracting mid­ seemed to split three ways- the Dixie­ dle-class merchants and professionals crats walking out the back door and and giving preference in employment the Henry Wallace Progressive Party to the white work force. Unemployed breaking away to carry the debate and underemployed Blacks were left over foreign policy to the voters. behind to occupy the abandoned res­ More recently it was the turn of the idential sections of the cities. Republican Party again to be counted Under these changed conditions the The growth of the anti-Vietnam-war movement and the unresponsive­ out after the defeat of Goldwater by Black communities now constitute a ness of Democratic Party leaders to the rising antiwar sentiment within Johnson in 1964. Now it is the Dem­ powerful voting bloc in most major the ranks of labor have been a major factor straining the old labor­ ocratic Party that is said to be in cities of the North and the remnants Democratic Party coalition put together by Franklin D. Roosevelt. trouble. In all cases, each of these of the old Democratic machines are parties makes a remarkable recovery. disappearing in many cities, Chicago fective coalition, and it has dem­ ner votes for him or the Democratic The fact is, that in none of these in­ being a notable exception. onstrated that it can elect the candi­ Party. stances has the basic structure of either This unremitting process of econom­ dates of the Democratic Party. The response of the Johnson admin­ party, or the two-party system, been ic and social change, steadily at work The problem for the Democratic Par­ istration was to consult with the Pen­ shaken. for more than a quarter century, has ty is that this coalition shows signs of tagon about the tactical advisability of Today it is the broad coalition that vastly altered two of the three uneasy weakening. It is not at all that the ending the bombing and to reaffirm garners votes for the Democrats that and distrustful partners in the old Democratic Party is "falling apart," as its war aims. is in trouble, not the controlling struc­ coalition that Roosevelt forged and George Meany and others try to make Those in charge of Democratic Par­ ture of the party itself. Big changes managed so adroitly. out. But this coalition upon which ty policy paid no more attention to have occurred in that coalition since The "solid South" has yielded to the the Democratic Party depends at this similar advice and protest from other the days that some historians now two-party system where the Southern political juncture for the necessary sectors of the coalition. call the "Roosevelt era." ruling class now maneuvers for in­ votes to return it to power is in trou­ After Johnson bowed to antiwar sen­ The electoral success of the Demo­ fluence in both parties. The big-city ble with its own constituents. timent and withdrew from the political crats under Roosev ~lt in the pre-war machines have been largely replaced scene, the Democratic Party support­ years was assured by the coalition by new electoral coalitions which must The Vietnam war ers of Eugene McCarthy attempted to of Southern landholders, the modern include and accommodate the needs The trouble develops out of the eco­ demonstrate the sentiment of students union movement organized behind the of the Black communities, the latest nomic instability and social unrest in and the academic community against banner of the CIO, plus the big-city example being the collapse and defeat this country created by the prolonged the war. They represented an impor­ political machines of the Democrats. of the corrupt Addonizio machine in war in Vietnam which is a bipartisan tant part of the vote-catching coali­ These three separate voting blocs, Newark, N.J., and the election of operation, supported equally by both tion. At the 1968 Chicago convention, each seeking to satisfy its own social Black mayor Kenneth A. Gibson. Both Democrats and Republicans. they and others were clubbed down and economic needs, which were in Addonizio and Gibson are supporters The fatal weakness of the labor­ in the streets upon orders from the sharp conflict from the beginning, of the Democratic Party and have re­ Democratic coalition was revealed in Democratic mayor Daley of that city. were held together by the program ceived the endorsement of that party. the debacle of the Johnson administra­ The Democratic convention endorsed of social reform and federal economic But they have very different constit­ tion when it became apparent to all the war aims of the Johnson admin­ assistance that characterized the uencies. The Democratic Party adjusts who did not know it before that au­ istration and nominated Vice-President Roosevelt New Deal. and takes advantage of such changes thoritative representatives of the coali­ Humphrey to campaign on Johnson's The promises to labor held out by and differences. That is ruling-class tion had no voice at all within the dismal record of broken promises. the New Deal, and the hopes it fos­ politics in the U.S. A. councils of the Democratic Party and Again, on such important issues as tered of improving the conditions of What remains of the old vote-catch­ were powerless to influence its policy. government intervention against the life for the vast majority under cap­ ing coalition of the Democrats is the For example, a rather impressive postal strike and the rail strikes, Dem­ italism, are to this day associated to central leadership of the union move­ group of more than 500 top union ocrats line up solidly in the Congress some extent with the Democratic Par­ ment and the long-established Black officials from 50 international unions against the unions. ty. organizations such as the NAACP. and from 38 states met in Chicago as This immunity and seeming indif­ The Dixiecrats remained happy with To this can be added the liberal intelli­ the Labor Leadership Assembly for ference of the Democratic Party to the Roosevelt because of the large farm gentsia, which comprises a large part Peace on the weekend of Nov. 10, needs, hopes, aspirations and de­ subsidies pumped into their region by of the academic world and a vocal 1967. Present at this assembly were mands of its supporting coalition was the federal government, and because minority in most professions. such influential supporters of the Dem­ sensed several years ago by the voters, the big cotton growers received spe­ Around this present coalition and ocratic Party as Frank Rosenblum, including the industrial workers. A cial favors in the regulation of prices. attempting to work within it are the secretary-treasurer of the Amalgamat­ widening pattern of shifts back and The big-city machine politicians­ social democrats of the Michael Har­ ed Clothing Workers, Emil Mazey, sec­ forth between Democrats and Repub­ mayors Kelly in Chicago, Curley in rington variety and the Communist retary-treasurer of the United Auto licans has developed. Boston, Hague in Jersey City, the Pen­ Party. Both seek now to perform the Workers, and several other secretary­ In the cases of union members shift­ dergast machine in Kansas City, and same services for the union bureau­ treasurers of unions. ing from Democrats over to Republi­ many others- all operated through crats and play the same supportive The assembly urged President John­ cans and back again, this represents a the patronage system and were based role for the Democratic Party that they son to scale down the bombing of form of protest against the urging upon the different ethnic groups- the did in the days of the New Deal and North Vietnam and to begin serious by the union bureaucrats to "vote Italians, Irish, Polish-Americans and during World War II. negotiations to end the war. These straight Democratic." Such votes have others. The present combination of the es­ union bureaucrats were telling John­ not brought any benefits to the work­ Afro-Americans in the city slums tablished union and Black leaders and son that if the war continued much ing class or to the unions since World were not generally included in this the intellectuals has constituted an ef- longer they would not be able to gar- (Continued on page 14) Friday, Oct. 2, 1970 THE MILITANT Page 13

administration of "encouraging and perpetuating THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK: The "primary racial discrimination." Said Affeldt: "It is my con­ issue" in the 1970 campaign, says Vice President tention that the Nixon administration is not only Spiro Agnew will be "whether the policies of the indifferent to fair housing but is actively opposing United States are going to be made by its elected it by acts of commission and omission. As a re­ officials or in the streets."-quoted in the NewYork sult of this policy, the federal government is en­ Times, Sept. 10.... MARCH FOR CLOTHING: couraging and perpetuating racial discrimination Some 2,500 welfare mothers and children marched in housing, unemployment and education." Later, in New York City to demand that the welfare in an interview with The Mllitant, Affeldt elaborated offices provide $100 for every child of a welfare on the charges. He said he had quit "because of family. The money would help pay for fall school lack of enforcement of the 1968 fair housing act," clothing.... LETTUCE BOYCOTT: Cesar Cha­ noting that he had pushed hard to get the laws vez, head of the United Farm Workers Organizing enforced but that he had met restistance from his Committee, has called for a boycott of lettuce in superiors. "H they want to refute me on my charges, 64 U.S. cities. The union is currently striking then they will have to come up with evidence," lettuce growers in the Salinas Valley of California. says Affeldt. He made it clear, however, that he ... HANGING IN SOUTH AFRICA: "South Af­ doubted they could refute his allegations. Affeldt rica accounts for half the known executions in the says he will return to his old post of professor world, according to a survey on capital punish­ of law at the University of Toledo in Ohio. ment," Reuters news agency reports from Pretoria, South Africa. The dispatch, published in the Christian Science Monitor, Sept. 18, continues, "On the average, a man is hanged every third day in REPORTER FILES SUIT: Newsweek magazine's Pretoria central prison." Almost none of the exe­ Atlanta correspondent, Henry P. Leiferman, 28, cuted are whites, the report said. has flled suit against the Army, charging that he was called to active duty because of articles he con­ tributed critical of the military. The suit was filed Sept. 20. Leiferman is now stationed at Ft. Jackson KY IS COMING: That's the latest word from in South Carolina. His attorney, Charles Morgan Saigon. The New York Dally News says that Jr., said in a telephone interview that Leiferman Saigon's U.S. Consulate issued South Vietnam's helped compose the Newsweek cover stories on Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky a visa Sept. 19 the Green Berets and military justice and three so that he could speak at a March for Victory articles on G. Harrold Carswell. "The articles them­ pro-war rally in Washington, D. C., on Oct. 3. NIXON GOES TO SCHOOL: President Nixon selves were generally uncomplimentary to the mili­ Politicians in the U.S. fear Ky's visit will "ag­ was back on campus Sept. 16, his fourth daring tary and Mr. Carswell," said Morgan. He said gravate" tensions, but Ky, invited by right-wing visit to a university since he took office. Most stu­ that Lelferman knew that local Army officials did fundamentalist preacher, the Rev. Carl Mcintire, dents at Kansas State University listened to the not like what he thought or wrote and that they appears to be going ahead with plans. President's speech. Despite the widespread publicity had him called up as punishment. Lelferman also it received, "it was not very impressive," said alleges that he was denied procedural rights. Army John Thomas, a staff member of the Kansas State spokesmen retort that the reporter was called up Collegian, the school newspaper. Some 200 dem­ for excessive, unexcused absences while serving SMCer READMITTED: A student who was re­ onstrators marched outside but were not allowed in the reserves. Leiferman says that is just not fused readmission to East Tennessee State Uni­ into the auditorium. Student IDs were checked so.... WEST POINT CADET QUITS: Cary E. versity this summer for his activity in the uni~er­ three times as they entered and security was tight. Donham, a West Point senior who lost a court sity chapter of the Student Mobilization Committee, Some 50 students heckled him throughout the ad­ fight to get the Army to give him conscientious will be allowed to attend the school in Johnson dress. A banner that read "Stop the War Now" objector status, has resigned. His attorney, Joan City after all. Steve Bunker, a Vietnam veteran, was put up by some students but was torn down Goldberg, says that a motion on reargument will had earlier been told that it was not in his "best by secret service agents, Thomas said. . . . ANTI­ be heard Sept. 29 in federal district court. interests" to continue studying at ETSU. Three WAR PRIVATE WILL APPEAL: A soldier who other SMC leaders, Karen Howze, Wanda Woodby accused the government of fighting an unconsti­ and Sheldon Lyons, have not been readmitted be­ tutional war and lost the case will appeal the cause of their antiwar work. ruling, says Theodore Sorensen, one of his at­ torneys. Pfc. Malcolm Berk had filed for an in­ junction after he received orders for shipment to HOMOSEXUALS FIGHT FOR RIGHTS: The Vietnam, asking for a stay on the grounds that Supreme Court will hear the case this fall of two the war was illegal and undeclared. Now in a homosexuals convicted of "unnatural sex acts" combat zone somewhere in Indochina, Berk sends under a Texas statute. Alvin Leon Buchanan and Sorensen an occasional letter. "He's not happy Travis Lee Strickland are challenging the state to be there, that's obvious," Sorensen told The sodomy law on grounds that it is unconstitutional Mllitant. and a denial of fundamental liberties. In his brief, atty. Henry J. McCluskey Jr. argues, "Basically Cross Appellants contend that private consensual PANTHER ARRESTED: Zayd Shakur, Black sex acts between adults are not affected with suf­ Panther minister of information in New York, was ficient public interest to be a legitimate subject arrested Sept. 19 in his Bronx apartment and matter for the exercise of the police power of the charged with possession of several weapons. He state." The defendants were arrested in Dallas was released on $2,500 bond. "He will plead not and convicted, but the case was reversed on appeal. guilty," says his attorney, William Craine. "The Texas atty. general Crawford Martin brought the arrest was totally illegal." ... JURY SELECTION conviction to the high courts in hopes that the CONTINUES: The trial of 13 Black Panthers ac­ sodomy law would be upheld.... PICKET IN cused of conspiring to bomb buildings in New N.Y.: Some 50 homosexual activists picketed Loeb York is concluding its second week. Two jurors Student Center at New York University in Man­ have been chosen so far.... McLUCAS SEN­ hattan Sept. 17 as Mayor John Lindsay spoke TENCED: Lonnie McLucas, 24, the first Black inside. The pickets were protesting police harass­ Panther to stand trial in New Haven, Conn., for ment of homosexuals in New York. the death of Alex Rackley, was sentenced to 12 to 15 years Sept. 18 for conspiracy to commit mur­ 'Who's there?' der. His attorney will appeal the sentence. McLucas YSA OFFICERS ELECTED: Newnationalchair­ admitted to having fired two shots into the body woman of the YSA is Susan LaMont, formerly of Rackley but said that Rackley was already dead national secretary. She will fill the post formerly at the time. The defense contended that McLucas held by Larry Seigle, who is now editor of the pulled the trigger, fearing that if he did not, he International Socialist Review. LaMont was elected would have been killed by George Sams, the pros­ at a YSA plenum last month in Cleveland. Elected DESTROYING INDOCHINA: U.S. chemical ecution's star witness. In the trial, McLucas was national secretary was Carl Frank, a former strike found innocent of kidnapping, conspiracy to kid­ warfare in Southeast Asia is "producing devas­ tating, long-term ecological damage," a new pam­ leader at San Francisco State College.... FIFTH nap and binding with intent to commit a crime. TEXAS YSA LOCAL: Another Texas local is in His attorney will appeal the sentence. phlet, The Destruction of Indochina, concludes. The pamphlet was produced by a group of Stan­ formation. An organizational meeting billed "What is the YSA" at North Texas State University in ford University biology professors who call them­ Denton drew over 100 students Sept. 10. At the selves the Stanford Biology Study Group and in­ BIRD SELLERS ARRESTED: Harassment has next meeting, the YSA in Denton will begin collect­ cludes an introduction by Prof. Donald Kennedy, eased off in Atlanta where some 30 street sales­ ing dues. women and salesmen for the Great Speckled Bird chairman of the Department of Biological Sciences have been arrested on a series of loitering counts at Stanford. "How can we claim to be acting on during the past few weeks. Police arrested 15 sell­ behalf of people," asks Kennedy, "when our ac­ ers Sept. 4 when about 200 persons staged a "sen­ tion itself is prohibiting a future for them?" The MITCHELL SPEAKS: The comments took place in" in front of a police precinct house. Charges professors report that the defoliation program is at a cocktail buffet at the Women's National Press were later dismissed against 12. Three other sellers turning large portions of South Vietnam into a Club. Attorney General John N. Mitchell told Wom­ were fined $53 each. "The police seemed to have barren wasteland, resulting in incredible damage en's Wear Dally reporter Kandy Stroud that stu­ cooled it," Joe Rogers of the Bird said by tele­ to crop and forest land. The chemical warfare is dents, professors and "these stupid bastards who phone. But, he continued, arrests of local youth for also causing extensive destruction of soil micro­ are running our educational insitutions" are iso­ loitering in the Peachtree-Tenth St. area continue organisms and the death or migration of many lated and did not know what was going on inside at a steady clip. animals. The U.S. government's "resource denial" the government. The interview was published in program is nothing more than the Army's pet Women's Wear on Sept. 18 and a Justice Depart­ phrase for starvation of both civilians and NLF ment spokesmen proceeded to deny that an inter­ CHARGING BIAS, RIGHTS AIDE QUITS: A soldiers, says the pamphlet. Other chemical wea­ view was given, claiming that Stroud overheard civil rights official in the Department of Housing pons threaten fetus deformities, with the chemical fragments of a conversation which were "distorted and Urban Development told a news conference residues dangerous for years to come. Single copies and highly inaccurate." Stroud told The Militant, in Washington, D. C., Sept. 18 that he was quitting. of the pamphlet cost a quarter. It is also available "The story stands as it is. It was a conversation Robert J. Affeldt, 49, the director of conciliation in bulk. Write Stanford Biology Study Group, Box with me. It is true." Take your pick. under the 1968 fair housing law, accused the Nixon 3724, Stanford, Calif. 94305. -RANDY FURST Page 14 THE MILITANT Friday, Oct. 2, 1970 SOCIALIST CAIIIPAI N '10

New York Socialist Workers Party date Linda Jenness attacked Atlanta's a sign saying, "Don't support the par­ candidate for Nassau County Execu­ "liberal" mayor and his police for ties of the bosses." tive, Hedda Garza, debated her op­ oppression of the city's Black com­ "The AFL-CIO is the largest orga­ ponents (a Democrat, a Republican munity at a large political rally in nization in Massachusetts," he said. and a Conservative) at a Sept. 15 Atlanta near the end of the primary "It can form its own party, a labor meeting in Lawrence, L. I., sponsored campaign. Most of the myriad of Dem­ party, win the elections and form a by the League of Women Voters. "Al­ ocratic and Republican candidates at­ government dedicated to the interests though the minor party candidates are tended, as did the three SWP candi­ of working people." not rated threats in the race, their dates. • • • depiction of the major party candi­ Jenness blasted Mayor Sam Massell dates as defenders of the establishment for responding to the Aug. 4 police Peter Camejo's dramatic confronta­ injected the only fresh element into the murder of a Black youth in the Sum­ tion with Senator Edward Kennedy Photo by .kan Fargo second debate of the campaign," re­ merhill ghetto by occupying the ghet­ Sept. 13 (see story this issue) was Arnold Terry, SWP candidate in ported Newsday, the Long Island to with more cops. virtually blacked out of the commer­ !Philadelphia. daily. "Massell said any 'punk' can start cial press in Massachusetts. When Ca­ The SWP candidate "sanctioned rev­ a riot. Massell certainly doesn't know mejo and a campaign worker visited fied candidate. Baird's lawyer dis- olution in the streets as the 'only way much about riots," she stated. the Boston Globe to protest, the paper agrees. to get anywhere,'" said the Long Is­ "Until priorities in our society are decided to assign a reporter to hit • • • land Press. revised so that human lives take pri­ the trail with Camejo for a couple of The Minnesota SWP campaign has • • • ority over sports stadiums, nerve gas, days and put together a feature story just published the second edition of Arnold Terry, Pennsylvania SWP an inhuman war, and going to the on his campaign. a "red paper" on pollution, entitled candidate for state representative moon-then people are going to con­ "Capitalism fouls it up." It is a well­ (I 98th district) is demanding that the tinue to rebel. And I'm with them all • • • documented, readable, concise state­ $1.5-billion budget for the U.S. Bi­ the way." The Massachusetts SWP is demand­ ment of the problems and solutions centennial scheduled for Philadelphia ing that the FCC hold a hearing in to pollution. It also contains a post­ be placed at the disposal of the city's • • • Boston to look into its charges that script on the question of overpopula­ Black and Puerto Rican communities. Massachusetts SWP campaign sup­ channel 7 TV violated the fairness tion. "The only part of the American rev­ porters held an informational picket doctrine on equal time when it refused Copies may be ordered from the olution that is meaningful to us is line in front of Boston's Statler Hil­ Peter Camejo equal time with inde­ Minnesota SWP Campaign Committee, the struggle for self-determination," he ton Sept. 10 while the Massachusetts pendent senatorial candidate Bill 1 University N. E., Minneapolis, Minn. explains. AFL-CIO was holding its state con­ Baird. The station says that equal 55413. The cost is 20c each, 15c for • • • vention inside. SWP senatorial candi­ time laws do not apply because, it 10 or more. Georgia SWP gubernatorial candi- ~ate Peter Camejo joined the line with claims, Baird is not a legally quali- -DAVID THORSTAD

Florida Socialist Workers Twice minimum signatures announce election campaign filed by Colorado SWP By BARB HENNIGAN United Mexican-American Students By JUDI ROSSI strate to pay several thousand dollars and RON MARGOLIS ( UMAS) at the Colorado University TAMPA, Fla.- The Florida Social­ in insurance, as a restriction of the DENVER, Sept. 21- The Colorado Denver Center. The meeting heard eye­ ist Workers Party announced its first constitutional right of public aaaem­ Socialist Workers Party filed 650 sig­ witness reports on the Aug. 29 Chi­ statewide election campaign at a news bly and an attempt to silence protest. natures Sept. 18 to place its candi­ cano Moratorium. conference here Sept. 14. Its candi­ The candidates plan to publicize dates on the November ballot. A min­ Speakers included representatives of dates, Frank Lord for governor and among Florida's Chicano population imum of 300 was required. Its can­ UMAS and Carlos Santistivan, a can­ Jack Lieberman for U. S. Senate, are the gains of La Raza Unida Party didates are James Lauderdale for gov­ didate of La Raza Unida. Santistivan both leading antiwar activists. in the Southwest. Chicanos constitute ernor, Joan Fulks for lieutenant gov­ spoke on the importance of an in­ Lord and Lieberman will be cam­ 35 percent of the state's migrant farm ernor, and Lyle Fulks for regent of dependent Chicano party that could paigning for reversal of the Florida workers. the University of Colorado. Petition­ unite the Chicano community. Board of Regents' decision to bar rad­ A statewide tour, scheduled to begin ers had one week in which to gath­ ical organizations like the YSA from Sept. 25, will bring the SWP campaign er the signatures. meeting on campus. They are sup­ to several of Florida's major cities, At a widely covered news conference porting the legal challenge to that de­ including Jacksonville, Tallahassee, on the steps of the state capitol fol­ BlaciE loiees cision initiated last spring by the Flor­ Miami and Fort Lauderdale. lowing the filing, Lauderdale pledged ida State University student govern­ Funds are urgently needed for the to spread the truth about the brutal ment in Tallahassee. tour and other campaign expenses. police attack on the Aug. 29 Chicano rromPrison The SWP candidates intend to chal­ Contributions may be sent to the Flor­ Moratorium in Los Angeles. He said lenge ordinances, such as those re­ ida Socialist Workers Campaign Com­ the SWP campaign would aim to build cently adopted by St. Petersburg re­ mittee, P. 0. Box 8521, Tampa, Flor­ the antiwar and women's liberation quiring anyone wishing to demon- ida. movements. E~Knght Lauderdale announced thathewould begin a tour the following week of major campuses in Colorado and Wy­ • • • Democratic Party oming, to be followed by a tour of Utah in the near future. The purpose (Continued from page 12) local politician bas bad his "labor of the first tour, he said, is to pub­ supporters." licize the Oct. 4 regional labor-student War II, and that is a long time for But it is the AFL-CIO Committee on antiwar conference in Boulder and the "Black Voices from Prison is more than the Democratic Party to coast along Political Education (COPE) that is a Oct. 31 demonstration scheduled for just o collection of rhetorical testimonies on the ill-deserved reputation it got major prop in the labor-Democratic Denver. or penol poetics written by a goggle of A reporter from a television station antisocial misfits. It is an anthology ol during the Roosevelt New Deal as coalition. It handles most of the mon­ iron-forged rage, quenched in leors of being "the party of the working man." ey and very little will be spent on that covered the news conference re­ frustration; mentally insightful, subliminal­ However, despite George Meany's Republican campaigns. The Democrat­ quested the women's liberation cam­ ly reminiscent of Eldridge Cleaver's Soul dire predictions about the fate of the ic Party is still endorsed by the vast paign button Joan Fulks was wearing. on Ice. This group of brief interviews, Democratic Party, it is still able to She then pinned it to her dress. poems ond sociol critiques serves not only majority of union bureaucrats, and as interesting reoding about those who attract the votes of the vast majority they still try to sell it to the voters Campaign supporters have also been are behind 'the gray walls,' but as well, of union members who register and in their unions as "the party of labor." helping La Raza Unida Party can­ functions os an indictment assailing the vote, because in most states they have The survival of the Democratic Par­ didates with their petitioning. La Raza existing social pressures and inequities no other party to vote for. ty is not in question. It is very much Unida Party plans to file its nom­ tho! result in the imprisonment of many, inating petitions today. too many black men.... The Republican Party which is com­ alive. It will exist as long as it serves "Without apology they tell the story, monly equated with big-business can­ the needs of the ruling class in this The same day the SWP filed for either by onolytical essay or verse ... , not attract the mass of workers' votes. country-even if that means outlast­ office it cosponsored a forum with the "To you the reader, I say this book is Some union officials in the building pertinent reoding. To Etheridge Knight, ing the present coalition that supports now instructing in the Block Studies Pro­ trades in New York City have en­ it. In altered form it may survive gram at the University of Pittsburgh, ond dorsed Rockefeller for governor, and even the breakdown of the current to the men behind the woll of Indiana in California even the rabid reaction­ two-party electoral system. State Prison, I soy WRITE ON, RIGHT ary Republican governor Reagan has How the two-party system works ON!!" Verne Woodson, Son Francisco Sun Reporter some union endorsement. But this is and what alternative there is to it PATHFINDER PRESS not uncommon. For decades, every will be discussed in future articles. 873 Broadway, New York. N.Y. 10003 Friday, Oct. 2, 1970 THE MILITANT Page 15

Texas MAYO chair­ man Alberto Luera (left) demands release of Chicano demon­ strator arrested whlle picketing San An­ tonio mayor's bank.

Double header- Mayor Daley an­ nounced Chicago would seek to host both the Republican and Democratic Photo by Ron Jones/San Antonio News conventions in 1972.

Last of the big spenders - Appar­ ently still functioning on a Depression level, the Pentagon moved to cope with the mounting problem of peo- Chicanos boycott mayor's bank ple departing the armed services by instituting cash rewards of $15 and $25 for apprehension of AWOLs, de­ By MARIANA HERNANDEZ legedly violated a recent law against Various Chicano spokesmen at­ serters and prison escapees. SAN ANTONIO - A fight broke "disorderly conduct." Among those ar­ tribute the police arrests and assaults rested were county commissioner Al­ to the fact that the mayor is losing Soft sell - The television industry out here Sept. 10 between Chicanos and police during the second straight berto Pena Jr., former state representa­ money. Former state representative and several drug companies are al­ tive John Alaniz, and G. J. Sutton, Alaniz, for instance, has stated, "We legedly agreed on the need to tone day of mass, noontime demonstra­ tions in front of San Antonio Savings Black community leader. were appalled to learn that the mayor down commercials for stimulants, de­ The demonstration Sept. 10 was was using the power of the police to pressants and sleeping aids. The ob­ Association (SASA). Ten demonstra­ tors were arrested, including Alberto peaceful until a man came up and hit rescue his financially declining empire." ject, a National Association of Broad­ one of the women demonstrators. He Councilman Pete Torres, in a heated easters spokesman said, is to elim­ Luera, state chairman of the Mexi­ can-American Youth Organization was later identified as Randy Nugent, city council meeting Sept. 10, flatly inate the "Cinderella syndrome ... a security agent for Frost National told the mayor his suspicions: "The where the viewers see a harried house­ (MAYO). The Chicano community has been Bank and formerly the chief investi­ San Antonio police department is not wife take a pill and then before your gator in the district attorney's office. your private enforcement agency." eyes she turns into a Cinderella, the picketing the building for almost two months. It began after Mayor W. W. Nugent hit the woman, who attempted In fact, of course, the police are house is clean and supper is ready." to protect herself with her picket sign. protecting the interests of McAllister The spokesman was confident that McAllister, chairman of the board of SASA, made some racist remarks on Nugent was chased to the Frost Na­ and others more powerful and influ­ most pill pushers would voluntarily tional Bank. Some 50 policemen were ential. This is becoming clearer to comply with the new approach. a Huntley-Brinkley report in early July. He said that "Americans of Mex­ rushed to the scene. A scuffle broke mahy Chicanos who daily see San ican descent, let's say, are not as am­ out which led to the arrests and the Antonio police in action. Merry England- Despite protest, the beating of boycotters. British government is going ahead bitiously motivated to get ahead finan­ with plans for a computerized phone cially as the Anglo. . . . They love The Bexar County grand jury has After a spirited day of picketing directory even though names will oc­ flowers, music, dancing and somehow been called on to investigate the inci­ Sept. 11, the SASA Boycott Commit­ casionally be out of alphabetical or­ manage to enjoy life." dent that touched off the fighting. Chi­ tee met to discuss the best way to pro­ der. A spokesman said a survey His remarks have become the cen­ cano lawyers view this as a good sign; ceed. Close to 100 people of various showed the book would be more help­ tral issue- though hardly the only prior to the present period of radical­ political views carried on their dis­ ful to users, and besides, it would one- around which Chicanos here are ization among Chicanos, charges cussions in a completely open atmo­ save $2.5-million a year. mobilizing against the mayor. brought by the police would have been sphere. The demonstrations are now de­ automatically accepted and the Chi­ On Sept. 16, a committee delega­ manding that the mayor resign and canos jailed. tion met with the mayor and demand­ Might want another dime an hour­ get out of town. A boycott of SASA The effectiveness of the boycott ed, among other things, that he fire Society watchers report that thrift is has also been organized, and Chi­ against the mayor's business cannot police chief George Bichsel and that now in with the better classes. For in­ canos are being encouraged to with­ be determined at this point, although aggravated assault charges against stance, Mrs. Frank McMahon, wife of draw their money. Chicanos involved in the boycott in­ two committee members be dropped. a Canadian utilities magnate, observes: Attention became focused on San dicate that much money is being with­ The boycott has received wide sup­ "The dress that costs astronomically Antonio when 30 picketers were ar­ drawn by Chicanos and sympathizers. port from Chicanos of all political is in bad taste now. Even if your hus­ rested Sept. 9 for allegedly causing During the demonstrations, Chicanos tendencies. Although discussion con­ band can afford it, you can't let those too much disturbance. By shouting enter and take out their money. The tinues on the most effective way to bills be seen by his secretary at the "Chicano power" and "Viva La Raza" bank statements are then torn up for mobilize more people, there is agree­ office." too loudly and "in unison," they al- everyone to see. ment on the issue: Get McAllister Out! Fun city- Perhaps concerned that the ire of New York straphangers will increase in proportion to the deteri­ oration of service, the New York sub­ way system began installing bullet­ proof change booths.

Perish forbid - "WASHINGTON, ARIZONA: Phoenix: YSA, c/o Greg Nickel, P.O. INDIANA: Ft. Wayne: YSA, c/o Bill Cullnane, B30 Oxford: YSA, P. 0. Box 321, Oxford, Ohio 45066. Sept. 16- The idea of introducing Box 750, Tempe, Arizona B52Bl. Tel: (602) 966-2416. E. Berry, Ft. Wayne, Ind. 46B03. Tel: (513)529-6501. unleaded gasoline to help clean up the CALIFORNIA: Berkeley-Oakland: SWP and YSA, 3536 MASSACHUSmS: Boston: SWP and YSA, c/o Militant Yellow Springs: YSA, Antioch College Union, Yellow Telegraph Ave., Oakland, Calif. 94609. nation's air ran into opposition to­ Labor Forum, 295 Huntington Ave., Rm 307, Boston, Springs, Ohio 453B7. Fullerton: YSA c/o K. W. Jeter, 1324 W. Valencia, *F, Mass. 02115. Tel: (617)536-6981 (HQ), 547-B557. day from both business and labor OREGON: Portland: YSA, c/o Carol Kershner, 2635 Fullerton, Calif. 92633. MICHIGAN: Ann Arbor: YSA, P. 0. Box 40B, Ann on the ground that the cost would S. W. Hume St., Portland, Ore. 97219. Hayward: YSA, Gary Sommer, c/o Student Union Arbor, Mich. 48108. PENNSYLVANIA: Mansfield: YSA, c/o Ken Evans, be too high." Building, California State College at Hayward, 25BOO Detroit: SWP and YSA, Eugene V. Debs Hall, 3737 Apt. 208-A, Corey Creek Apts., Mansfield, Pa. 16933. Hillary St., Hayward, Calif. 94542. Tel. (415)537-3656. Woodward Ave., Detroit, Mich. 4B20l. Tel: (313) TE 1- Philadelphia: SWP and YSA, 686 N. Broad St., Phila­ Have a happy flight- During your Los Angeles: SWP and YSA, 1702 E. 4th St., Los 6135. delphia, Penna. 19130. Tel: 1215) CE 6-699B. next wait at the airport, relax with Angeles, Calif. 90033. Tel: (213)269-4953. Ypsilanti: YSA, Box 156, Charles McKenny Union, RHODE ISLAND: Providence: YSA, P. 0. Box 117, a copy of the upcoming expose, Un­ Riverside: YSA c/o Woody Diaz, 5724 Warren St., Ypsilanti, Mich. 4B197. Tel: I313)482-734B. Annex Sta., Providence, R.I. 02901. Tel: 1401) B63- safe at Any Height. Arlington, Calif. 92503. MINNESOTA: Minneapolis-St. Paul: SWP, YSA and 3340. San Francisco: SWP, YSA, Militant Labor Forum, and Labor Bookstore, 1 University N. E. (at E. Hennepin) TENNESSEE: Knoxville: YSA, P.O. Box 8641, Uni­ Peace pays- Peace Movement paid Pioneer Books, 233B Market St., San Francisco, Calif. 2nd fl., Mpls. 55413. Tel: (612)332-77B1. versity Sta., Knoxville, Tenn. 37916. Tel: (615) 523- $9.20 in seventh race at Belmont 94114. Tel: (415)626-995B. MISSOURI: Kansas City: YSA, c/o Paul Schmidtlein, B445. Sept. 17. San Diego: YSA, P.O. Box 151B6, Andrew Jackson 5522 Forest, Kansas City, Mo. 64110. TEXAS: Austin: SWP and YSA, P.O. Box 5586, West Sta., San Diego, Calif. 92115. St. louis: YSA, c/o Bill Onasch, 316 Laurel, *A9, Austin Station, Austin, Texas 78703. -HARRY RING Son JoaquiJ, Volley: YSA, P.O. Box B73, Modesto, St. Louis, Mo. 63112. Tel: (314)725-3972. Dallas-Ft. Worth: YSA, Box 863, UTA Station~ Arling­ Calif. 95353. NEW JERSEY: Newark: YSA, P. 0. Box 627, Newark, ton, Texas 76010. COLORADO: Denver: SWP-YSA, P.O. Box 1B415, N.J.0710l. Tel: I201)67B-6005. El Paso: YSA, UTEP, P.O. Box 178, El Paso, Texas A New Merit Pamphlet ---. Denver, Colo. B021B. Tel: (303)744-657B. Wayne: Paterson State YSA, c/o Clyde Magarelli, 79999. Paterson State College, 300 Pompton Rd. Wayne, Houston: SWP and YSA, P.O. Box 39196, Houston, IN DEFENSE OF THE FLORIDA: Gainesville: YSA, Box 13157, University N.J. 07470. Texas 77039. Sta., Gainesville, Fla. 32601. NEW YORK: Albany: YSA, c/o Mark Anthony, 217 WASHINGTON, D.C.: YSA, 2000 P St. NW, Rm. WOMEN'S MOVEMENT Orlando: YSA, 762 Overspin St., Winter Park, Fla. Spruce St., Albany, N.Y. 12203. 413, Wash., D.C; 20036. 32789. Long Island: YSA, P. 0. Box 357, Roosevelt, L.l., WASHINGTON: Seattle: Militant Bookstore,5257 Uni­ Articles by: Tallahassee: YSA, c/o Brett Merkey, 814 California N.Y. 11575. Tel: 1516) FR9-02B9. versity Way N. E., Seattle, Wash. 9B1 05. Hrs. 11 a.m. St., Tallahassee, Fla. 32304. New York City: SWP and YSA and bookstore, 873 B p.m., Mon.-Sat. Tel: (206)523-2555. R1tha11 Miller, Mary-Alice Tampa: YSA, c/o Chip Jeffries, 903 E. Robson, Tam. Broadway, N.Y., N.Y. 10003. Tel: I212)9B2-6051. V't'ISCONSIN: La Crosse: YSA c/o 431 N. 9th St., \\aters, Evely• Reed pa, Fla. 33604. OHIO: Cincinnati: YSA, P.O. Box 19004, Cincinnati, LaCrosse, Wis. 54601. GEORGIA: Attonto: Militant Bookstore, 1176 1/2 Ohio, 45219. Tel: I513)241-904B. Madison: YSA, 202 W. Gilman, Madison, Wis. 53703. 2se West Peachtree St., SWP and YSA, P.O. Box 7817, Cleveland: SWP and YSA, 2921 Prospect Ave., Cleve­ Tel: (608)256-0857. Atlanta, Ga., 30309. Tel: 1404)876-2230. land, Ohio 44115. Tel: I216)861-3B62. Milwaukee: YSA, 1682 N. Franklin Pl., Milwauke '• PATHFINDER PRESS ILLINOIS: Chicago: SWP, YSA and bookstore, 1BO Columbus: YSA, P.O. Box 3006, Columbus, Ohio Wis. 53202. 873 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10003 N. Wacker Dr., Rm. 310, Chicago, Ill. 60606. Tel: 43210. Tel: (614)294-2047. Oshkosh: YSA, c/o Peter Kohlenberg, 1603 Elmw•__ld 1312)641-0147. Kent: YSA, P.O. Box 116, Kent, Ohio 44240. Ave., Oshkosh, Wis. 54901. Page 16 THE MILITANT Friday, Oct. 2, 1970 Antiwar coalition ~~~ OCta builds for Oct., 31 ;~~~sRI NG ~, By CARL FRANK BUTTONS FOR Aen ON: The buHon, CHICAGO- Over 75 representatives right, official buHon of the Oct. 31 anti­ THE of antiwar groups and coalitions war demonstrations throughout the U.S., ~ All 31 across the country met at the Chicago is available from the National Peace • YWCA Sept. 19 in the most recent Action Coalition for 25c. Bulk orders are steering committee meeting of the N a­ available at the following rates: 25 for ~ TROOPS tiona! Peace Action Coalition. The $3.75, 100 for $12, 200 for $20. "Bring focus of the discussion at this gather­ all the troops home now" posters are H ME ing was the significant progress regis­ priced at SOc each or in bulk at 25 for tered in the local areas toward the $6.25 or 100 for $10. Special Oct. 31 massive antiwar demonstrations slated calls are available in single copies and 'o~ NOW .o~ for Oct. 31. are sFJitable for electrostencil or other #~Ace ACt\0 called at the Cleveland antiwar con­ Action Coalition, 2102 Euclid Ave., ference in June 1970, are now being Cleveland, Ohio 44115. Phone: (216) planned in all major metropolitan 621-6516. areas. At this time, actions are known to be scheduled for Atlanta, Austin, El Paso, Boston, Chicago, Denver, of Silence, L.A.; Dr. Stephen Good­ organized from a newly established Detroit, Minneapolis, New Haven, year, National Strike for Peace; Ethel headquarters in the offices of the Cath­ New York, Columbus, Tampa, Wash­ Taylor, Philadelphia Women Strike olic Archdiocese. In Atlanta, the dem­ NPAC blasts Ky visit for Peace; Charles Banta, international ington, D. C., Seattle, Philadelphia, St. onstration is expected to be one of Louis, San Francisco, Los Angeles, rep, AFSCME; Kate Moore, Chicago the largest ever held in Georgia, in­ NAACP; and Mary Williams, Wom­ cluding large G I participation from to Washington, D.C. Portland, Providence, Phoenix, Salt en's International League for Peace the many army bases in the Atlanta Lake City, Niagara Falls, Trenton, and Freedom, Miami. area. At its steering committee Sept. 18 Lawrence (Kan.), and Racine (Wis.). in Chicago, the National Peace Ac­ Reports from the local areas indi­ The meeting heard a report from tion Coalition (NPAC) urged sup­ NPAC coordinator, attorney Jerry cated that significant actions are tak­ Dr. Stephen Goodyear from the N a­ port to demonstrations protesting Gordon of Cleveland, opened the meet­ ing shape for Oct. 31. In Philadelphia, tional Strike for Peace, which has re­ the Oct. 3 visit to the U. S. by ing with an organizational report on local clergy have decided to organize cently placed two major ads in the South Vietnam's Premier Ky. the development of the national coali­ a feeder march to the rally at Inde­ New York Times calling for peace "The intervention of Ky, self­ tion. The meeting voted to accept the pendence Mall. It will start from the activity Oct. 15. The consensus of the proclaimed admirer of Adolph recommendation from the coordina­ national headquarters of the United gathering was to urge local NPAC Hitler, into American politics is tors to add more than 20 members Church of Christ. In Ohio, the state­ affiliates to support this proposal, an obvious attempt to drum up to the NPAC steering committee. These wide action plauned for Columbus has utilizing the Oct. 15 date as a kick-off support for a war whose popu­ included Bob Ford, Concerned Black gained the endorsement of the ACL U for a period of concentrated antiwar larity is at an all-time low," the Citizens in Tacoma, Wash.; Ceil Keel, of Greater Cleveland. organizing that would culminatl:! in NPAC statement said. "The Nix­ Atlanta AFT; Stanley Tolliver, promi­ In Detroit, the Oct. 31 demonstra­ the massive actions on Oct. 31. on administration's pious claims nent Cleveland attorney; Herb Magid­ tion, which has been endorsed by After a report by NPAC coordinator to neutrality in the question of son, Individuals Against the Crime many trade union officials, is being Ruth Gage Colby, the meeting voted this visit are a visible sham. Ky to support the current strike by the is Nixon's puppet. When Nixon United Auto Workers against General gestures, Ky jumps." Motors. Stating that the UAW de­ The antiwar group noted that mands are "the clearest indication in the national antiwar movement's Big SMC meetings mark many months of the growing refusal thunderous response to this latest of workers to bear the cost of the Viet­ administration maneuver would nam war," the NPAC resolution urged come on Oct. 31, and also called attention to anti-Ky demonstra­ lo~al coalitions to provide a platform U.S. campus openings tions being planned for Oct. 3 in for UAW speakers on Oct. 31. Washington, D. C., Ann Arbor and The steering committee also voted a number of other cities. "The SEPT. 23-As schools reopen for The meeting approved a number of to accept a proposal from NPAC coo.r­ the fall term, Student Mobilization fall action projects, including an anti­ National Peace Action Coalition dinator James Lafferty to begin prep­ supports these demonstrations and Committee chapters are getting off to war education series, canvassing in arations for a national antiwar con­ a good start. Participation in meet­ the community, and other projects all other peaceful protest in op­ ference to be held in Detroit Dec. 5-7. ings to kick off the antiwar offensive which will culminate in the Oct. 31 position to the war and to this The next meeting of the NPAC s;eer­ this fall has been large on many cam­ statewide demonstration planned for latest administration fraud." ing committee is scheduled in Phila­ puses across the country. Austin. It overwhelmingly rejected an The first meeting of the year at the ultraleftist proposal to "bring the war delphia Oct. 11. University of Massachusetts in Am­ home" and to put forward the slogan, herst was attended by around 300. It "All Southeast Asia Must Go Commu­ voted, among other things, to build nist." The proposal received only 20 the Oct. 31 antiwar demonstrations votes. ::ailed by the National Peace Action In tribute to Lud Gartner Coalition, to organize a class mora­ Other SMC meetings that have been torium against the war Oct. 30, to held to launch a campaign of fall By TERRY HARDY campaign for the immediate withdraw­ activities include the following: Amer­ Ludwig Gartner, a member of the San Diego branch of the So­ al alternative on the NovemberMassa­ ican University, Washington, D. C.- cialist Workers Party for more than 11 years, was killed in an chusetts antiwar referendum, and to 150; University of Houston- 150; auto accident Saturday morning, Sept. 5, when his car ran off build an antiwar coalition in the Con­ University of Michigan at Ann Arbor necticut Valley. - 200; University of Kansas, Law­ a road east of San Diego. More than 400 showed up for the rence, Kansas-125; Northern Illinois A student at San Diego State College when he joined the SWP, Austin SMC planning meeting Sept. University, DeKalb- 200; and a city­ Lud was one of many young people who came to socialism and 9. This was the largest turnout ever wide Washington, D. C., meeting of to the SWP after being inspired by the Cuban revolution. He played for such a meeting at the University 200, where 50 SMC membership cards a major role in organizing support for the Fair Play for Cuba of Texas in Austin. were sold. Committee on the San Diego State campus. In 1960-61 Lud was also active in the mass picketing of Wool­ worth's department stores in solidarity with sit-ins by southern Black students. During the winter of 1962-63 Lud attended the school set up by the Socialist Workers Party for intensive study of Marxism. Later he returned to San Diego and in 1966-67 became an or­ ganizer of the antiwar movement there. The faet that an active chapter of the Young Socialist Alliance exists in San Diego today is largely due to Lud's initial efforts as a founder of the organization in that city. The example Lud set of fighting against this corrupt capitalist system and for socialism is an inspiration to many revolutionary fighters. His passing is grieved by a multitude of comrades and friends.