Militant Harlem Rally Denounces Ouster of Adam Clayton Powell

THE MilitantHarlem Rally Md~~n!e!.A!!Denounces Ouster of Vol. 31 - No. 11 Monday, March 13, 1967 Price 10¢ AdamClayton Powell By Eli Finer NEW YORK, March 5 - Over ------An Editorial------• 4,500 black people jammed into Harlem's Abbyssinian Baptist In an act of naked racism, congress has denied Adam Clayton Church today to protest the ouster Powell his seat. The way was opened for this display of anti­ of Adam Clayton Powell from congress. Powell is pastor of the Negro sentiment by the report of the committee set up to make church. a "recommendation" on Powell, headed by liberal Emanuel Cel­ The mood of the crowd was in­ lers of New York. The Cellers committee, which included Negro dicated when they were asked to Democrat John Conyers, found Powell "guilty," and recom­ sing the "Star Spangled Banner." mended he be seated with punishments, including fines. This A roar of "no, no, no!" went up, wasn't enough blood to suit the congressional lynchers, however, and only the chairman's reminder and they increased the sentence to expulsion. that they were in a church, and the quick response by the organist Their action exposes the deep racism of both the Democratic who began playing, quieted down and Republican parties, and of all wings of those parties, includ­ the outburst. ing the Northern liberals. Despite a cold drizzle, several The Democrats and the Republicans do not represent the black hundred people stood outside the people of this country. They represent the ruling circles who church to listen over loudspeakers. benefit from racism and who are determined to preserve the Speakers racist system. The congressmen have just provided a graphic Cleveland Robinson, national demonstration of this fact. Their action also demonstrates the president of the Negro American futility of the idea of black people "taking over" the Democratic Labor Council and secretary-treas­ urer of District 65, AFL-CIO, Party by "working from within." presided at the rally. Present were Powell was well-entrenched in the Democratic Party. He a cross-section of Negro leaders, Photo by Finer built a base and machine inside the party. But all of this was including Floyd McKissick, nation­ HARLEM RALLY. Cleveland Robinson speaks at meeting to pro­ of no avail when the racists decided to get him. This is because al director of CORE; Manhattan test denial of Powell's seat in congress. the real control of the Democratic Party lies in the hands of the Borough President Percy Sutton; big businessmen who run the country. Hulan Jack, an old Democratic is now going on and they talk to dependent. The crowd responded The only way black people can achieve true representation Party professional; and Eddie us of morality." enthusiastically, and more than and a measure of power, is to organize their own political party, (Porkchop) Davis, a well-known The Rev. David N. Licorish, as­ one platform guest squirmed. under their control, to struggle against the Democrats and Re­ Garvyite black nationalist street sociate minister of the church, said, Percy Sutton, a Democrat, spoke corner speaker. publicans. A mass independent black political party would be a "We want to serve notice upon all next, but ignored Mr. Davis' re­ Rent strike leader Jesse Gray, reactionary bigots in American powerful force the rulers would have to reckon with, and would marks. Hulan Jack, who once held and James Bevel of the Spring life that it is 'high noon,' and much be an important step toward ending the racist system itself. Suttons job, took Davis to task and Mobilization Committee to End later than they think." defended the Democratic Party. the War in Vietnam, were present Run Independent? The audience reminded him that but were not able to speak. Powell's trouble was caused by Floyd McKissick lashed out at Eddie Davis raised the question that party. When Jack persisted, dual standards in the United of Vietnam, and the high rate of the audience grew more clamor­ Rev. King Assails States, and brought the applauding casualties among black soldiers. ous. Jack insisted that to be in­ crowd to its feet time and time Then he turned his fire on dependent was to give up your again. "They bred our women like "whitey's D e m o c r a t s" and vote, and the uproar that followed animals," he said. "They beat us "whitey's Republicans." He said silenced Jack who was escorted War in Vietn,am with chains and the same system that Powell should run as an in- to his seat by the chairman. Rev. Martin Luther King sharp­ ly assailed the Vietnam war at a church meeting in Great Neck, Long Island, March 5. In answer­ ing a question, King called U.S. Kennedy$Vietnam Stand involvement in Vietnam "unjust and immoral." The civil rights By Harry Ring bombing has, expectedly, been nam. None of these things would leader attacked Washington's Viet­ Robert Kennedy's present crit­ seized upon by his liberal support­ indicate any concern on his part nam policies a week earlier in a ical stance in relation to Johnson ers who had been increasingly for the right of the Vietnamese to Beverly Hills, Calif., meeting with on Vietnam can help to promote hard put by his silence on the self-determination. four U.S. senators. issue. They do the antiwar move­ the antiwar movement. Whatever The fact is that Kennedy's dis­ At the Beverly Hills meeting, differences develop among the ment no service with their argu­ King declared: "The promises of pute with Johnson centers around ruling circles of this country about ment that building a "draft Ken­ how to achieve an aim they share the Great Society have been shot the war, if correctly utilized, nedy" movement is a means of op­ down on the battlefield of Viet­ in common - how best to main­ facilitate the struggle against the posing the war. What they propose tain U.S. hegemony over Vietnam. nam. The pursuit of this widened war. can only blunt the antiwar move­ war has narrowed domestic wel­ In his March 2 Senate speech The very fact that a leading ment and, if it were to gain sig­ fare programs, making the poor, nificant support, derail it. calling for a temporary suspension white and Negro, bear the heaviest political figure takes issue with of the bombing of north Vietnam, burdens both at the front and at the administration - even if his Way to End War? Kennedy made it clear that this home. differences are purely tactical and "Radical" supporters of Kennedy did not represent the slightest con­ "The recently revealed $10-bil­ do not express actual opposition argue that building support for cession to the rights of the Viet­ lion mis-estimate of the war bud­ to the war - helps to legitimatize him is a "realistic" way of fight­ namese. He declared: get alone," King pointed out, "is dissenting views on the war. The ing the war. Of course, some of widely publicized dispute focuses "And even though we debate, as more than five times the amount them readily concede, Kennedy is we must, the wisest course toward greater public attention on the committed to antipoverty pro­ a capitalist politician like the rest settlement in Vietnam, there is no Rev. Martin Luther King issue and spurs debate. grams. The security we profess to of them, but, for whatever rea­ comfort for our adversary in these seek in foreign adventures we Such a dispute makes clear that son, at least he wants to end the councils. Nearly all Americans will lose in our decaying cities. as many Negroes in combat in there are serious doubts within war. That may be. But the same share with us the determination Seeond Class Vietnam at the beginning of 1967, the country's ruling circles as to thing can be said about Johnson. and intention to remain in Viet­ "We are willing to make the and twice as many died in action the wisdom - if not the justice - The only problem is the way he nam until we have fulfilled our Negro 100 percent of a citizen in - 20.6 percent - in proportion to of what is being done in Vietnam. wants to end the war - by ne­ commitments. warfare but reduce him to 50 their numbe1·s in the population as This weakens the case of the apol­ gotiating the unconditional sur­ "There is no danger of any di­ percent' of a citizen on American whites." ogists for the war. render of the Vietnamese people. vision ... which will erode Amer­ soil. Half of all the Negroes live in According to New York Times Further, it is a reliable indica­ The question is, does Kennedy ican will and compel American substandard housing and he has correspondent Gladwin Hill, who tion of developing popular antiwar want to end the war on any funda­ withdrawal." half the income of whites. covered the meeting of King and sentiment. No politician as ca1- mentally different basis than LBJ? Kennedy was careful to explain "There is twice as much unem­ the senators, the theme of the culatingly vote-conscious as Ken­ Kennedy's previous record that his proposal was a slick meth­ ployment and infant mortality conference was United States with­ nedy would make a public issue would certainly indicate this is not od of deflecting mounting world among Negroes. There were twice drawal from the Vietnam conflict. out of Vietnam if he felt it would the case. There is his early record opinion away from the U.S. and "Dr. King asserted that the U.S. be a hindrance, not a help, to his with the Communist-baiting Mc­ of putting the Russians on the spot. involvement had violated the UN presidential aspirations. Carthy committee, and the labor­ "I propose that we test the sin­ On April 15 there will be Charter and the principle of self­ However, if this political devel­ baiting McClellan committee. cerity of the statements by Premier determination; had crippled the opment is to be effectively utilized There is his viciously anti-union Kosygin and others asserting that two giant demonstrations antipoverty program; and had im­ by the antiwar movement, its vendetta against Teamsters Union against the war, in New York if the bombardment of the north paired the right of dissent." meaning must be properly under­ leader James Hoffa. is halted, negotiations would be­ and San Francisco. For news The senators were Eugene Mc­ stood. Above all, it must not be Kennedy played a key policy gin," he said. on this Spring Mobilization Carthy, (D-Minn.); George Mc­ mistaken for what it is not - that role in the efforts of his brother's "Let us," he continued, "place on to End the War in Vietnam, Govern, (D-S.D.); Ernest Gruen­ is, a genuine move toward oppos­ administration to crush the Cuban the Soviet Union, on north Viet­ see page 3. ing, (D-Alaska); and Mark Q. lng U.S. aggression in Vietnam. revolution and in the first escala­ nam, the obligation to demonstrate Hattfield, (R-Ore.). Kennedy's call for a halt to the tion of the intervention in Viet- (Continued on Page 5) Page Two THE MILITANT Monday, March 13, 1967

THE NATIONAL ,1cKET LINE • Strikefor Recognition LBJMoves to BreakIBEW Strike At (/eve/andHospital Strikebreaker Johnson has ated Meat Cutters. It was nego- tional Chemical Workers. Com­ started proceedings for another tiated six months before expira- mon goals were set for higher pay By Rachel Towne Taft-Hartley injunction. This time tion of the existing contract and and improved working conditions. CLEVELAND, March 4 - Over he is attacking 1,400 members of runs to Sept. 1, 1970. A demand was raised for multi- work is considered hazardous. 200 employes of Cuyahoga Coun­ Typical pay for a 10-day period is the International Brotherhood of The agreement calls for wage union, multi-plant bargaining. ty's public tuberculosis hospital $137 gross, which is $1.72 per Electrical Workers, who walked increases of 12 cents an hour upon Union Carbide insisted that ne­ have been out on strike since Feb. hour. out four months ago a:t West Coast ratification, another 11 cents next gotiations be held union by union, 20. They are demanding recogni­ shipyards from San Francisco to year and 11 cents more in 1969. plant by plant, its aim being to Workers are keeping up the tion of their union, Local 1746, picket line 24 hours a day on Seattle. Although the previous There will be some correction of weaken union power and main­ American Federation of State, IBEW contract had expired in wage differentials in Southern tain the intense exploitation of three hour shifts in near zero County and Municipal Employes, temperature. July, 1965, the ship,yard electri- plants. Basic rates now range labor through which it amassed AFL-CIO. cians tried for 16 months to get from $2.91 to $3.99 an hour. The record profits of over $230 mil­ The morale of the strikers con­ Hospital administrators have tinues to be very high. Ninety per­ a negotiated settlement before required retirement age for full lion in 1966. refused to allow an election to they finally struck on Nov. 3, 1966. pension qualification is lowered to Last summer the company cent of those on strike are Negro, determine a bargaining agent for Many are women and many young. They demanded wage increases of 62 from 65. Although full details locked out workers at its plant in the workers, despite the fact that Slogans on picket signs include five percent a year in a two-year are not available, the unions ap- Alloy, West Va., and the lockout almost 300 out of 500 employes "Too Little, Too Long"; "Bargain contract, retroactive to July 1, pear to have given ground to the was turned into a strike as union have signed union cards. Baby Bargain"; "3 Cheers for the 1965. Their present rate is $3.50 company on the problem of pro- walkouts began at 10 other plants While the only demand raised Trustees - Heil, Heil, Heil" and an hour. tecting workers from loss of jobs in various cities. In Ashtabula, by the workers at this point is for "You Don't Own Us." When the strike began other due to automation. Ohio, the company got an injunc- union recognition, working condi­ The picket line at each entrance shipyard workers generally hon- Through early settlement with tion against mass picketing in an tions and wages are bad. An em­ to the. hospital has been honored ored IBEW picket lines. Business the UPW and Amalgamated, Ar- effort to operate its plant there ploye who is sick one day must by other unions and the hospital agents for other craft unions mour has been able to avoid co- with scabs. Johnson helped Union bring a doctor's written excuse. is running short on supplies. Also, quickly stepped in to back the ordinated bargaining with other Carbide by invoking a: Taft-Hart­ Partiality is shown in the system the professional staff is doing some employers in demanding that no- unions representing workers in tey injunction, using the Vietnam of "merit increases" in wages. of the menial work. strike agreements be "honored" diversified divisions of the com- war as an alibi, to force strikers Workers must pay for their own Hospital authorities have cyn­ instead. Since then workers in pany. A ceiling has also been back to work in Kokomo, Ind., at laundering of uniforms. ically taken advantage of every other crafts have gone back to established, in effect, in union ne- their old wages. The union chal­ opportunity to attempt to defeat work and the struck yards are gotiations with other major meat lenged the injunction in the courts Vacations Job classification is either non­ the strike. They are using con­ operating on a limited basis. processing companies, notably and the Supreme Court let it scientious objectors as strike-break­ At the outset an association of Swift and Wilson, whose contracts stand. existent or ill-defined. For ex­ ample, carpenters are called upon ers. Released from active military 13 major shipyards and 30 small- expire on Aug. 31. Subsequently the three affiliates to do electrical work, which vio­ service because of their religious er independent yards were in- * * * of the Reuther-led IUD have re- lates safety regulations. While two beliefs, the COs have been threat­ volved. Last January the inde- Local 1 of the Lithographers has treated from their stance as a co- weeks vacation is granted, the ened with the draft or jail if they pendents began to sign up with negotiated a new contract for ordinated group and have returned weeks cannot be taken consecu­ do not remain on the job. the !BEW on terms including an k 120 N y k to separate bargaining at indivi- immediate hourly wage hike of 9,300 wor ers at ew or tively in most cases and have to The Cleveland Federation of La­ 25 cents an additional 25 cents City concerns. Agreement was dual plants. be taken when "convenient" for bor has written every union local next July' 1, and three cost-o fl. · 1v- reached 14 months before the cur- OCAW has now settled with the administration. in Cleveland calling for support ing adjustments. The major yards rent contract was due to expire. Union Carbide at the Marietta, Sunny Acres, as the hospital is to the hospital workers. have hung tough on an offer of The new pact, which runs to May Ohio, plant for wage increases of called, has lower wages than other 20 cents, plus 10 cents more on 1, 1970, provides weekly wage in- 15 cents an hour this year, an­ county hospitals although the Civil "I have no country to fight for; July l, which is the rate stipu- creases of $8 this May, $7 in 1968 other 10 cents in January, 1968, Service laws of Ohio provide a my country is the earth, and I am lated in a: current joint contract and $7 in 1969. Current pay aver- and nine cents more in August, higher wage differential for em­ a citizen of the world."-Eugene signed two years ago by other ages from $190 a week for plate 1968. ployes of TB hospitals because the Victor Debs. cr~uniomin~~ds. ~~rsto~Ohfiff~M~~ ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; As the independent yards began men. to sign new contracts with the The companies appear to be IBEW, the owners of the major given a relatively free hand to in­ shipyards filed a suit against the troduce technological change. Lo­ union in federal court seeking cal 1 President Edward Swayduck TheCIA Doesn't Support Us! damages of $94,500 a day for each told reporters, "We have a philos­ day the strike lasts, in addition ophy of trying to understand each to $5.5 million in general damages. other's problems." 1 Then they offered to withdraw the * * * WeN;eied You! suit if a deal could be swung along Commenting on the Armour and lines proposed by the bureaucrats lithographers negotiations, a war activity before. We've sent out of the AFL-CIO Metal Trades De- March 4 New York Times edito­ THE STUD.ENT MOBILIZATION partment. rial said in part: "In both cases COMMITTEE has been worki 1ng for 50,000 calls, 30,000 STUDENT MOBIL­ Under the projected deal the the .new agreements provide the two months now to build the antiwar IZERS, 50,000 pledge cards, and thou­ !BEW would return to work at workers with substantial benefits sands of buttons, posters, and stick­ the old wage rates, and the ma- and give the companies freedom movement on campuses and to bring jor yards would agree to end one to move forward energetically in thousands of students to New York ers. year early the present joint agree- technological innovation. Against and Sain Francisco for the April 15 ment with other shipyard crafts these constructive developments demonstrations. All this has been done with a now scheduled to run until June must be set the continuation of TOTAL income of LESS THAN $1000 30, 1968. Negotiations would then the four-month-old strike of elec­ AMAZING PROGRESS HAS BEEN begin for a new three-year con- trical workers in West Coast ship­ - most of which is borrowed money! tract covering all the crafts, in- yards, which prompted President MADE. We are in contact with over eluding the !BEW. This meant Johnson yesterday to move for an 300 campuses.Whole new constituen­ HOW? The staff of four has been that the !BEW, which had rebelled 80-da'y injunction under the na­ cies of the stude1nt body have been against the 1965 settlement nego- tional emergency provisions of the paid ONCE In the eight weeks - tiated by the Metal Trades De- Taft-Hartley Act ... The default reached. The sponsorship of student postage was more important. Pri1nt­ partment, would be brought back of social responsibility by the West government officials f r o m s u c h ing, phone, and rent bills have been under its control, and the ship- Coast electrical unionists thus un­ schools as Boston University, Notre yard electricians would gain no- dermines faith in free decision­ mounting up, and our credit will be thing tangible from their strike. making at the very moment the Dame, Wayne State, and the Uiniver­ shut off. Two separate . attempts to push unions in meatpacking and litho­ sity of Pennsylvania, as well as .ac­ through such a deal have been graphy are demonstrating how tivists such as Judy White, Mario and MUCH, MUCH more publicity and rejected by the !BEW members well that process can work in an involved. atmosphere of maturity and mu- Suzanne Savio, Paul Booth, Stokely work are needed and CAN BE DONE Owners of the major yards com· tuality." Carmichael, a1nd many more shows IF WE GET HELP FROM YOU. Please plain that some. contracts for work With this editorial the Times - the scope of the committee. Many on send what you can - more than you have been lost to independent which happens to face negotia­ ca1nafford - so that we can expand yards that settled with the IBEW. tions with newspaper unions - the campuses working on ··Vietnam They also bemoan their inability adds to the capitalist lexicon of Week have never been involvdin anti- our work. to operate at full capacity because double-speak. Johnson practices of the electricians strike. Seizing the art by labeling war of aggres------·------­ on the pretext that some work in· sion in Vietnam a "search for ·--~----~~----~------· volves repair of transports used peace" and by branding Viet­ in the Vietnam war, they have be- namese defense of their right to Please clip and mall to: gun to clamor for government ac- self-determination an "attack on tion to end the strike, brushing aside union observations that in- democracy." Here in this country STUDENT MOBILIZATION COMMITTEE the Times calls it "maturity and dependents who have signed with mutuality when union bureaucrats the !BEW could handle such work. 29 Park Row (5th Floor) Johnson quickly took the cue practice class collaboration with employers at the workers' expense, 10038 from the big shipyard operators and the editors label strike action New York, New York and started proceedings for a in defense of labor interests a Taft-Hartley injunction with a "default of social responsibility" phony claim that "critical con- that "undermines faith in free de­ I enclose.e--to help build the mobilization. struction and repair work involv- Ing ships needed for the Vietnam cision-making." sealift a're being delayed by the * * * Name...... strike." Last year the AFL-CIO Indus­ * * * trial Union Department, headed A new contract with Armour, by Walter Reuther, created a steer­ Address ...... which remains subject to ratifica­ ing committee to coordinate bar­ tion by 12,000 workers at 47 com­ gaining by three unions with mem­ pany plants, has been jointly. ne­ bers at Union Carbide - the Oil, gotiated by the United Packing­ Chemical and Atomic Workers, house Workers and the Amalgam- United Steelworkers and Interna------~~~------Mnnday, March 13, 1967 THE MILITANT Page Three

THE MILITANT Spring Editor: JOSEPH HANSEN Managing Editor: BARRY SHEPPARD Business Manager: KA.ROLYN KERRY Published weekly, except during July and August when published bl-weekly, Mobili§ation by The Militant Publishing Ass'n., 873 Broadway, New York, N. Y. 10003. Phone 533-6414. Seoond-class postage paid at New York, N. Y. Subscription: $3 a year; Canadian, $3.50; foreign, $4.50. Signed articles by c&ntributors do not necessarily represent The Militant'• views. These are expressed In editorials. Neu,s Vol. 31 - No. 11 ...... 345 Monday, March 13, 1967

Dagmar Wilson, the Women The letter met with enthusiastic Strike for Peace leader who de­ approval. Defend the Te,amsters Union! fied HUAC and was upheld by the A ten-year government vendetta - started under Eisen­ courts, has become a vice chair­ A meeting of• 200 at North- hower, continued by the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, man of the Spring Mobilization western University heard Rev. and masterminded by Robert F. Kennedy - has finally put James Committee. Last week it was an­ James Bevel, national director of nounced that Cleveland Robinson the Spring Mobilization, Feb. 27. R. Hoffa behind bars. The Teamster president has started serv­ had also become a vice chairman. ing an eight-year sentence on jury-tampering charges. He also Rev. Bevel scored U.S. aggression Robinson is secretary-treasurer of in Vietnam and racism at home. faces a five-year term in a conviction on pension-fraud charges, District 65, AFL-CIO, in New York which is under appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. In the latter and chairman of the Negro Ameri­ • can Labor Council. John Anderson, a veteran auto case Hoffa was singled out for prosecution and trucking employ­ unionist who played a key role ers, who share responsibility for the handling of pension funds, • in organizing the Dearborn ref­ went scot-free. All told, more than 200 Teamster officials have On page 2 we publish an appeal erendum which piled up a 40 per. been prosecuted on various charges and over half of them rail­ for funds by the Student Mobiliza­ cent vote in favor of withdrawal roaded to jail. tion Committee. We hope this ap­ of U.S. troops from Vietnam is Hoffa's conviction in 1964 on jury-tampering charges arose peal will evoke a generous re­ now active as chairman of 'the Detroit Spring Mobilization Com. out of an earlier trial in which he was accused of conspiring to sponse. The Student Mobilization mittee. The committee's address is share a kickback from a trucking concern. The conspiracy case Committee has done an impressive job of building Vietnam Week and P.O. Box 1333-A Detroit, Mich. ended with the jury unable to agree, whereupon the government publicizing the April 15 Mobiliza­ 48232. Phone numbers are: 561, alleged that Hoffa had tampered with the jury and brought him tion. The unusually good reaction 8856 and 832-5700 to trial on that ground. The key witness against him was Ed­ from students across the country The address of ·the Detroit Stu­ ward G. Partin, a stoolpigeon with whom the government made makes clear that the committee dent Mobilization Committee is a deal in which criminal charges against him were shelved in re­ is in a position to do an outstand­ 1101 Warren. Phone 832-5700 turn for his acting as an informer. Partin wormed his way into ing job and should not be handi­ • Hoffa's confidence for purposes of entrapment. capped by lack of funds. A New England conference of the Student Mobilization Commit­ Upon appealing the jury-tampering conviction, Hoffa's law­ • tee will be held in Boston March yers presented affidavits charging that the Department of Justice The Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Dagmar Wilson 16. had tapped his telephone during the trial, bugged his hotel room, Parade Committee in New York has called a conference to help spied on his lawyer, and eavesdropped on jurors. Briefs support­ Members of the• Circle Commit- build the April 15 Mobilization. It busload to New York from Nash­ ing Hoffa's appeal against such "Big Brother" tactics were filed ville and possibly one from Mem­ tee to End the War in Vietnam of has issued an invitation to labor, the University of Illinois at Chi­ by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Association of religious, community and peace phis. c~go Circle are circulating a peti­ Criminal Trial Lawyers. groups presently unaffiliated with In Atlanta, Ga., Bolduc spoke to tion addressed to Secretary of The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the jury-tampering convic­ the Parade Committee who may a meeting of 300 at Georgia State College. (He was the first anti­ State Dean Rusk in which the tion, and in doing so also upheld use of the police-state methods wish to help build the April 15 petitioners ask that a State De­ Mobilization. The conference will war speaker to be heard on the employed to frame Hoffa and jail him. Once again the high court campus.) He also spoke before partment official come to their has shown that its basic function is to serve capitalist objectives be Sat., March 18, 1 p.m. at Dis­ campus during Vietnam Week to trict 65 Building, 13 Astor Place. two political science classes at the at all hazards. When the chips are down, elementary justice Organizations may send either rep­ college and was interviewed on P_resent th~ administration's posi­ tion on Vietnam. The petition is and constitutional rights are subordinated to ruling class aims; in resentatives or observers. local television. There will be a this case, the mounting offensive against organized labor. busload from Atlanta to New York being signed by many students of v_aried views and is proving effec­ One aspect of the developing anti-labor plot is illustrated in • and Vietnam Week activity will be Getting down to the actual logis­ tive in publicizing Vietnam Week. current negotiations for renewal of a national contract covering organized by the Southern Stu­ tics of moving and guiding the dent Organizing Committee. 450,000 Teamster members employed in over-the-road and city large number of people who will Two cops were• injured in Brus- freight hauling. When the high court upheld Hoffa's conviction participate in the New York • sels March 4, according to a in the jury-tampering case and ordered him jailed, the trucking parade April 15, the New York The second issue of the Student Reuter's dispatch, when they employers began to stall in contract talks that were under way Parade Committee has issued a Mobilizer, voice of the Student clashed with 8,000 demonstrators at the time. Then they made a flat demand that further negotia­ call for 500 people to act as pa­ Mobilization Committee, is off the mostly youth, demanding a halt press and almost gone. The first tions be postponed until March 7 - the day Hoffa was to be jailed. rade marshals. A preliminary mar­ to the U.S. bombing of Vietnam. shals' meeting will be held Mon­ issue had a press run of 5,000 Obviously the trucking bosses plan to take advantage of anti­ which was quickly exhausted, so cipated leadership turmoil within the Teamsters, so as to have day, March 13, 8: 30 p.m. at St. Marks Church, Second Ave. and a run of 25,000 was decided on a better chance of cheating the rank and file in the present con­ 10th St. for the second issue and within a tract dispute. few days it was nearing depletion . Racistin Texas In the face of the assault on the Teamsters - which is the • It features the official call for spearhead of an attack on all labor - the record of Meany, Charles Bolduc, a member of Vietnam Week, regional activities TakesOff Like the national committee of the reports and an article by Paul Reuther and other AFL-CIO bureaucrats has been one of treachery Young Socialist Alliance, has been Booth of SDS on "The Efficacy of and cowardice. When the government vendetta against the Team­ on a tour to promote Vietnam Antiwar Protest." Write quickly ABig Bird sters began 10 years ago, the top bureaucrats moved at once to Week and the April 15 Mobiliza­ if you want copies: Student expel the union from the AFL-CIO, turning their backs on all its tion. He has found a gratifying Mobilization Committee, 29 Park A hard-nosed racist proved him­ 1.8 million members. After that they conducted jurisdictional raids response in the areas visited. Op­ Row, New York, N.Y. 10038. self capable of tactical flexibility anrl committed other nuisances against the union. Not once, not ponents of the war at Clark Uni­ There's no price on it but con­ at a_ re~ent meeting at Rice Uni­ versity m Houston, Texas. even upon the outrageous jailing of Hoffa and other union of­ versity in Worcester, Mass., Am­ tributions to defray printing and Speaking under the auspices of ficials, have they spoken up against the government assault and herst College in Northampton, mailing costs are very \'.'elcome. Mass., and Colgate University in the Will Rice College and the in defense of the Teamsters. Hamilton, N.Y. said they would be • Young Republican Club, ,J. B. This criminal default calls for action by the AFL-CIO rank sending at least one busload to San Francisco Locals 6 and 10 ~toner, vice chairman of the Na­ and file. It is the duty of every union man and woman to clamor New York April 15. of the International Longshore­ t10nal States Rights Party, deli­ for AFL-CIO action to oppose the legal lynching of Teamster of­ men's and Warehousemen's Union vered a polemic against Negroes In Nashville, Tenn., Bolduc met have endorsed the Spring Mobili­ Jews and Chinese. ' ficials and to demand that the victims be freed. It is no less the with local antiwar activists in· zation. Previously the Mobilization He took a dim view of the duty of every AFL-CIO member to back - and to demand that eluding a minister who will be was endorsed by the Northern sending out a mailing about Viet­ NAACP and the Chamber of Com­ the top bureaucrats back - the Teamsters in their present con­ California ILWU and by the Santa mer~e, both of which, he said, are tract fight with the trucking employers. nam Week and the April 15 Mobil­ Clara County AFL-CIO Central ization. There will be at least one !.e~1sh-controlled. He advocated a Labor Council. ~ire ~our Nigger Campaign." He said this would break up the Ne­ ZURICH (World• Outiook) - gro vote bloc. Anger over the U.S. role in Viet­ Mr. Stoner was critical of that Socialist Directory Gls ,and the Fight nam continues to mount in Switz­ well-known militant black rights erland. On Feb. 4 this city saw the advocate, J. Edgar Hoover. He of. Against War biggest demonstration yet staged, fered the :following critical esti­ BOSTON. Boston Labor Forum, 295 Hun­ and Labor Book Store, 704 Hennepin some 1,200 responding to the ap­ ma t~. of the FBI head: " ... that tington Ave., Room 307, Boston, Mass. Ave., Hall 24\l, Minn., Minn. 55403. FEd­ 02139. eral 2-7781. Open 1 to 5 p.m., Monday peal of the sponsoring group, an glorified, black-hearted saint from through Friday, Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. CHICAGO. Socialist Workers Party and ad hoc committee composed of hell, with black winged Federal bookstore, 302 South Canal St., Room NEWARK. Newark Labor Forum, Box ByMary-Alice Waters youths of various political ten­ Bureau of Integration angels." 204, Chicago, Ill. 60606. WE 9-5044. 361, Newark, New Jersey 07101. dencies. However, Mr. Stoner's audience CLEVELAND. Eugene V. Debs Hall, 2nd NEW YORK CITY. Militant Labor For­ floor west, 9801 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, um. 873 Broadway (at 18th St.), N.Y., A contingent of about 300 Span­ ':'as deprived of a scheduled ques­ Ohio 44106. Telephone: 791-1669. Militant N.Y. 10003. 982-6051. Introduction ish workers participated in the t10n and discussion period. While Forum meets every Sunday night at 7:30. OAKLAND-BERKELEY. Socialist Work­ By Fred Halstead march. Two well-known trade he was still getting warmed up to DENVER. Militant Labor Forum. P.O. ers Party and Pioneer Bookstore. 2003 union leaders spoke. his subject, 17 black SNCC mem­ Box 2649, Denver, Colo. 80201. M!Jvla. Berkeley, Calif. 94704. Phone: 848-3992. Open 2 to 7 p.m. Monday thru A proposed letter to be sent to bers, led by Rev. F. D. Kirkpat­ DETROIT. Eugene V. Debs Hall, 3737 Friday; Saturday 12 to 5 p.m. Woodward, Detroit, Mich. 48201. TEmple 25 cents the U.S. ambassador was read at rick, walked into the meeting. 1-6135. Friday Night Socialist Foru..'!l PHILADELPHIA. Militant Labor Forum: the meeting. The letter condemned Then, according to the Houston held weekly at 8 p.m. P.O. Box 8412, Phila., Pa. 19101. the "brutal intervention of the Post, the following happened: LOS ANGELES. Socialist Workers Party, ST. LOUIS. Phone Evergreen 9-2895. Ask Young Socialist 1702 East Fourth St., L.A., Calif. 90033 for Dick Clarke. leading Western power in the in­ "Stoner finished the sentence he AN 9-4953 or WE 5-9238. Open 1 to 5 p.m. SAN FRANCISCO. Militant Labor Forum. P.O. Box 47! ternal affairs of the Vietnamese had started, asked for his speak­ on V\"ednesday. 1733 Waller, S.F., Calif. 94117. 752-1790 New York, N. Y. 10003 people" and expressed "heartfelt ing fee immediately, and disap­ MILWAUKEE. 150 E. Juneau Ave., Mil­ Socialist books and pamphlets available. solidarity with the American op­ waukee, Wisc. 53202. SEATTLE. Socialist Workers Party. LA peared out a side door with five :\IINNEAPOLIS. Sociallst Workers Party 2-4325. position." followers clustered around him." Page Four THE MILITANT Monday, March 13, 1967 Washington Aids Bangkok Pl,i/a.Professors to Don C,ounterrevolutionin Thaiiland needed in Thailand," he wrote Caps,Gowns, Gas Masks By Dick Roberts Will the ''nightmare pattern of Aug. 19, "the U.S. Army's Ninth By Joel Aber the Vietnamese conflict" be re­ Logistical Command has stock­ piled its warehouses at Korat with PHILADELPHIA - The Uni­ peated in neighboring Thailand? versity of Pennsylvania admini­ This question was raised in a enough vehicles, weapons and am­ munition to equip a 17,000-man stration will be faced with faculty front page article by Wall Street members wearing gas masks in Journal staff-reporter Selwyn infantry division." Senator Wayne Morse has also addition to their caps and gowns Feinstein. in a report from Bang­ at the spring commencement pro­ kok, Feb. 15. made strong warnings about Pen­ tagon intentions in Thailand. When cession. The gas masks will be "Insurgency by armed bands of worn unless projects Spicerack Communist guerrillas is mount­ Thai Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman addressed the UN Gen­ and Summit are terminated by ing," Feinstein states, "accompa­ the university. These two secret nied by political assassinations and eral Assembly last September, it provoked rebuttal from Morse in chemical and biological warfare other acts of terrorism. As did the the Senate, Oct. 11. research projects, contracted from the Vietcong, the rebels here have the Air Force and the Army, were established a central 'cover' or­ "Mr. Thanat has no credentials uncovered 16 months ago by mem­ ganization, the Patriotic Front of to speak for freedom at all," Morse bers of the University of Penn­ Thailand. There are indications stated. "The most he can show sylvania Committee to End the they are getting aid and comfort is that the Thai government today War in Vietnam. from the outside." is non-Communist. That goes a IKE. Under his administration, long way in Washington these Coincident with the heightened ny, Travelers Insurance Compa­ Feinstein's McCarthyite Ian· controversy at Penn, a two-part U.S. intervention into Southeast days, especially among small Asian ny, and New York Botanical Gar­ guage is all too familiar. Every countries. series by Elinor Langer entitled dens. Some of these research pro­ intervention by U.S. military Asia was stepped up. "Chemica1 and Biological War­ "So, far, Thailand is not Com­ jects are small and others like forces against the struggling fare" appeared in the Jan. 13 and Penn's, run int~ the hundr~ds of peoples of the colonial wor Id in a national police force of 33,000 munist, but indications are that Jan. 20 issues of Science, the jour­ with our help, the government Mr. thousands or millions of dollars the post war period has been and border police numbering an­ nal of the American Academy of per year. cloaked by the same kind of anti­ other 6,500, Thai authorities would Thanat speaks for is introducing Science. The articles not only single communist phrase-mongering. seem to have little to worry about. into Thailand all the elements that out the University of Pennsylvania An entire page of the article is made communist gains possible in devoted to Penn, under the head­ But this is a good reason why "But there are complications. for special condemnation, but de­ opponents of the war in Vietnam south Vietnam. Communism has scribe a wide range of CBW re­ ing, "University of Pennsylvania: The guerrillas are operating in bred and thrived in Asian coun­ It's Hard to Kick the Habit." A should pay close attention to re­ bands of 25 to 50 men each, from search and development on many cent developments in Tha'iland. tries governed the way Thailand other campuses, and discuss the description of the university's own bases in and around the Phu Pan is governed - by a clique which credibility gap is included: Already, it is well known that Mountains. This is a forbidding brutal nature of these "anti-per­ the Pentagon has constructed six enjoys financial prosperity at the sonnel" weapons and their rela­ "University officials connected country of scrub timber and expense of large numbers of its major bases in Thailand from meager forage, cut off ha1f the tion to the war in Vietnam. with the controversy have made which at least half of the air at­ people, and made possible by pro­ contradictory statements some­ year by rampaging floods and fitable arrangements with a west­ Dr. Albert S. Mildvan, spokes­ tacks on north Vietnam are reachable in the dry months only man for the faculty group at Penn times conceding relevance' to Viet­ launched. One of these bases will ern nation." nam, sometimes denying it . . . In by bullock cart or helicopter. According to Morse the John­ which plans to wear the gas be capable in the future of land­ masks, emphasized that "continua­ an interview with Science last fall "Thai army patrols can pene­ son administration has refused to Knut Krieger, the chemistry prC: ing the giant B-52s which are tion of chemical and biological trate the area, but for most part discuss its real intentions in Thai­ fessor who directs the research meanwhile bombing Vietnam from it remains a safe haven for the warfare research at the University Guam. Less well known, however, land: "The administration rejected said that he receives army field rebels .... It's estimated that there the request of the Senate Commit­ of Pennsylvania, despite worldwide is the fact that U.S. forces are criticism . . . is damaging to the reports from Vietnam and that he are eight sympathizers for every tee on Foreign Relations to dis­ has evaluated tests on defoliants." aiding counter-guerrilla warfare guerrilla under arms." reputation of this university and against Thai peasants. cuss with us in open meeting the Some of the details which Fein­ nature and purpose of the Ameri­ the professional integrity of all Kennedy Administration those who carry on research here." "Advisors'' stein omits can be filled in from can involvement in Thailand." The importance of Penn to the earlier reports. Last August, Stan­ On the question of military aid, Dr. Mildvan is a member of the "The regime in Bangkok is send­ army's designs on Southeast Asia ley Karnow, a foreign service re­ Morse charged: "I wish it were biophysics department. He has cir­ ing troops to threatened areas to is indicated by this reply by an porter for the culated a letter to the whole fa­ flush out insurgents," Feinstein Washington Post, possible for me to tell the Senate, army official to the Science inter­ wrote a series of articles from the American people, and the Thai culty asking them to join in the states, "and the U.S. role has viewer: "We could get along with­ Thailand of particular interest. people, too, of all the American protest. widened. American troops ... are out Penn, but we're not very anx­ Describing the area where the money now going into Thailand The broad faculty and student ferrying Thai troops into action ious to try." guerrilla front is active, Karnow by way of economic aid, military opposition to Spicerack and Sum­ against the guerrillas and still stated, "the region's biggest handi­ aid, and the expenditures of the mit, initiated by the campus anti­ The connection between the na­ others are acting as 'advisers' to cap, however, has been economic. Defense Department for our bases war group, has helped create the tionwide network of secret CBW Thai regiments in the field." Lacking adequate water and fer­ and forces. The economic aid last strong antiwar sentiment that has research projects and American As to the question of repeating tile soil, its rice yields are about year was about $40 million and recently been voiced here. military policy is well-documented the same pattern of escalation in 40 percent below the national $60 million this year. But the mili­ In an advertisement appearing in this Science series. The Kennedy Thailand as in Vietnam, however, average. Its per capita income, tary aid information has to remain in the Daily Pennsylvanian, the administration in Washington Feinstein's opinion is that U.S. only $45 per year, is less than secret." vice president of the student gov­ sanctioned and substantially in­ authorities do not have that per­ half that of the rest of the coun­ Morse also disputed the propa­ ernment, the president of the Sen­ c r e as e d CBW research grants. spective: "For one thing, they con­ try and it is inequitably distri­ ganda' that U.S. military interven­ ior class and vice president of the Accor ding to Science, "New tend that Bangkok and Washing­ tion was a response to a growing Inter-fraternity Council, the chief Frontiersmen b e c a m e in­ ton, taught a hard lesson in Viet­ buted. "communist threat": "There does justice of the Student Supreme terested in acquiring a more ver­ nam. have moved further, faster, Income Distribution not seem to have been an insur­ Court, the campus representative satile weapons 'mix.' And they and · with more skill to stifle the were especially interested in sys­ "According to a recent study, gency problem there until after of the National Student Associa­ threat than Saigon and Washing­ tems that, like CBW, seemed to the upper 2 percent of the North­ we sent 5,000 troops into the area tion, the chairman of Americans ton did in the late 1950s. offer particular promise in fight­ east peasants receive ten times in 1962. The reports of 'terrorism' for Democratic Action, and sev­ "Armed with some $100 million ing limited wars . . . There began more cash income than the lowest and guerrilla insurgency began eral other campus leaders in addi­ in U.S. economic and military aid about 1964 and 1965, when plans tion to representatives of the Uni­ to be a reorientation in concep­ this year, the Thais are believed 78 percent." for large-sca1e American bases versity of Pennsylvania CEWV tions of how the U.S. would fight to be offering more protection, In the same Aug. 22 article, were well under way." and the Young Socialist Alliance, its war against smaller nations ... earlier, to areas in danger ... The Karnow took up the question of called for formation of a group "In recent years a good deal of Thai civil aid programs, it's said, Thai civil aid programs. Essential­ to plan actions for the April 8-15 attention has been focused on are aimed at supplying the real ly different from the "strategic Vietnam Week. During Vietnam plant diseases,'' Science continues needs of the peasantry, as con­ hamlet" program? Not according BlackYouth inL.A. Week, a teach-in will take place after enumerirting various deadly trasted with the hated 'strategic to Karnow. "Some of the govern­ at Penn, and one of its focal points epidemic diseases of man. "Re­ hamlet' program tried in Viet­ ment errors are so blatant as to be incredible in this era of coun­ will be biological and chemical cently the Army's Distinguished nam." ter-insurgency publicity," Karnow Winsin Draft Case warfare. Service Medal, the highest award Feinstein does not elaborate on By Della Rossa the Army gives civilians, was this point. But he does take up feels. LOS ANGELES, March 3-Karl Rice Disease awarded to a Fort Detrick re­ the question of guerrilla warfare: "Like the Thai Army major who cannot identify a real Communist, Von Key, who, with Norman Earl International publicity follow­ searcher for her contribution to "Intelligence estimates put the development of rice blast fungus, total number of armed Thai guer­ military and police officers Richmond, has refused to be draft­ ing the exposure of Penn's re­ throughout this region regularly ed into the army, was acquitted search into the aerosol spraying a disease that in its natural form rillas in the northeast at about has repeatedly damaged Asian 1,000. With an army of 85,000 men, round up villagers, considering today in federal court on charges of arsenic and cyanide compounds them suspect unless their inno­ of failure to report for induction. and sprea'ding of rice diseases in crops." cence can be proved .... From all Key and Richmond refused to be Asia has not only embarrassed The second article in the accounts, the most egregious drafted on the basis that all blacks this particular university admini­ Science series documents the use New Edition blunders are committed by the in this country are colonial sub­ stration, but has also resulted in of lethal gases in Vietnam, and provincial police. jects, and do not have the rights uncovering similar research at discusses other weapons in the "Operating on low wages and of citizens. scores of other universities. The Pentagon's arsena1. Apparently no expense money, they range The two cases were separated article in the Jan. 13 issue of the cynical Strangeloves who do through villages squeezing the lo­ as they went to trial and Key Science comments: "One troubled CBW research were ecstatic about THE ca1 populace for food, lodging and chose to change his plea to in­ university official complained that hallucinogenic drugs long before girls. Uncooperative peasants may nocent on the grounds that the Penn's participation in CBW was Timothy Leary reached fame and 1·.W.W. have a bone broken - or worse, draft board refused to reconsider being unfairly singled out. 'There fortune; they began such research find themselves detained as Com­ his status when it was notified are lots of people in this game,' in the early 1950s. "In 1964, Gen­ munists. that he is the father of a child, he said. He was right." eral Rothschild, former Command­ James Cannon "A few months ago, during the now one month old. It was on this The Science articles itemize ing General, U.S. Army Chemical By P. tricky rice transplanting period, plea that Key was acquitted. Rich­ CBW projects at Ohio State, U. Corps Research and Development a police unit barged into a village mond is awaiting trial. of Arizona, Johns Hopkins, Cor­ Command, remained enthusiastic. near here, ordered the peasants in A picket line to demonstrate nell, U. of Maryland, Stanford, 'Think of the effects of using LSD- 35 cents from the fields and forced them support for Key and Richmond Brooklyn College, Illinois Institute 25 covertly on a higher headquar­ to build a stockade. The peasants was formed by about 50 young of Technology, George Washington ters of a military unit or overtly had no choice but to abandon their black men and women in front of University, U. of Utah, NYU, and on a large organizlrtion!'" 5 East 3rd St. paddies." the Federal Building as the trial several other universities. Also Copies of the Science series may MERIT PUBLISHERS Karnow did not rule out an opened. Most of the pickets were guilty of complicity, according to be obtained from the Inter-Univer­ escalation of U.S. combat in Thai­ from the Freedom Draft Move­ the article, are such diverse insti­ sity Committee for Debate on For­ New York, N.Y. 10003 land itself. "Against the possibili­ ment and the Afro-American Stu­ tutions as the Public Health Serv­ eign Policy, Box 701, Ithaca, New ty that American troops might be dent Movement. ice, the DuPont Chemical Compa- York 14850. Monday, March 13, 1967 THE MILITANT Page Five Heavy Defeat for Congress Party (ul,aMakes Big Gains The Elections 1n• India , World Outlook) - The week­ In PublicHea/tl, Care long elections in India Feb. 15-21 By Harry Ring ended with a staggering defeat for the Congress Party which. ~as During a visit to Cuba in 1960 now standing at 4,,708. In 1960 a ruled the country since pohhcal I became friends with an activist construction program for rural independence was won from Great in the July 26 Movement who was hospitals was begun and there are Britain 20 years ago. With the the membership director of a big, now 44 rural hospitals with 1,184 final count still not in, it was middle class fraternal organiza­ beds. In addition to medical at­ clear that if the Congre~s Party tion. He explained that the prin­ tention and hospitalization, they managed to secure a maJonty. 1t cipal adYantage the fraternal order provide public health education would be by a slim margin. had to offer its members was that and conduct programs for the con­ it owned and operated its own hos­ The most spectacular reversal trol and prevention of contagious pital in Havana. diseases. for the Congress Party occurred in south India in the state of Ke­ This was a big inducement, he From the out.set. these rural hos­ rala. Of the 133 seats in the State explained, since medical and hos­ pitals have also provided dental care. Assembly, the party won only .9· pital care in Cuba was costly and against 113 for a broad fron~ m inadequate. He added, however, All medical care is available to which the "left" (pro-Pekmg) that he felt that his organization every one of Cuba's 7.5 million Communist Party won 5 2 seats. would soon have little to offer in people without regard to their Even the "right'' (pro-Moscow) this field since the revolutionary ability to pay. This extensive pro­ Communist Party came out ahe~d government was in the process of gram of socialized medicine has of the Congress candidates, wm­ developing a significant public made impressive gains in improv­ ning 19 seats. health program. The remarkable ing the health of the people. extent to which that program has Since 1961, the number of cases Besides the two Com.munist been realized is now shown by parties the "left-wing" electoral of malaria was reduced from 3,230 a special report in the Feb. 12 a year to 36. front i'nc1uded the Revolutionary issue of the English language edi­ Socialist Party. the Samyukt~ ~o­ tion of Granma. Polio Eliminated cialist Party. the Kera la Soci_ahst In 1958 there were 25,745 hos­ Five year,: 0f intensive anti­ Party and two rightist formations, polio vaccinations have eliminated the . Karashaka Thozhilali Party pital beds in Cuba. There was not a single rural hospital on the en­ that disease which used to strike and the Moslem League. The par­ 300 people a year and take about ticipants in the front w?t?red tire island. When someone in the mountain areas became seriously 100 lives. The fifft mass vaccina­ down their programs and d1v1ded tion campaign was held in 1962. up the 133 constituencies so as not ill relatives and neighbors would The number of cases that year to contest each other. h~ve to devise a makeshift stretcher and carry the person dropped to 42. There was but one Dominant Party for miles to get them to a hospital. case in 1963 and one in 1964. The death rate was high. Since 1964 there has not been a The "left" Communists have be­ single case of polio in Cuba! The come the dominant party in the There were 6,286 doctors in the country when the revolution came only country in the Western Kera1a legislature and it is thought Hemisphere that comes close to likely that the party's ~eader, FOOD DOLE. India under capitalism remains in severe crisis. to power and many of them left for the U.S. matching this is the U.S., which, E.M.S. Namboodiripad, will be according to the Pan American named chief minister. He "'.a~ the There was only one medical "left'' Communist Party and other The specter of famine is very real. school in the country, at the Uni­ Health Office, had 56 cases in head of the Communist admimst.ra­ working class parties. But in an A big proportion of the huge pop­ versity of Havana. It had a total 1965 and 90 up to November of tion in Kerala in 1957-59 which open letter to Namboodiripad, the ulation of 500,000,000 see no per­ 1966. was dissolved by Nehn_1. _Nam­ faculty of 158. There were only SWP sharply criticized his coali­ spective whatever under the cap­ two teaching hospitals in the The rate of diptheria cases in boodiripad won by a maJonty of tion with bourgeois parties, and italist system except hunger and Cuba stood at 20.9 for each 100,000 more than 12,000 votes in his own country. pointed to the debacle in Indone­ despair. The national budget for public persons in 1962. By 1965 the rate assembly constituency. sia. where a similar class-col­ had been reduced to 8.5. The Socialist Workers Party, the The Congress Party, in their health in 1958 was 22,671,000 laborationist policy pursued by the opinion, has been given adequate Also in 1962, the mortality rate Indian Trotskyist organization, pesos. And even that inadequate Indonesian Communist Party led time - two decades - to show from diarrheic diseases was 58.8 urged its supporters to vote for the budget was subject to the parasitic to defeat and disaster. what it could do for the country. grafting that marked every aspect for every 100,000 of the popula­ In contrast to Kerala, the Con­ The results are conclusive. China, of public life under Batista. tion. By 1965 it had dropped to gress Party was defeated in Orissa on the other hand, has taken giant 25,9 and further decreases were 'Trotskyism'Attack on the Bay of Bengal by a right­ strides forward, despite an kinds Socialized Medicine reported last year. wing front composed of the Swa­ of difficulties including natural The situation in Cuba today is And, the report indicates, these tantra (Freedom) Party and the calamitie,,. heavy imperialist pres­ far different. Despite the internal giant strides have been accom­ Omittedin Replay Jana Congress, a grouping that sure and such setbacks as the Sino­ difficulties created by the U.S. panied by a serious regard for at­ split away from the Congress Par­ Soviet conflict and the current economic blockade and the huge taining a maximum of personal­ ty last fa11. political crisis. expenditures for armaments made ized attention for the people. For OfCas,tro Speech In Madras, where the Congress The influence of the Chinese ex­ necessary by the ever-present U.S. example, a frequent criticism of Party won a two-thirds majority military threat, the Cuban govern­ such socialized medical plans as Regular readers of The MiHJant ample was thus registered in the in the 1962 election, it lost three­ ment has made public health a the one in Great Britain is that will remember the speech given showing made by the "left" Com­ fourths of its seats. The majority major focal point of activity. The they become too big and too de­ by Fidel Castro at the closing ses­ munist Party. This was especially went to the Dravidian Progressive public health budget for 1967, the personalized. In Cuba there have sfon of the Tricontinental Con­ clear in Kerala where the vote was Federation which had organized a biggest so far, is 199 million pesos been serious efforts to cope with ference in January 1966. The quite decisive in its repudiation of five-party front. A regional group­ - a 900 percent increase over this problem. speech at once stirred up contro­ the Congress Party and its indica­ ing that has ordinarily campaigned 1958. Medical districts have been re­ versy among revolutionary circles tion as to what road the masses on the language issue and appeals Today there are medical schools cently reorganized to provide all throughout Latin American and want to take. to local patriotism, the DPF at the country's three universities citizens with medical service most other countries. switched in this election to the Capitalists Nervous - Havana, Santiago de Cuba and efficientlv and without having to On the one hand the speech con­ Santa Clara. The faculty at the stand in ·line for attention. Under question of the high cost of food, The election results thus tained a powerful denunciation of University of Havana now includes this program. out-patient clinics in running on a campaign promise to alarmed Wall Street. In a gloomy American imperialism and an af­ 207 professors and 186 instructors. hospitals have been eliminated. In­ slash the price of rice by 86 per­ editorial Feb. 24. the influential firmation of the revolutionary There are 15 teaching hospitals on stead, specialists provide the serv­ cent. New York Times admitted that a road as the only one by which an the island. ices at smaller polyclinics in each The gains by both rightist and "period of great stresses and oppressed people can win their Despite the departure of doc­ neighborhood. leftist political formations showed strains is inevitable" and that "the freedom. On the other hand the tors, the total number has been Clearly, the elimination of cap­ that a polarization of forces is problem of governing the vast sub­ speech included an attack on increased from 6,286 to 7,115. The italism is a key ingredient in a occurring in India. The prime continent becomes formidable." "Trotskyism" in terms reminiscent number of hospital beds has prescription for effective, humane issue is inflation which has been of the worst period of Stalinism. Returning to the subject in a nearly doubled, with the figure public health care. The MR-13 guerrilla movement in reflected in steadily mounting lead editorial Feb. 26, the Times Guatemala' came under particular prices for food and virtual famine held that "The power factors in fire as having been "infiltrated" conditions in various parts of the the world have been altered de­ by "Trotskyites." country. The incapacity of the finitely and permanently by the The speech was recently re­ Congress Party to stem this process rout of the Congress Party in In­ broadcast over Radio Havana in resulted in the erosion of its pop­ dia's general election." India is installments. Fans of Radio Hava­ ularity. The vote clearly speeded now "too weak and divided in­ na' listening to the speech were the opening of a period of crisis ternally to have the influence she surprised and relieved when the and intensified class struggle in once exercised in global affairs. entire section of the speech deal­ India. That is a loss for the West." India "cannot again be a major force in ing with "Trotskyism" and the Johnson Policy MR-13 guerrilla movement, includ­ Asia or the world, until she sets ing the attacks on various jour­ Two contributing causes were her house in order." nals like Monthly Review and likewise discernible in the out­ India was to be the glittering M archa were left out! come of the election. One was the showpiece, set up and maintained No explanation was given as policy the Johnson administration by Western imperialism to offset to why this material had been has pursued of seeking to take ad­ the example of neighboring China. omitted. Someone hearing the vantage of hunger in India. John­ Too little and too la'te - that will speech for the first time would son held up shipments of grain probably be the verdict of history. never know that this was a short­ while pressure was put on the In­ But it would be a mistake to ened version. dira Gandhi government to grant believe that India now stands at Whatever the reasons for leav­ concessions to private capitalist the verge of a successful revolu­ ing out the divisive attack on interests at the expense of the pub­ tion. One of the main ingredients "Trotskyism," the decision to do lic sector. is still missing -- a mass revolu­ so could only be welcomed by The other factor that contribut­ tionarv socialist party. The con­ the revolutionary vanguard. ed to influencing the mood of the struction of such a party is now electorate was the example of more urgent than ever. The Indian "Great issues are not decided by China. Under capitalist rule, the workers have a priceless opportu­ courts but by the people."-Eugene economic situation in India is be­ nity; let them not delay in seiz­ CUBAN CHILDREN. One of the things making Victor Debs. coming more and more chaotic. ing it! for Cuban children is socialized medicine. Page Six THE MILITANT Monday, March 13, 1967 Aims to Cripple College System IllinoisCP Announces Reagan'sEducation Program Supportal HugoBlanco By Milton Alvin dents to get a higher education. a few days ago following the most This will work the greatest recent meeting of the Regents of The Illinois Communist Party the struggle of the peasant in LOS ANGELES - The Univer­ hardship on Negro students who which he is an ex-officio member. has joined the protest against the Vietnam ... sity of California Regents have are told that they must not drop Regents President Meyer, appeal­ threatened death sentence for voted to ask for a budget of $255 "If we would prevent more Viet­ out of high school but go on to ing for the reduced $255 million Peruvian Trotskyist peasant leader nams it is incumbent that we de· million for the year 1967-8. If college in order to get good jobs. budget, said, "We have to have Hugo Blanco. this amount is voted by the leg­ fend the native leaders like Hugo Reagan, a Goldwater Republi­ faith in the legislature, the gov­ A statement by Jack Kling, state Blanco . . . Bianco's incarceration islature, it will be necessary to can is fighting a determined ernor and perhaps God to find us curtail new admission by 3,500 stu­ secretary of the Communist Party is a blow to progress; his release battle to cut down the university that money." Unruh responded, "I of Illinois, declared in behalf of his dents next fall. would be an important step to­ system and make it extremely dif­ share his faith in the legislature party, " ... Americans must raise wards freedom and liberation for Governor Reagan, who has done ficult if not impossible, for poorer and God, but I have my doubts little else but attack the universi­ their voices in solidarity with the the common man not only in Peru peopl~ to get a college education. about the governor." However, peoples of Latin America and but everywhere." ty system since he took office less His budget-cutting and tuition de· Unruh also said that it would be than two months ago, favors a South America, in condemning the A message was also received mands are the opening moves; nai:ve for anyone to expect the continued imprisonment of Hugo from John Rossen of the Circuito budget of only $195 million plus later he can be expected to pro­ legislature to consider anything charging tuition of $400 a year. Blanco and his co-workers." Latino de Cines in Chicago. Ros­ ceed' directly against the radicals more than the figure proposed by The message was one of a series sen declared that, "The progres­ In addition, the firing of Univer· on the campuses. It can be taken the Regents. In other words, he sity President Clark Kerr has of declarations of support received sive Latin-Americans with whom for granted that he is determined has already committed the Dem­ at a meeting in defense of Blanco I am in touch support fully the opened the way to the possible to wipe out the radical gro;ipings, ocrats to cutting down new admis­ appointment of an axe-handle ad· held in Chicago, Feb. 24. The meet­ campaign of solidarity with Hugo especially at Berkeley. Durmg the sions by the 3,500 figure mentioned ing was sponsored by the Friday ministrator who will be expected Blanco ... " campaign last fall, he threatened earlier. Night Socialist Forum. Meanwhile, in London, about to tame the radical communities an "investigation" of the cam­ When the current struggle first on the various campuses, espe­ Sidney Lens, the well-known 100 people took part in a march puses. This has now been P

[This column is an open forum and Defense Fund of the Seven, for an "inter-American defense Thought for the Week for all viewpoints on subjects of c/o Freddie Green, SNCC, 360 Nel­ force" that Secretary Rusk "or­ general interest to our readers. son Street SW, Atlanta, Ga. dered" Brazil to withdraw its re­ "One of the odd things about the latest exchange between the Please keep your letters brief. Let's give what we can! solution which would have called New York Senator [Robert Kennedy] and the administration 4s Where necessary they wiU be Bill & Mary Kochiyama for creation of such a body. that the differences between their peace proposals are not so great abridged. Writers' initials wiU be Dr. Bernard Raymund as the simHarities." - James Reston in the March 3 New York used, names being withheld unless African Socialist Times. authorization is given for use.] New York, N.Y. Socialist 'Bibliography I am a new reader of your dy­ Pittsburgh, Pa. namic vaper. I find it to be inspir­ I am writing to congratulate Appeal for SNCC Victims ing and also very truthful. you on the relevance and high the merit that its name implies: cards. The cards could be collated New York, N.Y. For your information, I am an quality of the Feb. 6, 1967 issue A socialist often, particularly if he into subject areas, typed out, and Seven black SNCC workers of African student from Ghana. of The Militant. I think you are is isolated, has trouble locating sent to the printer. Atlanta, Ga., who dared to "object, As we all know, the movement shedding more light than ever be­ sources of information on partic­ It's easier than hell to suggest hinder and interfere with the draft­ of the world now is toward social­ fore. In the past I have sometimes ular subjects treated from a social­ things and harder to carry them ing of black people," are facing ism and then to the utopian Marx­ regretted the fact that, while the ist point of view. Would it be pos· off. In any event, it may be a imprisonment in federal peniten­ ist communism which we all International Socialist Review was sible for Merit to do something worthwhile venture to keep in tiaries and the state chain gangs. await. Our pioneers are subjected confronting real issues, The Mili­ in the field of bibliography - a the back of your minds. These seven are: John Tillman, to imperialist attacks, but we, the tant was mer=lY being militant. subject and author bibliography J.B. Robert Moore, Johnny Wilson, younger generation, will definitely This seems to have changed, al· perhaps, on subject matter rel­ Larry Fox, Donald Stone, Michael achieve this goal come rain or sun. though I realize this will be dif­ evant to socialist scholarship. Challenges Mormons Simmons and Samuel Schutz. New Reader ficult to keep up owing to the The International Bibliography The major counts presently are: very nature of weekly publication. of Political Science is an example Filmore, Utah interfering with the draft and de­ Life in a Garment Shop More and more I find myself of such a publication, having of I recently wrote letters to the stroying federal property. Convic­ New York, N.Y. in agreement with the positions course a different purpose than four members of the House of Rep­ tion of interference brings a penal­ I want to write to you about the taken by the Socialist Workers what I am suggesting. Further, resentatives from Utah. I chal­ ty of five years and a $10,000 fine. slum conditions that garment Party. Perhaps I am wrong, but it although some are already in ex­ lenged them as Mormons to face The destruction of property brings workers have to put up with in seems to me that you are closely istence, a dictionary of socialism the following issues: Our military one year and a $1,000 fine. the shops here. It is something related in thought to the Monthly might prove a worthwhile pub· arm has become a ruthless, cruel the union paper, or even the rad­ lishing venture. Both of these ven• monstrosity; our constitution, a At the time of their arrest on Review of Sweezy and Huberman, ical papers, have not written political football; our free press, Aug, 18, 1966, the charges were: and The Minority of One of Ar­ tures I suggest could be coopera­ questionable; our institutions of disorderly conduct, disturbing the about. noni both of which I deeply re­ tive in nature with assignments In my shop with 45 women being made both by regional and learning, a source of misguidance peace, and assault and battery on spect. Am I misreading you? Keep workers, there is one toilet, no hot up the good work. subject divisions. and our religion a cesspool of su­ police officers; one is also charged water, no towels and sometimes no perstition, ignorance and hyl)ocri­ with insurrection. Each immediate­ I am a librarian and would A preliminary bibliography toilet paper. The toilet is washed therefore like to ma'.ke a couple could easily be put out in semi­ sy. ly served two months in jail at only once a week. the Atlanta Prison Farm, most of of suggestions which you can of pamphlet form simply by asking In Isaiah 1-5, one reads: "The In some of the shops the ceil­ course take or leave. They are rel­ various scholars to send in bibli· head is sick and the whole heart the time in the "hole" in solitary ings are peeling and plaster falls confinement with hardly the bar­ evant, possibly, to Merit Publish­ ographies in their own area of faint." on you sometimes while you are ers, which seems to have much of specialization on three-by-five A. C. Gregerson est of essentials. One of the de­ eating your lunch. fendants, John Wilson, 19, had Most workers have their lunch already been arrested 35 times by in the shop because they cannot the State of Mississippi and has afford to eat in a restaurant. Some • now been sentenced to three years have special diets because the It Was Reported ID the Press on the chain gang, majority of the dress workers are These are strong, young Afro­ not too young and working under BollYWood Leery on Vietnam - says the box will effectively cope draft cards and drivers licenses at Americans, the vanguard of black these conditions one can get sick. people; the future of the Afro­ The Detroit News recently carried with all poison gases including the Indiana State Reformatory Between Eighth and Ninth Ave­ a UPI report from Hollywood by mustard gas. print shop. American nation. They have been nue in the 30s there are many active in the civil rights move­ Vernon Scott noting the absence Anti-Statistical '- A spokesman shops where there are toilets in of films about the Vietnam war. Floating Capital - The Federal ment for several years, having the hallways. In some places they for Phillip Morris compla'ined: Reserve Bank of San Francisco's faced racist Mississippi-Alabama­ "If Hollywood is any barometer of "Our main problem is that we are only sweep the floor a few times popular attitudes," Scott states, publication, Monthly Review, re­ Georgia officials, police dogs, fire a week and the places are never being continually attacked by a ported: "A subsidiary of an Amer­ hoses, cattle prods, billy clubs, "then the war in Vietnam does not group of statisticians." He was re· dusted. The dust is on the light wring a sympathetic response ican oil company recently ordered rifle butts, sniper bullets, and now fixtures and when you open the ferring to the figures on the rela­ two . . . tankers from Japanese the U.S. government. from the public at large. If the tionship of smoking to lung can­ window you get it on your head opposite were true, movie makers shipyards . . . The tankers will be These stalwarts would feel as and in your lungs. cer. He said he knows an expert built in Japan for Liberian reg­ would be grinding out musicals, who agrees with him that statistics appreciative of the dimes, quar­ K.I. dramas, comedies and romantic istry, as they will be owned by a ters, and 50-cent pieces scotch­ don't prove cigarettes cause can­ films based on the Southeast Asia Liberian firm which is a subsldi· taped on cardboard as the dol­ "Free-World Partnership" cer. ary of a Swiss firm, which in turn lars that some others might af­ Safety Harbor, Fla. conflict . . . Not even the fast buck artists have taken a crack at The Explainer - Arthur Hoppe is a subsidiary oi the foreign­ ford. The amount is not as im· Radio Station CMCA, Havana, war pictures with Vietnam in the of the San Francisco Chronicle operations subsidiary of the U.S. portant as the involvement and reverted Feb. 15 that at the first title." says his character Elbie Jay is "a oil company. Moreover, they are participation in giving, thus unify­ secret session of the American forthright feller who believes in scheduled to haul crude oil from ing with the activists in the strug­ Foreign Ministers at Buenos Aires, always explaining what he's doing Persian Gulf oil fields to U.S.· Mexican Foreign Minister Flores Wall Street Marksist - What gle. with all the talk about improved to folks. Afore someone else does." owned refineries in Ita'ly and Send bail money to: Legal Aid was so opposed to the U.S. plan Austrialia." relations with the USSR, the price Prison News - Legal gambling of $1,000 Russian Czarist bonds at the Nevada State Prison will be The End Is Near - A headline shot up on Wall Street from $25 replaced by a hobby program - in the New York Times re;POrted: to $40. The principal dealer in the rawhide braiding, beadwork, knit­ "Quiet Iowa State U. Picks Leftist, bonds which were repudiated by ting, crocheting, etc. Authorities To Consternation of Legislators." W-eeklyCalendar of Events the Soviet government in 1918 is promised that inmates would be And a rather woeful subhead the Wall Street firm of Carl Marks credited for chips on hand on Mar. added: "New Student President & Co. 28, the day gambling stops. Mean­ Vows Action and Wears Beard - The rate for advertising In this c:olumn ly socialist analysis of the news by The­ Decadence Is Feared." Nazis, What Nazis? - The film, while, the FBI said it is probing Is 40 c:enfs a lin•. Display ads are $2 a odore Edwards, So. Calif. Chairman of the printing of allegedly illegal c:olumn inc:h. There is a ten perc:ent di1- the Socialist Workers Party. Mon., March "The Quiller Memorandum," has -Harry Ring c:ount for regular advertisen. Advertising 20, 6:45 p.m. (repeated Thurs., March been changed in the West German must reach us by the Monday prior to 23, 12:45 p.m.) KPFK-FM(90.7 on your version to eliminate references to -I the date of publication•. clial.) the villains as being members of BOSTON • a neo-Nazi terrorist gang. Instea'd, FOR SOCIALIZED MEDICINE IN GREAT NEW YORK it is suggested they are commu­ I BRITAIN. Speaker: Patrick Wall, British WHY DID THE CIA SUPPORT THE NSA7 A symposium with David Lang­ nists. The change was made at the physicii:incurrently teaching at MIT. Fri., behest of the West German mo­ March 17, 8:15 p.m. 295 Huntington sam, president, Columbia University Stu­ I dent Council, and Melissa Singler, na­ tion picture industry which said NEW READERS Ave., Hall 307. Ausp. Militant Labor tional executive committee, Young So­ Forum. the idea of a neo-Nazi group in cialist Alliance. Fri., March 17, 8:30 p.m. present-day Berlin is "unrealistic;'' I • 873 Broadway, at 18th St. Contrib. $1. 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It was re- Guard, Counter Intellig;nce De- NEW YORK - A tota'l of over vealed on March 3 that the local fense Department; ' 300 young socialists and black mili­ police department has been using "Federal Bureau of I t· tants from seven East Coast states " d " t t d nves 1ga- gathered in New York City March unt ercovfer co?als. to eard'dotwn tion, Immigration Service, Internal 3-5 to attend an East Coast Social­ pos ers or soc1 1s . can 1 a es. Revenue Service, Military Intelli- ist Conference held at Columbia tThhe Sex~osl?rte Cwas d~scovcered ~ty gence, Naval Intelligence, Office University, The conference was e ocia 1s ampaign ommi · of Federal Investigation, Treasury sponsored by the Columbia Young tee. Department, the Post Office and Socialist Alliance. Topics ranged Three weeks ago mayoralty can- the State Department." from the role of socialist youth didate Peter Camejo of the So- Contenders for Mayor in the in ending the war in Vietnam to cialist Workers Party, received a approaching April 4 Berkeley elec­ the current CIA exposures, to the phone call from University of Ca- tions include Peter Camejo, backed '68 elections and the necessity of lifornia student Hank Louck. He by the Socialist Workers Party· independent working class political said he saw a man in a late model Jerry Rubin, former VDC leadei'. action. blue and white Ford pulling down running independent; incumbent Highlighting the three day con­ socialist posters reading "Nation- Republican Mayor Wallace John­ ference was a speech by John alize PG & E and Pacific Tele- son; and Fred Huntley, described Hulett, chairman of the Lowndes phone" from telephone poles. as a "rightist" by the conservative County Freedom (Black Panther) Louck got the license number of Berkelev Gazette. the car. Party on Friday evening. This was Prorra,m the largest single session with 250 Members of the Socialist Cam­ in attendance. Mr. Hulett sketched paign Committee, which is sup­ Camejo is running on a platform the evolution of the Black Panther porting the SWP campaign, took that calls for an end to the war Party in Lowndes County, Ala­ on the job of tracking down the in Vietnam, elimination of unem­ bama, from a small group to a car, and on Feb. 25 it was found ployment, abolishing the racism party controlled by the black parked in an alley behind the Ber­ inherent in the present system and people of Lowndes. "For the first keley Police Station. When Brial1 the nationalizing of "PG and E " time," he said, "black people in Shannon, socialist candidate for the big Bay Area utilities co~­ Lowndes are organized to control city council, questioned officer pany. He calls for independent their own destiny." Larry Olson on the mysterious car, working class and Negro political He urged black people in Harlem he was told, "That is an under­ action, and socialism. to form similar organizations, em­ cover car." Olson elaborated by Rubin is running in opposition phasizing the necessity of complete saying, "When work of an under­ to the war in Vietnam, and ca1ls independence from the Democratic cover nature has to be done that for abolishing the Berkeley Po­ Party. Such an independent stand, is one of the cars used." lice Department's "intelligence he continued, often entails some Shannon asked what was under­ division." He advocates finding a hardships. Many individuals and cover about tearing down cam­ political expression for San Fran­ groups withdrew financial support paign posters, but Olson refused cisco's "hippy" culture, saying "I from the Black Panther Party to comment. want to bring this new movement when it became clear that the or­ These latest revelations came on into the political world." ganization could not be bribed the heels of a series of exposures The Socialist Workers Party has into watering down its demands by Jerry Rubin, mayoralty can­ a1so put forward a slate for other and joining the Democratic Party. didate of the "Campus Movement offices that includes Jaimey Allen, But, he continued, black Amer­ For a New America," which Ove Aspoy and Brian Shannon icans will gain full human rights brought to light infiltration of stu­ for City Council; Ernest Erlbeck only when they confront the power dent groups in the Bay Area by for Board of Education; and Paul structure that controls the Demo­ "undercover" police. Montauk for Mayor of Oakland. cratic Party in this country with The San Francisco Chronicle re­ "organized black power." ported on Feb. 18, "Berkeley po­ Touching briefly on opposition lice infiltrated University of Cali­ to the war in Vietnam, Mr. Hulett BLACK PANTHER LEADER. John Hulett, speaking at Young fornia leftist political groups, in­ SocialistsFile said that young people in Lowndes Socialist Alliance educational conference. cluding the Vietnam Day Commit­ are beginning to talk about the tee, over the years, Chief William war and "of course, a're opposed Beal said yesterday. He also said ForBaHot Spot to the Vietnam war. It's simply a ond Saturday session, a tribute this final session, Lew Jones, na­ the department's two-man intelli­ white man's war." to Malcolm X was given by Eliza­ tional chairman of the YSA, pre­ gence unit ... conducted routine l·nMinnesota. Mr. Hulett's address was re­ beth Barnes, national secretary of sented an analysis of the recent surveillance of rallies and demon­ ceived with rousing applause and the YSA. CIA exposures. These exposures, strations on the campus." MINNEAPOLIS, March 1 - So­ endorsed by a collection of $320 A third session on Saturday was he said, should not come as a sur­ Jerry Rubin charged that a cop cialist Workers Party candidates to help the Black Panther Party addressed by Barry Sheppard, the prise. They merely reveal the role using the alias "Jim Majors" in­ for Mayor and Board of Educa­ continue on its independent course. managing editor of the Militant, of the CIA as an arm of an anti­ filtrated the top circles of the VDC tion filed today for a place on the The conference continued Satur­ on the role of radical youth in the communist government. The way in 1965 and that his disguise was ballot. Bill Onasch is the party's day morning with Dick Roberts, antiwar movement, and the 1968 to end such infringements on the only recently exposed when he candidate for Mayor, and Larry managing editor of the Internation­ elections. basic rights of citizenship is to was spotted in uniform. Seigle for Board of Education. al Socialist Review, speaking on After a highly successful party join with the YSA in working to The Chronicle reported that, Bill Onasch, 24, is a leading the cold war and the economic on Saturday night the conference establish a socialist United States, "Berkeley police declined to com­ activist in the antiwar movement. basis of imperialism. In the sec- re-convened Sunday morning. At he said. ment on this incident beyond con­ He is editor of the Vietnam Crisis, firming it." the biweekly newsletter of the Minnesota Committee to End the Federal Spies War in Vietnam. Even the long arm of the CIA is Larry Seigle is a founding mem­ L.A. Candidat·eGives Positi,on ber of the same antiwar commit­ involved, in complicity with Uni­ William Hathaway, socialist can­ Hathaway scored the war in Americans should be used and versity of California officials, in tee, and is also active in the Un.i.­ versity of Minnesota CEWV. He is didate for Board of Education in Vietnam as a major threat to any their history accurately taught. keeping a close watch on student radicals. The Daily Californian, 21 years old, and is the Minnesota Los Angeles, spoke to over 200 advance in the field of education. This would be black power in ed­ He calls for the withdrawal of ucation." UC student newspaper, reported organizer of the Young Socialist people at an open air forum in U.S. troops from Vietnam, and the Commenting on the general on Feb. 22 that a university offi­ Alliance. Westlake Park on March 5. use of funds now spent on war, problem of racism and ghetto life cial admitted that, "About 10 times Onasch said today that his cam­ for education. in American society, Hathaway every day the University allows paign would "give voters a chance Hathaway, endorsed by the So­ wrote, "The basic reason for the federal security agencies to see to cast a vote against the illegal, cialist Workers Party and the demoralization of the ghetto stu­ students' files without the stu­ immoral and unjust war in Viet­ Young Socialist Alliance, confront­ dent lies in the relationship of dents' permission or knowledge." nam." ed two of his opponents before black people to capitalist society "His office, Registrar Clinton the Militant Labor Forum on as a whole. This society has little Gilliam said yesterday, allows NEW YORK March 3. Sharing the platform to offer white workers and even agencies like the Federal Bureau were Dr. Frank Lindenfeld of the less to Afro-Americans, who have of Investigation (FBI) and the Southern Californians for New more of the status of colonial sub­ Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Politics and Daniel Troy of the jects than of U.S. citizens ... to see students' grades and other Socialist Party, All three are can­ "The most serious, immediate information." A Tributeto didates for Los Angeles Board of problem that faces the Los An­ The Californian further reported Education, office No. 7. geles ghetto is the need for jobs. that, "Judy Dewing, a secretary in A.J. Muste Ghetto Schools There is a hopelessness that over­ the Registrar's office who 'pulls In his March 3 "campaigning for whelms a man when his repeated the files' for the agents when they socialism" column in the Los An­ efforts to find a job come to noth­ come in, said that . . . sometimes Sunday3 p.m. March 12 geles Free Press, Hathaway put ing, There is the feeling that so­ as many as 30 agents a day come froward some ideas for ghetto ciety has turned its back on him. into her office looking for infor­ (changed from Feb. 26) school reform: These feelings quickly extend to mation ... "As an immediate step toward the ghetto school children." "Records there, she said, often Village Theater motivation for ghetto school chil­ The Free Press column is paid included evaluations of students dren to study, racial and ethnic for by supporters of the campaign. by high school counselors and 2nd Ave. and 6th St. groups in the school system should Contributions can be sent to: other 'informal' records. have the determining voice on ed­ Hathaway Campaign Committee, "She said a partial list of agen­ Sponsors: CNVA, FOR, WRL, ucation in their areas. Texts by 1702 E. 4th St., Los Angeles, Calif. cies which use the files in the Liberation Magazine William Hathaway Afro-Americans and Mexican- 90033, Registrar's office would include: