Khrushchev's Attack on Abstract Art — See Page 7 Vol

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Printers Peace Women Deal Blow Prepare for Long Haul By Jack Katz To HUAC Witch Hunters NEW YORK — The militant fered the union a wage increase of and determined Big Six printers 55 cents a week for the first year DEC. 18 — The reaction of the munism.” By so doing, they gave have won the admiration of the of the new contract with the Women Strike for Peace move the witch hunters a resounding entire New York labor movement balance of about $3.75 going prin ment to the House Un-American set-back. as th e y con tinu e to “ stop the cipally toward the payment of Activities Committee has hit the The WSP stand was summed up presses” with round-the-clock welfare fringe benefits to keep American political scene like the by the testimony of Mrs. Dagmar picket lines in freezing weather at them from diminishing in value. first rain after a long drought. Wilson, initiator of the movement, the entrances of all the daily pa A message of international sol Through its representatives who when she appeared before the pers. idarity thrilled the pickets when were subpoenaed by the commit committee Dec. 13. The last of the The strike is turning into a siege. they learned that the French tee, the movement has, in effect, 12 women subpoenaed, the 46- The publishers seem determined printers had refused to handle challenged the basic premise of year-old Washington, D.C., moth to try to break the workers’ spirit teletype punched by strikebreak the cold war and witch hunt. That er declared: “I have no way of and w ill to win. They have offered ers to the New York Times’ P aris premise is the myth that there is controlling, or desire to control, nothing* beyond their last proposal edition. Similar support came from a “communist threat” which over those who wish to join us in our before the strike — a package of printers on the Tim es’ West Coast rides all other social considera efforts for peace. Unless everyone approximately $8. This was the ed ition. tions. in the whole world joins us in this amount the Newspaper Guild set This was the only strikebreak The Women Strike for Peace fight then God help us.” tled for at the D a ily News in O c ing attempt by the publishers, activists simply stood firm on the Stood F irm tober and the publishers there since the strike and lockout began, principle of their movement — Rep. Clyde Doyle (D-Cal.), after offered it to the other crafts to move news copy. It failed the idea that the struggle for chairman of the subcommittee on a take-it-or-Ieave basis. q u ic k ly . peace is the most important issue conducting the inquisition, tried to For virtually every picket, this facing humanity, more important P a tte rn make it appear that Mrs. Wilson than anybody’s fear of “com- An editorial in the Dec. 17 N a (Continued on Page 3) was a “loyal” but misguided tional Observer, an authoritative American being used by “Com weekly paper put out by the pub ¿iiiiiiiiiiiiimimiiniimmiiiiiiiiimiiHiiimmiiiimiimiiiimiiMimiimHiniininiminiiniMimiiimmiimimHimiiiimiiiiiimiimiiiiiimiiii'iiiiimiinmití munists” who supposedly con lishers of the W all Street Journal, trolled the movement. This at says: “No longer are the printers tempt fell flat as Mrs. Wilson showing the way . .. [in its posi stuck to her main point — the tion of leadership] . Often the I Free Clyde Kennard! I struggle against war and nuclear Guild signs a contract first and contamination — and refused to Photo by Robert Joyce the publishers use this as a pat An urgent campaign to free a fined $600 and his appeal was get sidetracked. tern for all other unions. Thus it young Negro, who was framed up denied. She avoided giving the com Mrs. Dagmar Wilson was in New York when the Guild and sent to the Mississippi State He persisted in trying' to enter mittee names of participants. She last month won a raise of about Penitentiary for attempting to en M S U and in 1960 was charged said she was proud of those who on Washington to support those with receiving and being an ac $8 a week. The one-time leader, roll at lily-white Mississippi worked with her — including subpoenaed. They filled the hear the International Typographical Southern University, has been cessory to the theft of $25 worth those the committee had attempt ing room, presented bouquets of Union, once again was asked to fol launched by the Student Non of chicken feed. A teenager, who ed to smear. She made it clear she flowers to the witnesses and ap low along with a similar settle violent Co-ordinating Committee. confessed the actual theft, named thought it desirable and necessary plauded their statements in de m ent.” SNCC is the dynamic civil-rights Kennard and was given five years to work with peace groups in fiance of the committee. At least President Bertram A. Powers of organization which has been in on probation. Kennard was sent other countries, including those in 86 women throughout the country New York Typographical Union the forefront of the sit-ins and to prison for seven years. SNCC the Soviet bloc. volunteered to join the 12 who voter-registration projects in the Chairman Charles McDew says, No. 6 told a meeting of the strik When asked if she planned any were subpoenaed, and to appear on South. “The only ‘crime’ Clyde Kennard ing and locked-out workers Dec. action “to prevent Communists the witness stand. The committee committed . was acting on his 16 that the heart of the union s Clyde Kennard, 33, the frame- from assuming positions of lead ignored these volunteers. belief that he could, as an Amer demands was a return to the basic up victim, has already been in ership in WSP, or to eliminate On Dec. 12, W ashington, D.C., ican, enter the school of his principle of negotiation. The pub prison almost two years. His case Communists who have already as peace groups organized a “public choice.” lisher, he said, has reversed this occurred before James Meredith’s sumed such positions,” she replied: hearing” of their own at which procedure and for the past ten success in breaking the color bar SNCC has begun a campaign of “Certainly not!” persons prominent in the peace years has used the Guild pattern at the University of Mississippi petitions to President Kennedy and civil-liberties movements ap as a standard fo r the p rin te rs . attracted world attention. After and Attorney General Robert Ken According: to Doyle peared as “witnesses.” The mem “We’ve gone into negotiations finishing three years at the Uni nedy. SNCC also suggests: 1) let In a post-hearing interview bers of the House Un-American knowing what our money would versity of Chicago, Kennard had ters to both Kennedys, to your Doyle said he wasn’t opposed to Activities Committee had also been be,” he said. to return home to Hattiesburg. congressmen and senators; 2) let peace groups if they were “pa invited to give “testimony,” but Unknown to most New Yorkers He then applied for admission to ters to your local newspapers; 3) triotic and devoted to our form none appeared. is the fact that the publishers of M SU. In the fa ll o f 1959, upon a telegram campaign to the White of government.” Asked to name a Before the three-day hearings returning to his auto after an in House; 4) registered letters (to peace group that met his qualifica involving WSP began Dec. 11, a terview with the MSU president insure delivery) to Kennard at tions, he said he didn’t know of spokesman explained that the and another state official, he was Parchman State Penitentiary, any. But he wouldn’t say that the movement’s participants would arrested for reckless driving. At Parchman, Miss.; 5) picketing lo Women Strike for Peace is not act as individuals before HUAC the station a charge of illegal pos cal federal buildings; 6) picketing p a trio tic . and that “each takes her stand as session of liquor was added. Since local Mississippi state offices and W e ll over 500 w om en — fro m her own conscience requires and he neither smokes nor drinks, the chambers of commerce. various parts of the country in no woman speaks for another.” “finding” of liquor in his car was SNCC’s address is: 6 Raymond cluding California, Michigan, Ver - There appeared to be no general an obvious frame-up. Yet he was St. NW, Atlanta 14, Georgia. mont and Illinois — descended (Continued on Page 4) Khrushchev 'Explains' His Cuba Policy By Tom Kerry parently served to impel Khru planned aggression against Cuba, doing that? Exclusively humani The Cuban crisis and its after- shchev into explaining, motivating his reply warrants extensive tarian motives — Cuba needed math w ill have — is already hav and defending the course of action quotation, especially since the weapons as a means of containing ing —• widespread ramifications taken by Moscow. capitalist press carried only skim the aggressors and not as a means affecting every aspect of cold- At the Dec.

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