N. Y.Pro-War Marth TH£ A ResoundingFiasto Md~~~e!A!! By Barry Sheppard later scaled down to 10,000. The from the department of highways, police said 6,840. One reporter for Vol. 31 - No. 19 Monday, May 8, 1967 Price 10¢ NEW YORK - A march down etc. the New York Times counted Fifth Avenue in support of the A handful of despondent-looking 3,380, and another Times reporter, war in Vietnam on April 29, billed some blocks away, 3,717. marchers walked behind the "Wa­ by its sponsors as the "answer" ter Department" banner - no to the massive April 15 marches In a similar "Loyalty" march in against the war, was a dismal Brooklyn, police put the figure at doubt city employes dependent for flop. The fiasco clearly demon­ 4,500, just about the same figure their jobs on patronage, dragooned the Times reporter there gave. PeruvianGuards strated the lack of popular support out for the occasion. There were for this war. Even if one accepts .the police a few other such groups from The pro-war march, organized estimates - which were designed other city government depart­ by the Veterans of Foreign Wars, to minimize the massive antiwar took the form of the annual march and maximize the pitiful ments. pro-war march, the antiwar fight­ Besides VFW units, there were BeatUp Blanco "Loyalty Day" parade. "Loyalty Day" itself was set up in 1947 ers outdid the war fanatics by contingents from some military (World Outlook) - The Paris rid of Hugo Blanco. In view of the as the "answer" to May Day, the about 9 to 1! The real figures high schools, military reserve office of World Outlook learned worldwide publicity in the case, international workers' holiday. would put the ratio at around 40 to 50 to 1 against the war. units, and sea cadets. One dis­ April 23 that Hugo Blanco was it can be highly embarrassing for Predicted Mass Turnout gusting note was the cynical use set upon by armed guards at the them when the hearing opens be­ Even many VFW members and of the poverty program to corral El Front6n fortress prison at Lima, fore the Supreme Council of Before their march, the VFW units didn't support the pro-war some youngsters from the ghetto Peru, early in the month, and Military Justice. From their view­ leaders predicted that they would action. William A. Tietjen, chair­ to march in uniform. brutally beaten. He is in the hos­ point it would be very convenient bring out over 150,000 to demon­ man of the parade, said, "lots of pital and it is not known how if Blanco were to die before the strate support for Washington's units did not show up - I don't Along the March grave his condition may be. council sits. criminal actions in Vietnam. This, know why." The march was stretched out as The beating coincides with a This was what happened to they said, would top the figure of After looking over the fiasco, 125,000 the police gave for the much as possible - so it wouldn't UPI dispatch dated April 7, ac­ Maximo Velando, who was re­ Mayor Lindsay, seeing few votes be over with in 20 minutes. The cording to which the prison autho­ ported by the authorities to have massive antiwar march. (Actual­ there, and mindful of the senti- ly, there were nearly one-half mil­ thin, stringy line of the parade rities claimed that the famous taken "poison" in his cell when was watched for a while by some in reality he was beaten to death. lion in the April 15 march.) IUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllflllllllltll peasant leader had been taken to President Johnson himself gave people strolling or bicycling in the hospital "gravely ill" from a Daniel Mayer, president of the the pro-war march an assist by CHE GUEVARA SPEAKS. Our Central Park, before they went "lung ailment." League of Human Rights, at once on to better things. A few hun­ went to the Peruvian embassy in bringing Oenetal Westmoreland next issue will feature the What Happened into New York from Vietnam on complete text of Che Gue• dred right wing weirdos applaud­ Paris to protest the beating of ed from the sidelines and from the The true story is as follows. Hugo Blanco. the eve of. the demonstration. The vara's major declaration on commander of the aggression in reviewing stand set up at 69th St. Blanco, called by the director of Jean-Paul Sartre and Laurent Vietnam made a flag-waving Vietnam and the world strug• These were the types that cheered the prison, went to see him, cros­ Schwartz cabled immediately to speech in favor of the war and when a voice over the loudspeak­ sing a bit of ground which had the Military Council. gle against imperialism. ers announced that the "purpose attacking the right of free speech been declared "Military Territory." Friends of Hugo Blanco in Lima ,11\lllllltHll!llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltlllllltlllllllllllllltlllllllllllll of today's demonstration is to de­ of those opposed to the war. A guard brought him to atten­ are urging immediate action every­ Even Stalin's daughter dutiful­ stroy Communism!" tion. He was on forbidden ground. ment expressed April 15, gave his where as they are in great fear ly did her bit to aid the march. The mood of those marchers Blanco said he did not know this that the military authorities. are She graciously can.celled a sched­ opinion of the parade. "It's a who took the whole thing serious­ since the area was not posted. As parade," he said. "A parade is a planning to have the famous pri­ uled TV itl.terview so as not to ly was expressed by one embit­ they talked, a captain of the guards soner killed. interfere with reportage of West­ parade is a parade." tered rightist veteran. Marching appeared. He ordered the guard But even the numbers don't past the empty sidewalks, he Protests should be sent to the moreland's diatribe - most prob­ to beat up Blanco .. This was done Consejo Supremo de Justicia, and ably after the word came down to begin to give the real picture. blurted out: "It's not the country with such brutality that the victim The Spring Mobilizaion was a that's wrong. It's the people. The to President Belaunde Terry, Lima, her from Washington. fell to the ground where the guard Peru. mass outpouring. Throngs of cit­ Communists have too damned continued to work him over. A Politicians Attended izens surged through the streets much to say." fellow political prisoner, Eduardo along the line of march to the Juan Creus Gonzalez, sought to The Daily News campaigned for War Sentiment Lacking the pro-war parade. Mayor Lind­ huge mass rally. help Blanco to his feet. SpringMobilization say, Senator Javits and Cardinal The "Loyalty Day" parade was The utter failure of this march, Several more guards came up Spellman attended. And, in con­ not exactly a surging throng. The especially when compared to the and the captain ordered them to trast to the overcast skies and thin group of John Birchers and massive April 15 march, is a strik­ beat Creus, too. The two prisoners SlatesNat'I Parley chill breezes on April 15, the VFW other ultra-rightists who joined the ing demonstration of the growing sought to defend themselves but had a balmy spring day. parades, was filled out by VFW unpopularity of the war and of caught sight of several soldiers So how did the "Loyalty" units, all kinds of marching bands, the fact tht even among those lined up with machine guns ready InWashington, D.C. squads do? The first estimate of drum majorettes, fire engines, who are nominally for the war, to fire. NEW YORK - The Spring Mo­ the sponsors was 60,000. This was sanitation trucks, some trucks except for the ultra-right, there bilization Committee to End the is not strong sentiment of the kind Provocation War in Vietnam will send a dele­ that gets people out into the streets Blanco and Creus realized that gation to see President Johnson to demonstrate. The antiwar move­ a provocation was probably in­ May 17 and will hold a national ment, on the other hand, has that volved and tried to calm down conference in Washington the kind of strong support - support the guards. They eventually suc­ weekend of May 20-21. which is growing and deepening. ceeded in getting out of their The conference will hear reports The pro-war forces are now try­ clutches. on and make an assessment of the ing to recoup some of their losses It was immediately after this giant April 15 Mobilization against from the April 29 fiasco. There that the authorities announced that the war. It will also discuss future will be another pro-war march on Blanco is "gravely ill." But no one actions. Participation will be wel­ May 13, and the Daily News, is allowed to see him and it is not comed from antiwar organizations with its circulation of 3,000,000, known whether he is actually re­ and activists. Registration will is out campaigning stronger this ceiving medical attention. take place Sat., May 20, 8: 30 - time. But even if they get ten In the opinion of the French 10 a.m., at Hawthorne School, 501 times the amount they got today, Committee of Solidarity with the I St., S.W., Washington, D.C. More they won't come close to match­ Victims of Repression in Peru, it detailed information may be ob­ ing the spectacular turnout of could well be that the military tained from the Spring Mobiliza­ April 15. authorities would now like to get tion Committee at 857 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10003. Future Actions Racist Boxing Officials Join The conference is expected to hear a variety of proposals for Gang-Up on Muhammad Ali future activity. These will include the proposal that the Mobilization It did not take the boxing tion has been held in support of Committee continue on its present authorities long to strip Muham­ Ali. In Karachi, Pakistan, a sym­ course as a broad coalition of antiwar groupings, without an mad Ali of his world champion­ pathizer has gone on a hunger strike outside the American em­ elaborated program or individual ship title after he refused induc­ bassy in solidarity with the cham­ membership structure, and focused tion into the army on April 28. pion. on organizing another massive No doubt they were happy to have Martin Luther King has praised national antiwar mobilization in an excuse to "put down" Ali who Muhammad Ali's courage. King the fall. has refused to compromise his said that "He is giving up fame. The delegation which will de­ black nationalist beliefs. He is giving up millions of dollars mand that Johnson stop the war Already people in other parts of in order to stand up for what his will be representative of the forces the world are reacting to Muham­ conscience tells him is right." that built the April 15 mobiliza· mad Ali's stand against the Viet­ In Atlanta, Cleveland Sellers, tions including the officers of nam war and the stripping away one of the leaders of the Student the Spring Mobilization and the of his championship title. A Non-Violent Coordinating Commit­ speakers that addressed the New spokesman for the United Arab tee has also refused induction. York and San Francisco rallies Republic made the statement that Sellers called the Vietnam war a April 15. The Mobilization has "Six hundred fifty million Mos­ "racist conflict" and agreed with asked that organizations send rep­ lems throughout the world stand Stokely Carmichael that a large resentatives to support the delega. INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY. On May Day, Communist Party, behind him and recognize him as number of black people are being tion by picketing at the White Socialist Workers Party and other groups demonstrated in New champion." drafted to "commit genocide House May 17 and, if necessary, York against military takeover in Greece. See story, Page 5. In British Guiana a demonstra- against the race." April 18 and 19. Page Two THE MILITANT Monday, May 8, 1967 UnitedRubber Workers U.S. Goes on Trial l Al • ~.I. IAl .,,_ a AtRussell Tribunal tn ,,at1onw1uerra,"- ut HearinginSweden By Eric Reinthaler insurance alliance and it has The Bertrand Russell War CLEVELAND, April 29 - Near­ strengthened our determination to Crimes Tribunal opened in Stock­ Confusion compounded seems a clause in the expired contract. ly 50,000 rubber workers went on achieve fair and equitable settle­ holm, Sweeden, May 1 following fairly accurate description of the But otherwise the reported cents­ strike this past week in authorized ments." French President De Gaulle's final Bommarito's reference to "a fi. status quo in both the voting and per-hour wage increases (for and unauthorized walkouts against refusal to allow the trial to take three years) range all the way nancial strike assistance pact" con­ place in France. The point of de­ the terms of the proposed contract all the major rubber firms in the from 48 cents to 60 cents. Akron, Ohio area and in other cerned an announcement earlier parture for the Tribunal was de­ between the International Brother­ And on the escalator clause in plants across the country. in the month that the five major scribed by Lord Russell in an in­ hood of Teamsters and the Truck the proposed pact, the figures vary On strike are 17,000 workers or­ rubber companies had entered terview with New York Times cor­ Employers, Inc. from maximum of 5 cents per hour ganized in 11 United Rubber into a "strike pact." At that time respondent Dana Adams Schmidt. Bommarito stated: Russell will be unable to attend On the voting: On April 25 the per year to 5 cents for the entire Workers locals in the Firestone the Stockholm meetings, however, Wall Street Journal had this head­ three years! Business Week does a chain; 21,000 workers in 19 locals "The disclosure of a 'strike pact' by the five major rubber compa­ because of his extreme age (al­ line in its roundup article - bit of double talk on the ques­ covering the Uniroyal group; and tion of who will get whatever cost­ 10,500 members in the nine B. F. nies in the midst of negotiations most 95 ! ) . "Every honest man "Teamsters Appear to Have Re­ knows the Americans have com­ jected Pact by 2-to-1 Margin in of-living increase there is - the Goodrich locals. In addition, in the with four of the companies cre­ mitted crimes in Vietnam," Rus­ National Balloting." The next day workers or their health-welfare Akron area, 1,900 members of ates doubt about their good and pension funds. URW Local 9 at General Tire and fa'ith .... sell told Schmidt. "That is the the same paper carried an opposite point of departure." report that said "T'eamsters Say Rubber Company, and 900 mem­ "Our demands are based upon * * * bers of URW Local 18 at the Sei­ The Stockholm meeting was Pact Has Been Accepted by Ma­ Meanwhile the IBT national reality and reason. The increase berling Division of Firestone were opened with a speech by Jean­ jority in Two-Thirds of Its Locals." leadership has given no clear pub­ in the cost of living, the profits en­ off the job in "unauthorized walk· joyed by these companies since Paul Sartre, the Tribunal's execu­ lic account of the exact terms of Meanwhile, in Chicago 10 IBT outs." Only agreement to continue our last negotiations, the increased tive president. "The tribunal's the proposed settlement, leaving locals and one independent union discussions on new contract pro­ productivity of the members of legitimacy," according to Sartre, the rest of the labor movement to continue negotiations with truck­ posals on a day-to-day basis pre­ the URW, and the tandem rela­ "derives simultaneously from its puzzle out the situation from con­ ing companies in that area where vented 12,000 Goodyear Tire and tionship with the auto industry, powerlessness and universality." tradictory reports in the capital­ freight operations are presently Rubber Company workers in the amply justify a substantial wage Sartre's comparison was with ist press. tied up. The Wall Street Journal Akron area and another 21,250 increase and an improvement in the Nuremburg Trials held at the for April 28 reported that the two It has, we assume, given its own across the nation from striking. benefits." end of the second world war, parties were "close together" on "clarification" to the local leader­ Peter Bommarito, International which could not be just, he wages and benefits - with the ships in order to help them sell President of the Rubber Workers Wage Offer argued, since they were being bosses raising their offer to meet the deal to IBT members. But it Union, said of the shutdown of The Rubber Workers Union said the terms in the national con­ is quite clear that the selling job Firestone, Goodrich and Uniroyal: that all companies had refused to tract, and the unions "sharply is not meeting with too much "It would seem that the com­ make an adequate wage offer. lowering their demands." success, since Fitzsimmons is new panies should have spent more This was in response to a B. F. Charles Fenner, head of the Chi­ talking about taking a new vote time concentrating on putting Goodrich statement that they had cago Truck Drivers Union (Ind.) on the proposed contract by a bal­ forth realistic and adequate con­ offered 23.5 cents per hour in says that more than 800 individual lot through the mails. tract proposals rather than band­ pay raises over the next two years. contracts have already been signed When big locals like San Fran­ ing together in a financial strike The union pointed out that for with Chicago haulers - for wage cisco, Seattle, Detroit, St. Louis assistance pact that many of our the first time in 20 years the rub­ gains of 90 cents to $1.01 per hour and Chicago won't buy the deal, members believe is a throwback ber companies were trying to fore­ over three years. While IBT's it can only mean that the men to the labor baron days of the go the "tandem relationship" be­ General Vice President Fitzsim­ who wheel those giant bottoms 1930s. Our members in all of our tween the rubber and auto indus­ mons claims he has a verbal agree­ across the highways of the land local unions have been made tries. URW members have fallen ment with Truck Employers, Inc. are not happy about the thing. aware of this big rubber strike behind United Auto Workers in to adjust the national contract fringe benefits and wages, partly wage and benefit clauses to meet * * * Once again Congress has dem­ due to a cost of living escalator whatever the Chicago settlement onstrated the speed with which in UAW contracts. The union fur­ finally is, Fenner now admits that ther charged that the companies all of these signed contracts con­ it can act against the labor move­ AlgiersYouth ment. On May 1 both houses of were trying to divide the union tain an escape clause - for the Congress passed a resolution, re­ by paying tire and non-tire work­ bosses. The final terms will revert quested by Johnson that day, to ers differently. An extra five cents back to meet national terms! In Anti-U.S. an hour for skilled tradesmen was block the threatened railroad Jean-Paul Sartre In St. Louis 6,000 drivers went strike by six shop craft unions regarded by Bommarito as "in­ on strike on April 20 - against for another 47 days. The action adequate consideration" to the the Fitzsimmons proposal, in sym­ now extends the strike ban to StreetRally problems and wages of craftsmen. conducted by a victorious power pathy with the Chicago drivers June 19. over a defeated enemy. and "for settlement of a list of A demonstration involving Conditions However, the President came in In the London interview, Russell grievances or 'unanswered ques­ around 2,000 students was staged for much criticism, on the grounds Mounting unsolved shop prob­ complained about the lack of sup­ tions' against the local leadership." in Algiers April 24 in front of the that his strike-breaking proposal lems and unsettled grievances con­ port the Tribunal was receiving That "local leadership" includes American Cultural Center. was too limited. Senator Jacob tributed toward the two "unau­ from the "Communist world. He IBT Vice President Harold Gib­ Chanting slogans against U.S. Javits (N.Y. Rep.) who is prepar­ thorized" walkouts. At Local 9 at attributed this to 'the fact,'" bons, who is also president of the imperialism, they burned an ef­ ing his own antilabor legislation General Tire and Rubber Compa­ Schmidt relates, "that the Russians St. Louis Teamsters Joint Council. figy of Johnson and a coffin were now entirely 'under the (see May 1 "Picket Line") criti­ ny, the taking away of a five min­ drapped with an American flag. thumb The San Francisco Examiner re­ cized the president for not propos­ ute rest period by a foreman of the United States.' ported on April 24 that Local 85 ing a broad anti-strike law. The demonstrators were on touched off the stoppage. Several "They have been forced into in that city had rejected the pact their way to a mass meeting in men in the mill room were sus­ this position, he maintained, by No less sinister for the whole observance of World Youth Day pended and the rest of the shop United States superiority in nu­ by 1,365 to 26. Local 94 in Seattle labor movement, was a statement has turned it down by 394 to 7. Against Colonialism and Im­ went out in support of them. clear weapons. Smiling, he added, issued for all the Republican rep­ A union spokesman said that 'Of course, the Americans are the Fitzsimmons' own Detroit Local perialism. resen tatives on the House of Com­ the walkout at Seiberling Local last to realize it.' " 229 has also rejected the proposed They stopped at the American merce Committee by its ranking 18, now a week long, resulted In a related development, New contract by a substantial majority. Republican member, Rep. W. L. center to shout, "Johnson mur­ derer!" and "U.S. Go Home." from a difference in rates for pas­ York radio station WBAI reported Springer of Illinois. Springer's senger tire builders. 150 workers that the Tribunal had asked that * * * statement demanded immediate Someone aimed a rock with Interpretations of the terms of great accuracy at one of the dis­ were initially involved and then the meetings be held in the Fin­ the shot-gun settlement are even Presidential recommendations for the rest of the shop refused to nish Communist Party's large a general anti-strike law. play windows. Police then moved more confusing than the accounts in with riot sticks and broke up work. Local 18 President Henry meeting hall. The Finnish Com­ of the membership vote. Reports Obviously, in the face of rising the demonstration. Gilliam said: munist Party, which participates from available sources give dif. labor militancy, the government The Boumedienne regime, since "Since the Firestone 'muscle' in the Finland government, turned ferent facts and figures. Accounts is opening a new strikebreaking it came to power in June 1965 in (Seiberling is now a Firestone down the Tribunal request, ac­ of the money raises for the three offensive against labor. It is long a coup d'etat, has displayed great subsidiary) was thrown into this cording to WBAI. years are essentially the same on­ past the time when the labor nervousness about any kind of plant, it has been extremely dif­ ly in one respect - the 23 cents movement can entrust to its pres­ demonstrations, even those clearly ficult to live with the things the Victory for Smith Brothers - per hour for the first year in­ ent misleaders the defense of directed against the most hated company has tried to do out here. 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Phone The process of clarifying and which a special four-page supple­ MAY 1 - In Atlanta yesterday, ment was added to the usual eight­ Martin Luther King delivered a 533-6414. Second-class postage paid at New York, N. Y. Subscription: $3 a year; deepening revolutionary under­ Canadian, $3.50; foreign, $4.50. Signed articles by contributors do not necessarily page edition of The Militant. It standing in Cuba today includes strong rebuttal to General Wil­ represent The Militant's views. These are expressed In editorials. deals with all the major issues broadening the scope of literature liam C. Westmoreland's attack on facing revolutionary socialists that on world developments studied by the antiwar movement. Speaking Vol. 31 - No. 19 Monday, May 8, 1967 have been raised by the "Cultural from the pulpit of the Ebenezer revolutionary cadres. A recent Revolution" in China. Baptist Church, King described example of this was the reprinting Washington as "the greatest pur­ of two articles from The Militant Novack and Hansen begin by veyor of violence in the world in a press service issued by the rejecting the claim of Monthly Re­ Repercussions of April 15 view editors Leo Huberman and today." Revolutionary Orientation Com­ King declared, "there is a very The unexpectly huge turnout for the April 15 Mobilization mittee of the Central Committee Paul Sweezy that the "Cultural Revolution" is basically an at­ dangerous development in the na­ against the Vietnam war is having deep, encouraging political of the Cuban Communist Party. tion now to equate dissent with The Orientation Committee pub­ tempt on Mao's part to purge repercussions - perhaps deeper than many of the participants bureaucratic elements in the Chi­ disloyalty. This was clearly point­ in the demonstration even realize. lishes a bulletin entitled "Editorials ed out by the fact that General and Articles from the Foreign nese Communist party. (Monthly Consider the following developments that have occurred since Review, Jan. 1967.) Westmoreland was brought back Press." These are not necessarily to this country to develop a senti­ April 15. First, Johnson deemed it necessary to bring General limited to articles that it agrees On the contrary, they argue, ment and consensus for the further Westmoreland back from Vietnam decked out in full military with, and they are from bourgeois the crisis in China adds further escalation of the war and to fur, regalia to defend his war and to lash out crudely against the op­ papers as well as radical publica­ confirmation of the bureaucratic ther silence dissent." ponents of the war. This unprecedented move was testimony to tions. character of the Mao leadership King reiterated his position how seriously the administration takes the growth of antiwar Recently the bulletin included and the bureaucratic methods of that it was inconsistent for him sentiment. two articles from the Jan. 23 party functioning it follows. In to teach nonviolence in the civil­ MiLitant. "Black Power and the order to put this concept into an Then, for the first time, a new escalation of the war was met rights movement, and support the by significant criticism in the Senate. Whereas previous escalations Democrats" by Barry Sheppard historical light, Novack and Han­ violence of the United States was published in the March 9 sen review the fundamental dis­ "against little brown Vietnamese had drawn protests from only a couple of relatively isolated issue together with articles on agreements between Leon Trotsky women and children. There is senators, this one drew the fire of such powerful Senate figures Martin Luther King and the Ken­ and Stalin on · the tasks and per­ something wrong in that." at Fulbright, Kennedy, Church, McGovern and four others. nedy assassination. spectives of socialist revolution­ In the same speech, he strongly For their own pro-imperialist reasons these men are concerned Article on China aries. endorsed Muhammad Ali's refusal about the great risks inherent in the persistent widening of the And "The Upheaval in China - It was Trotsky, in fact, who first to be drafted. Stokely Carmichael, war. But if the April 15 Mobilization had not so clearly demon­ An Analysis of Contending put forward the methods of rev­ also in Atlanta, spoke later in the strated that the opposition to the war is assuming a genuinely Forces," by George Novack and olutionary struggle against bureau­ day. Carmichael praised Ali and mass character it is quite certain that these politicians would not cratism, and it is to Trotsky one declared "It's about time we're Joseph Hansen, comprised the en­ have felt free to speak out. tire March 16 issue of the bul­ must turn for a Marxist analysis going to tell him [the govern­ of bureaucratism in a workers ment], hell no, we won't go." Further, we now see some Republicans moving rather quickly letin. to disassociate themselves from the war. This was first evidenced The Militant article on black state. Ironically e n o u g h, the be­ when Senator Thruston Morton, the powerful Republican from power stresses the necessity of the Analysis of Bureaucracy spangled General Westmoreland Afro-American freedom struggle left Washington the same day, Kentucky who has backed the war, spoke out against the West­ breaking wth the Democratic and "Trotsky devoted the latter years declaring at the airport: "Based moreland move to curb dissent. Then, on May 1, the Senate Re­ Republican parties. It explains of his life to a serious and sys­ on what I heard and saw, 95 per publican Policy Committee issued a rather sharp statement of how the "Black Panther Party" of tematic analysis of the 'growth of cent of the people are behind the disassociation from the administration's war policy. Lowndes County, Alabama learned a privileged stratum in command United States effort in Vietnam." Clearly, continuing militant mass demonstrations can have and practiced this significant con­ of society's political-economic ap­ Nothing could be further from paratus' after it emerged in full­ a powerful effect in fighting the warmakers. There should be cept. the truth. Johnson wouldn't have no let up in this direction. The Novack and Hansen article fledged form under Stalin's dic­ to have brought Westmoreland on the China crisis, however, is a tatorship," Novack and Hansen here to attack those opposed to write. the war if "95 percent" were for "In his classical work The Rev­ the war. olution Betrayed he explained the Long Liked It WestCoas't SWP peculiar nature and dual function of the bureaucratic caste in a It is true that there are plenty HowYou Can Help workers state and the process by of Democratic and Republican AndYSA Conduct which it is enabled to usurp power politicians who stand one hundred from the toiling masses. percent behind Johnson. The April 30 New York Times offered the EducationMeet "The ripe conclusions of his following description of the flag­ 1 thinking on these questions were Endth e VietnamWar By Roger Filene waving orgy that followed West­ incorporated in the Transitional moreland's address to a joint con­ BERKELEY - On May Day Program of the Fourth Interna­ weekend, April 28-30, the Socialist gressional meeting: tional which has subsequently "The handsome, graying general Workers Party and the Young So­ been enriched and extended by • Join the antiwar movement in your city. The cialist Alliance sponsored a West with four stars on each shoulder lessons drawn from the experi­ snapped to attention and saluted. Coast Socialist Educational Con­ ences of the de-Stalinization pro­ April 15 Spring Mobilization was the most im• ference in Stiles Hall here. In the chamber of the House of cess and the Polish and Hungarian Representatives, the applause for About 120 people packed the revolts of 1956. portant political event in years. Hundreds of hall for the · first session of the his speech . . . had been dying; conference on Friday to hear "The essence of this program is but as William C. Westmoreland's thousands who inever marched before marched on George Novack speak on "Jean­ the necessity for a political rev­ hand touched his forehead, the Paul Sartre and Marxism." No­ olution, for the working masses clapping of hands swelled abrupt­ April 15. Millions were reached with the antiwar vack was also interviewed on by their own direct and conscious ly into a roar punctuated by Channel 7 TV news. collective action to abolish bureau­ hoarse cheers, stamping feet and message. Antiwar committees need volunteers to On Saturday morning, Mike cratic rule in order to secure dem­ a few rebel yells." McCabe, Los Angeles coordinator ocratic control over the economy And who were these congress­ spread the facts about the war. of the Spring and Student Mobil­ and the .state." men, moved to such patriotic fer­ vor by the perspective of murder­ ization Committees spoke on "Is Foreign Policy the Antiwar Movement Effec­ ing thousands more Vietnamese? tive?" The two Militant authors also "Some hawks - Senator Russell • Join the Socialist Workers Party or the Later, in the same day, Robert treat the foreign policy of Stalin­ Long of Louisiana, for instance - Himmel, national committee mem­ ism - its propagation of "peace­ were jumping up and down in Young Socialist Allia1nce. If you want to be in the ber of the Socialist Workers Par­ ful coexistence," which means in their enthusiasm." ty spoke on "Lenin and the New fact, the sacrifice of foreign rev­ forefront of the struggle ·to end the war and to left," comparing democratic cen­ olutionary struggles for the bene­ tralism with participatory demo­ fit of the Moscow-Washington de­ build a new America of peace, prosperity and cra·cy. tente. Saturday night, George Novack "Stalin's theory about 'building socialism, you belong in the revolutionary so­ again spoke on the problem of socialism in one country,' ad­ NOWAVAILABLE organizing a revolutionary party vanced in 1924, was a qualitative cialist movement. in the United States. concession to this nationalist ten­ Peter Camejo, recent SWP can­ dency, a view which was in com­ didate for Mayor of Berkeley, plete contradiction to the interna­ spoke on Sunday morning on the tional socialist outlook that stands 1966Bound Volume ------~----~------~----- "Dynamics of World Revolution." at the heart of Marxism. I want more information on the Socialist Workers Party Th e w e e k en d concluded "Stalin's foreign policy was con­ with a May Day picnic. Everyone sistently based on narrow national THE MILITANT and the Young Socialist Alliance. had a great afternoon playing soft­ considerations just as his domestic $10.00 ball, volleyball, or going horseback policies were based on strengthen­ riding. ing the power and privileges of Name ...... the bureaucracy which he epitom­ An added aid: A• Index to Does your local libra.ry have ized." ne Mllltont for 1966, $2. Address ...... a subscription to THE MILI­ This important article will soon be republished in pamphlet form City ...... State ...... TANT? If not, why not suggest in this country. The pamphlet, "Behind China's Great Cultural that they obtain one. Librarians THE MILITANT Clip and mail to: Socialist Workers Party, 873 Broadway, New are o~en pleased to have pa­ Revolution," will also include an interview with Peng Shu-tse and 873 Broadway, York:MN~Y. 10003;"'o~'YoungSocialist·Alliance, P.O. :sif:=41f, trons call their attention to an article by Pierre Frank. It will New York, N. Y. 10003 publications that they should be available from Merit Publishers, Cooper Station, New York, N.Y. 10003. have available. 5 East 3rd St., New York, N.Y., 10003 for 75 cents. Page Four THE MILITANT Monday, May 8, 1967 Politics and the An'tiwar Movement The SWP an,d Its Criti·cs By Harry Ring tacist League, offered this assess­ stand within the antiwar move­ ment in its May-June issue: "The ment. The tendency represented by the Socialist Workers Party and the Nor is this a matter of simple Socialist Workers Party and Young Socialist Alliance, the larg­ political consistency. The SWP's Young Socialist Alliance has been est organized, nominally revolu­ entire program is based on the the only radical socialist tendency tionary tendency in the antiwar central thesis that U.S. imperial­ to give consisent, positive support movement, have played a singular­ ism today stands as the overriding to the building of such local and ly pernicious role, and bear unique threat to social progress on a national antiwar action coalitions responsibility for its present dom­ world scale; indeed, that until as the New York Parade Commit­ ination by right-wing forces. The capitalism in the U.S. is abolished, tee and the Spring Mobilization recent history of the SWP-YSA all human progress remains in Committee. has been one of unbridled oppor­ jeopardy. This SWP-YSA activity has tunism, rotten compromises and The SWP sees the struggle of evoked a chorus of vehement organizational maneuvering, sur­ the north Vietnamese people and criticism from the various ultra­ passed only by the reformist Com­ the south Vietnamese guerrillas as left groupings. including Progres­ munist Party with which they are not only a remarkable affirma­ sive Labor · Party, Spartacist presently in a bloc." tion of their determination to re­ SWP STAND. Socialist Workers Party branches carried these League and Workers League, and Challenge, voice of the Progres­ sist aggression and chart their banners in April 15 march. Workers World Party. sive Labor Party, ups the indict­ destiny, but also as a vital con­ While they do it for the most tribution to the world struggle for ment in a manner worthy of its 53 % of the Dead, 2 % of the Bread part in a very twisted way, the the abolition of capitalism. Its strations influenced the thinking origins in the Communist Party -Why?" charges these groups level are political position is based on that of untold thousands, encouraged of Moscow Trials frame-up days. And in San Francisco there based on legitimate political is­ conviction. more people to speak out. They Before quoting it is necessary to were three official slogans for the sues that are of concern to every played a still not fully appreciated explain that the reference to a parade: militant antiwar activist. Mass Action role in holding back those who "TRPL alliance" is an apparently would have liked to stifle opposi­ "Stop the Bombing," "End the These are some of the questions biting one which is explained by Consistent with this political War in Vietnam," "Bring the position, SWP and YSA activists tion to the war. that are posed: the author, Ed Clark, as mean­ These activities across the coun­ Troops Home Now." ing "trotskyite, revisionist, paci­ within the antiwar movement have Why doesn't the SWP in­ try were clima~ed by the develop­ True, the SWP did not insist sist that the demand for the im­ fist, liberal alliance." worked uncompromisingly toward that victory for the NLF be the a single, central objective: To ment on a national scale of the mediate unconditional withdrawal Spring Mobilization Committee program of the coalition. Obvious­ "Imperialist Agents" build a mass movement capable of U.S.' forces from Vietnam be and the tremendous mass demon­ ly such a proposal could only have made the central focus of antiwar Clark blandly states: " ... U.S. of fighting effectively for the meant there would have been no withdrawal of U.S. forces from stration of April 15. demonstrations? imperialism through its agents in coalition and no giant demonstra­ Vietnam and, by doing so, to But has the SWP sacrificed any the antiwar movement (The TRPL of its principles in contributing tion against U.S. efforts to crush Bloc with Other Forces deepen and accelerate the process alliance) has had some initial to the building of this coalition? the NLF. Why does the SWP bloc in the success in turning the antiwar of political radicalization which is Nor did the SWP insist that the an inevitable by-product of the Not in any sense whatever. While antiwar movement with people movement away from total opposi­ entire coalition accept the with­ development of such a mass move­ the ultra-lefts have retired to their who are not socialists? tion to the U.S. aggression in Viet­ drawal demand as the central axis ment. various corners to grind out fanci­ Doesn't the SWP subordinate nam toward a vague, peace-loving ful polemics about the SWP be­ of the demonstration or as a pre­ itself politically to reformist ideology which the imperialists are As steps toward the realization trayal of the struggle, the SWP condition for the action. then able to use to cover up their of that aim, the SWP has worked forces in order to remain in a bloc has contributed decisively to the Central Feature own aggressions . . ." with them? to build a united front of all ex­ shaping of the struggle in a rad­ But by joining with others in An important aspect of the isting forces that are opposed to Other questions which future ical direction. SWPers and YSAers the coalition who favored the de­ ultra-left polemics against the the Vietnam war and, for what­ issues of The Militant will discuss­ have become known throughout mand the SWP succeeded in mak­ SWP is that they find its neces­ ever their varying reasons, are are: the antiwar movement as militant ing it, in political fact, a: central sary to falsify the SWP's position willing to organize mass demon­ champions of the withdrawal de­ Why doesn't the SWP take a feature of the demonstrations on within the antiwar movement on strations in opposition to the U.S. mand. both coasts. And by the very act of position within the antiwar move­ the key issue of withdrawal of government. ment for the victory of the Na­ doing so it made a significant con­ U.S. troops from Vietnam. If such a coalition is to be a Ultra-lefts Abstain tribution to the revolutionary tional Liberation Front? Challenge advises that the viable one capable of mobilizing While virtually all of the ultra­ struggle in Vietnam. The declara­ Why does the SWP keep press­ "TRPL alliance" means, "accept­ significant numbers of people lefts walked away from the Parade tions of solidarity with the April ing for antiwar demonstrations ing the leadership of the pacifists against the war, obviously it must Committee, the SWP, along with 15 action by the government of when it should know that dem­ and liberals. It means putting for­ include forces in addition to the other militant antiwar forces, north Vietnam and by the NLF onstrations alone can't end the ward slogans like 'Negotiate Now!', relatively small number of rev­ fought successfully to make the are testimony to their recognition war? 'End the War!', 'Bring Peace in olutionists who oppose U.S. im­ demand for U.S. withdrawal a of that. perialism and favor the Viet­ "Polities'' Vietnam!', and 'Stop the Bomb­ central one in the committee's All of the above is not intended ing!', all of which the Johnson namese freedom fighters. demonstrations. to suggest that there are no short­ Why does the SWP resist the regime has agreed to at one time Similarly in the Spring Mobili­ comings or defects in the coalition Coalition antiwar movement "getting into or another." zation Committee, it is a matter represented by the Spring Mobili­ politics?" A bit more charitably, the April This means, realistically, that of record that SWPers vigorously zation. But consider what April By insisting on the need for a 15 Workers World asserts, "It such a coalition must include peo­ supported the initial proposal for 15 would have been, and what the "single issu~" antiwar movement would be wrong to say that the ple who do not oppose the Viet­ the Spring Mobilization, and that state of the antiwar movement isn't the SWP separating the revisionist U.S. Communist Party nam war because they understand they pressed successfully, along would be, if the SWP and other struggle against war from the or the reformist Socialist Work­ it is imperialist, and who do not with others, for the withdrawal militants in the coalition had fol­ struggle against capitalism? ers Party have said in any party necessarily recognize that the Viet­ demand to be included in the call lowed the self-defeating course of Why does the SWP oppose in­ program or document that they are namese freedom fighters are in for the demonstrations, SWPers, the ultra-leftists and simply dividual acts of resistance to the against unconditional or immedi­ the vanguard of the world strug­ again along with others, fought walked away because the move­ war like draft resistance and draft­ ate withdrawal. But the objective gle for human emancipation. successfully within the East Coast ment wasn't ready to adopt its full card burning? sum of their activities on the Such a coalition will necessarily Mobilization Committee against ef­ program. And apart from the ef­ If the SWP is against individual Spring Mobilization Committee in include people who are still sup­ forts to prevent a speakers pro­ fect on the movement, the result resistance, why does it support New York adds up to just that." porters of the capitalist parties, gram for April 15 that would give for the SWP would have been the case of the Fort Hood Three who may simply regard the war adequate representation to the exactly the same as for the ultra­ who were court-martialed for re­ Need to Falsify as "immoral," "mistaken," "harm­ withdrawal wing of the move­ lefts- it would be stewing in its fusing to go to Vietnam? "Objectively," it is necessary ful to real U.S. interests," or what ment. Of the dozen speakers on own very pure juice. How does the case of the Fort for the ultra-left critics of the have you. The essential point is the platform that afternoon, at Hood Three relate to the case of SWP to insist on this false asser­ whether or not they are willing least eight called for the U.S. to Pfc. Howard Petrick? tion. If they concede that the SWP to work on a non-exclusive basis get out of Vietnam. Unfortunately these various has been in the forefront of the with radicals to organize demon­ TheFirst 10 Years Of questions are not posed by the April 15 Slogans fight to make withdrawal of U.S. strations that will facilitate build­ ultra-lefts in a way that facili­ forces a central demand of the ing a mass movement united Regarding the charge that the AmericanCommunism tates a serious exchange of views. antiwar movement, their whole around action. against the govern­ withdrawal demand was replaced Generally they are buried in thesis about SWP "capitulation" ment and its war policy. by a variety of negotiations slo­ Report of a Participant vituperation and, often, in what to the right wing falls apart. The question then comes down gans and that this too was the re­ can only be described as delib­ to what are the actual aims, in What are the actual policies and sult of an SWP "sellout," the fol­ By James P. Cannon erate falsification. practice, of such a coalition and objectives of the SWP within the lowing should suffice. Spartacist, voice of the Spar- whether or not revolutionists antiwar movement? These were the slogans official­ The euthor is • founder of American sacrifice any of their principles ly adopted for the New York Trotskyism and the only livlng top The public, stated position of the for the sake of such a coalition. march and prepared on thousands INder of the ....ly years of the U.S. SWP, as enunciated in policy of placards: Communist Party who has not re­ New Edition statements and by its candidates Helped Build Movement "Stop the Bombing," "End the for public office, has been that of The record of the SWP in the Draft - Let Young Men Live," pudiated communism. condemnation of U.S. aggression antiwar movement has been con­ "No $$$ for Bombing and Burn­ in Vietnam and unqualified sup­ The book contains: sistent with these concepts. It ha,, ing," "Wipe Out Poverty, Not Sketchei of Foster, Ruthenberg, THE port for the immediate withdrawal worked in a principled, but pa­ People," "Support Our Gis - of U.S. forces from Vietnam. Browder, Love.tone and others, H tiently flexible way to help build Bring Them Home Now," "Let's well es of INding figures in the From the outset, The Militant I.W.W. such coalitions. For example, it Get Out! Vietnam for the Viet­ Communist International. has documented how the U.S. has helped launch the New York namese," "Children Are Not Born trampled on the Vietnamese right Parade Committee and contribut­ to Burn," "Cease Fire Now, Nego­ Essays on the Industrial Workers of self-determination and why the ed to broadening the forces within tiate with the NLF," "Jobs, Homes, of the World, Eugene V. Debs encl By James P. Cannon struggle of the Vietnamese free­ it on the clear-cut basis of non­ Schools - War No More," the socialist movement of his time, dom fighters is a just and pro­ exclusion. The Parade Committee "Big Firms Get Rich - Gis and the effect of the Russien Rev­ gressive one that deserves the sup­ inspired the formation of similar Die," "Free the Fort Hood Three," olution on the U.S. Negro struggle. 35 cents port of revolutionists and genuine coalitions in a number of cities "No Puerto Ricans to Vietnam," partisans of self-determination throughout the country. "No Vietnamese Ever Called Me $4 everywhere. The demonstrations and other Nigger," "Black Men Should Fight MERIT PUBLISHERS In light of this record, it would united actions carried on by these White Racism, Not Vietnamese Order through: be, at best, difficult for the anti­ various formations helped estab­ Freedom Fighters," "They Are Merit Publishers 5 East 3rd St. war activists publicly associated lish that there was a significant Our Brothers Whom We Kill," New York, N.Y. 10003 with the SWP-YSA viewpoint to sector of the American people "Self Determination!," "USA 1776/ 5 E. Third St., New York, N. Y. 10003 take a lesser or contradictory opposed to the war. The demon- Vietnam - 1967," "Black People, Monday, May 8, 1967 THE MILITANT Page Five NEW Ml,LITARY DICTATORSHIP BolivianSecret Polite TheCoup D'Etat i·n Greece Seize Trotskyist leader (World Outlook)· - The April 21 coup d'etat in Athens has cast APRIL 29 (World Outlook) - Obrero Revolucionario (POR - a pall over all of Europe. Barely We have just received word that Revolutionary Workers Party), the three years after emerging from Dr. Hugo Gonzalez Moscoso, a Trotskyist party of Bolivia. He has two decades of harsh military dic­ well-known Trotskyist leader in been one of the staunchest op­ tatorship, the most reacti~~ary Bolivia, was arrested by the Boli­ ponents of the military dictator­ forces in the country, mob1hzed vian secret police on April 13. The ship of General Rene Barrientos around the throne and backed by Santa Cruz Diaria del Oriente Ortuno. the financial and military might of reported in its April 15 issue that Barrientos seized power in a the United States, have again "In a joint operation lasting sev­ "preventive coup" in November seized power. eral days, the police and the DIC 1964, after mass protest, including Ruling under decree law, with (Direcci6n Investigaci6n Criminal armed clashes between the miners troops patrolling the streets and - the secret police) arrested Hugo and the army, threatened to topple jet planes buzzing the cities, the Gonzalez Moscoso ... in the home Bolivian capitalism. Barrientos generals are rapidly putting Greece of DT. Carlos Arancibia, whom he aimed at using the army to repress back into the straitjacket. was visiting. According to the the tin miners and drive down During the night troops occupied authorities, for several days they their standard of living. He made strategic points in the city and were following the trail of an a few savage thrusts in this direc­ circled the palace. Tanks took unknown person who was closely tion in the summer of 1965 over the airport, the central post linked to guerrillas and Com­ During that brutal supp;ession office, and all radio and com­ munist elements in our city whom Cesar Lora, Guillermo Lora'~ munications buildings. Flights out he was directing in their activity brother, a leader of the miners of Athens were cancelled. in order to create problems for the and a militant Trotskyist, was government." arrested by the army and shot Change Constitution This sensation-mongering about without trial on July 29, 1965. "plots" is plainly exposed for the A dawn, a decree, said to have Hugo Gonzalez Moscoso was also been signed by King Constantine witchhunt frame-up it is when they arrested in September, 1965, but come around to reporting the (although this has been disputed ATHENS, 1965. Greeks demonstrate against monarchy and mili­ a wave of mass protests forced "evidence" for the arrest: "At the by some), was read over radio tary. the government to release him. ~~e headquarters of the DIC they suspending certain prov1s10ns of The present full-scale witchhunt showed journalists documents was opened up after Barrientos the constitution. new decrees permitting the arrest toral breakthrough Feb. 16, 1964? taken from the home of Gonzalez. made himself president through a Four of these provisions bar of anyone, without a warrant, and The reason is simple. The leaders Most of it was Marxist literature fraudulent election on July 3, arbitrary arrests. One of them without any time limit on how of the working class blocked the coming from China, the USSR and 1966. guarantees the right of peaceful long a person might be held with­ masses from taking the revolu­ Cuba. He had a file of unpub­ The American press has spent assembly. out charges. tionary road to socialism. lished articles . . . Dr. Gonzalez a great deal of time and space Article 14, annulled by the con­ If political dissidence is in­ In the summer of 1965, the upon being interrogated, said that reporting the contradictory claims spirators, guarantees the right of volved, he cannot be released on masses poured into the streets of he was in Santa Cruz on account of the Bolivian government on the every individual to express his bail and he can be detained in­ Athens and other cities in giant of his health." outbreak of guerrilla warfare thoughts orally, in writing or in definitely. Anyone, no matter what there. A studious silence has been demonstrations that could easily "Subversive" Literature the press. The same article guar­ his position, can be tried by spe­ have swept away the hated mon­ maintained when it comes to re­ antees freedom of the press and cial military tribunals or com­ archy and its entourage of ver­ The "subversive documents" Dr. porting the brutal witchhunt that bans censorship or any other missions. minous generals whose first con­ Gonzalez possessed consisted of a the Barrientos dictatorship has measure restricting free thought. All meetings whatsoever are cern is to please the U.S. State number of sociological and politi­ been carrying out, which has in­ Article 18 prohibits torture, the banned and if held are to be at Department and the Pentagon. cal studies including "Cuba and tensified since last January - long total confiscation of one's posses­ once dispersed by force. Any kind But the working-class leaders, Bolivia: Two Revolutions, Two before any claims of guerrilla sions; and abolishes the death of organization with trade union particularly those under the in­ Roads - a Single Victory." This operations. penalty. aims is absolutely banned. Strikes fluence of the Comm.unist Party, particular article which was sin­ Barrientos rounded up all the Article 20 guarantees the in­ are illegal. Searches can be made deliberately restrained the people, gled out as "proof" by the La Paz leaders of leftist parties he could violability of correspondence. Ar­ at any time in homes night or day got them off the streets or diverted newspapers as well as the Santa find and deported them to remote ticle 97 bars the military from without any restriction. All radio their energy into harmless chan­ Cruz press, is a chapter for a book villages where they face death trying civilians before war tri­ and television communiques must nels. commemorating the fiftieth an­ from starvation and illness. On bunals. be submitted for clearance in ad­ niversary of the Russian Revolu­ April 11, he outlawed the Com­ They took the course of follow­ munist and Revolutionary Workers From this list, it is completely vance by the censorship. tion to be published this fall. The ing George Papandreous, a wily collective work will include con­ parties. clear what the generals have in Correspondence, no matter what bourgeois politician, whose role tributions from Marxist scholars mind. They are prepared to sub­ its nature, comes under the cen­ was to serve as the stabilizing from a number of countries, in­ mit Greece to a blood bath, if sorship decree. democratic tail to the monarchical cluding the United States. necessary, to consolidate their coup Military tribunals are to try all kite. The Bolivian press in La Paz d'etat. infractions of the above decrees. The great mass upsurge of 1965 WarCritics The witchhunt gathered momen­ reported that the DIC said that was successfully derailed. Shoot on Sight tum within hours. The April 25 another proof of Hugo Gonzalez The reactionaries in Greece uti­ Moscoso's relations with the By noon, a curfew was an­ Paris daily Le Monde reported lized the breathing spell to good guerrillas is the fact that he w~s BattlePolite nounced, and the troops were that the army itself was being advantage. Step by step, they pre­ found in the town of Santa Cruz. given orders to shoot on sight purged. pared the ground for a crushing But the least medical examination anyone caught in the streets afters A group of foreign correspond­ blow at the whole popular tend­ could prove that he was unable sundown. Martial law was pro­ ents, who pooled the information In Florence they had gathered, reported 8,000 ency toward democracy. With the to remain at high altitudes such claimed in the border regions, Hundreds of demonstrating stu­ arrests had been made within eyes of the masses turned toward as La Paz, and had moved to particularly near the Turkish dents fought off police in Flor­ three days. In addition, the police the May 28 elections, the time was Santa Cruz for health reasons. frontier. ence on April 23. Many were in­ were hunting for another 2,000 or propitious to bring down the up­ Dr. Gonzalez is cosecretary, with On the evening of April 21, lifted dagger. Guillermo Lora, of the Partido jured in the clashes, including King Constantine swore in one of 3,000 in hiding. seven cops. the chief plotters as the head of Thousands of Prisoners Thousands of persons from all the new regime. This was Con­ "The internment camps," said over Italy had gathered in the stantine Kolias, a former prosecut­ San Giovanni Plaza near the ing attorney and one of the coun­ Le Monde, "have been hastily UnitedN. Y. De:monstration fixed up to receive thousands of Duomo to protest the aggresion try's most notorious ultrarightists. of U.S. imperialism in Vietnam. The new prime minister said over prisoners. Upon their arrival from Vienna, members of the Austrian When the students stopped cars the radio that the country had AssailsGreek Dictators,hip entering the area, the 1,500 cops been at the "brink of catastrophe" national soccer team reported that they found the big Karaiskakis assigned to the rally opened the due to the probable results of the NEW YORK, May 1 - An un­ force and violence by a tiny attack. elections which had been sched­ stadium covered with tents shelter­ ing hundreds of internees. Agence precedented united demonstration minority of reactionary Greek uled for May 28. in the spirit of the international militarists. We condemn their sup­ During the night machine-gun France-Presse said that in Athens the Phalere hippodrome and soccer workers' holiday was held here pression of democratic rights, the fire was heard in the streets and today, May Day, at the Greek arbitrary imprisonment of thou­ three persons were said to have stadiums had been transformed into temporary prisons guarded by Embassy on 79th St. Sponsoring sands of students, workers and in­ been killed. the protest of the military take­ tellectuals. And we especially warn Gls and the Fight Reports began filtering abroad troops." According to United Press, about over in Greece were a number of against the threat of execution that at least 2,000 persons had organizations, including the Com­ raised over these political prison­ Against War been arrested, all the leaders of 500 persons had been shipped from Piraeus April 23 to the island munist Party and the Socialist ers ... the bourgeois democratic and left­ Workers Party. ist parties being caught in the raids prison of Y oura in the Aegean "We lay the responsibility for staged by the political police. Sea. A statement from the demon­ events in Greece also at the door ByMary-Alice Waters The Athens radio announced This was the concentration camp stration was refused by the Greek of the U.S. State Department, the that gained fearsome notoriety Embassy. The statement was Pentagon and the CIA. Since 1947, under the dictator Metaxas, again signed by Paul Friedman of the when the U.S. intervened in the during the Nazi occupation, and in Communist Party; Judy White of Greek civil war with money, arms lnfroducfion The Logic the decades following World War the Socialist Workers Party; Linda and military "advisors," Wash­ II when British and American Dannenberg of the Fifth Avenue ington backed the monarchists By Fred Halstead Of Marxism troops smashed the Greek freedom Peace Parade Committee; Key and militarists in Greece. Both fighters, paved the way for the Martin, Youth Against War and Washington and the Greek elite destruction of the republic and the Fascism; Matt Weinstein, DuBois fear the powerful upsurge of the 25 cents By restoration of the hated monarchy, Clubs; Wendy Reisner, Young Greek people aimed at ending William F. Warde all as part of the Truman Doctrine Socialist Alliance; Pedro Juan monarchy and establishing a fully of "containing communism." Rua, Movement for Puerto Rican democratic regime." Independence; Angel P. Vicioso, $1 Hundreds of victims of the new Over 100 participated in the Young Socialist Dominican Patriotic Youth; and dictatorship have also been sent to demonstration. When it was over, P.O. Box 471 MERIT PUBLISHERS the desert island of Gavros. John O'Brien of the Student Peace Paul Friedman of the Communist 5 East Third St., How was it possible for the gen­ Union. Party and Doug Jenness of the New York, N. Y. 10003 New York, N. Y. 10003 erals to take over in the dead of The statement said in part, "we Young Socialist Alliance made night in this way, after the elec- protest the seizure of power by brief speeches to the crowd. Page Six THE MILITANT Monday, May 8, 1967

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It Theorizers of the "new left" fail talism's problems at labor's ex­ signifies a search for the kind of to grasp the importance of forging leadership that can be given only pense are gradually sharpening a revolutionary-socialist vanguard worker-capitalist relations, the by a left wing based on a class­ struggle program. party and working to fuse it with clash has not yet developed beyond the exploited masses. Making a limited conflict within industry. Palace revolts within the top fetish of numerical strength, they Failure to take the necessary bureaucracy, whether led by an brush aside the conscious socialist working-class action is due main­ Abel in the steel union or a movement because of its present ly to incompetence and timidity in Reuther in the AFL-CIO, will not small size. To them nothing has union leadership. If ably led, the halt disintegration of its mono­ meaning unless it is already "big." workers have the capacity to make lithic control over the unions. Ac­ With that criterion they turn away an all-out fight on the job and to tions of the kind simply illustrate from serious study of the laws of carry their struggle onto the poli­ the basic contradiction in which class struggle and search for the tical arena as an independent, the bureaucrats are caught. They lowest common political denomi­ anticapitalist force. want to collaborate with the capi­ nator that will promote "bigness." They lack only a leadership talists but they have no use-value, As in other important matters, a able to establish unity of action even in that role, unless they vital need that they do not even in labor's ranks and to mobilize control a union base. It is the lat­ begin to understand is · blithely the full struggle potential of the ter need that they find increas­ dismissed as "irrelevant.'' ingly hard to fulfill. Changing class. To fill the gap it will not History has proven time and be enough simply to replace the objective conditions are narrow­ ing their chances of continuing to again that sheer force of numbers union bureaucrats with people who does not assure a mass movement mean well but have not shaped pose as labor leaders only to col­ laborate with the class enemy. As the attainment of its goals. On the a policy that meets the worker's contrary, if a movement lacks a needs. Solution of the leadership a result they are floundering around in an effort to stem the class program and a class-con­ crisis requires formation of a left scious leadership, it will crumble wing in the union ranks, demo­ inevitable tide of rank-and-file revolt. in the test of battle, no matter cvatically organized in support of how big it may be. In the last a clearly-defined program of labor Cracks in Bureaucracy analysis the program decides demands. Growing pressures from the everything, provided there is a Left Willlg Program union ranks can also produce leadership capable of carrying it out. That i.s why the building of a Backing will be gained for a fissures among lower-echelon bureaucrats who are in most direct revolutionary-socialist vanguard program that stems from the contact with the workers. Instead party is so vital to the basic in­ workers' immediate needs and of acting simply as policemen for terests of the working class, and their developing class sentiments. FAMOUS SIT-DOWN STRIKE IN AUTO. Militant struggles the top-level dictators, some of it is the reason for the existence It should include rank-and-file them are beginning to feel a need of the Socialist Workers Party. control over union affairs; escala­ of the thirties forshadow working class battles to come. New, for at least limited adaptation .to Workers• Power tor clauses in all contracts, for­ class-conscious leadership is needed to lead struggle onto higher struggle moods in the ranks. mulated to keep wages fully plane. Labor's future hinges on the abreast of rising prices; reduction Worker militants can take tactical advantage of such developments, construction of a party capable of of the work week with no cut in provided it is clearly understooq shaping a program that meets ob­ pay; full compensation for jobless direct challenge of the present independent party to add a higher jective class needs, a party able to that the leadership problem can­ workers, including youth unable capitalist control over the govern­ form of struggle. carry through the struggle for not be solved through self-reform find a place in the labor force; ment. realization of that program. t.o Within the unions, however, within the class-collaborationist opposition to the Vietnam war; With the union movement as changes in the member's attitudes bureaucracy. Through its efforts, growing num­ defense of the unconditional right yet only in a preliminary state are taking place as they search bers can be helped to embrace to strike; and complete union of change, breakup of the labor­ for more effective means of strug­ There can be no solution short the socialist alternative to outlived independence from government Democratic coalition still lies gle in defense of their class in­ of building a leadership based on capitalism and they can go forward control. somewhere ahead. The workers terests. Those who voice the class-struggle concepts, a leader­ with self-confidence in the strug­ remain in a highly contradictory workers' needs and show leader­ ship that emerges from a left gle for the socialist goal. Their Concerted efforts are needed to wing dedicated to the basic per­ combat racist schemes to pit white stage of political transition, leav­ ship ability in the search for a strategic objective will be the ing uncertainties as to the im­ solution of their problems will get spective of rank-and-file control taking over of governmental pow­ workers against black at the ex­ over all union affairs. Through pense of the class as a whole. mediate pace and scope of new support. In this connection there er by the working class and its developments. In this complex is a positive side to the Reuther­ such close ties between leadership allies. Toward that end the left wing and membership the full power of should demand equal rights for all situation care must be taken Meany dispute. Although Reuther's Attainment of that goal will end neither to put forward slogans too leadership credentials are no the working class can be mobi­ governmental control by bankers workers inside the unions and on lized. In action the workers will the job. Advocates of black power advanced to make real connection better than Meany's, he has helped and corporation magnates, whose with dissident workers, nor to to open up a critical examination demonstrate their courage, re­ philosophy was once summed up in the civil-rights movement sourcefulness, ingenuity - their should be given fraternal support overadapt to specific conditions of union policy. Militants striving in a single candid· sentence uttered and thereby de-emphasize labor's to forge a class-struggle left wing capacity to change everything for and their example emulated within the better. by Henry Ford II. "The target of the unions by putting forward the necessary political goals. The class can take things from there, ·going private business,'' he said, "is concept of labor power. Recogni­ vanguard's duty is to help the beyond Reuther to initiate mean­ In the coming struggles many private profit.'' That means mer­ tion along these lines of the trail workers educate themselves and ingful discussions in the union tactical problems will arise that ciless exploitation of people in black workers are blazing for the prepare to act on an ever-higher ranks. can be decided only on the basis this country and abroad for the of specific circumstances at the benefit of all their class brothers plane as · they become convinced Unity sole purpose of amassing capitalist of the need. Efforts to overleap time. It does not follow, however, and sisters will help to overcome While stressing the need for wealth. At home the policy leads blind race prejudice. It will help that process and inspire action that tactical decisions can be made to social deprivations in housing, simply by audacious leadership effective changes in union policy, on the basis of mere improvisa­ to knit the black-white unity so emphasis should also be placed on health care, education, economic urgently needed to advance gen­ proposals can only misfire. tion. All tactics must point in the security, human equality, civil maintaining working-class unity direction of labor's strategic needs. eral working-class interests. Contradictory Development against the capitalists. Labor's liberties and other needs vital to They must serve to promote a the kind of life people could and Olass Struggle Concepts The task of a union left wing interests require opposition both direct confrontation with the capi­ is t.o develop step by step the to bureaucratic attacks on dis­ should lead, if our society was In broad terms, a union left talists within industry and in gov­ reorganized in a rational way. wing can have real meaning only unfolding of the historic course sident union members and to gov­ ernment; and they must point that is necessary and possible for ernment frame-ups of union offi­ Abroad it leads to brutal wars to the extent that it strives con­ toward a challenge of the lackeys against innocent people for the sistently to help the workers shed the working class. As the desired cials, as in the case of James Hoffa of capitalism within the mass vesults begin to take form in real of the Teamsters. The latter type sole purpose of subjecting them to class-collaborationist illusions and movement. Tactical decisions must imperialist exploitation. acquire class-struggle concepts. life they will not appear as simple, of frame-ups are really aimed at in addition be linked up with This leads toward full use of the clear cut and uncontradictory as the labor movement and represent persistent efforts to impel work­ Rational Society union power in direct confronta­ may have been anticipated in a form of government intrusion ing-class sentiment in an anticapi­ All this will be ended once labor tions with the owners of industry terms of pure theory. Continued into union affairs that bodes evil talist political direction. and its allies take over the gov­ over issues important to the work­ backwardness on some important for the membership. Bureaucratic ernment and set out to reorganize ers. In the process they come up questions may obscure the fact misleaders must be removed from Labor Party society on a socialist basis. The against interventions by the capi­ that workers are becoming more union office, but not by the capi­ The first phase of anticapitalist banks and basic industries will be talist government on the side of advanced in their thinking about talist government. All union af­ political action will focus on ef­ nationalized, as will the food trusts the employers. Through these ex­ others. Experimental attempts can fairs must be handled by the forts to form an independent labor and all natural resources, including periences an honest, knowing be expected to graft advanced workers themselves through ex­ party based on the unions. Even nuclear power. Necessary human union leadership can teach rich ideas onto retarded forms of strug­ ercise of rank-and-file democracy. though such a political formation labor will be arranged in a manner lessons about the role of govern­ gle, something like putting a Primary attention should always can be expected to have illusions that provides jobs for all who are ment in the class struggle and so u p e d-u p engine in an old center on the class enemy, with at the outset about solving labor's able to work and. assures full care about the nature of the capitalist jalopy. This will probably be the key programmatic demands aimed problems through reform of the for those who can't. The workers politicians presently running the case as the workers move toward straight at the capitalists. If em- · capitalist system, the class charac­ and technicians will democratically government. The workers can be independent class political action. phasis is put on a program meeting ter of the party will make it organize, plan, and control produc­ helped to grasp the need for or­ In the 1930s the workers first the workers' needs, and it is made inherently anticapitalist. This be­ tion to serve everybody's needs on ganization of their own independ­ tried to organize in basic industry clear that the left wing will sup­ comes the starting point from a fair basis. Society will be freed ent party based on their existing through the AFL, hoping to re­ port efforts from any quarter to which to help workers perceive from every trace of discrimination organizations, the unions. make · its craft-union structure to carry out the program, the union the need to struggle for govern­ and segregation. All will have an When the unions are thus serve their industrial union needs. bureaucrats will be caught in a mental power and abolish the equal opportunity to prosper and brought toward a complete break It took the failure of that ex­ bind. They must either respond to whole capitalist social structure. to freely develop their human with capitalist politics, the road periment to prepare them for a the needs of the membership or In the process union militants can potentialities for the common good. will begin to open for labor to mass shift to the building of the stand exposed as incompetent and be won over to acceptance of the Our country will lend a helping take the general political lead CIO. Today a somewhat analogous unreliable. Instead of their being socialist program. In this way hand to peoples in other lands, against capital. Militants within situation exists in the sense that in a favorable position to witch­ formation of a broad class-struggle instead of mobilizing and arming all sectors of· the broad mass the workers have yet to exhaust hunt the left wing, impetus will left wing will lead to growth of to make war on them. movement can then be unified their efforts to solve essentially be given to sentiments for a change a conscious socialist wing; today Humanity will then be able to around a common struggle to pro­ political problems through union in leadership that are already through projection of anticapitalist live in lasting peace, with freedom, mote anticap!talist political action. methods alone. They are not ready developing in the union ranks. political concepts in the unions; equality and security for all. Man, As the trend gathers momentum to move forthwith to supplemen­ The trend is reflected in the oust­ tomorrow through direct expe­ as an intelligent social animal, the way will be prepared for a tary organization of their own ing of McDonald, Carey and riences in independent labor poli- will finally have come of age. Monday, May 8, 1967 THE MILITANT Page Seven

[Thia column is an open forum against it and has chosen instead Dra~ Resistance Thought for the Week for an viewpoints on subjects of to boycott it. When we say that New York, N.Y. gene,-al interest to our readers. a plebiscite such as this one, which Pfc. Howard Petrick is a very "If he [Muhammad Ali] wins, all the Muslims will refuse to Please keep your letters brief. will take place next July 23, is brave young man and he deserves take the oath, and where will we get ouir soldiers?" - Fred Drogula, · Where necessary they will be the support of the entire antiwar a Justice Department trial lawyer, abridged. Writers' initials will be a farce, we feel strongly that we movement. But readers of The used, names being withheld unless can back our statement with the MiUtant should know that he is authorization is given for use.] fact that United States imperial­ not alone in his refusal to be message; each sign raised one's ism controls the economy, the intimidated by the U.S. govern­ expectancy and eagerness to rea:d which crept into our MiLitant re­ From MPI Political, and the military machin­ ment. At the Spring Mobilization, the next; and this expectancy port on the Mobilization in San New York, N.Y. ery of the island. Thus a Puerto for instance, 175 young men and eagerness reached its highest Francisco. To Our North American Friends: Rican plebiscite is nothing more burned their draft cards, an act of pitch for the last sign, bearing the There were not 500 buses from There are in Puerto Rico today nor less than a Washington plebi­ defiance punishable by up to five punch-line. Los Angeles. The correct figure huge numbers of young men resist­ scite. years in prison. One of them, Gary The same idea is employable in was 35 buses. There were 5,000- ing the draft; there are also thou­ The MP! is currently leading a Rader, an army reservist in the a parade or street demonstration. 6,000 people from Los Angeles at sands of students militantly strug­ gigantic campaign boycotting it. green berets, has already been The sign-bearers could suitably the Mobilization. However, most gling against the dirty war which Our main objective is to discredit arrested. space themselves, successively, arranged their own transportation. the United States is carrying out this farce on a national and inter­ The participants in this mass preferably on the sidewalk side It was misleading to say that the in Vietnam. To these, and to the national level. In order to achieve draft card burning are already at of the marching column. Housing Office found space for growing forces for independence this objective we need your help work organizing more of the same. Often, an effective slogan can­ 10,000 people. In checking with of the island, the United States now. Please send your contribution Also, there are about 20 "We not be gotten on single sign. If Mrs. Sylvia Weinstein, who was in imperialists have very obviously to help advance the cause of the Won't Go" draft resistance unions it is of any length, the lettering charge of housing, we found that decided to answer with a plebiscite Puerto Rican patriotic forces. at colleges across the nation. Their gets small and crowded; it passes indeed space was found for eight on Puerto Rico's status. We are counting on the aid of the membership is almost 1,000, More too quickly and has to be hurried­ to ten thousand. But the total The Puerto Rico Pro Independ­ North American progressives, and than 60 young men are already in ly read. The Burma-Shave idea number who availed themselves prison as draft refusers. Many ence Movement (MPI), well know­ will very much appreciate any eliminates all this. Moreover, it has of the Housing Office service was ing that the results of a plebiscite assistance we can get. Your con­ more than this are under indict­ the attraction of novelty; its sus­ 3,430, as most out-of-town groups ment. The point is that marching in our country today will not tribution may be sent to the MPI, ceptibility to variation could ever arranged to arrive in the morn­ alone won't bring the necessary prove in the interest of our people, P. 0. Box 241, Peter Stuyvesant renew the novelty; its eye-catch­ ing and depart immediately after change needed in this country and the rally. and with a clear understanding of Station, N.Y. 10009. ing, eye-holding power would be the world. The best thing that Most of those who needed hous, the farce that such a plebiscite irresistible; and it would be fool­ Dixie Bayo Americans can do right now is to ing were sent directly to the larg­ represents, has declared itself Chairman, New York MPI proof for all but boneheads, ultra· do what Pfc. Petrick is doing along rights, ultra-lefts, etc. est places - churches and so with hundreds and maybe thou­ Imagine, for illustrative pur­ forth - which had space for many Enthused Peace Mobilizer sands of other young Americans, poses only, this deliberately bone­ people. Quite a few of those who WeeklyCalendar Chicago, Ill. and that is to RESIST. headed example: offered private housing called the I cannot tell you how much I Martin Jezer 1st) If the Slogans Seem Mobilization Housing Office in dis­ enjoyed your special "Peace Mobi­ Co-Editor Pathetic may, says Mrs. Weinstein, when WIN (Workshop in DETROIT lization" issue. Even though I too (2nd) Lettering Wrong and they found that no one had been Non-violence) Magazine sent to them. Many had baked DR. ANNETTE RUBINSTEIN speaks on came from Chicago to participate, Unaesthetic The American Theater from "Waiting for it was impossible to gauge the [In a coming issue we will dis­ (3rd) And the Crowd is cookies and doughnuts and made Lefty" to "Waiting for Godot." Fri., overall magnitude of it! It took a cuss our attitude on draft-card Apathetic pots and pots of coffee, and they May 12, 8 p.m. 3737 Woodward. Ausp. whole issue of your paper to do burning-EDITOR]. ( 4th) Try the "Burma-Shave" were quite disappointed at being Friday Night Socialist Forum. that! Idea. unable to offer their hospitality to A Plan/ For Man/ To Scan antiwar activists from out of town! • I am certain that your office M.K. LOS ANGELES will be flooded with requests for Brooklyn, N.Y. The spirit of those who worked ALIENATION IN MODERN SOCIE­ Some years ago, a product called Correction on the Mobilization in this city is your terrific April 24 issue, but San Francisco, Calif. TY. Speaker: George Novack, Marxist I hope it will be possible for me Burma-Shave used to advertise very well illustrated, we think, by outhor and editor. Fri., May 12, 8:30 to secure ten or fifteen copies - with road sighs. Each successive We would like to correct an er­ this. p.m. 1702 E. 4th St. Contrib. $I, stu­ sign gave a successive part of the ror and a misleading statement Merry Safier and Roger Filene dents, 35 cents. Ausp. Militant Lobor whatever you can spare. These Forum. will be for some of my "uncon­ * * * vinced" friends. MARXIST COMMENTARY. A biweek­ What a morale booster the April ly analysis of the news by Theodore Ed­ 15 Peace Mobilization was to those • ward:s, So. Calif. Chairman of the So­ of us who are constantly being It Was Reported Ill the Press cialist Workers Party. Mon., May 15, 6:45 p.m. (repeated Thurs., May 25, asked: "So what good are your peace marches or demonstrations For Uncle - When you go to plained: "I have five servants in mortal.'' Or, to put it in layman's 12:45 p.m.) KPFK-FM (90.7 on your my house and not one of them terms, the fact that the soul does dial.) accomplishing? The majority of work tomorrow think about this. the American people may worry According to Tax Foundation, a speaks English. I almost never get not exist is the very best proof • a message straight." that it does. NEW YORK about it, but they won't do any­ private research outfit, the aver­ HOW BLACK VETERANS VIEW THE thing about it." Inspired Logic - Richard Spur­ age American will spend two Seeking Discharge? - A UPI VIETN'AM WAR - A Symposium. Ponel­ This was a very good answer to ney, a Catholic junior college dispatch from Tokyo reported: ists: Leo Berry, Vietnom war veteron; those cynics. The Spring Mobili­ hours and 25 minutes of each philosophy teacher, is, in our "A U.S. Navy pilot, who has pub­ Tom Berry, Vietnam war veteran; and zation Committee members de· eight-hour working day earning Tyrone Austin (Omar Abdul-Wha,heeb), view, a leading contender for the licly urged the United States to army veteran. Fri., May 12, 8:30 p.m. serve our country's greatest the money to pay his 1967 taxes. $200,000 left by an Arizona miner declare war against north Viet­ 873 Broadway at 18th St. Contrib. $1. "peace award" for their herculean The foundation said working time for anyone who scientifically nam and to press for clear-cut Ausp. Militant Labor Forum. efforts, and now that their part is to cover direct and indirect tax proves the existence of the human military victory, said Wednesday over, we should do ours. Every soul. Spurney submitted a foot­ the Navy has convened a medical TWIN • CITIES costs is greater than any other person who thrilled at this spec­ single item in the household bud­ thick document of scientific evi­ board to investigate his mental FREE HUGO BLANCO! - The Mean­ tacle or who participated should get. dence, including the following: condition." Maybe he read Catch- ing of LBJ's Punta del Este Conference. mail a contribution to the Spring "Death is decomposition . . . de­ 22 where the doctor explains to a Speaker: Charles Scheer, Mpls. Social­ Mobilization Committee to help Philosophical Loser - Frederick composition requires divisibility recalcitrant pilot that only those ist Workers Party. Fri., May 12, 8:30 defray their expenses. p.m. 704 Hennepin Ave, Ausp. Friday Rose drew an 18-month term in into parts ... but divisibility ... who don't want to fly any more Nig.ht Socialist Forum. Mrs. Nellie De Schaaf Cambridge, Mass., on charges of requires matter. 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Seeing this, James Grit­ PHILADELPHIA, April 28 - ing from an attack on an antiwar fin, began to usher one of the row­ The conflict over campus com­ gathering by members of the right- dies from the auditorium. The plicity in genocide reached a new wing "Breakthrough" organiza- usher who had been pushed, climax here today as hundreds of tion. Griffin, who was attacked George Bouse, himself removed University of Pennsylvania stu­ by the rightists, was charged with another goon. dents completed a 51-hour sit-in. "disturbing the peace" at a rally After handing the rightist over For two days and two nights, last November, and was recently to an officer, Griffin himself was the plush carpeted floor of Presi­ sentenced to two years probation arrested at that point for "dis­ dent Harnwell's office and the and $400 "court costs." turbing the peace" by the head of surrounding corridors of College On Nov. 7, 1966, a teach-in was the campus security guards, who Hall were crammed with sleeping, held on the campus of Wayne didn't arrest the fascist until min­ studying and singing students de­ State University. The sponsors of utes later when angry audience manding an end to Projects Sum­ the event, the Wayne State and members demanded it. mit and Spicerack, two gern:i war­ Detroit Committees to End the War fare contracts at Penn from the in Vietnam, had told the univer­ A few moments later, while being held by the arms in the U.S. Army and Air Foroe. Today sity administration about threats the sit-in culminated in a rally of from Breakthrough against the "protective" custody of security officers, Griffin was struck in the 350 studen;;s on the floor of Col­ whole November days of protest in chest while not looking by another lege Hall's main corridor. Detroit, and expressed the desire Breakthrough member. Outside, In today's Daily Pennsylvanian, to exclude Breakthrough from the the final issue of the term, the teach-in. all during the evening, two more editorial demanded that the trus­ fascists stood threateningly at the The WCEWV said that they door, one with a huge police dog tees fire Harnwell because of his would organize a contingent of on a leash and one with a weighty duplicity and his unresponsiveness WON'T BUDGE. U of Penn students sit-in at university admini­ ushers to insure the orderly and to the demands of faculty and stration offices. uninterrupted progress of the umbrella sharpened to a fine point. students for the termination of teach-in, but were informed by Griffin, charged by the campus the germ warfare research. "Dr. university officials not to bother security police with disturbing the FLU." Swarthmore and Bryn Mawr, that peace of a meeting that he had Gaylord P. Harnwell is an old to do this because campus secu­ At 3: 30 Harnwell agreed to ad­ their colleges will follow suit and been asked by the sponsors to help man," began the editorial in the dress the students. He spoke for also withdraw from the Science rity police would take care of any­ undergraduate newspaper. usher, was subsequently tried and 15 minutes and was questioned Center. one attempting to disrupt the convicted partly because of vi­ The alumni secretary for the by the students for more than an A1ter Harnwell's appearance, meeting in any way. But they ex­ Class of 1963, Norman Glickman, cious red-baiting by the prosecu­ hour. Most of the important ques­ the students' realization that he plicitly refused to allow the tor. announced yesterday that he has tions he refused to answer. Harn­ had been caught in several lies WCEWV to exclude the trouble­ decided to resign his position in well claimed ignorance of the made them determined enough making Breakthrough group. University Reaction protest to the germ warfare re­ exact nature of the research and to decide to continue the sit-in When the teach-in was held, uni­ Wayne University officials now search. In a related development, its relation to Vietnam; he avoid­ for another 48 hours. Seventy-five versity officials forced the are attempting to distort. and twist 50 seniors signed a statement that ed giving an answer to a question students slept in Harnwell's office WCEWV to allow Breakthrough the incident and use the whole they would give no financial con­ about whether the university is and College Hall Wednesday into the audience. Then, at about affair as an excuse to put the tributions to Penn until "such time under economic pressure from the night. Sleeping bags, blankets, 8: 20 p.m., Breakthrough members screws on antiwar activity at the as the University and all its sub­ government to keep Projects guitars, books, typewriters and a pushed a teach-in usher and al­ school. They once again refused to sidiary bodies divest themselves Spicerack and Summit. Regarding TV set arrived. Thursday night most knocked him over. They then allow antiwar activists to exclude of all research contracts dealing the proposed transfer of the con­ 180 slept in. the fascists from the events of with biological and chemical war­ tracts to the University City Sci­ At today's rally, the crowd of Vietnam Week, April 8-15. Lucki­ fare." ence Center, a corporation in 350 was enthusiastic. The number ly, because of embarrassing pub­ The heightened phase of the pro­ which Penn owns 53 percent of of television cameras rolling and Double-Speaking licity about the Griffin case and tests which led to the sit-in began the stock and of which Dr. Harn­ flashbulbs flashing indicated that Brass Hat a strong unified position on the on one of the buses returning from well is also president, Harnwell this protest has been the most "I learned from General civil liberties issues involved the April 15 Mobilization in New stated, "The Science Center was successful to date in bringing pub­ taken by campus and city-wide York. Several students on the bus, set up to take on projects that the lic exposure to Penn's immoral Westmoreland that the bulk antiwar forces, the events of April most of whom had never partici­ university cannot take on." and inhumane research. One of of the Vietcong fighting in were guarded heavily by campus pated in demonstrations before In another development related those who spoke was Jerry Rif­ south Vietnam were bom police and came off splendidly April 15, decided to stage a pro­ to the Science Center, some of the kin, president of the Senior Class and reared in south Viet­ amidst the hollow threats of the test against the germ warfare re­ smaller stockholders in this cor­ and vice-president of the inter­ nam." - Senator Stephen right-wing. However, a large group search at Penn's Heyday Ceremo­ poration have indicated their dis­ fraternity council. He said that, Young, (D.-Ohio), Feb. 6, of ushers once again had to be nies the following week. pleasure at the coming acquisition "Some people claim that this sit-in 1966. organized to be sure that cam­ On Thursday, April 20, 55 stu­ of the germ warfare research con­ has brought unprecedented embar­ pus brass and aspiring Nazis alike dents walked out of Harnwell's tracts. Four-fifths of Haverford rassment to our university. It is "What we have is not a knew that the antiwar movement speech at the Heyday Ceremonies, College's faculty have voted for not the sit-in, but the immoral re­ civil war, it is a massive meant business and was serious 30 of them wearing gas masks. A Haverford's withdrawal from the search which brings the embar­ campaign of external aggres­ about defending its democratic meeting was called the next day Science Center as soon as it ac­ rassment." To collect money for sion from north Vietnam." rights. to plan the sit-in. quires Spicerack and Summit. It publicity expenses, a gas mask was General Westmoreland, Griffin's case is now being ap­ At noon on April 26, 110 stu­ is highly likely, according to stu­ passed around and brought in over April 24, 1967. pealed under the legal guidance of dents began the sit-in. They walk­ dent and faculty leaders at $70. his attorney, 0. Lee Molette. Ef­ ed into College Hall wearing gas forts are underway to organize a masks and carrying signs such as broad defense committee to handle "NO GERM WARFARE RE­ the expense and work of building SEARCH FOR VIETNAM"; up pressure against the power "CLOSE HARNWELL'S SPICE· Carmi,chael,Bevel Back Antiwar GI structure of police administrators, RACK"; and "COURSE OF STU­ university officials, courts and DY AT PENN: ARSENIC, VIET­ James Bevel, Stokely Carmi­ ordinating Committee I would like prised ... Such action is typical judges to force the granting of a NAMESE RICE DISEASE, CYA­ chael, Sidney Lens and Murray to express outrage over your of the treatment that is meted out favorable ruling and to create an NIDE, SOUTHEAST A S I AN Kempton have joined many others frame-up by the U.S. army offi. to black people in the United atmosphere unfavorable to fascist­ in denouncing the army threat to cials and pending court-martial for States every day of their lives ... type hooliganism against the anti­ court-martial Pfc. Howard Petrick merely exercising your supposed "We in SNCC support you in war and other movements and ac­ Texas Catholics for his socialist and antiwar comtitutional rights of free speech your struggle . . ." tivities. views. Petrick has been told by and freedom of political belief. We Sindey Lens, author and mem­ Picket Church army authorities that he faces pos­ are outraged, yes, but not sur- ber of the editorial board of sible charges of "subversion," cre­ Liberation magazine, said, "I ap­ Roman Catholic parishon­ ating "disaffection" within the plaud Howard Petrick's courage Saigon Workers ers demonstrated in front of army and making "disloyal state­ in speaking out against the war Stage Protest two downtown churches in ments" - for the sole "crime" while in service. I hope millions San Antonio, Texas, on April of expressing his views against more will follow his lead. It is A massive May Day rally 30 in support of four priests the war to his fellow Gls. Petrick outrageous that the government against the ·Ky government who have been suspended is a member of the Young Social­ asks men to kill 10,000 miles away and against U.S. intervention for comments critical of the ist Alliance and the Socialist from home but gives them no in Vietnam was held in Sai­ Archbishop of San Antonio. Workers Party. adequate opportunity to discuss gon according to a May 1 James Bevel, national director what the fighting is about." UPI dispatch. Even by police The four priests had given Well-known columnist Murray of the Spring Mobilization, said, estimates, the UPI reports, an interview to the San "Nobody has more right to know Kempton, said, "Howard Petrick, Antonio Express-News. The the truth about the immoral and while conceding that his body may there were 3,000 demonstra­ interview dealt with the ban­ useless war in Vietnam than the belong to the army, claims only tors. The rally was broken ishing by the Archbishop Gls who are sent to kill and be that his mind belongs to him. up by cops when it began some three months ago of killed there. Pfc. Howard Petrick Such is the logic of this wicked marching towards the offices two other priests, Rev. Sher­ therefore deserves to be com­ war: soldiers already conscripted of Premier Ky. rill Smith and Rev. William mended for his stand against the to act on order are now to be re­ The UPI reports that there program of mass murder in Viet­ quired to think on order." Killian. Father Smith and nam:" Bevel also said that the Statements of support and funds were about a dozen arrests Father Killian had gone to antiwar GI should not be victim­ are urgently needed by the Com­ and that those arrested car­ the Rio Grande Valley in ized for "telling the truth about mittee to Defend the Rights of ried such banners as "Stop January to aid striking farm the war to his fellow soldiers." Pfc. Howard Petrick. Write the Careless Killing By Bomb­ workers, against the orders Stokely Carmichael, national committee at: P. 0. Box 569, ing," and "Foreigners - Re­ of the Archbishop. chairman of SNCC, said, "In be­ Cooper Station, New York, N.Y. spect Vietnam's Sovereignty." half of the Student Nonviolent Co- Rev. Jam.es Bevel 10003.