LBJ Stalls and Gls Die Get Them Out Now!

THE iyhe 2-Week Toll After Johnson MILITANT Announced 'Negotiation' Offer Published in the Interest of the Working People Vol. 32 - No. 18 Monday, April 29, 1968 Price 10¢ 642 Gls Dead Fight for Withdrawal More Vital Than Ever 4,038 Wounded By Fred Halstead and Paul Boutelle Socialist Workers Party candidates for President and. Vice President (April 1-13) The need for the antiwar movement to fight for the im­ mediate withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Vietnam through con­ tinued mass mobilizations in the streets is more urgent than ever. Washington has escalated the war once again. More troops are being sent to Vietnam. The bombing of North Vietnam has reached the highest levels of the war in the past few weeks. The bombing in South Vietnam continues heavy and brutal, with in­ creased use of B-52s. The killing of Vietnamese goes on, and the death toll of the Gls mounts. The antiwar movement faces an immense challenge. It must mobilize as never before. It must bring massive new forces to bear in the struggle to end the war. The situation has become more complex and therefore more confusing. False hopes have been stirred by diplomatic maneuvers which may lead to talks with North Vienam. Washington's ob- · jectives have not changed. It still seeks to crush the Vietnamese revolution. It still seeks to stay in Vietnam. As long as this policy is continued the war will drag on. The people of Vietnam have demonstrated that they will fight to the death for the right to determine their own fate and the future of their country. They will not "negotiate" that right. This is the fundamental lesson of the bloody and costly war. It's high time this lesson was learned in the United States. Get the Gls out of Vietnam. Get them out once and for all. Don't be deceived by Johnson's announcement that he is not running for reelection, and that therefore the war will soon be over. This is a most dangerous delusion. Johnson personally bears immense guilt for the war; but its causes run much deeper than the malevolent political ambitions of this executive of the ruling class. The war in Vietnam is directly related to the expansionist drive of U.S. imperialism. It is part of a policy going back to Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy. It is part of the necessity felt by the big banks and corporations, who control all of the poli­ ticians in Washington, to crush revolutions and extend imperialist domination. Any of the Democratic or Republican candidates who make it to the White House will follow the same fundamental policy as Johnson. That is why McCarthy and Kennedy are both op­ posed to withdrawing U.S. troops from Vietnam. All they have is a tactical disagreement with the way Johnson was running the war. McCarthy and Kennedy seek to take the antiwar movement off the streets and into the "safe" channels of the Democratic Party where they can control it. But it is precisely the mass street actions of the antiwar movement, demanding that the Gls be brought home now, to which credit must be given for forcing Johnson to step aside, and which have been the source of the pressure felt by all the capital­ ist politicians, "dove" as well as "hawk." The movement must keep up its momentum. Stay in the streets and press forward ever more vigorously the demand to · bring the Gls home now!

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1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111.111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 and they are still falling, victims of this monstrous war. Page Two THE MILITANT Monday, April 29, 1968 Halstead, Boutelle Urge:

A gigantic strike of almost 200,- talking that way until he has an Defend Black Panthers 000 telephone workers in 40 states acceptable contract to present to is now in progress. The strike be­ his members because these mili­ APRIL 22 - In a statement gan on April 18 after negotiations tant men and women are in no released today, Socialist Workers between the Communications mood to go back to their switch­ Party candidates Fred Halstead Workers of America (AFL-CIO) boards, to repairing broken-down and Paul Boutelle stressed the· and the Bell System (a euphem­ equipment and installing new cen­ crucial importance of defending ism for the octopus monopoly, the tral office apparatus unless they the Black Panther Party of Oak­ American Telephone and Tele­ get more money - at least equal land, Calif., against the attacks graph Corporation) broke down. to those wage hikes won by other of the Oakland police. On April 21 the Bell System workers in the last period. "The murder of 17-year-old obtained injunctions in Alabama Bobby James Hutton is part of and Kentucky, The injunctions * * a deliberate plan by Oakland . The Sanitation workers in ordered workers to return to their police to destroy the Black Pan­ Memphis have won their long and jobs immediately but they have ther Party," they charged. "At bitter struggle for union recogni­ said they refuse to do so. Joseph stake is the basic right to self­ tion, dues checkoff and small defense and the right to organize A. Beirne, -president of the CWA, wage increases. On April 16 the said the injunctions had "set us politically." city of Memphis capitulated. Wage The statement pointed out that back just at a time when the increases amount to 10 cents an first signs of a breakthrough had "The Oakland police, notorious hour on May 1 and an additional for their racism and brutality, appeared." Weekend negotiations 5 cents on Sept. 1. Promotions which had promised this "break­ have again and again attacked, will also be on the basis of senior­ harassed, and arrested Panther through" were immediately sus­ ity. Previous wages had averaged pended. members - the most flagrant $1.70 per hour. examples of this being the arrest The strike was called after the This strike, which was marked Photo by Kangas CW A served notice on the Bell of 24 Panther supporters after a BOBBY SEALE. Black Panther Party chairman points to cops by the assassination of Dr. Martin demonstration at the state Capitol System that it was reopening Luther King Jr., had the support on rooftop at April 6 memorial rally for slain Panther treasurer wage and wage-related questions last May 2; the shooting and in­ of the entire Memphis black com­ dictment on murder charges of Bobby James Hutton. as provided in a three-year con­ munity. One of the strikers a tract signed in 1967. The union is Panther Party Minister of De­ thin, aging collector, said ,:We fense Huey P. Newton, on Oct. the other victimized members of organizations. (Recently a numher asking a 10 percent wage boost. won, but we lost a good man along The companies refuse to consider 28; and, most recently, the murder the Black Panther Party: of well-known writers, including the way." of Panther treasurer Bobby James 1. Send funds to the Eldridge Maxwell Geismar, Murray Kemp­ more than a 5.6 percent increase This fight was won on much for one year, or 7.6 percent for Hutton, the wounding and impris­ Cleaver Defense Fund, c/o Kath­ ton and Norman Mailer, signed a more than a picket line by the onment of Minister of Informa­ leen Cleaver, 2860 Telegraph statement in support of the Pan­ the remaining 18 months of the actual workers involved. Dr. King 1967 contract. Average telephone tion Eldridge Cleaver, and the Ave., Berkeley, Calif. 94705. thers.) led one march down the streets workers' wages are $2.87 per wounding of Warren Wells and 2. Hold defense meetings at 4. Send a telegram to Harry W. to demonstrate the support of the imprisonment of seven others." which the real story of the at­ Kerr, Chairman, California Adult hour. black movement behind the strik­ At an annual meeting of AT&T The SWP candidates outlined tacks on the Panthers can be told Authority, 413 State Office Build­ ers. He was killed by an assassin's a number of things that can be and funds collected. ing No. 1, Sacramento, Calif., stockholders in Boston on April bullet while planning a second 17, the company chairman, H. I. done for the defense of Huey 3. Enlist support for the case demanding that Eldridge Cleaver's such march - and this march, the Newton, Eldridge Cleaver and from prominent individuals and parole status be reinstated. Romnes, told the assembled cou­ day before his funeral, brought pon-clippers that "AT&T has got­ many trade unionists from else­ ten off to the best start of any where in the country to demon­ year in its history . . . the in­ strate against the murder and for crease in telephones has been the Memphis strikers. great'r than ever before . . . in SWP Ca.mpaign News The black community carried on mid-April we are serving nearly an economic fight side by side 1.2 million more phones tHan on with the strike. A boycott of M€m• It's been a hectic, fruitful week. 18 a meeting was held for Fred all but so far only Fred Halstead Jan. 1 ... long distance calls have phis stores hurt all merchants Halstead - Boutelle campaigners Halstead at Louisiana State Uni­ and Senator Percy have agreed to increased (this quarter) by 150 but the most seriously hurt wer~ all over the country mobilized to versity in Baton Rouge, sponsored be interviewed. We will be mak­ million ..." the family businesses of Mayor get out the maximum vote for the by the Student Liberal Federation. ing renewed efforts, especially on Mr. Romnes refused to answer Henry Loeb (Loeb laundries and CHOICE 68 student referendum on The mere fact this meeting was Kennedy and McCarthy, who are a stockholder's question on prof­ barbecues). Many of these estab­ April 24, and to build and par­ held is significant. Last October most accessible, and try to get its, but did indicate that a se­ lishments also lost windows. In ticipate in the International Stu­ the SLF attempted to organize a more interviews between now and curity analyst had predicted 1968 dent Strike on April 26 and the meeting on campus for Paul Bou­ the CHOICE 68 vote.'' earnings of $3.95 a share, against an April 17 "Man in the News" column in the New York Times mass antiwar actions on April 27. telle, the SWP vice-presidential $3.79 in 1967. featuring Heriry Loeb as a "Re­ On dozens of campuses Young candidate. But LSU officials would In view of the above, the cor­ The voting for• CHOICE 68 took sistant Mayor," a brother of the Socialists for Halstead and Bou­ allow Boutelle to speak only if poration's concern about John­ place on April 10 at Hanover Col­ mayor, Lawrence, was reported telle debated supporters of the the Louisiana coordinator of the son's so-called guidelines of 5 per­ lege in Indiana. When the campus as preparing signs for his win­ capitalist candidates, distributed John Birch Society, Jack L. Welch, cent to "avert inflation" are ex­ 125,000 copies of the special was included on the program. The CHOICE 68 coordinator sent in a dows reading, "Don't break my report to the CHOICE 68 national posed as a fraud. windows: I don't like Henry CHOICE 68 Militant, pasted up SLF refused to go along with this Joseph W. Beirne, the CWA either." campaign posters, distributed leaf­ outrageous condition and crude office on the results of the vote, president, knows the temper of lets, manned literature tables, and violation of student rights. The she reported that "A couple of his own rank and file. And since * * * students, who are in the process A graphic description of how canvassed dorms. Many campaign campus meeting was canceled but he has no desire to "become an of forming an SDS chapter here, many members of the Internation­ committees were so flooded with a highly successful meeting was ex-leader" (New York Times edi­ insisted on a write-in alternative al Brotherhood of Teamsters feel requests for speakers in connection organized for Boutelle off-campus. torial, April 15) he is talking with CHOICE 68 and the student Since then the students and fac­ for the third referendum question. tough. He will have to keep on about the man who engineered the many frame-ups against James strike that many campaigners had ulty have waged a vigorous and I told them that was not to be done, but they felt the necessity of Hoffa and the IBT comes from a to take off from work in order to successful campaign to abolish the front-page editorial in the March cover them all. In New York City restrictive speakers policy. Con­ such an action." Halstead and Bou­ 28 issue of the Washington Team­ there were 26 meetings in seven sequently Halstead was able to telle supporters campaigned for a Weekly Calendar ster: days; in Los Angeles, 15 meetings speak on campus to about 75 stu­ write-in for "Black Control of "Bobby Kennedy has come and in four days. dents, a third of whom asked to Black Communities" on the third gone but the nausea lingers on. be put on the mailing list. The referendum question which was on On April 16 SWP New York the "urban crisis.'' BOSTON "Now that the air has once Congressional candidate Judy campaign support produced by CELEBRATE MAY DAY. International­ -Jon Britton again been cleared of the sicken­ White spoke at an all-night teach­ Paul Boutelle's visit to Baton ism: The Road to Peace. Speakers: Gusti ing pungency this aging teeny-bop Rouge last October was consider­ Dante, Socialist Workers Party; Steve in at Connecticut College, a girls' musters wherever he goes, some school in New London. One ably augmented by Halstead's ap­ Bates, Young Socialist Alliance. Friday. pearance. May 3, 8: I 5 p.m. 295 Huntington Ave., of the questions that were un­ YSHBer who accompanied her had Truth Kit Exposes Hall 307. Donation 50 cents. Refresh­ answered in the foisted furor of visited the same campus about ments. Ausp. Militant Labor Forum. his appearance last Tuesday in • two months earlier and noted a An April 10 release of the Col­ Seattle can be restated under big increase in antiwar sentiment lege Press Service carried a long, McCarthy Record • slightly calmer circumstances... " LOS ANGELES and interest in socialist politics very fair article based on an in­ The Socialist Workers Cam­ Further along, the editor, who MAY DAY 191>8. Czechoslovakia and over that short period. terview with Fred Halstead. Over has a way with adjectives, char­ paign Committee recently pub­ Poland. The Political Revolution in East· 300 campus newspapers with a lished a pamphlet that is having ern Europe. Speaker: Max Geldman, So­ acterizes the Kennedy Little Broth­ • potential readership of 3 million a big political impact. The 16-page cialist Workers Party. Chairman: Phil er as "this barber college drop­ Chalk up a victory for civil lib­ students subscribe to the CPS. publication is called "The Truth Passen, Young Socialist Alliance. Friday, out." -Marvel Scholl erties in the Deep South. On April May 3, 8:30 p.m. 1702 E. Fourth Street, Phil Semas, who conducted the About the McCarthy Campaign" Donation. Ausp. Militant Labor Forum. interview, said of Halstead: "He and explains what is wrong with MAY DAY BANQUET 1968: is a big man with thinning hair. Senator McCarthy's campaign and NEW •YORK He doesn't look at all like a Pres· why, if he were elected, he would CELEBRATE MAY DAY '1>8: Featured idential candidate, but when he not fundamentally alter U.S. for­ speaker: Jack Barnes, campaign director, JACK BARNES talks he reveals a deep under­ eign policy or the oppression of Socialist Workers Party 1968 election Socialist Workers Party 1968 election campaign director standing of the issues, expressed black people. campaign. "Today's Advancing Revolu­ in a common sense, working man's Several calls have come in to tionary Struggle." Special guest: Pfc. Speaks on: tone of voice." The article cov­ the Campaign Committee office Howard Petrick. Banquet. 6 p.m. Satur­ ered Halstead's views on the war from people who have been im­ day, May 4. 873 Broadway, near 18th St., Contrib. $2.50; under 18, $1.50. Today' s Advancing Revolutionary Struggle in Vietnam, the Black Struggle, pressed by the pamphlet and want Ausp. Militant Labor Forum. · CHOICE 68, and electoral politics. to exchange information on Sen· Special Guest: At the end of the article on ator McCarthy's record. PHILADELPHIA• Pfc. HOWARfl PETRICK Halstead was this note from the The pamphlet sells for 25 cents MAY DAY 1968 AND TODAY'S RADI­ Antiwar Gl, recently discharged from the Army editors: "This is the second in a copy and can be mdered in CALS. Speaker: Jack Barnes, national what we hope will be a series of bulk at 15 cents from the Social­ campaign director of the Socialist Work. Sat.. May 4, 6 p.m. 873 Broadway. near 18th St. interviews with some of the can­ ist Workers National Campaign ers Party. Friday, May 3, 8:30 p.m. 686 Committee, 873 Broadway, New Contrib. $2.50, under 18, $1.50 Ausp. Milit•nt labor Forum didates and potential candidates N. Broad Street (door faces Ridge York, N.Y. 10003. Ave.). Ausp. Militant labor Forum. for President. We've asked them Monday, April 29, 1968 THE MILITANT Page Three RIOT COMMISSION REPORT Distortion of TSU-5 Case Who Knocked Ky By Dick Roberts I This is the fourth of a series of articles on the "Riot Commis­ 011 Hoy/ih? sion Report" - the survey of black uprisings conducted by a I'm not particularly surprised some of the material might also presidentially appointed panel last that some people are confused have fallen into the hands of the year. Previous articles in The about what we're fighting for in guerrillas. Howevez:, if it was sold Militant have discussed the "riot" Vietnam, or even about exactly and not just given away, there's panel's attitude toward the police what our relations are with our no cause for ·concern. It bolsters force and "counter-rioters."] fellow freedom fighters in the our free-market policy. * * * Saigon government. In fact I'm a And it's simply hitting below The shortest chapter of the re­ bit confused myself. the belt to make a big point of port - two pages out of 608 - is For instance, there's the big the fact that the Saigon troops on "Organized Activity." It states, hullabaloo about whether or not were gathering up the railroad for "the Commission has found no the CIA once fired Vice President resale while U.S. troops were evidence that all or any of the Ky from a sabotage job for run­ being belted around in the Tet disorders or the incidents that led ning opium on the side. Mean­ offensive. to them were planned or directed while, UPI is bleating because After all, if you can't make a by any organization or group, in­ some Saigon troops took time out quick buck when the opportunity ternational, national or local." during the Tet offensive to rip up presents itself, what in hell are (p. 202) a railroad in order to sell the ties. we figthing for? One might think that this ex­ Denials have been made about A final point about Gen Ky. tremely important point would Ky and the opium. But it's not Some may argue that he shoula take up more space in the report. clear whether they've gone so far have at least let the CIA know It knocks the props out of any as to deny he was peddling opium, what he was doing. That's al­ number of local, state and federal AFTER POLICE ATTACK. Texas Southern University students or, more reasonably, that they most as silly as suggesting that prosecutions deriving from the lined up outside dormitory. would ever consider firing a man back in 1963 the Kennedy admin­ ghetto outbreaks. Many of these for something like that. istratioh should have let the prosecutions are still taking place; from the men's dormitory. The the street ourselves!' We turned According to the Senate Sub­ American people know it was many of the victims are still police returned the fire. desperately to see big sheets of committee on Foreign Aid Expen­ waging aggression on North Viet­ under indictment, and some are "For several hours, gunfire corrugated metal being thrown ditures, Ky was hired by the CIA namese territory. still in prison. punctuated unsuccessful attempts out into the streets to obstruct back in 1963 to fly South Viet­ -Herman Chauka In spite of its admission that by community leaders to negotiate cars, and behind us rolled two namese into North Vietnam for there was no "conspiracy" behind a truce between the students and large tar barrels from the con­ such things as blowing up rail­ the outbreaks, the report white­ the police. When several tar bar­ struction materials. They had roads and bridges. On the way washes these prosecutions. In the rels were set afire in the street been soaked with kerosene, and back from these chores, the com­ same short chapter, it declares: and shooting broke out again, somebody threw a match at the mittee said, Ky would stop off "Militant organizations, local police decided to enter the dormi­ metal cylinders. in Laos and pick up some opium and national, and individual agi· tory. "It burst into flames ... Girls for sale in Saigon. (The CIA deal tators, ,. who repeatedly forecast "A patrolman, struck by a locked in their dormitory, yelled was called "Operation Haylift.") and called for violence, were ac­ ricocheting buliet, was killed. approval at the flaming tar bar­ A spokesman for the general tive in the spring and summer of After clearing all 480 occupants rels in the street, and we left to "just laughed" when he heard 1967. We believe that they de­ from the building, police searched return to the Chief. It was too the story. He pointed out that ev­ liberately sought to encourage it and found one shotgun and two late. It was then that the 'riot' eryone knows the general isn't violence, and that they did have .22 caliber pistols. The origin of began. Chief Short, without warn­ interested in money matters. In a an effect in creating an atmo­ the shot that killed the officer ing anybody . . . gave the com­ later statement, the general sphere that contributed to the was not determined." (p. 41) mand to charge the dormitories, agreed. outbreak of disorder ... It sounds like the police, re­ and to shoot as they charged ... By this they may have been "Investigations are continuing sponding to a student fracas, came "Over 600 policemen ran down trying to say that it was simply at all levels of government, in­ near the dormitory, were fired the empty street on the defense­ a case of trying to demonstrate cluding committees of Congress ... upon, and subsequently "cleared" less parking lot side under the to an employer. a display- of Amer- The Commission has cooperated in the alleged snipers from the build· bright street lights. And they ican know-how. -' these investigations. They should ing. loosed a salvo of shots that sound­ American Way continue." (p. 202) But here is how it was reported ed like a hundred machine guns At any rate, the only possible Example of Whitewash by one of the community negotia­ as over 5,000 round of ammuni­ tion were poured forth. justification that I can think of A noteworthy case in point is tors who had tried to calm the "They were in each other's for firing him was that he might the outrageous frame-up of the situation, the Rev. William Law­ son. in the May 27, 1967, Forward way. Young rookies who had not have been all that conversant "TSU-Five." These are five black with the American Way and just Times of Houston: never seen real danger fired wild­ members of the Texas Southern ly. One policeman shot another... might possibly have deprived one University Friends of SNCC who "For some reason Houston po­ lice focused on the easily identi­ They shot through windows de­ or another superior of their pro­ presently face charges with pos­ per percentage of the take. fied concentration of Negroes at spite instructions to shoot high, sible death penalties resulting Be that as it may, the official Texas Southern University . . . and kept shooting when students from a brutal police attack on a inside begged to be allowed to statements on the, matter must be TSU dormitory May .16, 1967. Students, already irritable, yelled jeers at the growing buildup of bring out wounded Morris Eng­ considered somewhat ambiguous. During the police attack, one squad cars. Heavy weapons and lish, shot through a wall while he For instance, the State Depart­ officer was killed, most likely police dogs were in evidence near lay on his belly." ment declined comment, stating POPPY SALESMAN? Ky with from a ricocheting police bullet. Jeppesen stadium. Lawson describes the shooting somewhat frostily: "We would wife. The five Afro-Americans have of the officer who was killed. "The never have any comment regard­ Throw Melon Rind been charged with instigating the FBI has been to the spot still ing the head of state of a foreign "riot" which led to the death; "Some students threw a water­ soaked with his spurting blood, country." their organization has been blam­ melon rind at a parked squad and they know it (the shot] did I assume this refers to the CIA. ed for the police violence; they car. The air was tense as the two not come from a dormitory. There But I hadn't realized relations Oakland 7 have ·been "investigated" by one police officers emerged and the are no rooms or windows on the were that strained. of the witch-hunting congressional students ducked off the street­ east end of the dormitory!" The U.S. Embassy in Saigon committees supported by the all except one, who claimed that said there is no truth that Ky Trial May 3 "riot" commission. city police had no right to inti­ Police Attack was removed for opium smuggling The commissioners' report, how­ midate him on state property. He Lawson describes the subse­ or any other reason. What then? OAKLAND, Calif. - On May 3 ever, steers clear of this congres­ was a student, Douglas Wayne quent "clearing" of the dormitory: Certainly it doesn't help our seven young men will be facing sional smear. It does not mention Waller ["D.W."·] a veteran of the "The police ... broke open doors image abroad to suggest he was trial here on felony charges, one word about the five youths war in Vietnam. with axes, ripped down ceiling removed for no reason at all. How­ stemming from Stop the Draft facing death charges and the cir­ "He was seized and arrested, tiles, broke mirrors, and brutally ever, at least the statement does Week activities at the Oakland cumstances surrounding the state and the students screamed their attacked students with clubs and assure we'd never fire an employe induction center last fall. frame-up. It gives a virtual pro­ rage as he was taken to jail ... dogs." for peddling a bit of opium. The Alameda County grand secution version of the incident "I was one of the arrested Sun­ The hundreds of students inside Certainly, the matter warrants jury charged the "Oakland Seven" involved: nyside protesters [a demonstra­ were forced out of the building investigation. If the general got with conspiracy to commit such "That evening [May 16] col­ tion earlier in the day-D.R.]. At where they had been hiding from a bum deal, he deserves back misdemeanors as obstructing side­ lege students who had participated the request of the mayor, I was the barrage. They were still in pay, plus compensation for any walks, creating a public nuisance, in . . . protests returned to the released . . . and rushed to tbe their pajamas or underwear. possible loss of revenue on opium trespass and obstructing police. campus ... About 50 of them were campus of Texas Southern where They were arrested. Of the five sales. Fair play aside, everyone It is the conspiracy charge which grouped around a 21-year-old stu­ I was told a 'riot' was building Friends of SNCC members sub­ knows good help isn't that easily is a felony, and the defendants dent, D.W., a Vietnam veteran, up . . . But when the squad car sequently blamed for the police­ come by these days. face possible three-year jail terms who was seeking to stimulate arrived, it was obvious I was too man's death, only two, John Par­ And furthermore, the UPI if convicted. further protest action," the report late. ker, 20, and Trazawell Franklin, should be told to knock off all "Technically," District Attorney says. "The city police had already as­ Jr., 20, were at the dormitory. the noise about the Saigon sol­ Coakley explained, "a thousand "A dispute broke out, and D.W. sembled a show of force ... with Charles Freeman, 18; Floyd diers who picked up some extra of the demonstrators could have reportedly slapped another stu­ scores of squad cars, barricade Nichols, 25; and Douglas Wayne cash by lifting (literally) 12.6 been indicted for their actions, dent. When the student threat­ style, and helmeted officers with Waller, 21, were not on campus. miles of railroad track, plus but we simply don't have enough ened D.W. he left, armed himself aimed guns were holding the dor­ Waller, as described, was under equipment. According to an April courts so we have to take the with a pistol, and returned. In mitories in their sights. Ttiey had arrest. Freeman and Nichols were 10 UPI dispatch, the soldiers, most militant leaders." response to the report of a dis­ already judged the entire stu­ in a different part of town check­ aided by Saigon police and other The defendants are Frank Bar­ turbance, two unmarked police dent body and found them poten­ ing out the arrest. government officials, disposed of dacke, Steve Hamilton, Mik~ cars with four officers arrived. tially dangerous, and were now The facts make it completely the track plus 30,000 steel ties, Smith, Bob Mandel, Jeff Segal, Two of the officers questioned lined up for attack . . . clear that the "TSU-Five" were railroad tools, light fixtures, and Reese Erlich and Terry Cannon. D.W., discovered he was armed "Most of the student leaders framed. They face death charges what have you. The conspiracy law under which with a pistol, and arrested him. were in jail or off campus. We because of their ideas and be· Some of the ties were reported they are charged is a denial of "A short time later, when one cornered a couple of three stu­ cause they dared to express these to have turned up in bunkers free speech. Funds are urgently of the police cars returned to the dents and began to tell them the ideas. The real attack in Houston built for the protection of gov­ needed to aid the defense, and campus, it was met by rocks and lie (sic] that Chief Short was was a murderous assault on a de­ ernment officials. Others were contributions can be sent to: Stop bottles thrown by students. As po­ removing the invasion force ... fenseless student dormitory by said to have been seen on the the Draft Week Defense Fund, lice · called for reinforcements, "But they knew better, and trigger-happy and club-swinging black markets of three provinces. 6468 Benvenue Ave., Oakland, sporadic gunshots reportedly came somebody yelled, 'Then we'll block cops. The UPI expressed concern that Calif, 94618. Page Four THE MILITANT Monday, April 29, 1968 Arob Students in u.s. Meet o;;;u;~:·;~a AI-Fatah Some idea of the outlook of al­ covered control of the territories Fatah, the leading Palestinian that belong tp us, we will dis­ guerrilla organization, can be mantle the Israeli state apparatus, To Pion Revolutionory Goofs award indemnities to the affected gathered from an interview that appeared in the Nov.-Dec. 1967 Palestinians, send the invaders By Peter Sig~orelli issue of Tricontinental magazine, back to Europe or their countries ANN ARBOR, Mich.-Over 100 published in Havana. of origin, and invite those Jewish citizens who have long been there Arab students from midwest USA Al-Fatah (Movement for the to live together with us, if they and Canada convened here over Liberation of Palestine) is only so desire." Easter weekend to discuss the one of many armed guerrilla or­ present stage of the Palestine lib­ ganizations of the Palestine re­ Difficult Venture eration movement. fugees, but in the last year it Among the discussions held at has come to the fore as the most Bashiri continued: the convention were the follow­ resolute and daring of the under­ "We know that this is not an ing: the theory and practice of ground fighters. Te6filo Acosta, a easy undertaking but we refuse armed struggle and wars of na­ Cuban jourmi.list, . visited one of to regard it as impossible, as do tional liberation; the objective the al-Fatah training camps. the poor in spirit. Those who hold conditions for armed struggle in Bashiri, the nom de guerre of a that point of view say that we are Palestine and in Kuwait; the les­ political leader of the organiza­ mad, that we are a group of ad­ sons of the struggles in Algeria tion in Damascus, explained its venturers. The 11 men who, to­ and southern Arabia; the Sino­ ongtns and objectives. Acosta gether with Fidel Castro, started Soviet dispute and its develop­ asked him the purpose of al-Fa­ off in the isolation of the Sierra mEmt with regard to the Arab tah's struggle. He answered: Maestra shortly after the Granma world; the role of the Arab stu­ landing should be asked what "To bring down the economic, they think about this. The heroic dents in the U.S. and Canada in political and social system in Is­ aiding the struggles for national Vietnamese combatants or vet­ rael, to destroy her institutions erans of the Algerian war of liberation and revolutionary so­ through a war that will be long liberation should be asked. Go cial change; and, highlighting the and bloody but sure to succeed." convention, discussion of al-Fa­ back to the example of the Bol­ sheviks to determine whether or tah, the revolutionary Palestine No Racial Hatred not we can attain our objectives. liberation movement. When asked what would be This is a question of application A standing ovation was given done when the guerrillas took of an · inviolable revolutionary to a black militant speaker from power, he said, "Our movement principle: faith in the power of Chicago who declared his support is not of a racist character. We the masses, organized and armed." to the Palestine liberation move­ are not motivated by racial hatred. Another guerrilla leader added, ment. Urging increased comm}.lni­ We are not fighting the Jews as "Since January 1959 we have cation between the forces for such. We are fighting against Is­ carried out over a hundred ac­ black liberation in the U.S. and rael as a Zionist state - at the the forces struggling against im­ tions within the territory oc­ service of U.S. imperialism - that cupied by Israel. Tel A.yiv it­ perialism in the Arab world, he forcibly displaced our people from self has recognized our effective­ pointed out that the two struggles their lands and homes in 1948 ness. In our press communiques are integral components of the en­ and, more recently,.in June 1967. we have been objective and hon­ tire international struggle of the "For this reason we have not est, as we were advised by Major "Third World." Ernesto · Che Guevara when we Among the resolutions presented proposed, as have other Arab spoke with him in Algeria in here, the most immediate one leaders, to drive the Jews into the 1965." deals with a proposed sit-in by sea. Shnply, once we have re- the Arab students at the Arab embassies in Washington. The res­ olution characterized the present Arab governments as bankrupt Derrick Morrison ·Deb11tes and inadequate for the production of the social, economic, political and psychological forces necessary RFK, MtCIIrtlly Supporters to mobilize the Arab nation in its struggle for fundamental social By Bob Gebert change and in its struggle against Zionist Israel and imperialism. NEW YORK - At the "Urban despite a liberal majority, the The established Arab political BURNED BY NAPALM. Egyptian prisoner, victim of Israeli Crisis" CHOICE 68 panel at ·co­ 1964 Democratic Convention re­ parties were found to be present­ napalm attack in last June's war. Israeli victory has caused Arab lumbia University on April 15, fused to seat the Mississippi Free­ ly incapable of giving leadership representatives of Kennedy and dom Democratic Party, seating the revolutionists to make new appraisal.. McCarthy clashed with Derrick to the struggle. It was pointed out Dixiecrats instead. Morrison, Socialist Workers Par­ In answer to another query, that it is now necessary to focus is al-Fatah a movement for the ing genuine revolutionaries and attention on the workers and ty candidate for Congress in New Ginsberg boasted about how few national liberation of Palestine, exposing those who today parade York's 20th congressional district. machine hacks supported McCar­ peasants as the main forces of the but that concurrently and neces­ as champions of struggle against struggle. The sit-in is to serve as State Senator Thompson of Bed­ thy's campaign, but Morrison not­ sarily, it is a movement for social Zionist Israel and imperialism. ford-Stuyvesant, Kennedy's rep­ ed wryly that McCarthy is going a rallying point for Arab students Recognizing the prolonged nature and will demand that the Arab revolution. Al-Fatah, he stated, restantive, drew an analogy be­ to have to win them over before seeks to employ a program of so­ of the struggle ahead, the repre­ tween Kennedy's program and November or he'll never get elect­ governments arm the people, begin sentative from al-Fatah stressed immediate political education of cial revolution to explode the Roosevelt's, which he said was ed. inertia of the Arab masses, un­ the need to psychologically arm designed to prevent "a revolu­ the people, and that they gear the people in addition to their There was a good deal of their economies toward prepara­ leashing their energies into an tion." This theme also dominated laughter when McCarthy's rep­ armed struggle for social change physical armament. · Consequently the talk by Robert Ginsberg, Mc­ tion for armed struggle against he urged the assimilation and pop­ resentative announced that "there Zionist Israel and imperialism. as well as for national liberation. Carthy's representat~ve, who em­ lias been black power in Harlem ularization of the lessons of the phasized that what was needed to The discussion of al-Fatah was He characterized al-Fatah as a struggles of Algeria and southern for 20 years." Morrison tried to the focal point of the convention. catalyst to set into motion the solve the crisis was to give black explain to him that having a black Arabia and of the revolutiQJJ.s of people "the feeling that they are Discussing Palestine's place in the dynamic potential of the oppress­ China, Cuba, and Vietnam. congressman who is controlled by ed Arab classes for the building Americans the right to feel the Democratic Party is not black context of the international anti­ Pointing out that al-Fatah is imperialist struggle, the speaker of the social, economic, military that they are governing them­ power - this requires black peo­ and. psychological forces capable presently organizationally and selves." ple to organize independently, in emphasized that the Palestinian politically independent of the ex­ war of liberation is not simply of ending the present stagnancy Ghetto Oppressors their _ own party, to elect reJ)re- of the Arab world. At the same isting left-wing parties and groups . sentative responsible only to the a struggle against Zionist Israel, in the Arab countries, he stated Morrison charged that the two but that at the same time it is a time, he added, al-Fatah is -be­ Democrats had the viewpoint of black people and to fight for coming a demarcating line for emphatically that al-Fatah will black contf()l of the· black com­ struggle of the entire Arab world never compromise nor collaborate the rulers, that their "main in· against Western imperialism. the existing political tendencies in tent was to try to· get the ghettos munities. the Arab world, rallying and unit- with any government or political Furthermore, he stated, not only group which stands in the way quiet." He said he had the view­ of the development of the armed point of the oppressed-black peo­ struggle along revolutionary lines. ple, who are trying to win self­ There was a general belief at determination, just as the Viet­ Socialist Directory the convention that as the U.S. namese are. recognizes its defeat in Vietnam, Senator Thompson asked Gins­ it will turn its attention more berg where McCarthy intended to find the resources to pay for his BOSTON. Boston Labor Forum, 285 Hun­ era1 2-7781. Open 1 to 5 p.m., Monda)' fully now to the oil-producing tington Ave., Room 307, Boston, Mass. through Friday, Saturday, 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Arab world, and that a "Vietnam" mtmmum i n c om e program. 02139. NEW ARK. Newark Labor Forum, Box will develop in the Middle East Though neither Democrat could 361, Newark, New .Jerse)' 07101. cmCAGO. Socialist Workers Party and as _the Arab peoples intensify their offer any new source, Morrison bookstore, 302 South Canal ~~1 • Room NEW YORK CITY. Militant Labor For­ struggles against Zionist Israel and proposed two huge ones: the Viet­ 204, Chicago, Ill. 80606. WE 9-DUH. um, 873 Broadwa)' (at 18th St.), N.Y.. nam war money that would be N.Y. 10003. 982-8061. imperialism. CLEVELAND. Eugene V. Debs Hall, 2nd freed if the U.S. withdrew, and floor west, 9601 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OAKLAND-BERKELEY. Socialist Work-· the tremendo}.ls corporate profits Ohio 44106. Telephone: 7111-1669. Militant ers Party and Merit Books. 2519-A Tele­ Forum meets every Friday night at 8. graph Ave.• Berkeley, Calif. 94704. Phone: Does your local library have that would be freed by nation­ 849-1032. Open 12 to 6 p.m .• Monday thru a subscription to THE MILI­ alization of industry. DETROIT. Eugene V. Debs Hall, 3737 Saturday. When a questioner quoted ·Mal· WoOdward, Detroit, Mich. 48201.· TEnlple TANT? If not, why not suggest 1-6135. Friday Night Socialist Forum PHILADELPHIA. 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But Morrison pointed out that, Derrick Morrison Monday, April 29, 1968 THE MILITANT Page Five

How 11 Suppressed Report THE 'MILITANT Editor: BARRY SHEPPARD Business Manager: BEVERLY SCOT'! Published weekly, except during July and AUIUSt when publl8hed blweel serted: "In my judgment, the commitments to the world inter­ radical. He thought a five-year And Halstead and Boutelle are and organizing campaigns, includ­ slogan 'black power' and what it ests of U.S. imperialism. limit on withdrawal would be bet­ part of the antiwar and black ing the Imperial Valley California is associated with has set the Right now those imperialist in­ ter. power movements. Their cam­ agricultural strike in 1949 and the civil rights movement back con­ terests are seriously threatened by Last March 16, McCarthy upped paigns are designed to help build Square D Electrical Workers siderably." the powerful advances of the Viet­ the ante, saying that even if there those movements, not to coopt strike in Detroit in 1954 (when True, the Senator isn't saying namese liberation movement and were a settlement in Vietnam, he and destroy them. he was twice arrested). - Monday, April 29, 1968 Page Seven The Socialist Alternative Socialists want to head off the disaster the people of the United States are being led toward by the bipartisan policies of the Dem· ocrats and Republicans - twin parties of war and racism. Despite Johnson's "limitation" of the bombing, the war in Viet­ nam continues, with more bomb· ing, more troops, more death and destruction for the Vietnamese, and more American casualties. Kennedy and McCarthy present themselves as "peace" candidates, but are both strongly opposed to the U.S. getting out of Vietnam, the only realistic and just way to end the war and stop the killing. While U.S. troops are in Viet· nam attempting to crush a popular revolution, the black people in this country remain victims of racist oppression. The Democrats and Republicans offer only tokenism on the one hand and repression on the other, in answer to the just demands of the black people. Alternative In 1968, a clear-cut opposition and radical alternative to the war· making and racist Democrats and rs ot :Ialstead and Boutelle carry banner on Oct. 21 march on Pentagon. Republicans will be presented by the Socialist Workers Party can· didates for President and Vice President, Fred Halstead and Paul Boutelle, Their campaign is aimed at building an independent move· tionary Nominees ment that can work to change the capitalist system as a whole. Democratic candidates, Fred Halstead and Paul Boutelle are Here are some of the planks in Halstead and Boutelle's platform: ::.ntiwar and black power movements, but to build them. Both FOR VICE PRESIDENT. Paul Boutelle speaking at rally on Stop the war in Vietnam - :tivists in these movements. bring our men home now! Support Berkeley campus. the right of Gls to discuss the war and freely express their opposition for freedom, justice and equality the job for black workers and for In 1955 Fred Halstead became He has also participated in the to it. Abolish the draft - no through black power. Black people members of other minorities, and a staff writer for The Militant, campaign to defend the 17 black draftees for Washington's im­ have the unconditional right to full union support to the Afro­ covering many events in the black militants framed up on unconsti· perialist war machine. Organize control their own communities. American struggle for equality. struggle beginning with the his· tutional charges of "criminal an· a national referendum to give the The black communities should For an independent labor party toric Montgomery, Ala., Bus Boy­ archy" in New York. people the right to vote to with­ have control over their schools, based on the trade unions, to de­ cott. Through his studies and his ex· draw all U.S. troops from Viet­ and city, state and federal funds fend the rights of all working peo­ As a resident of New York's periences in the black struggle, nam. should be made available to them ple against the parties of the Lower East Side area, he was an Boutelle became a Marxist. In in whatever amounts needed to bosses, and to fight for a workers' activist in the 1964 rent strike 1965 he joined the Socialist Work· Hands off Cuba and China. Sup­ overcome years of deprivation in government. movement and wrote a book about ers Party. port the struggles of the Asian, education. the citywide rent strike movement Latin American, African and Arab For a planned, democratic so­ He is married and has a 12-year­ Appropriate whatever funds are ciaUst America. Nationalize the called Harlem Stirs. peoples for national independence necessary to provide jobs for every old son, Daryl, who is already ac· and social liberation. major corporations and banks un­ tive in the black liberation move­ unemployed Afro-American, with der the control of democratically ment. Support the black people's fight preferential hiring and upgrading elected workers' committees. Plan Paul Boutelle to equalize opportunities in ap­ the economy democratically ·for Paul Boutelle, Socialist Workers prenticeship programs, skilled the benefit of all instead of for Party candidate for Vice President, trades, and higher paying tech­ the profit of the few. nical and supervisory occupations. was born in Harlem 35 years ago A socialist America will be an and has lived there most of his It is the right of Afro-Ameri­ America of peace and prosperity, life. During the past eight years cans to keep arms and organize without poverty or slums or unem­ he has been active in the black themselves for self-defense from ployment, and without wars like movement in ·Harlem and Brook­ racist attacks. that in Vietnam. It will put an lyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant. For an independent black politi­ end to racism and, for the first Like many black youths, Bou­ cal party to organize and lead the time after over 400 years of op­ telle dropped out of school early struggle for black power on all pression, guarantee unconditional­ and began to study on his own. fronts and by any means neces­ ly the right of self-determination sary. "My first awakening was a na· for black Americans. It will signal tionalist awakening," he says, "a Support labor's fight against in­ an unparalleled growth in culture, feeling of pride in being black and flation and government control. freedom and in the development a, revulsion and hatred for what Defense of the unconditional right of the individual. this racist capitalist system is do· to strike. Repeal all antilabor laws. For more information, write to ing to people of color throughout No freeze on wages. Rank-and­ the Socialist Workers Campaign the world. file control over all union affairs. Committee, 873 Broadway, New "Around 19!>7 I began listening Equal rights in the union and on York, N.Y. 10003. to many militant and Afro-Ameri· can speakers, from Malcolm X to the nonreligious black nationalists. I felt then, as I do now, that black nationalism is necessary to the liberation of black people." Endorse the Socialist Campaign Black Party 0 Please send me more literature on the Socialist Workers Party election In 1963 Boutelle became active campaign. in the effort to build an all-black 0 I want to help organize a meeting for a candidate. Freedom Now Party. He became chairman of the Harlem Freedom 0 Enclosed is a donation of $...... Now Party and in 1964 ran as that 0 Although I do not necessarily agree with all tf.e planks of tf.e Socialist party's candidate for state senator Workers Party platform, I endorse the SWP's 1968 presidential ticket as a from the 21st district in Harlem. positive alternative to tf.e Democratic and Republican parties. O Add my In 1965, he helped organize name as an Afro-American for Halstead and Boutelle and was founding chairman of Afro-Americans Against the War Namt in Vietnam. He later became sec· retary of the Black United Action Address Front, a coalition of organizations City ...... State. and individuals that organized the Harlem contingent in the April 15, Telephone 1967, mobilization against the war. Boutelle is chairman of the Alex­ Clip and mail to: ander Defense Committee, a group established to aid Dr. Neville Alex· ander and other members of the Socialist Workers Campaign CommiHee South African liberation move­ 873 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10003 ment who are now serving long Photo by Leonard Gordon terms in South Africa's apartheid FOR PRESIDENT. Fred Halstead (just right of banner) on march Telephone (212) 673-0790 prisons. to Boston Common April 3 for rally called by The Resistance. Page Eight THE MILITANT Monday, April 29, 1968 suPPORT FOR TICKET GRows Seattle Antiwar Leader Schoen man, McGowan Back SWP Is SWP Senote Nominee With six months to go until of the National Black Anti-War election day, the Socialist Work­ Anti-Draft Union, John Henrik SEATTLE The Socialist ers presidential ticket has already Clarke, editor of Freedomways Workers Party candidate for won more support than in any and John Watson, editor of the Senator from the state of Wash­ previous campaign since it first militant black Detroit newspaper, ington is a leader of the antiwar fielded a national ticket in 1948. Inner City Voice. movement in the Northwest. Deb­ bie Leonard was a founding As of last December, some 600 Others include Florynce Kenne­ dy, the veteran Harlem attorney, member of the University of individuals who are not members Washington Vietnam Committee of either the Socialist Workers and Virginia Collins, long-time New Orleans rights fighter and and served as its chairman. As Party or Young Socialist Alliance, director of the Seattle Spring Mo­ had declared their support for national board member of the Southern Conference Educational bilization Committee, she helped Fred Halstead for President and organize a contingent of 800 per­ Paul Boutelle for Vice President. Fund. Recently the executive commit­ sons who traveled to the San As of mid-April the number of Francisco demonstration on April independent endorsers had grown tee of the NAACP Youth Council in Milwaukee went on record in 15, 1967. to 1,784. Before resigning to launch her favor of the Halstead-Boutelle Four months ago there were campaign, Debbie Leonard worked ticket. endorsements from individuals in as a welfare worker. As a mem­ Major support for the socialist 128 cities. Now there are Halstead­ ber of the welfare workers union nominees has come from students Boutelle supporters in 300 cities ( AFSCME), she helped mobilize seeking to accomplish meaningful in every region of the country. a contingent of welfare workers political change. to participate in the Seattle dem­ Last December there were sup­ The ticket has also been en­ Debbie Leonard onstration in support of the Oct. porters of Young Socialists for Ralph Schoenman dorsed by the Oklahoma Univer­ 21 march on Washington, D. C., Halstead and Boutelle at a hun­ sity chapter of .SDS. Leonard's attack on Senators Mc­ dred high schools, colleges and the Halstead-Boutelle ticket as a Attorneys who have defended last fall. At a well-attended press con­ Carthy and Kennedy, whom she universities. There are now such means of advancing the anti-im­ many activists in progressive ference here March 26, the so­ accused of attempting to take groups at 253 schools. perialist struggle in the U.S. causes and who favor a vote for cialist candidate told reporters advantage of the immense and A number of prominent indi­ Felix McGowan was forced out Halstead and Boutelle include that her campaign would center very genuine antiwar sentiment viduals have declared their sup­ of the priesthood by the Catholic Jack Peebles of New Orleans and around the demands raised by the in the nation and to channelize port for the Halstead-Boutelle Church after he traveled to Cuba Harry Nier of Denver. SWP presidential ticket, Fred it into the Democratic Party and ticket. Among these are Ralph and publicly compared the prog­ As the socialist campaign conti­ Halstead and Paul Boutelle, for thus behead it." Local TV stations Schoenman and Felix McGowan. ress there with the terrible con­ nues to gain momentum, it can be the immediate withdrawal of gave extensive news coverage to assumed that independent sup­ Schoenman is Lord Bertrand ditions he had witnessed as a U.S. troops from Vietnam and for the press conference. port will continue to grow. This Russell's personal secretary and Maryknoll priest in Latin Ameri­ black control of black commu­ For more information, contact offers the best opportunity in was an initiator of the Interna­ ca. nities. the Seattle SWP campaign office years to reach a maximum num­ tional War Crimes Tribunal which In a letter from Puerto Rico, The Seattle Times quoted Mrs. at 5257 University Way N.E. found the U.S. guilty of war where he worked for more than ber of Americans with socialist crimes in Vietnam. A militant a year, McGowan wrote: "Just alternatives on the great issues of revolutionary, Schoenman has a word to encourage you in all the day and by doing so to sig­ urged students and others to back your programs in educating nificantly advance the building Americans to the cancerous evils of a revolutionary movement in Socialist Can~didates Enter of capitalism. The rest of the the United States. world does not plan to wait for the U.S. to change, but does hope City and State Ca~m.paigns that when they make the changes there will be someone, such as In addition to its presidential In Wisconsin, Bob Wilkinson, a the Socialist Workers Party, to ticket, the Socialist Workers Party Vietnam veteran and chairman of talk to and rebuild with ... Ven­ the Madison Committee to End the has entered a number of state and ceremos!" War in Vietnam, is the socialist Salutes SWP local elections around the country. candidate for Governor. Similarly, the noted literary Elsewhere in this issue there are There is not space to list all of critic Maxwell Geismar declared: stories on four socialist candidates the congressional candidates - "I am glad to state publicly that for U.S. Senate: Hedda Garza in four each in New York and Michi­ I will endorse the political slate New York, Peter Camejo in Cali­ gan alone. In Minnesota, David of the Socialist Workers Party on Thorstad is the SWP candidate for a national level, as I have done fornia, Dan Styron in Illinois, and Congress in the 3rd congressional on a state level ... I salute your Debbie Leonard in Washington. district in Minneapolis. From Feb­ national program of political ac­ The SWP has announced that it ruary to August 1967 Thorstad tion as a necessary element for will run two other candidates for was a member of the Paris Secre­ those of us who see no other real tariat of the Bertrand Russell War Senate, in Ohio and Washington, alternative." Crimes Tribunal which investigat­ A significant aspect of the and the party has entered the gu­ ed U.S. atrocities in Vietnam. growing support for the Halstead­ bernatorial race in Wisconsin. Boutelle ticket has been the num­ UAW Member Ohio Candidate ber of black freedom fighters who In Michigan James Griffin is have urged support for the SWP In Ohio, Eric Reinthaler will be running for Congress in the 17th nominees. Among these are John John Wilson the SWP candidate for Senate. district. He is a young member of Felix McGowan Wilson of SNCC, Gwen Patton Reinthaler has been a long-time the UAW and a founder of the De­ trade union militant in the Cleve­ troit Committee to End the Wa-r land area, and is an active mem­ in Vietnam. ber of the University Circle Teach­ Other congressional candidates Styron Nominated in Illinois In Committee. include John Gray in Los Angeles Pearl Chertov is the SWP sen­ and Joe Carroll in Newark, N.J. atorial candidate in Pennsylvania. In Detroit, Evelyn Kirsch is will be touring the Midwest, Kentucky, Southern Illinois, and CHICAGO - The Illinois So­ She has served on the organizing running for the Wayne State Uni­ speaking in support of the Hal· Missouri. cialist Workers Party campaign committee of the Philadelphia versity Board of Governors. Miss stead-Boutelle ticket and his own Dan Styron was a student at Mobilization Committee which or­ Kirsch is a senior at WSU, chief committee announced April 8 the senatorial candidacy. Until April Berkeley, Calif., in 1964, and par­ ganized participation in the April organizer of the WSU referendum candidacy of Dan Styron for U.S. 27, Styron will be touring in Illi­ ticipated in the Free Speech 15 and Oct. 21 demonstrations last on the Vietnam war in April '67, senator. Styron will be running nois and Missouri. He will then Movement which shook the Uni­ year, and the April 27 demonstra­ and editor of the campus protest against Everett Dirksen, Senate continue his tour through Indiana, versity of California campus minority leader and one of the there. He has been active in the tion this year. paper, the Wayne Reply. foremost supporters of Johnson's antiwar movement in Berkeley war policies in Vietnam. and New York, as well as in Chi­ In a recent statement to the cago. He served on the executive press Styron said, "The occupa­ committee of the Berkeley Viet­ Books and Pamphlets tion of black neighborhoods by nam Day committee, and in the cops, National Guard units from summer of 1965 he became active Works on the Afro-American struggle the suburbs, and the U.S. Army in the New York Parade Commit­ The Case for a Black Party, Introduction by Paul Boutelle 25¢ must be ended immediately. Black tee. 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Monday, 29 1968 THE .MILITANT Which Is the Underdeveloped Country? Medical Care in U.S. and Cuba By Marvel Scholl government in providing health can Medical Association in a cold In the current medical crisis, care for large segments of the sweat, consider how they view with capitalist politicians of all population. Other steps have been the socialized medicine in Eastern stripes "viewing with alarm" ·the proposed-these we must continue Europe, Russia, and Cuba! Let us worsening situation of the Ameri­ to oppose. look at Cuba and see how a can people's health, it is time a "What is our philosophy'? It is genuine socialized medical system few sharp words were spoken. the faith in private enterprise. works for the betterment of the We in the Socialist Workers We can, therefore, concentrate our people. Party have always contended that attention on the single obligation First we must realize that Cuba the crisis in health care cannot to protect the American way of suffers from almost every kind of be solved under capitalism where life. That way can be described shortage, except sugar. Food and profits are all-important, human in one word: Capitalism." (Em­ medicine are in very short sup­ welfare secondary. We advocate phasis added.) ply. But one shortage which only the socialization of medicine and Thus spoke the leader of the time can solve is of trained teach of the entire pharmaceutical in­ medical profession in the U.S. ing personnel in the schools. We The American Medical Associa­ must keep these obstacles in mind dustry. This wo~ld be one of the first orders of business of a so­ tion, with an almost captive mem­ in assessing the gains this tiny cialist government. bership of 220,000 members, has island has made in beginning the In the interim, however, until abandoned its primary purpose, building of socialized medicine. a socialist government comes into as set down in its own constitu­ In 1959, after a mass exodus of being, we propose the nationaliza­ tion-the betterment of health AMA-type physicians who fled the tion of both the medical profes­ care and the preservation of life. country with Batista, there were sion and its close ally, the drug Its "single obligation" now is the only 1,121 doctors left to man the industry, administered under health and welfare of the "free 87 existing hospitals and clinics, strict government control. We be­ enterprise" system. almost all of which were in the lieve that the only solution for The AMA looks upon the medi­ cities. By 1964 the number of the many facets of the whole prob­ cal insurance and nationalized Cuban-educated medical men had lem is to take all profit out of hu­ health services in countries .of risen to 4,855. The one medical man misery. Put the doctors on Western Europe as "socialized school, at the University of Hava­ an adequate salary, the hospitals medicine." It has been successful na, had only four teaching hospi­ under the control of salaried spe- - (except in Saskatchewan) in tals to train its students in clinical cialists, just as they are in most helping the Canadian Medical As­ medicine. In 1964 a new medical of Europe. And expropriate the sociation keep doctor services out university was opened in Oriente most lucrative of all industries­ of the national health insurance Province, and many new teaching the pharmaceuticals, which last plans in Canada. hospitals were accredited. Yet in those capitalist countries Education is free, and students year topped all other industries Photo by Ring with a 21.1 percent profit on in­ where adequate health care has receive an allowance in addition been recognized as the right of to· all other costs. Once internship PREVENTIVE CARE. Children in Cuban nursery receive com­ vestments. plete medical care--free. Poised for a fight agaipst any the people, not a privilege, health is over, a medical student is re­ standards are far higher than in quired to serve two years in a suggestions, however minute, that the whole country. Sixty-six new the American people have a right the United States. Infant mor­ rural community, after which, if deed. Only the hardiest survived he qualifies, he can return to institutions, mostly in the rural to reach the 50s or 60s. to good health ca~e without first tality rates, gross ·death rates, lining the purses of the medical longevity tables, all show the U.S. school for graduate work. areas, were in operation by 1964, You have only to look at photo, profession, is the American Medi­ at the bottom, Western European Cuba has also worked hard with bed capacity of 5.7 per 1,000 graphs of happy, healthy children cal Association. A declaration of countries at the top or near it. training other medical personnel population. in Cuban schools and nursery war on this issue was made last Compare, for instance, infant mor­ --dentists, technicians, nurses, and schools to see the direct impact paramedical workers (aides, at­ A chain of outpatient polyclinics June at the installation of Dr. tality rates in England (19.1) with is being built. The aim is to locate of socialized medicine on the Milford R. Rouse as president of the U.S. (21.6 for whites, 41.1 tendants, etc.)-for the hospitals. young. These pictures tell the In 1959 the nursing staff number­ these health centers sufficiently the AMA. In his inaugural address for nonwhites). In the longevity close together to limit each to story far more graphically than he said: tables Sweden stands at the top ed 822-now it. is claimed the a whole book of statistics! number has risen to 6,667. In the serve 3,000 patients, with full "We are faced with many prob­ with an average life span of 76 ·staffs covering all specialties. The Yet in the United States, where lems and many challenges. We years; the U.S. is No. 21 with beginning of this forced march the most advanced medical tech­ there were 179 dentists. Accord­ clinics will also serve as commu­ are faced with the concept that 66 years (a five-year drop in as nity centers to serve as both -so­ nology in the world is available health care is a right rather than many years) . ing to a small booklet published (if you can afford it)., the na­ by the Cuban government in 1964, cial and educational centers. Even a privilege. Since the very idea of the kind though the shortage of doctors and tional health standards· are drop­ "Several major steps have al­ of health systems currently in that number had swollen to 997. ping, infant mortality is on the In 1959 only 87 hospitals served teachers is acute, those clinics al­ ready been taken by the federal effect in Europe has the Ameri- ready in existence, although some­ rise, maternal death rates ( espe­ times crowded, are serving their cially among the nonwhites) are communities well. Lectures and going up. Tuberculosis, once seminars on good sanitation, mos­ thought conquered with the won­ • quito control, the role of a bal­ der drugs, is making a comeback. anced diet in health, are well The life span is shrinking. Can­ Life 1n El Fronton attended. cer, diabetes, strokes and degen­ But it is difficult to achieve the erative heart disease are robbing The imprisoned Peruvian peas­ bulletin of the French Committee !iceman had to be protected Ly eradication of disease caused by old people of the joy of life which ant leader Hugo Blanco remains of Solidarity with the Victims of his colleagues . . ." hunger and hidden hunger in a should be theirs, and then taking in great danger under the condi­ Repression in Peru, bears testi­ * * * life itself. Children in the city The Lima correspondent of the country where food itself is hard tions prevaiiing at the island for­ mony both to the horrors prac­ to get. The U .S.-engineered boy­ ghettos and rural slums are dying tress of El Front6n. Blanco, wh.o French committee, March 31: of nutritional deficiency diseases ticed under the "democratic" re­ "Th~ story was quite different. cott of Cuba sharply curbs the has been jailed since 1964, was export from any "friendly" coun­ -sometimes actually starving to sentenced to 35 years in prison gime of President Belaunde Terry The prisoner was an insane per­ death. son who wandered into a forbid­ try ("friendly" to the U.S., that last year for his work in organiz­ and to the venality of the Peru­ The cost of fee-for-service medi­ den zone to answer the call of na­ is) of the vital commodities so ing peasant unions. Blanco is a vian press. desperately needed to nourish the cal care in this country has risen well-known Trotskyist and a lead­ ture. He was riddled with bullets faster than any other segment of The first item is the account in front of everybody. He didn't people and serve their medical er of the Fourth International. living costs-a conservative esti­ given in Correa, a Lima newspa­ do anything or say anything. needs. So Cuba has had to allot The following items, taken from mate is 30 percent since 1957. "You can imagine the atmos­ much of its land to the growth the March issue of Solidarite Pe­ per, of an atrocity committed in Yet that "cost" cannot be count­ phere of terror . reigning in El of food stuffs, thus reducing the rou ("Solidarity with Peru"), the El Ftont6n - which is on an is­ ed simply in dollars and cents. Front6n. The papers published one money-crop, sugar, with which land in Lima's harbor - where it pays for everything else it· must Far more important is the cost re­ only a few totally false lines. flected in the lowering health a number of political prisoners "If those in command in El import. are held. But even against these odds re­ standards in this, the richest coun­ F.ront6n want to liquidate Hugo try in the world. The · second is a letter from a Blanco, they can do so without markable progress has been The Case And so it will continue to be correspondent of the committee any scruple and no one could in­ made. In 1932 the infant mor­ For a Black Party terfere ... His situation is very, tality rate stood at 107. In 1964 until that day when a socialist Introduction by in Lima reporting the truth about very dangerous ..." it had been brought down to 34.8 government takes over and begins Paul Boutelle the incident. per 1,000 live births. Compare to put the "care" back in medical this with figures from the rest care. Only then will the AMA 22 P?· $.25 * * * boast-"the United States has a Correa: "A guard on the island of Latin America: Brazil, 125.3; Ecuador, 104.3; Paraguay, 104; the quality of health care unsurpassed penitentiary, El.Front6n, machine­ anywhere"-be a reality. And it gunned the prisoner Alberto Ga­ Dominican Republic, 100.5; Guate­ BLACK. POWER mala, 98. will not be the American Medical marra Eyzaguirre, known as 'The Association who makes the boast By Stokely Carmichael Lunatic,' who jumped him armed The gross death rate has been and Charles Hamilton reduced to 7.1 per 1,000 popula­ but the whole people who will with a stick. Gamarra was struck learn, for the first time in our 198 pp. $1.95 by five bullets and fell dead in tion. (The gross death rate in the U.S. is 9.6!) In other Latin Amer­ history, that Hippocrates, the the main yard of El Front6n. father of medicine, never envision­ "Several prisoners present tried ican countries the gross death Report of the rate is: Guatemala, 17 .3; Ecuador, ed medicine as a profession whose to stir up a riot but the guards sole aim was to get rich quick. National Advisory kept the crowd in order by fir­ 13.5; Colombia, 12.0; El Salvador, ing into the air. 11.5. Commission "'There was no mutiny, nor In nine short years Cuba has On Civil- Disorders any attempt at mass escape; it eradicated polio. The fight against tuberculosis, once a main cause Watts and Harlem 608 pp. $1.25 was only a slight incident,' an official assured us. of death, is being won, as is the "Gamarra attacked one of the battle against leprosy, malaria, By Robert Vernon Order from: guards, whose name was not re­ and the gastrointestinal diseases And George Novack vealed. The sound of machine-gun caused by parasites (worms­ MERIT PUBLISHERS fire awakened the whole prison hook, round and tape) . 15 cents 873 Broadway population. The pris.oners started The life span is expanding. Not a ruckus and made menacing ges­ too long ago a Cuban peasant or MIIIT PUILISHEU New York, N. Y. 10003 tures at the policeman wh.o had worker who achieved 40 years of 5 East nlnt St.,· New Yorll, N. Y. 10003 killed their companion. The po- Hugo Blanco age was considered very old in- Page Ten THE MILITANT Monday, April 29, 1968

building hers largely with a con­ script army - that is by send­ Thought for the Week ing tens of thousands of young "The nation is in the midst of the worst financial crtsts since Americans involuntarily to their 1931. In 1931 the problem was deflation. Today it is inflation and death. · equally intolerable."-William McChesney Martin, Chairman of Jean Carper, in an article deal­ the Federal Reserve Board. ing with military conscription in The Nation (March 11), wrote these lines, "The old men conduct gram of the Socialist Labor Par­ the war from the safety of the violence, of protest, of dissent. home front, while the impotent This is the answer to the call of ty of America, i.e., Socialist In­ young (many not even old enough the oppressed for economic and dustrial Unionism as conceived by social justice. Letters to vote) must kill and be killed the late Daniel De Leon. Mr. Those who do not share Dr. at the bidding of their elders." Sheppard wrote the following: Future historians - that is if King's philosophy are called the human race has a future - "criminals" by the Times. Who "While learning something from From will record that America was a are the criminals that this gar­ De Leon, Lenin and Trotsky led nation which devoured its own bage paper indicts? Stokely Car­ a revolution through democratic young. michael and all revolutionaries, organs, the soviets, that were not Dale Rasmussen answers the Times. This is the (nor under the circumstances Our real voice of capitalism talking. could they have been) exactly "Law and Order" This is the demonstration of the like the Socialist Industrial Uni­ Elmhurst, N.Y. love, the affection and the broth­ ons De Leon envisaged.'' erhood of the "Great Society." Readers On Monday, April 8, the New It seems to me that you missed York Times in its leading article This is the lesson that the Times the thrust of R.A.'s argument. He defined the spirit of Dr. King's learns from Dr. King's precepts. certainly did not imply that life work as "the maintenance of This perfidious rag is silent on Lenin and Trotsky should have law and order." the application of law and order instituted De Leon's conception What does the Times mean'? when it applies to the burning of of Socialist Industrial Unionism [This column is an open forum section; it refers to the problems Let the oppressed practice love villages by U.S. imperialism in as that would have been absurd for alt viewpoints on subjects of most of the Cuban youngsters had Vietnam. Property is only pro­ under the circumstances, since in adjusting to the American way and nonviolence. As long as they general interest to our readers. don't become revolutionaries, the tected by law when it is owned Russia was a devastated, agrarian Please keep your letters brief. of life: by United States capitalism. The land, populated primarily by an "While there is said to be less system is safe. Encourage the Where necessary they will be black and white victims of a pred­ bamboo hut of a Vietnamese ignorant, superstitious peasantry. abridged. Writers' initials will be racial discrimination in Cuba than peasant is not protected by law. in this country, the Cubans had atory society to "turn the other Bon,a fide socialism, i.e., Marx­ used, names being withheld unless cheek." It helps to maintain the The few, meager possessions of ism-De Leonism, is possible only authorization is given for use.] sharper distinctions between so­ system. It stops the building of an evicted family in Newark are in an industrial nation. Leninism cial classes. Children from "priv­ not protected by law. The misera­ ileged" families tended to ostra­ a bridge between thought and ac­ and/ or Trotskyism as revolution­ Black Uprisings ble possessions of a black man in ary tactics can only work in agrar­ cize the laborers', the farmers', tion. It even discourages thought Philadelphia, Pa. itself. So the Times puts the Detroit that are deliberately ian nations, but only to the point and the fishermen's sons and smashed by a riot-happy cop are Your coverage of the assassina­ daughters. In the first days of the thoughts and understanding of of obtaining power for the op­ tion of Martin Luther King and the ruling class into clear perspec­ not protected by law. But don't pressed. If the basis for industry Unaccompanied Cuban Refugee you dare to protest or stage a sit­ the outbursts arising from it was Children's Program, many Cuban tive - "the maintenance of law is present, then, as Lenin pointed the best and most truthful that and order." in inside the sacred precincts of out, the ultimate form of govern­ youth refused to perform manual Dow Chemical - that is proper­ I have read. I think the April 15 labor, especially in sight of other Order is the purpose of law, ment must be Socialist Industrial­ and law subsists by power. Power ty protected by law. ism or Unionism as conceived by issue was terrific. Cubans ..." The ruling class seems to have means violence to maintain power. Marat Daniel De Leon. If the basis for a habit of always blaming these Another section of this pam­ When the Times talks about law industry is not present, then So­ outbursts on single individuals, phlet continues: and order it really means power. Partisan of De Leon cialism is impossible while a com­ which of course is not what really "Many of the youngsters came The power of the ruling class to Menasha, Wis. munitarian sharing of the pro­ causes the explosions. It seems a from families with servants and uphold its racist, exploitative and Please permit me to comment on ceeds of the sale of agricultural bit strange that this time they had been waited on all their lives. sadistic society by all the repres­ the editor's note appended by Mr. commodities to industrial nations haven't blamed a single individ­ Some children were genuinely sive means known to it. This is Sheppard to R.A.'s letter which may bring a higher standard of ual. Of course they couldn't blame shocked when asked to take out the "law and order" of this so­ appeared in the April 8 edition life. Rap Brown, because he is in jail. the garbage or even to pick up ciety. This is the reward of non- of The Militant plugging the pro- Robert E. Nordlander I wonder, though, why they their clothes. The Cuban male haven't blamed Stokely Carmich­ had an exalted role in the house­ ael. If it weren't for the fact that hold; helping with housework or Dr. King is already dead, they child care was considered un­ would probably blame it on him, manly.'' but they can't kill him twice No wonder they, and their par­ even in the age of overkill. ents that sent them because they They seem to have found a "began to fear the influence of Society~ suspect for the murder, one white communism on their children," man named Eric Galt, and who don't dig FideL He might make knows if they'll deign to imprison them cut sugar cane and certain­ him for murder. But you can bet ly pick up their own clothes. they wouldn't dream of indicting J.B. Boring from Within? - A Mos­ ly Carmichael and H. Rap Brown Problems, Problems-"But what him for "inciting to riot." That cow paper, Sovetskaya Rossiya, are among those listed in the new blouse can I wear with that suit?" they only blame on black people. Generation Gap charged that foreign film makers edition of "Who's Who." fretted Mrs. Pierre David Weill, Amy Lowenstein San Francisco, Calif. are out to . undermine Soviet so­ a stockbroker's wife, as she con­ There always has been a cer­ ciety with movies featuring nude White Man's Territory - The sidered a $4,200 white lamb suit Cuban Refugees tain antagonism between older women, gangsters and jazz. The federal government has moved to at a Bergdorf Goodman showing. Pittsburgh, Pa. people and the more vigorous, paper said they charge higher bar the red man from infringing The· United States imperialist exuberant and usually noisier prices for better pictures, like on a sacred white right. An April A Drag - To resume where we government has recently pub­ young. It is a phenomenon cur­ westerns, and profit-conscious im­ 19 UPI dispatch from Washing­ left off several months ago-re­ lished a pamphlet which you rently described as the "genera­ port officials buy the cheaper, ton reports: "The Federal Trade searchers report that smoking may find interesting in that it tion gap," and in America it has more subversive comedy and Commission issued today guide­ causes a definite lag in reflex re­ sheds light on why Cuba's refu­ assumed monstrous and deadly gangster films. On reflection, we lines to crack down on the sale sponses. In a knee-jerk reflex test, gees were unable to get along in proportions. can see where nude women and of machine-made goods being the response dropped as much as Fidel's Cuba. It is published by America, becoming a world jazz can be subversive of the passed off as hand-made by Indian 67 percent immediately after the the Children's Bureau and is en­ power by military means, has established order of things. But artisans or craftsmen." subject had a cigarette. titled: Cuba's Children in Exile: been compared to the British Em­ we always assumed that gang­ Social Security - Without a Creeping Disbelief - The rector the Story of the Unaccompanied pire, but there is this basic dif­ sters, like cowboys, were pillars word of debate, members of the of Sweden's Upsala University, Cuban Refugee Children's Pro­ ference. Britain built her empire of society. · New York state legislature adopt­ asked to appraise the Swedish gram. with a volunteer army and mer· ed a bill permitting themselves view of the U.S., said: "There is I will quote you the relevant cenaries while this country is Social Progress Report--Stoke- and their staffs to retire at half disbelief in the United States just pay after 20 years. The pension now, especially among our young is computed on the basis of their people, and I feel it creeping on most lucrative years in govern­ myself.'' ment and their expense accounts Solution - New York's City Special Subscription Offer are included in the tally. The Finance Administrator Roy Good­ only shortcoming to the measure man has come up with the solution that we can see is that the bill to the racial issue. He wants spe­ 6 months of the doesn't also provide them with cial slum schools to give business 3 months of half of what they stole during training so that the black man their tenure. can "become a more active parti­ We Never Thought of That - cipant in the capitalistic system." The Militant Young Socialist Annemarie Huste, Jacqueline "We would aim to produce black In-depth weekly coverage of the election campaign, the Most widely read socialist youth magazine in the country. Kennedy's former cook, says the capitalists and, hopefully, a few black liberation movement, the anti-Vietnam-war move­ Monthly features on the student movement here and key to good cooking is good in­ black millionaires," he said. He ment, and the Cuban revolution. abroad, and reports on the '68 socialist campaign. gredients. visualized the use of intelligence tests in selecting those who would TV Revolution-NBC, in a radi­ be offered this golden opportuni­ cal break with tradition, will open ty. We assume that anyone who You Get Both tor $1 a TV series about a middle-class, got a high mark on the I.Q. test black, widowed nurse trying to would be disqualified. make a life for herself and her Name ... children. The producer, Hal Kan­ Business Opportunity -Reflect­ Make all checks payable to The Militant. ter, says it will start off low key ing on Mr. Goodman's proposal Address ...... Apartment ..... and then really get controversial. to train potential black capital­ Post Office regulations require your zip An example of his revolutionary ists, we wondered what field of approach, as cited by the Wall financial endeavor he might direct City...... State...... Zip .. code-please comply• Street Journal: "An episode about them toward. Then we saw a a Negro failure who blames his headline in the New York Times downfall on his color. Julia's role financial section stating: "Riot -to prove to him that he's using Control Equipment S to c k s The Militant • 873 Broadway • New York, N. Y. 10003 race to excuse his own personal Strengthen.'' faults." -Harry Ring Monday, April 29, 1968 THE MILITANT Page Eleven Black Liberation Notes

Crispus Attucks, the first black After the assassination of Dr. man to die in the American Rev­ Martin Luther King, the united olution, is discounted by the front coalition in Boston held a Daughters of the American Rev­ huge rally of over 2,000 where 21 olution as a "rioter." demands were publicly announc­ "It's a misnomer to think of ed. As each demand was read him as a part of the American aloud, the crowd shouted agree· Revolution," a DAR aide said at ment, with the loudest response national headquarters. going to the demand for expro­ "He actually took part in a riot priation of white-controlled busi­ which was held before the estab­ nesses in the ghetto. lished date" of the American Rev­ Other demands included black olution, April 19, 1775. control of schools in the black community, the renaming of all Photo by Della Rosa The riot they are talking about was the famous Boston Massacre, black schools after black heroes, REIES TIJERINA. Leader of Alianza (left) speaking with Peter and control by community organ­ Camejo, Socialist Workers Party candidate for U.S. Senator from which rallied popular opinion against continued British rule. izations of antipoverty funds. California. In Minneapolis, a group called The DAR is a conservative all­ the "Urban Coalition" recently white organization of American put forth 14 demands, including women who can prove their lineal calling for an end to the war in descent from anyone who aided Vietnam. Ex-Cop Tries to Bomb or fought in the movement for American independence. The ironic thing is that if the • likes of the DAR · matrons had Dr. Martin Luther King A recent Los Angeles Times re­ Mexiton-Ameriton H. Q. been running things back in 1776, port from Nigeria on the impact there would have been no revolu­ newspaper, announced recently in Africa of Dr. King's assassina­ LOS ANGELES - An ex-dep­ sheriff in Albuquerque, and the tion at all. that it is dropping · use of the tion ended with the following comment: uty sheriff lost his hand in an police statement, as reported by When asked if they would ac­ word "Negro" in news stories. attempt to bomb the Albuquer­ the Associated Press, 'that there From now on, "black" or "Afro­ "Many Africans already tend to cept a black person into mem­ think of the United States as the que, N.M., headquarters of the is no connection between the bership who traced his lineage American" will be used to refer New Mexico land grant move­ bombing and the Alianza.' makes to black people. champion of whites in Africa be· from Crispus Attucks, the answer cause of its refusal to support ment April -16. it that much easier to ·prove a of a DAR staff member was, "He The change comes as a result conspiracy on the part of New the African guerrilla movements A man identified as William was just a boy and, besides, he of a survey of Chronicle readers now under way in Angola, Mo­ Fellion apparently broke a win­ Mexico police to assassinate was never married." in which 83 percent said they pre­ Alianza leaders, a conspiracy re­ zambique and Rhodesia. The dow of the Alianza Federal de Attucks was fifty years old ferred to be called "Afro-Ameri· ported to us months ago by Anglo murder of Dr. King wUl strengthen Pueblos Libre (Federal Alliance when shot down by the British can" or "black." friends." that image." of Free City-States) with his gun, in Boston. Out of the 398 responses re­ returned to his car for dynamite, Tijerina added, "This is not the ceived, "black" got 183 votes; and then stumbled over the curb first time a man who has at­ "Afro-American," 147; "Negro," • as he again approached the build­ tacked the Alianza has lost his • According to University of Cali· The day after Dr. Martin Luther 19; "colored," 21; and "African­ ing. His right hand was f9und in hand. A police official named American," 15. fornia sociologist Rodney Stark, the debris in front of the build­ Gonzalez who made a false arrest King was shot, a wave of boy­ nationwide research has revealed cotts, demonstrations, marches and The Chronicle reported that ing. Fellion drove to his home in of me later Jost his hand in a many readers expressed "extreme that racism not only flourishes shock and is now hospitalized in logging maclline - and his uncle rallies swept high schools in the among white Christians in this black community. In addition, repugnance" to the term "Negro." serious condition. died as he attempted to save him. country, but active church mem· "And Jack Vaughn, who has black high school students played hers are the most bigoted among Reies Lopez Tijerina, founder a prominent role in the spontane­ them. of tbe Alianza, received a report attacked the. Alianza in Chama, • N.M., ·accidently blew himself to ous rebellions in the streets. The " In black communities around While participating in a sym­ in Los Angeles of the bomb at­ reaction was an indication of the the country, the slogan of "black posium in Berkeley recently, tempt from his brother Cristobal bits with dynamite. Fate is on our side. depth of the radicalization going unity" is being put into practice Stark commented, "On Sunday Tijerina, who was in the Alianza on in the high schools. with the formation of united front morning those Americans who headquarters at the time of the "The police are using dirty tricks against us. They attack us Many cities closed down the coalitions of various organizations most need to have their prejudice attack. Reies Tijerina said, "Ap­ schools to avoid student protests. to work on common projects. Such shaken are more likely to be found parently the police want to use and protect others who attack us. This only proves we are dealing In Detroit, the students them­ fronts have been formed in Los in church than home reading the force against the Alianza because selves closed 20 schools by march­ Angeles, Washington, D.C., Bos· newspapers or watching the foot­ they have no law on their side. with cowards, not braves. This means we will win. Victory will ing out in what were called ton, Minneapolis, and most recent· ball game of the week." "There have been all kinds of "memorial walkouts." ly, Chicago. -Elizabeth Hames threats against the Alianza," Reies be ours. The thieves will not in­ Tijerina said, "and · this attack herit the earth." In Chicago, every high school now is part of the pattern of at­ Although several people were in the black community saw some tacks against bla!!k and brown in the Alianza building at the kind of demonstration or spon­ leaders and organizations. Dr. time of the attack, no one was taneous reaction, including walk­ King was killed, Bobby Hutton injured. The headquarters was not outs, marches and rallies. of the Black- Panthers was killed. damaged beyond the side window, The black and brown must now which was apparently broken by • unite stronger than ever. Fellion's pistol. Scratches were The Michigan Chronicle, De­ !'This bombing by the ex-deputy found on the pistol. troit's large circulation black Cllmejo Cllmplligns in Berkeley BERKELEY, Calif. - Several CHOICE 68 ballot on the "urban Earlier, during . the previous hundred students at the Univer­ crisis." week, Camejo spoke to a rally of more than 1,000 Berkeley stu­ sity cf California at Berkeley re­ "The choices given to you by dents, called in support of the sponded enthusiastically to a Time magazine," he said, "are struggle of the National Libera­ speech by Peter Camejo, Social­ stated in such a way as to ask tion Front of South Vietnam. The ist Workers Party candidate for you what the great white father April 1 meeting, sponsored by the U.S. Senate, on Sproul Hall steps should do for black people: should Tri Continental Student Commit­ April 12. Other speakers at the he give black people some more tee, was carried through in spite rally included former Pfc. Howard houses or maybe a little more of harassment from university of­ Petrick, recently discharged from education, or more money, or ficials. Songs and music "from the Army for his antiwar and so­ what? This evades the crucial is­ revolutionary Vietnam" had orig­ cialist views, and Mike Ferber, sue that black people have no con­ inally been scheduled as part of one of the Boston Five, indicted trol of their own lives. The only the program, but the administra­ along with Dr. Spock for his op­ way to remedy this is for them to tion canceled permission for the position to the draft. Mike Parker organize to control their own com­ rally until these were dropped. of the Peace and Freedom Party munities and not wait for liberals The university officials charged also spoke, urging students to at­ to help them.'' that the inclusion of such music tend a rally in Oakland for slain Howard Petrick said, "Gls are might be "treasonous and possibly Black Panther leader Bobby Hut­ a cross section of American so­ seditious as well." Photo by Hermes ton. The rally was sponsored by ciety. They have the same ideas Speakers at the rally, in addi­ AT BUS TERMINAL. Hedda Garza, Socialist Workers Party can­ the campus Young Socialist Al­ and talk about the same things tion to Camejo, included former didate for Senator from New York, passes out "Letter to Gls" liance. that everyone else is talking Green Beret Donald Duncan; Camejo told the crowd about about, with this difference: They Bobby Seale, chairman of the written by Fred Halstead. Hedda Garza was joined by young the CHOICE 68 campus presiden­ are the ones who have been con­ Black Panther Party fo.r Self-De­ socialists in distributing pamphlet to Gls. The Socialist Workers tial primary poll scheduled for scripted against their will; they fense; Mario Savio; spokesmen for April 24. He urged a vote for are the ones who might die in the Peace and Freedom and Pro­ presidential candidate wrote "Letter'' in response to a letter from SWP candidate Fred Halstead, Vietnam, so they are immediately gressive Labor parties; and a GI. Pamphlet explains SWP stand on war to Gls, who suffer declaring, "A vote for Halstead concerned about the war. The Gls Nguyen Van Luy, a Vietnamese the consequences of the war directly and have right to kaow the will be a vote for immediate with­ are a segment of society the anti­ American. drawal from Vietnam and for war movement should try to For more information on the facts about it. Since Gls can vote, they have right to know views black control of the black com­ reach, because there is opposition California state campaign, contact of all candidates. New York young socialists plan to make leaflet­ munities." throughout the Army to the war. SWP campaign offices: 2519A ing of Gls a prime activity of campaign in coming months. Hedda Hardly a base exists now in which Telegraph Ave., Berkeley; 2338 Camejo called for students to Garza found response from Gls very encouraging, and several write in ''Black control of black antiwar activity of some kind is Market St., San Francisco; and communities" in the section of the not going on." 1702 E. 4th St., Los Angeles. soldiers asked for extra copies to bring back to their buddies. Page Twelve THE MILITANT Monday, April 29, 1968 Blacks in Pris·on Cell Frome-Up of Blotk Militonts Sprayed with MACE CHICAGO - Interviews in the ting the barbaric prison condi­ Chicago Sun Times with black tions. "We had as many as 186 In Woke of Chitogo Uprising prisoners arrested during the re­ men on a tier built for 39,'' he cent outbreak reveal that prison said. "That is correct and I make By Gus Horowitz guards "on occasion sprayed Mace no apologies for it." CHICAGO - Among the many into the cells. 'If we get a little The courts also helped to per· black people arrested during the noisy, the guards use their Mace,' petuate these conditions. Excessive outbreak here were five militants said one of the inmates.'' Mace bail was set-$2,000-$5,000 was who are charged with arson and is a chemical which disables peo­ quite common for those arrested, conspiracy to commit arson. Their ple, causing severe pain and burn­ many of them charged only with arrest made front-page, banner ing sensation on the skin, eyes, disorderly conduct. As of this headlines in the Chicago newspa­ etc., and often has aftereffects. date, there are still over 200 peo­ pers and is a patent frame-up. Many participants in demonstra­ ple in jail who could not make The sole "evidence" against the tions have run afoul of this latest bail. Some families report that accused men is from an under· "riot-control" weapon. But this is they have been unable to locate cover police agent provocateur. the first reported use of the relatives. The agent, according to the Sun­ weapon on helpless victims locked Afro-American lawyers of the Times, "masquerading as an ex­ in prison cells. Cook County Bar Association are pert in revolutionary tactics, Such sadistic actions highlighted giving legal aid to the defendants. joined Negro militant groups last the city's repression of the black Larry Kennon, a black lawyer, September.'' The identity of the community as a whole. Hundreds told the Daily Defender that the police agent has been kept well­ of people were injured during the "Association would be available hidden. No other "evidence" has uprising, as 5,000 federal troops to all persons who are unable to been mentioned. and 6,700 National Guardsmen afford a lawyer and that they The five men arrested are Fred­ augmented the all-out police ef­ would follow the cases 'to the erick Andrews, Edward Craw­ fort. Close to 3,000 people were finish.'" ford, Andrew Brown, Curlee arrested, many of them herded The city has even tried to place Reed, and Anthony Williams. Po­ into police vans in round-up style. obstacles in the way of assuring lice also said that they were Some 700 young people were ar­ legal defense to the victims. A "searching" for others. rested for mere curfew violations. special meeting called by the Andrews is an organizer for Many were held in overcrowded presiding judge of the criminal the Garfield Organization, a mili­ bullpens. According to the Chica­ division to determine procedures tant Westside community group. go reporter for the New York for the hearings attempted to bar He was arrested as he was prepar­ Times, "some in the bullpens had the Afro-Americau lawyers-but ing to leave for the Memphis had nothing to eat for 24 hours they "crashed" the meeting, any­ march held after Martin Luther or more." way. King's assassination. Andrews is "Three prisoners interviewed by Defendants unable to afford also a leader of ACT, another the Sun-Times," that paper re­ legal aid are assigned to the Cook militant black organization. ported, "said their diet until Fri­ Ccunty public defender, Gerald The Rev. Ulysses S. Doss, presi­ day [a week] consisted of a roll Getty. But, according to the Daily dent of the Garfield Organiza­ for breakfast and a bologna sand­ Defender, Afro-American lawyers tion, said: "The board of direc­ wich for lunch and supper. 'If you "have charged that Getty 'is very tors of the Garfield Organization know somebody you might be hostile' towards the volunteer knows of absolutely no evidence able to get a little more,' one of lawyers and the black lawyers in concerning the charges of arson BULL CHARGES. This cop wasn't practicing theory of nonviolence the prisoners said." particular." As a result, most de­ against one of our organizers, during ghetto outbreak in Chicago after murder of Dr. Martin "For several days after the dis· fendants have objected to being Frederick Andrews. The com­ Luther King. orders,'' the newspaper went on, represented by the public defend­ munity is watching with skepti­ "the tiny cells, designed for one er and have asked for- aid from cism the case against the accused or two men, often held four or the Cook County Bar Association_ . . . We refuse to allow the city the victims, is president of the headquarters was left a sham­ even five. Those unable to find Black ministers and profession­ to crucify innocent persons in National Negro Rifle Association. bles by the police, according to bunks used the floor for a bed als are organizing financial aid time of cns1s, making scape­ In 1967 Crawford was a candidate witnesses to the arrests. and their coat for pillows, inmates for the defendants and are ar­ goats of them for the city's failure for alderman, but his name was The five men were held on of the jail said. None of the cells ranging to bring food and sup­ to remedy the ghetto's ills.'' An­ stricken from the ballot by the bond of $120,000 each, an un­ in the tier visited by the Sun­ plies to the prison inmates. drews had been harassed by ar­ board of election. usually large figure. Felony Court Times reporter contained blankets Funds may be sent to the Com­ Judge Daniel J. Ryan refused to rest in 1966, during a previous Andrew Brown, another mem­ or mattresses." munity Legal Defense Organiza­ reduce the bond. Also arrested in uprising, but was acquitted of all ber of the Garfield Organization, Prison superintendent Winston tion, 6042 S. ·Kimbark. Phone: the raid on the Garfield Organi­ charges. was shot in the leg by police and Moore was unabashed in admit- PL 2-4024. Edward Crawford, another of zation was Phillip Gise. Gise was arrested outside County Hospital. arrested for burglary and held on Curlee Reed is a member of the $50,000 bond. He was also shot in Christian Action Ministry, an­ the leg by police during the up­ other black organization. The po­ rising and appeared in court on lice said they have also issued a crutches. What the Ghetto Thinks of Daley warrant for another member of The identity of the victims, the the Garfield Organization, a for­ use of a police agent, and Daley's CHICAGO, April 17 - Mayor Daley's statements about police en masse." Robert Lucas, Chi­ mer photographer for SNCC. threat to uncover a "conspiracy" Daley astounded this city with restraint. "During the worst of the cago chairman and regional direc­ All but Brown were arrested in all point in the direction of a his frankness this week. He stated melee, however,'' said the paper, tor of CORE, called Daley's state­ a police raid on the headquarters frame-up against militant leaders that he was "disappointed" that "there appears to have been un­ ment "the kind of nonsense that of the Garfield Organization. The in the black community. Chicago police hadn't acted restrained gunfire by a few police­ is now creating a warlike situa­ strongly enough in carrying out men in a small area on W. Madi­ tion. Daley," Lucas said, "has his orders to "shoot to kill any son. Four men were killed, one now told policemen who are al­ arsonists" during the recent re­ or two of them innocent bystand­ ready racists and eager to kill bellion in Chicago's black com­ ers . . . Eyewitnesses told Sun­ black people, that they ought to munity. Despite the fact that nine Times reporters of indiscriminate step up their job." Lucas charged Styron Rops Do/ey people were killed by police, most shooting by policemen. It is not that Daley has "set this city on of them clearly innocent bystand­ known whether there were snip­ a collision course . . . As far as CHICAGO - Dan Styron, So­ "The need is plain for black ers, Daley wasn't satisfied. He also ers in the area; no policemen or black people are concerned, we cialist Workers Party candidate people to control their own com­ called on the police to "shoot to firemen were wounded during know we are on the move. We for Senator from Illinois, has con­ munities and to ocganize to pro­ maim or cripple" suspected loot­ that period." won't be stopped." demned the action of the city of tect themselves from victimiza­ ers. "A looter is a potential bur­ One young militant called in Chicago in arresting five black tion.'' glar,'' said the Mayor to justify Gave Background to the Daily Defender (an Afro­ militants on arson charges and his position. In fact, the Sun-Times had run American newspaper) to sum up detaining them under abnormally In reporting Daley's news con­ a long article the day before, the situation aptly, "What the high bail of $120,000 each. McCarthy Truth Kit ference, the Chicago Sun-Times giving the background and cir­ mayor is doing could be likened Styron stated: "The police and said that "during questioning by cumstances of the nine who died. to a kangaroo court. It's just a lit­ Daley's Democratic administra­ Finds New Readers reporters, Daley repeatedly re­ None of the nine men was carry­ tle more than legalized lynching.•· tion are attempting to victimize The pamphlet, "The Truth ferred to what he saw as the ing weapons. Witnesses to the By contrast, presidential as­ and intimidate black leaders. They About the McCarthy Campaign,'' failure of police to use stern ac­ events leading to the murder of pirant Eugene McCarthy re­ hope to make the arrested victims published by the Socialist Work­ tion during the disturbance . . . five of them showed that they marked, "I think it's the kind of the scapegoats for their own fail­ ers National Camp<.ign Commit­ Asked why a shoot-to-kill policy were innocent bystanders, shot by order that might be given with ure to alleviate the oppressive con­ tee, has stirred up considerable wasn't [!?] observed during the the police. Two others were the many qualifications ... If it was ditions in the ghetto which pro­ interest in the New York head­ disturbances, the mayor said, 'I victims of indiscriminate police an absolute order, I'd like to see duced the recent outbreaks, and quarters of both Kennedy and Mc­ assumed the orders were given. I fire. As one observer stated, in the order." McCarthy and Ken­ to cover up their own criminal Carthy. would assume any [police] super­ describing some of the Madison nedy are eagerly seeking Daley's and brutal acts of suppression. It seems that someone in the intendent would issue orders to Street shootings, "It sounded like support for the Democratic Party The only evidence against those Kennedy headquarters made a shoot any arsonists on sight.' " a whole lot of shots - like a nomination. It is not expected that arrested is the unsupported state­ number of photostatic copies of The Sun-Times also reported machine gun." Another man was Daley's racism will diminish their ment of a police informer whom McCarthy's voting record from the that "Daley said that he was dis­ burned to death, and another bled courtship of the mayor. the police have not brought forth Socialist Workers pamphlet and appointed to learn that of almost to death. The Rev. Jesse Jackson, na­ or identified. circulated them among McCarthy 2,700 persons arrested during the Mayor Daley's unrestrained call tional director of SCLC's Opera­ "This victimization is another supporters. As one McCarthy sup­ disorders, 'only 16 were arrested for even more murderous action tion Breadbasket, said that Daley's in the series of violent attacks porter exclaimed, "It is stunning. for arson.'" drew prompt and vigorous criti­ call for more shooting "is con­ on the black people of Chicago A lot of our people are trying to "I'll surely take action to im­ cisrr. from all quarters. Russell sistent with his mentality" to­ by the police and Chicago city figure out how to answer it." prove [!] the police department,'' Meeks, a Westside militant, said, ward black people in Chicago. officials, acting in concert with She was very anxious to know Daley threatened. "I think black policemen and The Daley machine, said Jackson. the National Guard and the Demo­ when the Socialist Workers Cam­ The editorial in the same issue justice-loving white policemen - "supplied the fuel that fed the cratic and Republican politicians paign Committee is publishing a of the Sun-Times put the lie to if there are any - should resign social insurrection." in Washington. similar pamphlet on Kennedy.