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NOVEMBER 12, 1976 25 CENTS VOLUME40/NUMBER 43 A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY/PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE RED SQUAD NEW YORK COPS MUST TURN OVER DATA ON SWP. PAGE 7. CHill 'GUARDIAN' NEWSPAPER IS UNDECIDED ON PURGE. PAGE 8. Victory DElVER lor RALLY CONDEMNS ILLEGAL FBI HARASSMENT. PAGE 13. People lEW YORK A Socialist Analysis TEACHERS -PAGE 5 A STRATEGY TO SAVE EDUCATION. PAGE 16. Unions' Political Power Wasted SCOTTSBORO -PAGE14 ONE BLACK MAN'S 40-YEAR FIGHT FOR FREEDOM. PAGE 18. Ethnic Purity S. AFRICA in Plains THOUSANDS HELD IN WITCH -PAGE 3 HUNT. PAGE 22. COIORESO N.J. PUERTO RICANS DEBATE ELECTION STRATEGY. PAGE 25. Richard Avedon HOW FBI KILLED FRED HAMPml -PAGE 24 THIS WEEK'S In Brief MILITANT PSP MEMBER RELEASED FROM JAIL: Two hundred indictment an effort to whip up hysteria against the rights 4 Camejo winds up fifty supporters greeted Lureida Torres, a member of the of undocumented workers. campaign in N.Y. Puerto Rican Socialist party, upon her release from a New The Manzo Defense Fund is urging protests demanding York jail October 28 after completing a four-month sentence. that all charges against Cowan be dropped. Protests should 5 Carter: no victory Torres was imprisoned June 26 for exercising her be sent to U.S. Attorney William Smitherman, La Placita for workers constitutional right to remain silent during a grand jury Village, Tucson, Arizona 85701. Send copies to Manzo 6 Judge tells FBI fishing expedition into the PSP. Defense Fund, 1025 North Grande Avenue, Tucson, Arizona official to testify 85705. 8 'Guardian' undecided CAPITALIST MURDER MACHINE MOVES AHEAD: on China purge Nuclear power protest Utah has set November 15 a8 the day Gary Mark Gilmore will go before a ruing squad. The date was set November 1 9 FBI used ele.ction reports after Gilmore lost a bid for a new trial. for enemies list The U.S. Supreme Court has given attorneys for Ernest 13 Denver rally condemns Benjamin Smith until December 11 to appeal a Texas trial FBI harassment that sentenced Smith to death for his alleged role in a robbery-related killing. 14 How labor lost Smith, a Black man, pleaded not guilty to the charges. the '76 election But Texas authorities have already set November 22 as the day Smith will be executed. Socialists debate 15 Smith's lawyer says he will file a motion for a delay of the Senate opponents execution until the U.S. Supreme Court can review his case. 16 Issues facing Concerned that racist forces in Massachusetts may win N.Y. teachers passage of a death penalty law, opponents of leaglized murder picketed the Department of Corrections in Boston 17 Steel Fight Back 'STOP THE NUKE': Militant correspondent Douglas October 29. The protest was org.anized by the Coalition to spreads across country Smith reports that this was the theme of an "alternative Help Prisoners and their Families, the National Student 18 'Scottsboro Boy': long energy fair" and rally October 23 in Hampton, New Coalition Against Racism, and the Massachusetts Prisoner road to freedom Hampshire. The event was organized by the Clamshell·· Reform Organization. A teach-in against the death penalty Alliance, a coalition of fifteen New England groups opposed was held October 30 at Boston's Arlington Street Church. 24 How FBI set up to nuclear power plants. Fred Hampton The rally of 2,000 was held to protest plans to build twin FREE MUSTAFA DZHEMILEV!: An October 18 protest atomic reactors in nearby Seabrook. outside the Soviet airline offices in New York City 25 Puerto Ricans debate Gov. Meldrim Thompson has okayed construction, despite demanded freedom for Mustafa Dzhemilev, a Crimean political strategies his promise to honor a referendum that rejected the reactors Tatar leader imprisoned in the USSR. 26 Vietnam: steps against as unsafe. Meldrim's contempt for both the environment Dzhemilev, thirty-three, was sentenced to his fourth term capitalism in south and the democratic rights of New Hampshire voters has of imprisonment last April. His "crime" was to demand that prompted four protest demonstrations so far. Crimean Tatars be permitted to return to their homeland, 2 In Brief the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, estab EMBATTLED CWA STRIKERS: Ninety communica lisped in 1921 by the Soviet government under Lenin's 10 In Our Opinion tions workers have been on strike against Focus Cable TV leadership. Stalin abolished this republic in 1946 after Letters in Oakland, California, since July 7. Focus, a union-busting deporting the Crimean Tatar population to Central Asia two years earlier. 11 National Picket Line outfit controlled by the giant Hughes Corporation, refuses to Women in Revolt negotiate with Communications Workers of America Local 9455. SIGN OF THE TIMES: Detroii cops were called out 12 The Great Society On October 30 more than 100 Local 9455 supporters November 1 to handle a crowd of 5,000 people who jammed Capitalism in Crisis marched in front of Focus's offices. The demonstrators came the personnel office of the Cadillac auto plant to apply for · By Any Means Necessary from more than a dozen unions, as well as from the jobs. Cadillac, it turned out, was only taking applications Coalition of Labor Union Women and the Alameda County for future job openings. But a local unemployment rate of 10 percent prompted people to begin lining up at 4:00 a.m. The WORLD OUTLOOK Labor Council. - Cadillac plant, meanwhile, is working heavy overtime to 19 Lebanon: new attacks meet a record demand for its luxury product. on Palestinians MORE CAMEJO-REID ENDORSERS: Dr. Armando Gutierrez, vice-chairperson of the Texas Raza Unida party, -Peter Seidman 20 Defense for imprisoned has added his name as an endorser of the 1976 Socialist Polish workers Workers presidential campaign. "Speaking as a Chicano," said Gutierrez, "Camejo and Reid offer the only real 21 World News Notes alternative." 22 Thousands held in . Others who have added their names to the final list of S. African witch-hunt endorsers were Ramona Austin, a leader of the National Organization for Women in Minnesota; Nicholas Topping, a prominent Milwaukee activist; Jeff Kleinert of Protect Political Rights, a Milwaukee group; and Frank G. Green wood, a Los Angeles playwright and lecturer associated THE MILITANT with the Langston Hughes Players. VOLUME 40/NUMBER 43 Elizabeth McAlister, a Baltimore antiwar activist who 14,443 NOVEMBER 12, 1976 won prominence as a defendant in the Harrisburg Seven CLOSING NEWS DATE-NOV. 3 frame-up, said, "As Ford and Carter offer no realistic alternative in this election, I urge voters to consider Peter Editor: MARY-ALICE WATERS Camejo and Willie Mae Reid or other socialist candidates." Managing Editor: NELSON BLACKSTOCK Business Manager: HARVEY McARTHUR Black activist Stokely Carmichael and the All-African Southwest Bureau: HARRY RING People's Revolutionary party expressed the view that most Washington Burasu: NANCY COLE Black people would not vote, and therefore they did not Published weekly by The Militant Publishing Ass'n., endorse any candidate. They did, however, urge those 14 Charles Lane, New York, N.Y. 10014. Telephone: Blacks who planned to vote to "vote for the Socialist Editorial Office (212) 243-6392; Business Office Workers party or the Communist party, who ar~ at least (212) 929-3486. Southwest Bureau: 1237 S. Atlantic raising real issues for people to consider." Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif. 90022. Telephone: (213) SDaC-ETODIY 269-1456. Washington Burasu: 2416 18th St. NW, ·washington, o.c. 20009. Telephone: (2021 265- ATTACK ON UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS IN 10 weeks lor 81 6885. ARIZONA: Last spring, the U.S. Immigration and Natu- corresponc~ence conceming subtc:rlptlons or al' · Se • (l d rted th c:Mnges of eddress should be lddl'ftled to The . r tzatlon rv1ce a m.igra) epo more an 100 Militant Business Office, 14 Charln Lane, New · workers in Tucson, Arizona. Shortly afterwards, la migra York, N.Y. 10014. · raided the Manzo Area Council (MAC), a service organiza- Second-class postage paid at New York. N.Y. tion for immigrant workers. Without a subpoena, agents 0 $1 for ten weeks Subscriptions: u.s .. $7.SO a year; outside u.s.. carted ·off records involving 750 MAC clients. The records $13.00. By first-class mail: U.S .• Canada, and Mexico. 0 $7.50 for one year $35.00. Write for surface and airmail rates to ail other were turned over to a grand jury. Name __________________________ countries. Subsequently, more than fifty of those listed in the Address ______________________ For subscriptions airmailed from New York and records have been deported. In October, MAC Director then posted from London directly to Britain, Margo Cowan was indicted for perjury and twenty-five City ______________ Ireland, and Continental Europe: £1.50 for eight issues. £3.50 for six months, £6.50 for one year. felony counts for aiding "illegal aliens." Cowan faces State'-------'iP'---------- Send banker's draft or international postal order penalties totaling seventy-seven years in prison and $98,500 (payable to Pathfinder Press) to Pathfinder Press, in fines. Make checks payable to 'The Militant,' 14 Where 47 The Cut, London, SE1 8LL, England. Inquire for Charles Lane, New York, N.Y. 10014 air rates from ~ondon at the same address.. At an October 27 news conference, leaders of the NAACP, weare Signed articles by contributors do not necessarily American Civil Liberties Union, and other groups called the. represent the Militant's views. These are expressed in editorials. 2 Nov. 20 deadline Well on way to ~Militant' subscription goal By Harvey McArthur Some of the best subscription sellers The elections are over. But the are new members of the SWP.