Spy Plane Aggression Alarms Entire World

From May 17, 1954 To the 1960 Sit-Ins See Editorial Page 3 th e MILITANT PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE Vol. XXIV — No. 20 222 NEW YORK, N.Y., MONDAY. MAY 16. 1960 P rice 10c Dobbs Flays Prague Accepts State Dept. Spy Plane Aggression Trotsky’s Killer Cuba Policy Alarms Entire World Urges Amity " Dobbs Scores Natalia Trotsky Predicts His Reward We Need a Better World for Our Children ” Will Be Liquidation by Stalin's Heirs In TV Appeal War Threats SAN DIEGO, Calif.—“I don’t By Murry Weiss On May 6 the Mexican authorities announced that they know what provocation Castro had released the assassin of Leon Trotsky from prison, some has given us. E ve ryth in g he At a press conference in four months before completing his 20-year sentence, ordered has done has taken place in San Francisco M ay 9, him deported as an “undesirable«-------------------------------------------- Cuba. How can that provoke which was widely reported in alien,” and had placed him on a warming its engines. There the the United States? He hasn’t the Bay Area,. Farrell Dobbs, presidential candidate of the plane bound for Havana where prisoner was met by two Cze come over here and messed in he would remain one 'week be choslovak diplomats, Oldrich American affairs like the cor Socialist Workers party, de nounced the flight of an Am fore departing for Prague, Cze Novicky and Edward Foulches. porations and the State Depart ment are messing in Cuban af erican plane over Soviet ter choslovakia, his eventual desti They made the flight with him. fairs. Why can’t we act on a ritory as a provocative cold- nation. And on what kind of pass live and let live basis?” war act that has shocked the The news appeared only port did the killer make his That was how Farrell Dobbs, entire world. briefly in the headlines. It was exit from Mexico? Not on the Socialist Workers presidential "The foreign policy of this drowned by the furor over the one w ith. which he came into nominee, replied to a television country is one of deceit, ly capture of an American military the country. That was a Can LEON TROTSKY, co-leader interviewer’s query on Cuban ing, spying and general mis plane that had invaded Soviet adian passport bearing the name with Lenin of the Russian “provocation” of the U.S. in a leading of the public," he territory and Eisenhower’s bel “Frank Jacson.” Revolution, assassinated by a telecast here M ay 5. Dobbs is charged. ligerent announcement that he “Frank Jacson” claimed he Stalinist agent in 1940. His touring the country speaking “Both the Democrats and Re approved such provocative burned this on the way to kill killer was released from a Mexican prison May 6. on, “The Cuban Revolution as I publicans,” the socialist candi-. flights. Yet the release of the Trotsky. It was proved shortly Saw It.” date continued, “rushed in to secret agent who murdered after the murder that the pass Dobbs was interviewed by say how Russia brutally shot Trotsky on Stalin’s orders was port was originally issued to Pat Higgins on the local NBC down an unarmed pilot who an important event, deserving Tony Babich, a naturalized Can Unions Launch program, “Up to the Minute,” happened to stray on the Soviet more attention than it received. adian citizen who was killed while on a campaign visit here. borders. Then it turns out the Whatever doubts may have fighting the fascists in the Span He was also interviewed on pilot was clear in the heart of remained in some minds over ish civil war. The passport was Labor Party KFBM. Russia. .The Pentagon gang the political identity of the altered by Stalin’s secret poli On the “Up to the Minute” and their hirelings in the killer were completely re tical police, the NKVD, for use show, Higgins also asked Dobbs bought press were caught red- moved by the circumstances of by “Jacson.” In Canada if it wasn’t true that the Cuban handed, spying and lying. his release. The Czechoslovak government By Tom Kerry governm ent has made the U.S. The people feel Washington is He was taken from the prison provided “Jacson” with a dip a "whipping boy.” trying to make fools out of just before noon, driven in a lomatic passport for his exit The convention decision of “ From w hat I ’ve seen in them .” prison van for about a mile and from Mexico. Made out in the the Canadian Labor Congress to Cuba,” replied Dobbs, “the Dobbs was interviewed by the transferred to a government name of “Jacques Mornard Van launch an independent political Cubans have very good cause major San Francisco dailies limousine. The automobile drove Dendreschd,” it did not list his party has given some of our top for complaining about the treat at the office of Vincent Hallinan, onto the ramp where the plane place of birth or the names of “ labor statesmen” a bad case of ment they are getting from the M ilitant photo by J. H. prominent attorney and a na of Cubana’s Flight 465 was (Continued on Page 2) the jitters. United States.” Gladys Barker Grauer, Socialist Workers candidate for U.S. senator from New Jersey, tionally known independent so The CLC is the Canadian sec In support of this view, Dobbs at her home in Newark. She is an active member of the Avon Ave. Parent Teachers Association cialist. Hallinan announced at -The Truth About Cuba. tion of the AFL-CIO. At its re cited the “petty harassing ac and the Clinton Hill Neighborhood Council, which is pressing for improved school facilities in the press conference his sup cent national assembly in Mon tion of the U.S. in withdrawing the area. When the sit-in demonstrations began in the South, Mrs. Grauer joined the weekly port of Dobbs’ candidacy. (See story below.) treal, 1,600 delegates represent its agricultural inspectors from sympathy picket line organized at the Woolworth store in the downtown shopping area. Her Cuban ports. These inspectors ing 1,458,576 members, enthusi three children in photo above are Edward, Antoinette and Edith. Brazen Course Do They Have a Case astically adopted a resolution had checked shipments of tropi submitted by the CLC executive cal fruit before they were The events since May 7, when committee to collaborate with loaded. In case o f com plaint, a Khrushchev announced the the Canadian Co-operative Com correction could be made before capture of an American pilot shipping. Cuba must now ship "They Can't Scare Us," monwealth Federation (CCF) in whose plane had been shot Against US Role? preparing a founding convention uninspected fruit to U.S. ports down May 1 while on an to launch the new party. where rejection may mean loss “espionage” mission deep in By Joseph Hansen of the cargo as well as the cost The action of the Canadian Soviet territory, fully bear out of shipping. Say Students in South Dobbs’ charges. AFL-CIO unions constitutes a Second in a series of articles. Declaring the revolution “is At first the State Department, challenge and repudiation of the bringing many important ben By Myra Tanner Weiss rested and sent to jail on charges proprietor for directions to the A favorite theme of the capitalist press is that the new ruinous coalition politics to the White House and the Penta efits to the Cuban people,” of “trespassing.” street we were looking for. He gon replied to the Soviet report which the American union lead NEW YORK CITY, May 7 — Cuban government is doing everything it can to “ provoke” Dobbs told his television au The New York Times didn’t looked at. us with confusion by tripping over each other in ers cling despite disastrous con the United States. dience that U.S. policy toward Today’s New York Times reports list the names of those who were on his face: “You can’t be look a series of bald-faced lies. When sequences in both countries. Here we are in the U.S., an easy-going people like the Cuba is making the American that nearly 50 youth have been taken to jail. Its happened to ing for that street, lady,” he Washington saw that its lies Swiss, inclined to mind our own business, anxious just The labor movement in Can people look “mean, greedy and so m any hundreds of students said. “That’s colored.” would be exploded because the ada, as in this country, has been grasping.” arrested in Durham, North Car to get by and live in peace, not bothering anybody; and olina — seven white students throughout the South that even The street we wanted was U.S. pilot declined: to use his subjected to ferocious employer the police can’t keep the records (Continued on Page 3) suicide kit, the State Depart then, for no good reason at all, this big, paranoiac country attack bolstered by savage and about 40 Negro youth. They sat down at a lunch counter in straight. In Orangeburg, South ment decided on a course so union-busting legislation. Spear of Cuba, a militaristic nation armed to the teeth, suddenly a Kress store and refused to Carolina, Jim Lambrecht and I brazen as to d e fy historical starts pushing us around, like it was trying to start some heading the assault on labor are Lovell Assails attended the trial of what was comparison. the capitalist political parties in leave until they were served.

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