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NEWS A LETTERS The Root of Mankind Is Man' Printed In 100 Percent 10c A Copy VOL. 6—NO. 9 Union Shop NOVEMBER, 1961 6d in Great Britain WORKER'S JOURNAL Workers Voice Sanity By Cbarles Denby, Editor "Peace for Whom?" Amid Megaton Madness I received news of a friend in Alabama who had re cently built his family a beautiful brick home besides a highway. Several years ago whites rait him and his Thousands of people throughout the world filled the streets on October 31 to family out "accusing" him of supporting the NAACP. protest against the 50 megaton Russian monster which Khrushchev exploded in the Now he returned. Last week a' car drove up and some face of an already shocked and angry world. From Japan to Italy, from Norway one yelled to him; that they were out of gas, could he and SwedefTto France and America, the demonstrators showed their total opposition help them get to a station. When he walked out he was to Khrushchev's total disregard for human life, both born and unborn. shot down and the car sped away. In Italy, this final act of terror, after two months of That evening when I was watching the news on constant world-wide protest TV and the reporter ended his program by talking against Russia's resumption of about the need for world peace I yelled out at him as nuclea'r atmospheric testing, re though he could hear me, "Peace for whom? Go to sulted in workers tearing up Algeria, France, South Africa, Angola, or just go to and turning in their Party South USA and ask them about peace." Ask any cards—just as workers had Southern Negro worker about it or any production done .by the thousands after worker in the mines, steel mills or auto shops. Ask Khrushchev's brutal suppres them about peace in the relation of one human being sion of the Hungarian Re"blu- to another, peace in the relation of the oppressors to tion five years ago, almost to the oppressed. the day. By defying every protest, this They showed, pictures of what was happening in blood-stained tyrant has dem onstrated his utter contempt Algeria. The police and militia were shooting, beating for every nation, neutral or men, women and children. You could see some holding otherwise, and indeed every their heads and trying to hide their faces from the blows, man, woman and child on with the blood flowing through their fingers. earth, including the Russian people who got the first back You need not travel over oceans to see this kind of fire of lethal radio-activity. thing going on. Just look at the treatment the Freedom KHRUSHCHEV SNEERS Eiders/received in the South of this country. Just look AT WORLD PLEAS at what Negro citizens have been living through in the By his sneering reply to the South for the past 200 years. &Hfty&HCW United Nations Resolution passed on Oct. 28, pleading FREEDOM RIDER LEFT MARK K6HHE0V with him, in the name of humanity, not to unleash his A professor from Alabama State told me the day PEACEFUL NON-EXISTENCE after the Freedom Riders left Montgomery, the threatened monster bomb!, Khrushchev has also shown his Negro workers there started going in the bus sta total human bankruptcy. He tions. They went into the same bus stations they called the protests "hysterical," showed on TV where Southern whites had beaten New Haven Sit-Out Held and said exploding the 50 Freedom Riders. He says now they serve every megaton bomb was justified Negro in the bus station. He said they went from Protests Housing Bias because America had dropped there to the train station and he said, "Man, I wish A-bombs on Hiroshima- and you could see it." He said they don't have signs any Connecticut—On Oct. 6, the first of what promises Nagasaki. longer that say colored waiting room and white . to be a series of "sit-outs" held under the local CORE The Communists are well ex waiting room. chapter leadership, took place to protest poor housing perienced in falsifying history, conditions, bulldozer "redevelopment," high rents, and but they will not get away with this. At the time the ^ While all of this was going on and every one was discriminating in housing. ®- — - thinking in terms of what next, some Negro porters bombs were dropped, the'Com The "sit-out" was first pro take direct action on their spoke up. The Negro porters on the railroads that come munist Parties throughout the posed by NAACP local presi housing problems. The meet world hailed this wanton and from the South ft the North. This has confused me for dent, James Gibbs, a young ing was manipulated in such needless destruction of human at least 6 years, that going from Detroit, down South, Negro worker. But such mili a way "that the "sit-out" issue ity. you can sit in any coach you want to, coming back tant action would not be tol was never even discuss e d. The official Italiati Commun you're segregated. I could never figure it out. What erated by the other middle Through tactics reminiscent of ist newspaper, L'Unita, wrote is the difference? Anyway, when you come out of the class "leaders" of the organ those used by Southern Con on Aug. 10, 1945: "The news station to get on the train, there's a Negro porter that ization, and they took immedi gressmen, the ministers, real that an atomic bomb was drop says, "This car, this car, go this way," and the whites ate action to squelch the idea estate brokers, and other ped by the American Air Force before it grew to reality. are shown the other way. "Negro leaders," stalled the has made an enormous impres The NAACP held a special meeting in every way they sion throughout. the. whole "GO THE OPPOSITE WAY" "sit-out" meeting on Sept. il. could. It took two hours just world and has been received 200 Negro people turned out to (Continued on Page 6) on all sides with a sense of So this professor says it wasn't until these Ne panic and perversion and a groes there hi Montgomery started moving that some doctrinaire obedience to a form of the Negro porters came to them and whispered of abstract humanitarianism. and said, "Do you know what? They are threaten . We do not share the sense ing us, and they told us if we want to keep our jobs, ! OFF THE PRESS ! of terror which has been ex we must tell Negroes to go this way, but from now pressed in certain press com on when people come to get on the trains, don't care ments because we bear in mind which way we point, go the^opposite way." the concrete use which was November 25th made of the fearful engine of \ * - d e s t r u ction." Khrushchev's The professor said he knew some women who were pious words today will neither leaving the next day going North. He Jook them to the FREEDOM RIDERS SPEAK change the record of history, train station. When he got there, the porter was saying; nor show one word of protest "This way, this way," and he went the opposite way and HE raised at that time." into the white coach. When he set the ladies' bags down, FOR THEMSELVES ADMINISTRATION some white said -to him, "Aren't you in the wrong EQUALLY BANKRUPT By Louise Inghram and Mary Hamilton coach?" He told the ladies not to listen, not to look up. Bankruptcy of thought and disregard for humanity are not He said he had only intended to come there to ". There was a rally in Jackson the night before restricted to the Russian rul put the women on the train, but he stayed on the we went to court. It was pouring down rain . .. The ers, however. In reply to train and rode to Birmingham, because he was so place holds 1500 people and it was filled to capacity. Khrushchev's "j u s t i f ication" happy to see that this was being done. He had to The police were out in force, refused to let anyone for his act of inhumanity, catch another train back to Montgomery. stand. When the seats were filled the rest of the Adlai Stevenson, U.S. Ambas people were made to disperse . The Freedom sador to the U.N., not only had Riders were all there. We received a standing ova the gall to still claim that the \ LOOK FOR \ tion. We sang that night within the borders of Jack A-bombing of Nagasaki and son." Hiroshima had been necessary and justified, but gave notice ] If This Isn't Madness. Two Worlds Page 5 [ (with British Prime Minister Order your copy of the Freedom Riders' stories. ] The Emergence of Africa Page 7 I MacMillati's support) that the News & Leters, 8751 Grand River, Detroit 4, Mich. United States would ignore (Continued on Page 8) Page Two NEWS & LETTERS, NOVEMBER, 1961 Auto Workers Blast Reuther for Sell-out, Steel Mill Shooting Eases Charge Speed-up Unchanged in Factory Boss Pressure on Workers Detroit — After Walter more to us to win by striking— this page). "All the papers Homestead, Penna — All incident in the mill when a Reuther and Ford had sign even if we don't get more than wrote that the steel worker of us working at Home worker came close to doing ed their contract and the Reuther might get without a went berserk when he shot the same thing to his super strike." those supervisors," he said.