Young Socialists Win Acquittal in Indiana; “ Anti-Red” Law Declared Unconstitutional THE MILITANT Published in the Interests of the Working People V o l. 28 - No. 13 M onday, M a rch 30, 1964 P ric e 10c 3,000 Cheer Malcolm X At Opening Rally in Harlem By David Herman NEW YORK — An audience of rican brothers in the UN. We’ve over 3,000 responded enthusiast­ got Asian brothers in the UN. ically at the first of a series of We’ve got Latin American brothers Sunday night meetings organized in the UN . And then we’ve got by Malcolm X’s new black na­ 800 more million of them over in tionalist movement. The meeting C hina.” was held at the Rockland Palace Asked about the civil-rights bill, THE WINNERS. From left to right, Ralph Levitt, Tom Morgan and James Bingham, the Indiana in Harlem on March 22. Only Ne­ he said, “There’s nothing in that University students who won dismissal of their indictment under state “sedition” law. groes were admitted save for white civil-rights bill that’s going to help newspaper reporters. the Negroes in the North.” He By George Saunders law deals only with sedition against Hoadley’s indictments and Malcolm X attacked both the added that if the bill won’t help against a state government. This proposed evidence even before the Democratic and Republican parties Northern Negroes how can you A victory of great significance is a blow to the witch hunt, for M a rch 20 hearing. On M a rch 16 and called for a black nationalist expect it to help those in the for civil liberties and academic such state laws are still used — Daniel T. Taylor III of Louis­ convention in May or June at South? freedom was w on M a rch 20 in Bloomington, Indiana, when especially in the South against ville, Ky., trial lawyer for the de­ which, “We’ll form whatever is During the question period necessary — whether it’s a black Monroe Circuit Court Judge Nat civil-rights advocates. The current fendants, issued subpoenas to eight someone in the audience suggested U. H ill quashed the indictments in case in Louisiana involving the persons, including Hoadley and nationalist party or a black na­ that each person go home and or­ the Indiana “subversion” case. The Southern Conference Educational Harold Wilkes, Hoadley’s key w it­ tionalist army.” ganize his or her building to join judge was persuaded to this action Fund is an example. ness. Taylor demanded they pro­ He urged all Negro organiza­ the rent strike. Malcolm X sup­ by attorney Leonard Boudin, gen­ Unfortunately, this major vic­ duce in court tapes, tape recorder, tions to fight together against the ported the suggestion and urged eral counsel for the Emergency tory does not entirely eliminate additional devices and pamphlets things they all opposed — includ­ the audience to bring the ad­ Civil Liberties Committee. the threat to the defendants. The stolen from a rented apartment in ing New York’s recently passed dresses of the buildings they had Boudin argued that the indict­ witch-hunting prosecutor, Thomas Wilkes’ home — all of which “no-knock” and “stop-and-frisk” organized to the next Sunday ments against Ralph Levitt, James A. Hoadley, still can appeal Judge Hoadley had indicated he wanted night meeting where they could be Bingham and Tom Morgan — of­ H ill’s decision to a higher court to use as evidence and which the iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiniiri turned over to Jesse Gray. He ficers of the Young Socialist Al­ — if he requests and gets the defense charged was illegally ac­ SPUR TO RIGHTS FIGHT? For called the Harlem rent strike a liance chapter at Indiana Univer­ permission of the Indiana Attor­ qu ire d. form of nationalism. an analysis of the recent moves sity — should be thrown out on ney General. Speaks at Law School by M alcolm X see page 3. The audience and the speaker the grounds that the 1951 Indiana In fact, the March 22 In d ia n ­ Attorney Boudin spoke at the responded to each other warmly. .......................................... Communism Act, under which apolis Times encouraged Hoadley Indiana University Law School Both obviously enjoyed the rally. they were brought, is unconstitu­ to appeal, although it acknowl­ the day before the hearing on the laws and school segregation. He The next rally w ill be held Sun­ tional. The judge agreed. edged that to make “pawns” of constitutional issue and the pointed out that the above laws day night, March 29, at the Au­ Judge H ill’s ruling not only in­ the defendants “in the struggle strategy of the defense in the were designed to impose police- dubon Ballroom, 166th St. and validated Indiana’s thought-control over the larger issue has an ele­ case. state conditions in the ghetto. Broadway. Malcolm X is speaking statute, it had a broader legal sig­ ment of unfairness.” It added with T he M arch 20 he aring was in Boston M a rch 25. On A p r il 8 at nificance. Unless overturned, it af­ malice that being pawns “is a He explained that he wasn’t an crowded with sympathetic listen­ 8 p.m. he w ill address the New fects all state sedition laws, be­ role these three young men seem integrationist but that he opposed ers from all over the country. Stu­ segregation because it meant white York Militant Labor Forum at cause it sets the precedent that the to fill with relish.” dents traveled from New York, control of the black community. Palm Gardens Ballroom, 310 W. federal government has jurisdic­ The defense made clear its abil­ Carleton College (Northfield, Segregation meant bad, white-dom­ 52nd St. tion in such matters even if the ity and intent to strike hard Minn.), University of Minnesota, inated schools for black children, University of Wisconsin and he said. Consequently he would schools in the Chicago area. In fight alongside integrationists ..........................................................................................minimi...... WITHDRAWAL OF GIs URGED addition, the parents of the de­ against the segregated school fendants were present, and a system. heavy contingent of law students Once the segregated school sys­ from the IU Law School. tem has been destroyed, he said, Vietnam Intervention Assailed in Senate Students and faculty from the the nationalists should tell the in­ By Art Preis rillas. The latter are now batter­ into North Vietnam. Disengage­ university cut classes or inter­ tegrationists to go ahead and try rupted routine schedules to hear Two leading U.S. senators, both ing at the very capital of South ment is equally unacceptable to to integrate, and similarly the in­ the arguments presented by pro­ Democrats and, until recently, Vietnam, Saigon, and dominate them . .” tegrationists should tell the na­ secution and defense attorneys. both supporters of U.S. interven­ the Mekong River Delta, the rich Although this account is date- tionalists to go ahead and build Dr. Clark Foreman, Director of tion in the South Vietnam civil riceland and most populous area lined March 20, Senator Gruening their school system. the Emergency Civil Liberties war, are waging an open cam­ of the country. made a speech March 10 in which Minister Malcolm pointed out Committee, which provided Mr. paign in the Senate for with­ Senators like Morse and Gruen­ he called on President Johnson that Negroes need to defend them­ ing are especially fearful that the to withdraw American forces from Boudin to defend the civil liberties selves where the government fails drawal of all U.S. armed forces Johnson administration may esca­ South Vietnam and from what he of the students, accompanied the to carry out its avowed respon­ from South Vietnam. Senators Wayne Morse of Oregon late the fighting in South Vietnam called “this bloody and wanton (Continued on Page 4) sibilities. and Ernest Gruening of Alaska into another Korean War — the stalemate.” He also characterized Not Sedition are reported in the March 21 N ew most unpopular war in American the situation as a “putrid mess.” “I’m not talking anarchy or Y o rk Tim es to be “agitating for history — by an assault on North P o in tin g to the deaths o f 200 sedition” he said. “If they don’t withdrawal of United States forces V ie tn am . U.S. military “advisors,” the like what I’m saying, let the gov­ from the conflict.” Bitter Debate Alaska Democrat argued: ernment do what it’s supposed This “ agitation,” which theTimes The Tim es, reporting the ‘bitter “The time has come to cease to . If the government won’t indicates has considerable support, debate developing in the Senate the useless and senseless losses of find out who bombed the church reflects the palpable fear now and Democratic circles, states that American lives in an area not in Birmingham . then we’d bet­ widespread in all official circles the “supporters as well as critics” essential to the security of the ter do something.” in Washington that the insurgent of the administration’s policy “are United States. This is a fight which Comparing Negroes to the bi­ peasants and workers of South deeply apprehensive and edgy is not our fight, into which we blical Samson, who chose to de­ Vietnam cannot be contained by over the policy’s failure to yield should not have gotten in the first stroy his enemies even at the cost the latest military dictator, Maj. a solution after nine years of place . .” of his own life, he said: “If ten Gen. Nguyen Khahn, despite his United States involvement in He also stressed the billions of million of us die then there’ll be ten-to-one superiority in armed South Vietnam and nearly $3 bil­ dollars that have been “wasted to ten m illion of us left to enjoy free­ forces, his advanced U.S.