Negro Students Extend Lunch Bar Battle Line

America's World Economic Position See page 2 THE MILITANT PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE Vol. XX IV — No. 12 222 NEW YORK, N.Y., MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1960 Price 10c “Jim Crow Must Go!" Dobbs Hits 2 Parties Negro Students Extend On Rights Lunch Bar Battle Line Calls Current Defy Jailing, Bill a 'Hoax' Let's Back Them Up! Racist Clubs NEW YORK, March 18 — “No An Editorial By George Lavan TV quiz show was ever as Police-state tactics and gangs j thoroughly rigged as the so- It is not enough to nod one’s head ap ponents of Jim Crow can give them. These of deputized storm troopers are l called civil-rights fight current- provingly while reading the stirring dis chains are almost invariably non-union and being employed by Southern of | ly going on in Washington,” Far patches from the South about the student anti - union. For organized labor this ficials to smash the still spread rell Dobbs, presidential nominee actions against Jim Crow. Nor is it enough should be an added incentive to extend ing protest movement of Negro of the national committee of the to speak enthusiastically about the lunch- nationally the solidarity picketing already students. Socialist Workers party, declared counter sit-downs to friends and fellow- begun by a number of union bodies. If City and state officials have today. imposed a regime close to mar “ In Congress, Democratic and workers. labor places its full weight behind a boy tial law upon the Negroes of Republican leaderships, North The Negro people of the South, led by cott of the five-and-dime chains, the North Montgomery, Alabama, who ern liberals and Dixiecrats arc their courageous students, and supported ern boycott added to the Southern can now risk life and limb if they collaborating in a mutually by a small number of equally courageous soon force them to abandon their racist attempt to assemble, petition or agreed upon hoax on the Ameri Southern whites, are in the midst of an lunch-counter policies. peacefully demonstrate. In ad can people.” Dobbs' statement dition to city and slate police, continued. “The bills, amend extremely hard - fought battle. Their de A committee headed by AFL-CIO Vice gangs of deputized horsemen ments, parliamentary moves and mand for the elementary human dignity of President A. Philip Randolph has called and Ku Klux elements wearing countermoves. the Southern fili being served in a public eating place has for a mass demonstration on May 17 — Civil Defense insignia are ter buster and the liberals' cries of arrayed against them the whole entrench anniversary of the Supreme Court’s school rorizing Negroes, newspaper re porters and photographers. disappointment are all as pre ed power of Southern racism. desegregation decision — in New York’s arranged and rehearsed as the In this desperate battle the Southern garment district in support of the Southern Fears "Massacre" grunts and groans in a profes sional wrestling match.” freedom fighters need tangible, effective students. The actions of the authorities Throughout the North, students demonstrated solidarity with the Negro student freedom "All observers admit the help from above the Mason-Dixon line. The This call for a May 17 demonstration and the white-supremacist vigil fighters in the South who have been staging "sit-ins" at five-and-dime stores. This picket line Civil Rights Act of 1960 will picketing of five-and-dime stores in various has been endorsed by the New York Youth antes in Alabama are so omin in Denver March 5 included unionists. One of them, a member of the United Packinghouse be as anemic and meaningless cities by students, and in a few instances Committee for integration, an organization ous that Roy Wilkins, head of the National Association for the Workers Union, declared, "We w ill continue to picket and boycott these outfits as long as they as its predecessor, the Civil by trade unions, deserves the highest praise of campus clubs and student government profit from their ruthless dual policy toward Northern and Southern customers." Advancement of Colored Peo Rights Act of 1957. It w ill not as examples of tangible, effective help. bodies which emerged from the solidarity even be a civil rights act; it is ple, asked the White House to being stripped down to a mere They are no mere symbolic acts of soli picketing of the five-and-dime stores. Now act to avert a possible “massa voting rights act. But it will darity. the Young Socialist Alliance is urging that cre” of Negroes. College Groups On March 13, Walter Reuther, Lie in "U.S. News" give very few disfranchised The five-and-dime chains are not only nation-wide student demonstrations be president of the AFL-CIO Uni Negroes in the South an actual guilty of racial discrimination in their called on May 17 in support of the Negro ted Auto Workers, wired Eisen vote. H it Woolworth’s Southern stores, in many instances their students of the South. hower: “Thé reign of terror in Exposed by Cubans “The voting provision, weak store managers have made the formal com All efforts henceforth should be for a Montgomery, Alabama, reported By Lillian Kiezel and cumbersome in its original Again in N.Y. plaints or sworn out the warrants on which steady build-up of Northern demonstra to you by the Rev. Martin Lu “Twenty years of dreams and ran their holdings like feudal form, has been further eroded ther King, is shocking, immoral NEW YORK, March 13 — hard work, and hundreds of lords. by voluntary changes and the Southern students have been thrown tions to a crescendo of solidarity on May 17. and un-American — appealing amendments. It now appears “Aren’t you ashamed of your thousands of dollars — all U.S. News and W orld Report in ja il. Let such a roar arise in the North on that to you to instruct the Attorney self?” “Hope you enjoy your published Everhart’s article, en that the federal voting referees The Woolworth, Kress, K resge, Grant date that it will give new heart to the General to lake immediate ac gone,” laments Jack Hall Ever titled “I had My Property fo o d !” would have to go through ten and McClellan companies deserve all the Negro freedom fighters of the South and tion in your name to restore law These were some of the com hart, whose 20,000-acre P inar Grabbed by Castro’s Men,” in legal steps to register a Negro and order in Montgomery.” ments that greeted the people del Rio cattle ranch has been the M arch 7 issue. His main refused registration by local economic punishment that Northern op give pause to their racist oppressors. Pressed by questioners at who did walk through the confiscated by the Cuban revo complaint is that the National racist officials. The opportunities his March 16 news conference, picket line of 300 youth yester lutionary government. The U.S. Institute of Agrarian Reform for legal chicanery and delay the President agreed that the day to shop or cat at the large press reports his story as typi (INRA) took away land he this w ill afford Southern authori UAW Officials Constitution guaranteed peo Thirty-fourth Street Woolworth cal of the treatment accorded claims he was entitled to under ties would probably be enough to Everyone a Capitalist ple the right to hold peaceful store here. Many other shop American ranchers and cane the agrarian reform law. discourage Job himself from demonstrations but he saw no pers respected the demonstra growers. It seems he had two ranches. trying to vote. Seek to Purge way of protecting the Negro tion held in support of Southern These tear-jerking accounts One he owned personally and In Land of the Dollar people in this right. He sug Negro students fighting to end of Everhart’s ordeal at the the other was owned by a com "Cynical Betrayal" gested it would be good if bi- public lunch-counter discrim pany of which lie was presi Canadian Unit By Harry Ring racial conferences were held hands of the Cuban revolution “But to get a federal district ination. dent. He asked to be allowed "The rich get richer and the every market rise accelerates in every Southern community. say nothing about how the court to appoint a voting referee TORONTO, March 15 — A This was the second demon Cuban farm laborers suffered to keep 3,333 acres — the max poor get kids.” the concentration of wealth in will require winning a lengthy brigade of Walter Reuther’s Held in Stockade stration organized by the New because, for half a century. imum permissible amount un That’s what they used to say their hands. der the law — for each of the lawsuit, subject to two appeals, porkchoppers moved into Can York Youth Committee for In- Americans owned most of the in the old days of dog-eat-dog If you want some more facts In Orangeburg. South Caro ranches, but his request was proving that a pattern of racial ada recently in an attempt to (Continued on Page 4) island's best arable land and capitalism. But cynical sayings on this to convince yourself or lina, a demonstration by 1,000 denied. discrimination exists in local squelch the growing a n ti like that no longer apply since others, send 75 cents (plus sales students from South Carolina Instead, he says, IN R A o ffi registration practices. As with administration opposition in the the rise of our present “peo tax in New York City) to the State and Clafin Colleges was Too Many Babies? cials told him to go and “pick attempts to enforce school deseg Canadian section of the AFL- ple’s capitalism.” National Bureau of Economic met w ith tear gas and fire hoses.

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