THE Cancer-Breeding A-Tests MILITANT A Crime Against Humanity Published in the Interests of the Working People By Herman Chauka APRIL 25 — The U.S. resump­ Vol. 26 - No. 18 Monday, A p r il 30, 1962 P rice 10c tion of cancer-breeding nuclear tests today is a crime against all humanity. It w ill bring disease and death for generations to come and it increases the peril of a world atomic holocaust. Kennedy’s cold­ Los Angeles Pickets: blooded decision to resume the deadly blasts is cloaked w ith crude lies intended to deceive the m il­ lions around the globe who have demanded, “ No more tests!” Easter “HUAC Go Home!” week end was marked by big anti­ test demonstrations here and By D ella Rossa abroad. LOS ANGELES, April 24 — were well represented among the The claimed “reluctance” to go Thousands of pickets conveyed the demonstrators. ahead with the atmospheric ex­ message to the witch-hunting Underlining the collaboration plosions is so much hogwash. The House Un-American Activities between HUAC and local ultra Soviet resumption of tests last fall Committee today that its presence rightists was the appearance of a — which Kennedy piously de­ in this city was extremely unwel­ full-page advertisement in yester­ nounced as a “crime” — was ac­ come. Picketing of the HUAC sub­ d a y’s Herald-Examiner w e lcom ­ tually greeted with ill-concealed committee’s closed hearings began ing the committee in the name of joy by Washington which had at 8:30 this morning, swelled in the John Birch Society. The ad already decided on another round size to some 1,200 by 11 a.m., com­ was signed by almost 200 chapters of tests and seized upon the Soviet pletely surrounding the Federal of the notorious neo-fascist or­ action as the pretext for doing so. Building on all four sides, and ganization. The U.S. participation in the continued till 4:30 p.m. Opponents Rescue Operation Geneva negotiations for a test-ban of the inquisitorial, civil-liberties accord was an utter sham. Wash­ ACTING FOR PEACE. Some of the thousands of New Yorkers A principal object of the HUAC destroying agency plan to continue ington’s real attitude was blurted who marched on the UN April 21 to demand a halt to bomb tests subcommittee’s visit to this city picketing for the duration of the o u t A p r il 20 b y the Wall Street appears to be the staging of a and the scrapping of weapons of war. smearbund’s four-day stand. J o u rn a l which reported: rescue operation for John Birch Banners displayed on the picket “The m ilitary is eager to get the Society elements in Consolidated line identified such organizations tests under way as soon as possible ington officials, the J o u rn a l re ­ the less said, the less the upset for Western Steel, the U.S. Steel sub­ as the Youth Action Committee, to bar the possibility that a last- ported: jittery neutrals and other nations, sidiary, in nearby Maywood. Fair Play for Cuba Committee, and minute test ban concession by the “The Atomic Energy Commission such as Japan, and fallout worriers Birchites in Steelworkers Local the Unitarian Fellowship for So­ Soviet Union w ill cancel them.” plans to issue only the tersest an­ at hom e.” 2058 and management elements cial Justice, Leaflets were distrib­ The article also noted that nouncement that a blast has taken The ranks of such worriers are there took the offensive some uted by the Citizens Committee to Washington doesn’t put too much place with a vague approximation increasing rapidly. On the Satur­ months ago in connection with a Preserve American Freedoms and stock in its propaganda efforts to of its size . . . ‘The administra­ day before Easter more than 5,000 grievance over the firing of a the ironically named HUAC Re­ justify the new test series. Point­ tion thinks that if officials aren’t New Yorkers paraded to the Unit­ unionist for refusing to fill out a ception Committee. Students and ing to the already planned press allowed to talk about the tests ed Nations. The Sane Nuclear Pol­ security form inquiring into pol­ steelworkers — one of whose censorship on the Christmas Is­ there’ll be fewer stones and they icy Committee has just announced itical beliefs and associations. The unions, Local 2058, is a target of land blasts and the close-mouthed don’t want publicity,’ explains one plans for a series of protest dem­ Steelworkers international put the the reactionary Congressmen — approach of usually verbose Wash- expert. Obviously the hope is that onstrations in Times Square. local into receivership and ap­ Easter week end in England saw pointed one John Despol as ad­ a massive four-day march from ministrator. Recently Despol has the Aldermaston missile site to Ga. Negroes Fight been the target of severe criticism London participated in by more within the local and the labor Pretense Dropped that GIs than 25,000 people. In West Ger­ movement of Greater Los Angeles many, press reports credited peace "Murder" Arrests for having solicited a contribution demonstrations with a turnout of to the local’s “anti-Communist The Negro community of Augus­ Are Not Fighting in Vietnam 10,000 in eight cities. Thirty thou­ fund” from John Welch, fuehrer ta, Georgia, is collecting money in sand people staged a demonstra­ of the John Birch Society. By Alex Harte tion in Copenhagen. preparation for a court fight to Twelve members of Local 2058 defend eight Negro youths charged One by one Kennedy’s pretenses on the fact that by law the med­ Similar demonstrations were known to oppose Despol and the held in the m ajor cities of Canada. with murder in the death of a that U.S. involvement in South als can be awarded only to those Birchites have been ordered by In Vancouver, more than a thou­ white teen-ager the night of April Vietnam’s civil war differs in any wounded in war. the HUAC subcommittee to appear sand marchers, including unionists 19. way from the U.S. “police action” A revealing sidelight of the at its star-chamber hearings. Sig­ and members of the new Canadian The eight are accused of firing nificantly the Birchite elements in in Korea are being dropped. test case, about which this Purple labor party, demanded a national a fusillade of shots at a car car­ the plant were naming those who Heart protest raged, was its con­ Latest indication of this was referendum on the issue of nuclear rying white youths through a cealment from the American pub­ would be supoenaed 24 hours be­ Kennedy’s April 24 order to the arms for Canada. Negro neighborhood during a fore the subpoenas were served or lic . New Y o rk Tim es correspondent Pentagon to devise a way of issu­ In San Francisco, student and campaign of rock-throwing by the names officially divulged by Homer Bigart wrote (April 24), ing Purple Heart medals to U.S. adult peace organizations turned whites against Negro homes. One “Although the incident was more the witch-hunt committee. soldiers wounded in action in out 1,200 for a rally in Golden of the occupants of the car, Leslie Yesterday Despol and his ap­ South Vietnam. Refusal to issue than two months ago and although Lee Luttes, age 16, was struck and pointee, Joseph Brennan, an­ such medals to GIs wounded there the sergeant was the first casualty (Continued on Page 3) killed by a 38 caliber bullet. Police nounced they would appear before had aroused a protest from U.S. among U.S. Army helicopter per­ found bricks and pieces of iron (Continued on Page 3) troops. Refusal had been based sonnel, the episode was hushed pipe in the car. up by the m ilitary command.” Fair Play Protests Rev. Turner W. Morris, vice Kennedy’s direct plunging of president of the Augusta branch 8-Page Militant Fund U.S. forces into the “dirty war” of the National Association for the against the rebellious peasants of Cuba Invasion Units Advancement of Colored People, the southeast Asian country was NEW YORK — The Fair Play said Negroes had armed them­ made evident by the A pril 15 land­ Help Arm the New Generation for Cuba Committee said A pril 21 selves after repeated raids on their ing of a 400-man U.S. Marine heli­ that it has called upon U.S. At­ neighborhoods and after repeated copter unit in South Vietnam. The By Marvel Scholl for those in areas where there are torney General Robert Kennedy to pleas for police protection had Fund Drive Director Marine unit flew directly to the as yet no organized groups to pre­ take immediate action against Cu­ gone, unheeded. He said a large sent study courses, lectures, sym­ military position assigned to it Last week we gave you a samp­ ban counter-revolutionaries pre­ rock thrown through a window posiums, etc. from the U.S. aircraft carrier ling of headlines of articles we paring armed attacks against Cuba had broken the legs of a Negro Princeton lying off the coast. “Couldn’t Fit to Print” in a 4-page Older readers will recall that from U.S. territory in violation of child. The Militant used to be larger. tabloid. This week we would like Truth Emerging: U.S. neutrality laws and inter­ “We don’t condone violence,” to call your attention to something The conjunction of the witch hunt, That the war of South Vietnam national law. said Rev. Morris, “but these boys else The Militant should but reaction and rise of printing costs dictator Ngo Dinh Diem and the Stanley Faulkner, FPCC Gen­ had a right to defend their homes.” can’t do in its present small size forced the retreat to four tabloid U.S. forces is not only against the eral Counsel, brought to the atten­ Claude Sitton, a N ew Y o rk Tim es — that is, play the role of educator pages. Now the political climate is Viet Cong guerrilla bands but tion of the Attorney General changing; publishing costs, how­ reporter on the scene in Augusta, for young people who are just against the Vietnamese population reliable reports in the April 19 said April 21 of the shooting that awakening politically. We have ever, show no change but upwards. as a whole is becoming increas­ New York Times, of Cuban coun­ “ authorities here indicated private­ many new readers among this To increase The Militant to. e ig h t ingly obvious from the nature of ter-revolutionaries training in ly that the incident had been de­ generation. pages w ill take $21,000. the m ilitary orders being issued. Florida and Puerto Rico for an This can be done only if our fensive rather than aggressive in In the letter column last week Thus the whole population of the eventual attack on Cuba. Accord­ n a tu re .” a correspondent in Tacoma, Wash., readers want it done badly enough northern part of Phuquoc Island, ing to informants of the N ew Y o rk The raids on Negro neighbor­ after complimenting The Militant to contribute that large sum. Nor according to Tim es correspondent Tim es, the attack was to be carried hoods in the east Georgia indus­ on its “wonderful tribute to C. should older readers who have Homer Bigart (April 13), was re­ out by the so-called “People’s trial city of 71,000 population be­ W right M ills” and its coverage of devoted much of their lives to the cently ordered to move into a spe­ Revolutionary Movement,” headed socialist movement think the ed­ gan after members of the NAACP the Cuban Revolution, closed thus: cially prepared stockade area in by Cuban defector Manuel Ray. Youth Council started demonstra­ “I wish I lived in New York so ucational features this expansion the city. “Now anyone caught mov­ Military training in Florida and would make possible, are un­ tions April 16 in front of two su­ that I could attend your Marxist ing on the northern end of the Puerto Rico was said to be under needed or that they themselves permarkets whose owner refused school.” island is presumed to be a Com­ the command of Ramon Barquin, have long since done their share. to hire Negroes except as menial A socialist paper has a dual role. munist and is shot.” Martin Helena, Jose Lopez Legon No one really has done his share help. After five days of “selective It must print news which coun­ A similar policy is reported by and Napoleon Becker — all Cuban until he has provided the eager buying” by Negroes, the owner ters the mass media’s untruths, the Associated Press (April 22) counter-revolutionaries living in minds of the next generation with yielded to the Youth Council de­ half-truths and suppression of for the area contiguous to the the United States and Puerto Rico. the knowledge with which to fight. mands. But by that time, the at­ news. But also it should introduce Cambodian border. “A ll persons Mr. Faulkner urged the Attor­ Send your contribution to The tempt to frighten the Negro com­ readers to the basic ideas of M arx­ in the zone suspected of being ney General “to investigate these M ilita n t, 116 U n iv e rs ity Place, munity had resulted in the tragic ism and to working-class history. Communist infiltrators are likely reports and, if it is true that such N e w Y o rk 3, N. Y . death of a 16-year-old boy and In other words, it should serve as to be shot on sight, the source de­ training is in progress . . . call an the wounding of a child. a socialist university — especially See Scoreboard on page 3. cla red .” (Continued on Page 3) Page Two THE MILITANT Monday, April 30, 1962 Reports on Mood Among Steelworkers 250 Attend Integrated Parley By Fred Halstead specific demands worth fighting workers live with the contract. In Jim-Crow Birmingham A number of letters received by for, and since it was obvious that The provision appears to be a give­ The Militant indicate common the two issues of major concern to away by McDonald. It provides In Birmingham, Alabama, where One feature of the conference reactions among steelworkers the steelworkers — working con­ for a special committee to com­ integrated meetings are prohibited, was the honoring of Rev. Fred L. throughout the country to the re­ ditions and a shorter work week pletely revamp the job classifica­ where white persons cannot stay Shuttlesworth and his family. cent big-steel settlement and to with no reduction in pay — were tio n setup. On Jan. 1, 1963, an en­ at Negro hotels, where Negro taxi Shuttlesworth has been a constant the price-rise dispute between of no concern to the International, tirely new manual will be issued. drivers are not permitted to serve target for beatings and arrests in President Kennedy and the U.S. there was no enthusiasm for a This has all the earmarks of the white passengers, fighters against Birmingham. His church has been Steel Corporation. strike . union’s acceding to the demands Jim Crow held an integrated con­ bombed and his home threatened. Most significant among these “There is a general feeling, since first raised by the industry be­ ference for two days to discuss As a tribute to his family’s cour­ widespread reactions were: 1) Re­ the 1959 m arathon, th a t you don’t fo re the 1959 s trik e — fo r a free ways and means of desegregating age and sacrifice, a $1,000 scholar­ lief that the settlement occurred win anything by strikes — at least hand in controlling jobs. This can the Deep South. On April 13 and ship fund was awarded to help without a strike. 2) Lack of con­ not with McDonald. Then, too, very well mean a job-cutting and 14 some 250 Negro and white lead­ with the education of his three fidence in the union’s top leader­ there has not been continuous em­ rate-lowering proposition.” ers from ten southern states par­ ch ild re n . At first glance, the present ship. 3) Acceptance of the Ken- p lo y m e n t since the 116-day 1959 ticipated in the integrated gather­ People in attendance, inspired mood of steelworkers might seem nedy-corporation argument that strike, and the financial condi­ ing, the first of such size and scope by the meeting, were heard com­ to be a conservative one. A wage increases cause price in­ tion of the steelworkers here is to be held in 25 years in Birm ing­ menting, “It’s been a long time deeper look, however, indicates creases and a willingness to accept pretty bad. ham. since we had a meeting like this . . . something different. The steel­ the poor settlement as a necessary “W ith the general gutlessness of Sponsors of the conference were We’ve never had an integrated workers are stuck with a bad con­ sacrifice to combat inflation. 4) Mac and his boys, it was evident the three most m ilitant civil-rights meeting like this before . . . It’s tract, but they didn’t get it by An almost violent reaction against that the only thing behind a strike organizations in the South. They about time.” the corporations for their A pril 10 being defeated or demoralized. The wore the Alabama Christian Move­ would be an attempt by the com­ When the meeting broke up, the price-increase announcement. 5) workers, in the face of no leader­ ment for Human Rights, the Stu­ pany to force a weakening of the departing audience found the Enthusiasm for Kennedy because ship from McDonald, have accept­ dent Nonviolent Coordinating contract — or a company move to street filled with police, squad of his action against the price in­ ed Kennedy’s thesis that their Committee and the Southern Con­ get a shut-down in the form of a cars, motorcycles, a battery of crease. sacrifice w ill halt inflation, and ference Educational Fund. strike instead of a layoff so it photo-flashing newsmen and the The attitudes toward striking that Kennedy w ill hold the cor­ The conference opened with a could avoid unemployment pay­ fire department. Rather than being and toward the leadership of porations in line. mass meeting on Friday night, ments. The settlement was there­ a major civil-rights meeting, this Steelworkers President David J. Economically, however, the ex­ April 13, and was followed by a fore viewed with great relief, and appeared more like a world pre­ McDonald are directly related. For even as an indication that there act opposite can be expected. The fu ll day of workshops on Saturday. wage freeze in steel w ill have little miere or the academy award pres­ example, a worker in a West Coast may be rising steel production in­ Workshops were held on voter short-range effect and no long- entations, considering all the at­ steel plant writes: stead of cutbacks.” registration, community action, “Since McDonald had raised no range effect whatever on infla­ news coverage and constitutional tention given it by the local au­ The latter hope has already tion. Kennedy’s policies w ill aid guarantees of civil rights. th o ritie s. proved unfounded. In just the last the corporations in increasing two weeks, steel production has profits and accelerating automa­ been cut back from about 80 to 70 tion which — without the shorter Our Editor on Tour Weekly Calendar per cent of capacity; and present work week — will throw more orders are expected to sustain it steelworkers out of work. There at only about 65 per cent or lower, DETROIT are few illusions about McDonald. according to the April 24 Wall Madison a Thriving Intellectual Center May Day Party. Music, songs, short Kennedy’s mask is bound to wear Street Journal. talks. Fri., M ay 4, 8 p.m . Debs H a ll. 3737 thin. What will remain — and By Reba Aubrey W o o d w ard . Friday Night Socialist “Stunned” what is the most profound revela­ Forum. tion of the recent events in steel — National Tour Director * * * A worker in Illinois writes: is the steelworkers’ conviction that lamented Senator McCarthy was Benefit Concert for Monroe Defend­ “The men in the plant were the steel industry should not exist Our touring editor has kept us able to wipe out despite the fact ants. Featuring folk singers SONNY stunned by the new settlement at for the profit of a few. up to date about his experiences TERRY a nd BROWNIE McGHEE. Sun., first. They began to hunt and from city to city, sometimes so that this was his home state. This M a y 6, 8 p.m . Detroit Institute of Art search for the benefits. When they vividly that we felt we were there. is where such magazines as The Lecture Hall. Tickets, $3, available at found there were only very few, We would like to have quoted Progressive and Studies on the Book World, 5017 Woodward. Ausp. they rationalized by saying: ‘Oh from his mail from time to time, L e ft are published. A new one Committee to Aid Monroe Defendants. NAACP Hits Killing • well, as long as there are no price but the space-bind in our four- nam ed S an ity, devoted to peace increases, we can make this sacri­ pager hasn’t permitted it. How­ and disarmament, has now been LOS ANGELES fice to prevent inflation.’ ever, we can’t help making an added to the list. MAY DAY CELEBRATION, The Great Of Negro Gi in Bus Contest — Capitalism vs. Socialism. “When U.S. Steel announced its exception for a few paragraphs “Some of the staff members of Speaker, Theodore Edwards, Southern price increase, a storm of indigna­ By Hedda Grant from a letter he sent from M il­ Studies on the Left invited me to Calif, chairman, Socialist Workers Party. tion arose amongst the rank and On April 9 Corporal Roman w aukee: visit their new office. They have A lso, The Second Declaration of Havana. file. They were outright opposed D u ckw o rth , 27, was rid in g on a “The meeting last night went only begun to fix it up but they Speaker, Leslie Evans, chairman, Los to the contract, called it the worst Trailways bus in Taylorsville, until midnight. No doubt the kind already have an impressive dis­ Angeles Young Socialist Alliance. Sat., the union ever negotiated and Miss., when he was killed — shot of report made possible by visiting play of assorted radical publica­ M a y 5, 8:30 p.m. Forum Hall, 1702 E. started a campaign against ratifi­ through the heart by a local the Latin-American countries is of tions from all over the world. 4th St. “The office, on the street level, • cation. When the steel companies policem an. more than usual interest. For my­ backed down the furor died down.” The Negro GI was a veteran of self I find the response most is a former store. One of the plate NEWARK This reader also caught The ten years’ army service. His fu­ gratifying. The difficult political glass windows was in admirable Joseph Hansen speaks on W h a t M ilita n t in the error of accepting neral was attended by 2,000 peo­ problems south of the Rio Grande use, I thought, as a frame for a Makes Latin America Explosive. Fri., the first exaggerated announce­ ple and the army sent a chaplain are losing their alien character copy o f The M ilitant carrying W il­ M a y 4, 8:30 p.m . 108 C lin ton Ave. Re­ ments about the contract as ac­ and becom ing, as the y should be, liam F. Warde’s tribute to C. freshments. Contrib. $1. Ausp. Newark and an integrated honor guard and Wright Mills. The paper was at­ Labor Forum. curate. He writes: “Your article pallbearing unit. an integral part of o u r problem s. on the new steel contract is not The events leading to the mur­ tached with scotch tape so that • “ S urprise” exactly clear, particularly that der of Roman Duckworth were as passersby could conveniently read N E W Y O R K section which deals with an addi­ it as they paused to look inside Benefit Concert for Victims of South­ follows: Upon receiving news that “In Madison [Wis.] the meeting at the radicals standing around. ern Racism. Featuring: folk singer PETE tional week’s vacation pay for his wife, about to give birth to sponsored on the campus by the SEEGER, blues singer LIGHTING every five years seniority prior to their sixth child, was in critical Socialist Club was a lively affair. “I hope that staff members of H O P K IN S and O L A T U N J I and his Jan. 1, 1960. condition, he had been granted I never know what the audience Studies on the Left w ill visit The African Dance Troupe. Sun., A p ril 29, “This comes only at the time of emergency leave from his post at le ve l w ill prove to be, so I begin M ilita n t when they come to New 8:30 p.m. Riverside Plaza Hotel, 253 W . retirement. In other words, work­ Camp Ritchie. He boarded a bus on the assumption that there are York. While we don’t have win­ 73 St., (off Broadway). Tickets $1.50 ers now getting 13 weeks of pay to reach his wife’s bedside in a sure to be some who know little dows giving on the street in which in advance, $2 at door. Committee to per year in pension w ill receive Laurel, Miss., hospital. of the subject and others who ar­ we could display some of the ex­ Aid Monroe Defendants, Suite 1117, 141 an additional week’s pay for every In Jackson, Miss., he changed rive with pre-set attitudes — even cellent material they print, I am Broadw ay, N ew Y ork 6, N . Y. * * * five years seniority. It is a small buses and was dozing in his seat, an u g ly bias in some cases. sure they w ill not miss the fact, on climbing to the third-floor loft FROM THE FIRST TO THE SECOND increase in pension pay. Why they wearing civilian clothes, when the “It was an agreeable surprise DECLARATION OF HAVANA — Cuba's call that part an improved vaca­ driver, R. H. Vicker, told him to to discover that this audience was which constitutes our office, that Political Evolution. An analysis by H arry tion plan is beyond me.” move to the back. Forcing Negroes quite knowledgeable and had a Studies on the Left is among the Ring, staff writer, THE MILITANT. Mon., Another Midwest steelworker to ride in the rear of the bus sympathetic appreciation of the publications on hand for current A p ril 30, 8:30 p.m. Adelphi Hall, 74 reports: “At first the men in the violates ICC regulations and Su­ problems faced by the Latin reference by our staff.” Fifth Ave. Contrib. $1 (students 50c). department were taken aback by preme Court rulings on interstate Americans. We were able to move * * * Ausp. Fair Play for Cuba Committee. the miserable contract. Then they * * * and intrastate travel. Duckworth rather easily, as a result, into said, ‘as lo n g as prices don’t rise refused to move and Vicker called some quite complex areas. From Milwaukee-Madison, Han­ Malcolm X, Black Muslim Minister, we can take this.’ W ith U.S. Steel sen’s itinerary is Chicago; Detroit; James Farmer, National Director, CORE, local policeman William Kelly. It “This more advanced attitude is Yellow Springs, Ohio; Blooming­ William Worthy, foreign correspondent, announcing a raise in prices, they was at this point, with the bus ascribable in part, I am sure, to AFRO-AMERICAN, Bayard Rustin, got mad and wanted to walk out. cleared of all but Kelly, Vicker the progressive tradition in this ton, Ind.; Cleveland. He w ill speak Executive Sec'y. W ar Resisters League, After the price increase was and their victim, that Corporal region which not even the un- in Newark May 4, in Philadelphia discuss The Challenge of Racism. M o d ­ rescinded, there was praise for Duckworth was killed. May 5- 8, in Baltimore May 10-11. erator, N. Y. POST columnist M urray Kennedy. But the men distrust the Police Chief Bumice Jones of Kem pton. Tues., M a y I, 8:30 p.m . Palm steel companies. They think the Taylorsville, speaking for the lo­ New York Banquet G a rd e ns. 306 W. 52nd St. ( O f f 8th companies w ill find a way to raise cal authorities tells the story given A ve .) Contrib. $1. Proceeds to defense prices anyhow. Towards Mc­ to an April 10 grand jury hear­ Special Offer of Monroe, N. C., defendants. Sponsors: Donald, their attitude is one of dis­ ing, “ . . . they said this nigge'r was For The M ilitant Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, A. J. Muste, gust.” David Dellinger, Price Chatham. drunk when he got on the bus NEW YORK — The editorial and To New Readers * * * A Michigan steelworker writes: at Jackson . . . Kelly finally pulled business staff of The M ilitant w ill MAY DAY TRIBUTE to THE MILI­ “Before U.S. Steel’s price increase him off the bus and the boy started be guests of honor at a May Day A four-month trial sub­ T A N T . An All-You-Can-Eat Smorgasbord. announcement, there was general fighting him. Kelly fired one banquet to be held here Saturday scription to The Militant for Guest speakers, civil libertarian W illiam acceptance of Kennedy’s ‘wage warning shot and when he kept evening, May 5. Proceeds w ill go only 50 cents. Send this cou­ A. Price and Freedom Rider Price Chat­ freeze.’ Now support for Kennedy fighting Kelly fired again and hit to the 8-Page M ilitant Fund. pon with payment to: The ham, and MILITANT managing editor is even stronger. the nigger in the breastbone.” Guest speakers at the dinner w ill M ilitant, 116 University George Lavan. Sat., M a y 5. R efresh­ “There is opposition to the new But the National Association for ments from 5 p.m. Dinner at 7 p.m. 116 be civil-liberties fighter William Place, New York 3, N. Y. provisions for ‘corporation-wide the Advancement of Colored Peo­ University Place. Contrib. $2. For ad­ A. Price and Freedom Rider Price seniority’ particularly from young­ ple has found at least one witness Chatham. George Lavan w ill speak vance reservations, phone AL 5-7852. Name ...... Ausp. Militant Labor Forum. er men. They felt most sharply the to dispute this tale. There is little for the staff of The Militant. • effects o f the ’ 58 and ’60 reces­ doubt that a lily-w hite Mississippi Sponsored by the M ilitant Labor sions and therefore feel this provi­ grand jury w ill support the police Street ...... PHILADELPHIA Forum, the banquet w ill be held sion discriminates against them. claim of justifiable homicide. Joseph Hansen speaks on W h a t Makes a t 116 U n iv e rs ity Place. The d in ­ Latin America Explosive. Followed by “ One provision of the agreement NAACP Secretary Roy Wilkins ner, an “international smorgas­ C ity ...... Z o n e . . . . social evening. Sat., M ay 5, 8:30 p.m . has been given so little publicity has wired President Kennedy and bord,” will feature a variety of 1503 W. Girard Ave. Ausp. Militant that it is difficult to say right now the Justice Department asking dishes from Europe, Latin Ameri­ State ...... Labor Forum. what the reaction w ill be as steel­ them to intervene. ca and the Orient. Monday, April 30, 1962 THE MILITANT Page Three A Salutary Policy Shift by Blas Roca THE MILITANT By Harry Ring well known. In their eagerness to the U.S. people of any orientation, Editor: JOSEPH HANSEN One of the many accomplish­ fight the Soviet Union, they went for example Trotskyists? How can Managing Editor: GEORGE LAVAN Business Manager: KAROLYN KERRY ments of the Cuban revolution has into the ranks of Hitler’s appa­ Cuba’s U.S. friends best help been its salutary effect upon the ratus of espionage and provoca­ C uba?” Published weekly, except for omission of five summer issues, by The Militant tion and into that of the North Blas Roca replied: Publishing Ass’n., 116 University PL, New York 3, N.Y. Phone CH 3-2140. Second- radical movement. It has given or­ American imperialists. Today they class postage paid at N ew Y o rk, N .Y . Subscription: $3 a year; Canadian, $3.50; ganizations, groups and individ­ “I am not well acquainted with foreign, $4.50. Signed articles by contributors do not necessarily represent The uals both here and in Latin Am eri­ are allies of the Titoite revision­ those who call themselves Trotsky­ Militant's views. These are expressed in editorials. ca, a new sense of optimism and ists in everything they do against ists in the U.S. We are separated fighting spirit. The Cuban revolu­ socialism. Wherever the Trotsky- from Trotskyists in general by V o l. 26 - N o. 18 345 Monday, April 30, 1962 tion has broken down many long­ ite groups are at work, their only fundamental points of view, and standing barriers between various true labor is to introduce confu­ from some in particular by their left-wing tendencies, with defense sion in popular movements, pro­ actions as enemies. But I think of the revolution serving as a mote division, provide arguments that all in the U.S. who sincerely May Day: Unity and Solidarity powerful rallying center. for the anti-Soviet, anti-Com- defend and support the Cuban A significant and encouraging munist campaign of the North revolution, and the right of self- For radical-minded workers one of the most inspiring features example of the power of the revo­ American imperialists, and encour­ determination of the Cuban and of the celebration of May Day has always been the central theme lution to reduce injurious sec­ age the sterile phrasemongering other Latin American peoples, do that isolates the revolutionary of unity and solidarity of all sections of the workers’ movement tarianism was reported by Cedric a worthy revolutionary job and movement from the masses.” we value them whatever their in fighting off the attacks of the capitalist class. Belfrage in a Havana interview with Blas Roca, long-time general That particular declaration of ideological concepts may be. North In the U.S. this great day is being celebrated in relatively secretary of the Cuban Popular Roca’s was a dreary rehash of the Americans who defend Cuba de­ small demonstrations, by a small m inority bucking a hostile at­ Socialist (Communist) Party. The slanders which originated in Sta­ fend their own liberty and democ­ mosphere — by the radicals. In this radical movement resides interview appeared in the A pril 16 lin’s Moscow Trials of the 1930’s. racy. They make the most impor­ the accumulated experience and traditions of past social strug­ issue of the progressive weekly, Their repetition was particularly tant contribution to the cause of gles. And one of the most important traditions this movement the National Guardian. dism a yin g since in 1956, fo u r peace, since any adventure by years earlier, at the Twentieth Kennedy and the Pentagon against should uphold, spread and teach the youth is that the workers Objective Collaboration Congress of the Soviet Communist Cuba creates a grave peril for must close ranks in the face of attacks by the capitalist class. In the interview, Blas Roca took Party, Nikita Khrushchev had ex­ world peace. And they take a step The tradition that in the workers’ movement, regardless of dif­ the stand that defense of Cuba by posed Stalin’s frame-up system. forward toward liberating them­ ferences, an attack by the capitalists upon one is an attack upon all political tendencies in the U.S. B las Roca’s 1960 stand had an selves from their own imperial­ a ll. should be welcome, regardless of unfortunate effect on many par­ ists, exploiters and oppressors. ideological differences between the As we celebrate May Day this year the need for such soli­ tisans of the Cuban revolution. “Thus the defense of Cuba in groups involved and that he fa­ darity is concrete and urgent. Seldom has a section of the workers’ Not necessarily because they agreed the U.S. should be carried forward vored objective collaboration with w ith Trotskyism. But because they without any kind of sectarianism, movement been under more vicious attack from the class enemy all pro-Cuba groups, including the feared it might foreshadow in w ith the greatest open-mindedness, than is the Communist Party today. W ith reactionary vindictive­ Trotskyists. Cuba a repetition of the Stalin with an objective spirit of judg­ ness, w ith a callousness toward individual human beings, and w ith The particular significance of era in the Soviet Union where the ment on the basis not of what a contempt for traditions of civil liberties, the Kennedy adminis­ Blas Roca’s stand lies in the fact charge of “Trotskyism” was used people say but of what they do.” tration is conducting a ruthless drive to outlaw the Communist that it represents a major de­ to frame-up and silence all those Differences Party and to throttle the press which expresses Communist views. parture from the position he had with dissident views. United action to advance a com­ This drive is aimed at the entire workers’ movement. Its purpose taken as recently as 20 months ago. However, those who had such mon goal such as the defense of is to maintain a witch-hunt atmosphere in which persecution of In a political report to a PSP fears w ill be greatly encouraged Cuba does not require conceal­ unpopular political ideas becomes customary and to establish congress in H avana in A u g u st 1960 by the Belfrage interview. He ment or blurring over of ideolog­ precedents for subsequent use against further sections of the he had declared: asked Blas Roca: ical differences and Blas Roca is w o rk e rs ’ m o v e m e n t. “The true role of Trotskyism “Do you welcome to the ranks obviously correct when he points A most concrete and meaningful way in which all radicals throughout the entire world is of Cuba’s friends and partisans in to the existence of such differences can celebrate May Day this year is by re-affirm ing the old tradi­ between the Communist Parties tion of solidarity as a living reality and rallying to the defense and the Trotskyists. But differences within the work­ of the civil liberties of the Communist Party. Anti-HUAC Picket Line ers’ movement should not be de­ scribed as “actions by enemies.” (Continued from Page 1) subpoenaed steelworkers (whose Such characterizations are a hang­ the HUAC subcommittee as friend­ union contract negotiations were over from Stalinism which sowed New Civil-Rights Swindle ly witnesses. scheduled to start today) are being so much harm and disunity in the Some 60 people in the Los A n ­ represented by Los Angeles ACLU revolutionary movement. Earlier this month the Kennedy administration tried to palm geles area have been subpoenaed General Counsel A. L. W irin and Apart from this point, the stand off Urban Renewal Commissioner W. L. Slayton’s latest policy by HUAC which is making its first Marshall Ross. The Fair Play for taken by Blas Roca is a sound and statement as a gain for civil rights. That statement told private appearance in California since the Cuba Committee officers who have progressive one which should con­ housing developers of federally aided urban renewal projects to police-provoked riots around the been subpoenaed are represented tribute significantly to the grow­ comply w ith all state and local laws prohibiting racial discrimina­ San Francisco hearings nearly two by Robert Kenny, former attorney ing unity in action of the pro- tion and segregation. years ago. The American Civil general of California. Cuba forces in this country; And, Liberties Union has offered free Among those summoned before as he correctly observes, this in S lickly worded to appear as a measure of progress, the policy’s legal counsel to all 60. A battery HUAC today were Dorothy Mar­ turn w ill strengthen the movement actual effect is to give Washington’s sanction to racial dis­ of about 17 attorneys has already shall, chairman of the Citizens’ for a socialist USA. crimination in federally aided housing not only throughout the been provided the hearings. The Committee to Preserve American South but in 33 states where there are no anti-discrimination Freedoms, and Ben Dobbs, de­ housing laws. scribed by the press as “a spokes­ The administration’s duplicity was unmasked by Charles ... Fair Play Protest man of the Communist Party.” ...Nuclear Tests The Citizens’ Committee, which Abrams, president of the National Committee Against Discrimina­ (Continued from Page 1) (Continued from Page 1) speaks for a large group of those tion in Housing. He said the new policy gave Southern rede­ immediate halt to it as being il­ subpoenaed, distributed 32,000 Gate Park. In Los Angeles 1,800 velopers, using federal funds, “a free hand to discriminate against legal and, if necessary . . . pro­ leaflets calling for a “Walk for the Peace Marchers converged on Negroes” ; that it was “the first official sanction of federally secute those responsible.” Bill of Rights” in front of the McArthur Park for a rally on Sat­ aided discrimination in the Kennedy administration” ; and “a per­ He recalled the Attorney Gen­ Federal Building. The leaflet de­ urday and tens of thousands poured into the Hollywood Bowl version of public power into an instrument of oppression” done eral’s own statement of April 20, clared that HUAC violates the “in the name of social reform.” 1961: “The law prohibits the or­ First Amendment; acts as judge, on Easter Sunday to pray for ganizing of an expeditionary force peace. About 100 held a midnight- Abrams declared “indispensable” the immediate issuance of jury and prosecutor; denies the which would depart from the right to counsel; and makes a to-6 a.m. peace vigil at the Bowl a presidential executive order barring discrimination in federally United States to take part as a mockery of the Fifth Amendment. before the Sunrise services. Some aided housing to prevent “the collapse of civil-rights principles m ilitary force against a nation with of their banners declared: “Stop which the present urban renewal policy threatens to precipitate.” whom the United States is at Resent Inference the War in Vietnam,” “Let the During the presidential campaign Kennedy promised to issue peace.” A statement from the Los An­ People Vote on War.” geles Fair Play for Cuba Com­ Perhaps the most encouraging precisely such an order. He has balked at doing so ever since O n M a y 15, 1961, FPCC A c tin g Executive Secretary Richard Gib­ mittee said, “We resent and pub­ demonstration was held in Detroit taking office. Obviously only great pressure from the Negro peo­ son and General Counsel Stanley licly protest the inference that where more than a thousand ple and labor movement w ill force him to do it. Faulkner handed over to an assis­ there may be anything ‘un- marchers included representatives tant U.S. Attorney General in American’ about the purposes and of virtually every pro-peace force Washington an exhibit of docu­ activities of FPCC. However, the in the city. The march was en­ mentary evidence implicating for­ thought-control inquisitions con­ dorsed b y F o rd U A W L o ca l 600 Fund Scoreboard mer Central Intelligence Agency ducted by HUAC, aimed at ter­ and many auto unionists partic­ director Allen Dulles and others in rorizing and silencing all inde­ ipated. The march culminated in City Quota Paid Percent violations of U.S. neutrality laws pendent minded citizens, are truly a rally in the center of the down­ P itts b u rg h $ 20 $ 14 70 in carrying out the abortive April ‘u n -A m e ric a n .’ ” town area. Featured speaker was San Francisco 720 453 63 17, 1961, in va sio n of Cuba. H o w ­ John Birch elements have their UAW Secretary-Treasurer Emil A lle n to w n 155 92 59 ever, the Justice department re­ national stronghold in Southern Mazey. The most significant point St. L o u is 100 56 56 fused to present the material to a California. Their support, in the was made by pacifist leader Dave D e tro it 800 421 53 federal grand jury for possible absence of any protest action by Dellinger who told the participants Boston 750 391 52 criminal prosecution. the official labor movement, gives that what they were doing was M ilw a u k e e 320 164 51 HUAC a strong hand. very good, but “peace walks are Twin Cities 1,500 720 48 Colonel Ramon Barquin, report­ However, many forces are mov­ not enough.” People have to real­ B e rk e le y -O a k la n d 635 291 46 ed b y the New York Times to be ing beneath the surface and their ize, he said, that “ peace is a mat­ N e w Y o rk ' 5,700 2,409 42 the m ilitary head of the Cuban in­ eruption in the mass picket line ter of power.” Noting that the Chicago 1,000 400 40 vasion force now being trained by around the Federal Building testi­ large peace movement before N e w a rk 190 61 32 Manuel Ray’s “People’s Revolu­ fies to the important test of World War II had not accom­ San Diego 360 104 29 tionary Movement,” was quoted by strength taking place. plished its aim, he declared: C o nn ecticut 200 45 23 the Associated Press as calling for Protests against HUAC’s inva­ “The peace movement won’t be S eattle 600 . 103 17 the use of U.S. Marines to “lib­ sion of Los Angeles are being able to make a real impact until D enver 200 30 15 erate” Cuba. According to the voiced elsewhere in the country. it is able to mobilize the war in­ Los Angeles 6,300 955 14 April 18 AP dispatch, “Colonel One rally is scheduled for San dustries, until we can shut down Philadelphia 320 20 6 Barquin, a former military at­ Francisco’s Civic Center, another GM like the unions did in the C levelan d 600 10 2 tache in Washington, said that in New York City. The National 30’s w ith the sit-down strikes.” G eneral 530 5 marines had been used in Latin- Conference of Student Political When the peace movement here American nations in the past and Parties, meeting at Oberlin over and abroad reaches that status the Totals through April 23 $21,000 $ 6,744 32 should be employed to free his Easter, called for sympathy dem­ world w ill finally be a safe place c o u n try .” onstrations. to live in. Page Four THE MILITANT Monday, April 30, 1962

Letters From Our Readers An Appeal from France revolution w ill in due time be end­ ed by the Cubans.’ Paris, France “Also came to mind the prophe­ I would be grateful if you would sies made by a number of prom­ publish the following statement in in e n t in d iv id u a ls in 1941 w h en the next issue of your paper: Hitler got after Russia. These in­ “The Committee of Solidarity dividuals gave Russia from two to With Victims of the Repression 30 days to hold out. I refer to Resulting from the Algerian War your own editorial of June 24, rejoices at the freeing of Algerian 1941, and to M r. H . W . B a ld w in ’s detainees and internees by virtue comments in the Tim es of July 2, of the cease-fire terms. It urgent­ 1941. ly calls upon international opinion “The Hon. M artin Dies said that to obtain an amnesty likewise for Hitler would be in control of Rus­ all Frenchmen imprisoned for sia in 30 days. Paul Mallon said their acts of opposition to the war that the Red Army and govern­ in Algeria — those accused of in­ ment are politically unstable and subordination or desertion for hav­ tom with internal dissensions and ing refused to bear arms against inefficiencies. Messrs. Pearson and the Algerian people. Allen said that in the end Russia “It is intolerable that while cannot stem the Nazi tide. Said those Frenchmen bearing the main columnist Sokolsky: Soviet Russia responsibility for tortures are be­ has bluffed the world for a quar­ ing released, French anti-colonial­ ter of a century, and the bluff has ists remain victims of repression.” been called . . . We must be pre­ The Committee would be grate­ pared for the shock of the elimina­ ful for your help in sending pro­ tion of Soviet Russia from the war tests, as you choose, to French altogether. I sleep better knowing that Orphan Annie, Dick Tracy, Buz Sawyer and Smilin' Jack are newspapers, the French Embassy, dealing such blows to those dreadful Reds. But I suspect M utt and Jeff are soft on Communism. the French Minister of Justice, “ H o w eve r, as lu c k w o u ld have the President of the French Re­ it, time proved that these great public, and sending the Commit­ military experts were wrong. A tee copies of your protest. visitor returning from Russia in Thanking you in advance, I as­ 1944, th re e years a fte r the in v a ­ America's Fightin' Funnies sure you of my best regards. sion, said the trains, buses and Germans were still running. And “All day long South Vietnam Winnie Winkle, a lady fashion nam was “inspired” by a former Laurent Schwartz in a little more time it was def­ designer, “invaded” the Iron Cur­ commander of the Pacific fleet, soldiers, hunting the Communist [Professor Schwartz, whose initely proved the politically un­ guerrillas, wade through water tain with a fashion show and now Admiral C. D. Griffin, who talked home has been the target of the stable, inefficient, bluffing Rus­ and the tall grass of Mekong Delta. languishes in a Soviet jail. W in­ with “Buz’s” creator, Roy Crane. sians were putting up a good fight, Secret Arm y’s plastic bombers and But the guerrillas scatter and nie’s show was so popular that so good that they not only stemmed “ Southeast Asia,” Admiral G rif­ whose son was briefly kidnaped hide. AMBUSH! Suddenly a guer­ jealous Soviet authorities nailed the Nazi tide but saved the Allies fin told the artist, “ contains almost by the OAS, is president of the rilla leaps from the tall grass, fells her on trumped-up spy charges. another ten years of war, at a cost half the world’s population. If we Solidarity Committee. Its list of the leading soldier w ith a machete. of probably 500 billions. And last Dick Tracy is tangling with a lose Laos and South Vietnam, we distinguished sponsors include Si­ At his death cry, hidden Tommy — but no means least — they were character named “Brush” — his could easily lose the rest. It’s im ­ mone de Beauvoir, Claude Bour- guns instantly rake the following highly instrumental in preserving face is completely covered with portant that the people back home det, Pierre Cot, Jean-Paul Sartre troops.” our precious pattern of life!” hair. “Brush,” president of an realize what’s going on over here.” and Vercors. Full addresses of A news story? No, this situation anti-fallout group “that receives Is this why President Kennedy those to whom it is suggested pro­ K . M . G. occurred in the “comic” strip “Buz huge sums from well-meaning slapped a censorship on U.S. re­ test letters be sent are as follows: S aw yer.” citizens, is exploiting the Cold porters in South Vietnam? French Embassy, 2535 Belmont Socialist Education “Buz,” according to a March 4 War to line his own pockets.” The admiral’s pep-talk “sold” Rd., Washington, D.C.; M. Jean National Observer story, is only These “comic” propaganda arms artist Crane on the idea. After Foyer, Ministre de la Justice, 13 San Diego, Calif. one of at least seven comic-strip of the Pentagon appear in as many further talks with U.S. and Place Vendome, Paris I, France; Why not devote a little space to characters now lending the U.S. as 600 different papers in the U.S. Vietnamese officials, Crane decid­ President Charles de Gaulle, Palais actually explaining the workings State Department a hand in fer­ and reach an audience of roughly ed to focus his comic strip on de L’Elysee, Paris VIII, France; of socialism? Perhaps a small reting out “communists” and 30,000,000 people. It is estimated guerrilla “terrorist” techniques. To the three leading French news­ question and answer forum or per­ “ reds.” that upwards of 85 per cent of “guarantee accuracy,” Crane and papers are — Le F iga ro, 14 R ond- haps taking an actual situation from your news section and plac­ For instance, “Smilin’ Jack” is the 60,000,000 people who buy his colleagues spend as much time Point des Champs-ElystSes, Paris ing it in context with a socialistic working overtime at Cape Cana­ newspapers in this country study as possible talking to m ilitary per­ V III, France; France Soir, 100 rue re-evaluation? veral to destroy a “Communist the comics. In addition, some of sonnel. As a result, “ Buz Sawyer’s” Reaunur, Paris II, France; Le spy ring,” led by “Red Nose” who the comic strips have a wide for­ fans were fam iliar with the South M onde, 5 rue des Italiens, Paris Also, your mail-order handling looks suspiciously like Castro. eign audience. “Buz Sawyer” ap­ Vietnam war “well before Presi­ IX, France. Copies of letters of books and pamphlets is slow — pears in 22 other countries; “Steve should be sent to the Solidarity extremely slow. “ Steve Canyon” has been sent dent Kennedy illuminated the Canyon” in 17. C. C. on the double to the A rctic Circle. subject in his January State of Committee’s secretary: M. Albert the Union address.” Roux, 30 rue Lecourbe, Paris XV, The source of a mysterious broad­ The “comic” artist’s approach to [On the question of more so­ France. — E d i t o r ] cast in African dialect must be this substantial reader market is On the other hand, Milton cialist education in the paper, this found before the Russians beat made clear. Caniff’s “comic” strip “Steve is discussed in the article on page h im to it. George Wunder who draws Canyon” is pointed to as “an ex­ The Name Debate one by Marvel Scholl, director of Terry Lee of “Terry and the “Terry and the Pirates” says that cellent illustration of the way Newark, N. J. the 8-Page M ilitant Fund. artists and the armed forces work Pirates” recently foiled a “Com­ while his principal purpose is I think you ought to change the Book and pamphlet orders are together for mutual benefit. The munist” attempt to throw an “entertainment,” he tries “to turn nam e of The M ilitant because the handled by Pioneer Publishers. As Pentagon has long fed the artist American plane off course over people’s heads from bowling scores name indicates m ilitary and war­ a result of the growing interest in with vital background material.” the narrow air corridor between and other trivia to serious m ili­ like methods to the average person socialist literature (and partic­ In return for services well ren­ Berlin and West Germany. tary and political affairs.” who is not familiar with our way ' ularly in literature on Cuba), dered, “Steve Canyon” provides Thom McBride, a “handsome” Milton Caniff, creator of “ Steve of using the word as meaning a Pioneer’s orders have increased the A ir Force with what one per­ naval officer — are there any Canyon,” adds: “We simply dram­ determined fighting spirit and ag­ to an encouraging degree. How­ son described as an “animated re­ U.S.. Navy officers who aren’t atize the news of the day.” gressive action. ever, it still must rely largely on cruiting poster.” “Buz Sawyer” handsome! — is searching out But where do these artists get A potential new reader may volunteer labor and so the in­ presumably fulfills the same func­ “treason in high places.” And L it­ the line for their “comics”? avoid buying the paper because of crease in orders has resulted in tion for the Navy. tle Orphan Annie has all but dis­ The “Buz Sawyer” adventure in its name. Why not call it the “So­ some delay in filling them. Special posed of the Cuban “problem.” the Mekong Delta in South Viet- Reba Aubrey cialist Beacon” or something like efforts are now being made to that? cope with this problem. E d i t o r . ] D. A. Keep Plugging N. Y. Times Prophesies Berkeley, Calif. Glenn Falls, N. Y. It Was Reported in the Press I have a high regard for your In the A pril 18 New York Times newspaper these days. Though I “Deliberate Speed” — The sponsor says that ‘Viceroy is a according to the A pril 15 N a tio n a l is an editorial on “The Cuban In­ know you are quite limited in Pentagon has directed that all- thinking man’s cigarette,’ but O bserver. The zoo lost two giraffe vasion,” in which it is freely ad­ available space and staff, the prod­ Negro and all-white Reserve units we’ve never seen a ‘thinking Ne­ gazelles when they beat their mitted that the April 1961 affair uct is excellent, considering all be integrated “as rapidly as is con­ gro’ appear on this. When we turn heads against the wooden walls was a complete flop and that much the difficulties involved. sistent with military effective­ to TV advertisements, we’re not of their cage. “Giraffe gazelles are of our pride and prestige was ness.” A spokesman said the direc­ there! We should share equally in high strung beings,” the paper ex­ blown away. We in California are not in tive was intended to implement a the public limelight.” plains, “not as well adapted as However — according to the exactly a liberally-oriented milieu 1948 Executive Order by Truman human beings to the conditions of editorial — the invasion proves to and are aware of the problems that was supposed to ban segre­ Those Wild Communist Claims modern urban life.” us now what not to do again, be­ facing anyone trying to run a gation in the armed forces. The — “Rickshas survive only in Hong cause the Castro revolution w ill in radical or even a liberal journal Kong and Calcutta. The Commu­ Oh, Freedom — “The Citizens or radio station. Keep up the good new directive does not apply to Anti-Communist Committee of due time be ended by the Cubans. the National Guard which operates nists banned rickshas in Red I wrote to the Tim es as fo llo w s: work, please, until it can have China, claiming it is degrading for Connecticut tried without success some effect on a jaded public ear. as state units. It was felt such a to ban 14 of 16 social studies “It was George Eliot, I believe, directive would upset Southern one man to pull another.” The who said that prophecy is the most Enclosed are $3 for six compli­ D a lla s Times Herald. books used in Meridian, Conn., racists. Guard members draw schools. Texans for America, as­ gratuitous form of error. mentary subscriptions for the fol­ federal drill pay and use federally lowing students at the University Can’t Take It — Scott A ir Force serting that ‘the stressing of both “Miss Eliot’s statement came to supplied equipment. of California. Base has recommended that B-58 sides of a controversy confuses mind when I read the last sentence P.E. TV Jim Crow — Job Seekers, a flights be eliminated or curtailed. the young,’ objected to 27 text­ of your editorial: ‘The Castro Cleveland antidiscrimination group, Sonic booms from the flights have books . . . Texas law requires that petitioned Attorney General Ken­ brought a welter of damage com­ loyalty oaths be signed by authors Thought for the Week nedy to press for integration of plaints, such as broken windows of books used in Texas schools. TV commercials. A letter to him and cracked brick walls. Sharpest If the author is deceased, the “From time to time we have been hearing of a nuclear-tipped mis­ said: “Have you ever seen a lit­ reaction, however, came from zoo publisher must sign an oath that sile being nearly launched by accident or on false alarm, even by an tle-Negro girl run and yell, ‘Look, inhabitants. Elephants snap their the author, if alive, would not electrical short circuit. It is common knowledge that both the American Mom, no cavities!’? Have you ever chains and trumpet wildly, while sympathize with ‘subversive’ ele­ and Soviet missiles are at hair-trigger readiness and controlled by seen a Negro woman on TV using chimpanzees sound off with “a ments.” — The April 19 Wall electronic devices.” — Acting UN general secretary U Thant on the any kind of soap powder? Its great chattering and screaming,” Street Journal. “very great” risk of an unintended war.