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MILITANT Assai1 led Published in the Interest of the Working People VoL 31 - No. 27 Monday, July 10, 1967 Price 10¢ ProtestAssault on L.A.Peace Action MountingSupport DemonstratorsClubbed OutsideDinner for LBJ By Joel Britton ForAntiwar GI LOS ANGELES, July 1 - The NEW YORK - The Committee comments as: "I've known How antiwar movement here is fight to Defend the Rights of Pfc. How ard since I've come into the Army, ing back after the brutal disper ard Petrick now has more than and his defense against the Army's sion of its June 23 demonstra 300 prominent sponsors. The com persecution is of great importance tion of 25,000 in front of LBJ's mittee was formed to defend the to me . . . I too have begun to $500-a-plate fund-raising dinner at constitutional rights of a 21-year talk to other Gis about their opin the Century Plaza Hotel. old GI at Fort Hood, Texas, who ions of the Vietnam war. Most sol A Los Angeles police force of has been threatened with court diers are against the war, but are over 1,200 arrested 51 people and martial merely for expressing afraid to voice their opinions for injured hundreds - 60 had to be antiwar and socialist views and fear of being punished ... " Some hospitalized - in a well-planned for distributing antiwar literature. Gls request more literature on the assault on the right to peacefully Petrick's literature was confis case. "The faster the public learns assemble in protest of the govern cated April 1 by Military Intel of the case the stronger Howard's ment's Vietnam war policy. June ligence. The Army refuses to re defense will be," was one com 23 has become known here as turn it because they say Petrick ment. "Bloody Friday" - those of us is under a continuing investiga Howard has been invited to who were attacked and "dis tion. His case is now in the hands speak for several antiwar groups persed'' are becoming known as of the Pentagon. in Texas. On June 23 he spoke on "Veterans of June 23." A letter asking for support to his case for the University of Well over 1,000 people attended the case was sent out in New Texas Committee to End the War a protest meeting June 29 and York by critic Eric Bentley and in Vietnam. The antiwar com heard repeated denunciations of columnist Murray Kempton. In mittee described the meeting in a the police, the mayor and LBJ, Boston Professors Howard Zinn press release as follows: "Before Several speakers emphasized unity and Noam Chomsky signed a sim a full house, he, Howard Petrick in the face of the police attack and ilar appeal. discussed his reasons for opposing support to all those arrested and injured. Sponsors the Vietnam war (he is not a pacifist) and the dilemma of his Mass Picket Planned Some prominent individuals fellow servicemen who are forced Photo by Charles Brittin who have become sponsors of the to subdue native Vietnamese in A mass picket is now being defense committee in the past few DEMOCRACY USA. Los Angeles cops club antiwar demonstrator. (Continue on Page 2) Hundreds were injured in police assault on peaceful march. planned in front of police head weeks include: Julian Bond, Geor quarters on Saturday, July 8. A gia State Legislature; Jean-Pierre conference open to all antiwar Vigier, Paris Secretariat of the groups and individuals is being International War Crimes Tribu planned for the same weekend. nal: Harvey Swados, writer; Wil The key task of defending those liam Gibson, writer; Tom Paxton, NewYork Peace F,orces in Drive arrested and injured is going folksinger; Robert Osborn. car ahead on several fronts. The Stu toonist; Jack Minnis, Southern dent Mobilization Committee, Conference Education Fund; Prof. Peace Action Council, ACLU and J. B. Neilands, University of Cali ToPut Vi,etnam Issue on Ballot fornia at Berkeley; Roger Pie, other antiwar and civil liberties By Harry Ring 150 people contacted the Parade tions of local candidates are sched· groups have gathered hundreds of French film maker; Ron Dellums, NEW YORK, July 5 - The Committee as a result of the ad. uled. This means the campaign signed statements attesting to po Berkeley City Council member; around the referendum will be a Muriel Rukeyser, poet; Denise drive to put an antiwar referen A veteran socialist campaigner lice brutality. These will be used dum on the municipal ballot here who has participated in many sig central point of focus and provide as part of the legal defense as Levertov, poet; Mitchell Goodman, an excellent means of rallying sup writer; Father Daniel Berrigan; is underway. Organized by the nature-getting drives, reports that well as to educate those who port for the movement to stop weren't on the scene on the 23rd. Prof. Donald Hopkins, Universi Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Pa the response on the street has been the war. Dr. Donald Kalish of UCLA and ty of California at Berkelev: Prof. rade Committee, canvassers are genuinely remarkable. She esti about 100 antiwar activities were J\/Iaurice Zeitlin, Univer;ity of now collecting the signatures Oil A sizeable vote for withdrawal mated that no more than 10 per of U.S. forces from Vietnam will present at the June 26 meeting 'Wisconsin and many others. petitions needed to place the pro cent of the people she approached position on the ballot. They re have an enormous political effect. of the City Council to present the At Fort Hood, Howard Petrick were hostile and that the great When 41 percent of the voters in demands of the student committee reports that many Gls are inter port an excellent response from the majority were sympathetic. Many great majority of those ap Dearborn, Mich., voted in favor of and PAC. These demands included ested in his case and support his responded with genuine enthu withdrawal of U.S. forces from the dropping of all charges against rights. Several soldiers have writ proached. siasm, she said, asking how they The referendum would give New Vietnam, it made national news. those arrested, full compensation ten to the defense committee ex could help with the project. AU An antiwar vote in New York for medical expenses of those in, pressing their support, with such Yorkers the opportunity to vote of them were approached, she in favor of "an immediate end to would have a far greater impact, jured, condemnation of Mavor added, on the basis of a clear-cut nationally and internationally. (Continued on Page 3) · U.S. intervention in Vietnam and antiwar position. "I asked them to withdrawal of all United States sign a petition,'' she explained, "to military forces from Vietnam." put a referendum on the ballot Signatures Needed so people can vote to stop the To win a place on the ballot the war and bring our boys home. It Di;dPolice Agents Cook Up referendum petition must be got a real response." signed by 50,000 qualified city In addition to the petitioning voters. To assure meeting the legal being carried on in the various RightsL·ead,ers Death 'Pl,ot'? requirement, the Parade Commit communities by local groups, the tee intends to get many times that Parade Committee is organizing By Elizabeth Barnes number. signature-gathering activities from The committee reports an excel its new headquarters at 17 East NEW YORK - On June 21 16 ty Bell and the Washington Monu lent response from the 147 17th St. Those who wish to par black people were arrested in ~re ment. Evidence for the case con organizations associated with it. ticipate can go there any day or dawn raids by police on allega sisted of a small amount of dy In the first week of the drive evening of the week. They will tions that they were involved in namite brought in from Canada 5,000 petition sheets have been be given instructions and paired a plot to kill NAACP head Rov and the story of a police under taken for circulation by groups up with other volunteers to work Wilkins and other civil rights lead cover agent. It was clear from the and individuals. The committee in teams. ers. All were charged with con court record that the police agent planned to double that number If a place is won on the ballot spiracy to advocate criminal an had hatched the plot, organized it, this week, and aimed at a massive for the referendum, it will be the archy. Two of the 16, Herman Fer and paid for it with police funds. signature-getting drive July 8-9. only citywide issue slated so far guson, assistant principal of It is clear that undercover agents Deadline for filing petitions is for the Nov. 7 election. Only elec- Queens Jr. High School, and Ar were deeply involved in the al thur Harris, also of Queens, were Sept. 6. ledged plot to kill Wilkins. In an An impressive feature of the charged with conspiracy to com article on June 22 the New York mit murder. All were charged first days of the drive has been Post mentions "150 police under the number of young people at Our Schedule with being members of the Rev cover agents assigned to the case." olutionary A c t i o n Movement tracted to the project. At a Parade The New York Times says iw an For the Summer (RAM). Committee planning meeting last article on June 22 that according week there were many young peo During the months of July The facts surrounding the case to Inspector Garilik undercover ple present not previously involved and August, THE MILITANT is recall the "Statue of Liberty" case agents have had the Revolution in the committee's activity. published every other week. Our which broke over two years ago. ary Action Movement under sur Indicative of the reaction among next issue will be dated July In the Statue of Liberty case, veillance for two years. The FBI opponents of the war was the re 24. Regular weekly publication black "terrorists" were indicted estimates RAM has a total of 50 sponse to an ad placed in the Vil will resume with the issue -of along with a French Canadian members. That would mean a three-to-one ratio of police to lage Voice appealing for support Sept. 4. woman for '·plotting" to blow up Pfc. Howard Petrick to the project. In less than a week the Statue of Liberty, the Liber- (Continued on Page 2) Page Two THE MILITANT Monday, July 10, 1967
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By Peter Huch Israel has supported King Hus government has been to place the to which their ears are more schemes to get rich at the expense sein of Jordan against efforts of burden of the crisis upon the atuned. Towards these strikes of of national and public capital. Of A few days before the June 5 the Palestinian refugee move working class. The situation was 'our own people' from the higher course, there has also been private Israeli attack on the Arab coun· ment to overthrow him. described early this year by bureaucracy they use gentler capital from abroad. But it gen tries, Senator Robert Kennedy Ya'akov Chazan, member of the methods of persuasion. The same erally wasn't this capital that called for the "defense" of Israel The Israeli regime has refused to condemn the U.S. war in Viet Knesset (Israeli parliament) and is true when the strike is led by turned construction foremen into as an "outpost of democracy and a leading spokesman for Mapam, a rebellious Mapai politician. But rich building contractors. Nor was civilization" in the Middle East. nam, as the Egyptian, Algerian and Syrian regimes have done. a left-Zionist party: when the strikes are organized by it this capital that financed the Kennedy's remark reflects the "The great peril confronting us production workers, the Mapai big importers whose wealth must liberal version of a myth that Israel has found ways of indicat ing its support to Johnson's war; now is unemployment. The threat leadership knows how to show its also be credited, to a large ex grips many radicals in the U.S., of its growth is being used by the fist." tent, to the generosity and care the myth of "progressive" - even for example, Moshe Dayan visited South Vietnam earlier this year, employers to strengthen their own Ya'ari discusses the growth of lessness of the Treasury ... " "socialist" - Israel. This myth position through the threat of fur bureaucracy in Histadrut: "Today, In other words, the state func pictures Israel as a land of Kib financed by the U.S. Information Agency. ther discharges and layoffs, and bureaucracy is gnawing away at tions as a source of funds and butzim or communal farms, with in this way they seek to brea:k Solel-Boneh [Histadrut construc capital for private capitalists. workers' parties dominating the The truth of the matter is that tion firm]. The wage gap between Ya'ari continues, discussing the these policies flow from the char down workers' solidarity and government and steering Israel in force the workers to acquiesce to managers and workers is grow extent of capitalist profits: "A a socialist direction. acter of Israel as a capitalist and ing. The worker has no voice in ~ank of Israel report states that, colonizing society. Israel is plagued lowered standards of living and Partisans of this view must first increased exploitation . . . This the problems of production and m 1961, the assets of the banks in of aU answer the question: If with the typical problems of such management. One party rules creased by 406.1 million Israeli a society, including class struggles, situation is more critical than it Israel really is moving in a pro seems, since unemployment is not gressive direction, why is its for economic crisis, unemployment, racism and militarism. uniformly distributed throughout eign policy so reactionary, and the country, but has hit certain why does its policy in the Middle The Zionist policy of Jewish sectors more than others, in parti East meet with such approval colonization at the expense of the cular the development towns and from Washington, Chiang Kai native Arab population, has led c er ta in Arab communities." shek, Ky, etc.? Israel into an alliance with the ("Development towns" are mainly That U.S. imperialism is pleased imperialist powers, especially the occupied by Oriental Jews from with the recent Israeli victory was U.S. Instead of seeking integration Yemen, Iraq, Algeria, etc.). indicated by the following gleeful within an anti-imperialist and so remarks in the June 19 Newsweek: cialist Middle East, Israel is an Mapam, the United Workers "To Washington, the combination opponent of the Arab revolution. Party, formally adheres to Marx of Israeli muscle and U.S. sweet As a small and economically un ism and "undogmatic" Leninism. talk had produced eminently sat viable country, cut off from its It is opposed to socialist revolu isfactory results ... As an indi neighbors, it is dependent upon tion in Israel, however, and fully rect beneficiary of the Israeli blitz, aid from the imperialist countries supports Zionism. It is presently the U.S. should at least be in a in order to survive. in the government coalition, lend position to neutralize the Middle ing its support to the campaign Israel's vaunted prosperity has against the Arab countries. East, so that its oil can be pro been an artificial one, propped up fitably marketed and its water The Mapai party is social dem by outside aid. Since 1949, it has ocratic. It is the strongest party, ways used for the benefit of world received $6 billion in such aid, commerce ... " and controls the powerful Histad two-thirds in grants and contribu rut. The Histadrut is the central The June blitzkrieg is not an tions. Most of this money has isolated instance where the in· labor union, but is also the coun come from Jewish fund-raising try's largest employer and runs terests of the Israeli regime hap (mainly in the U.S.), German re pened to coincide with those of the main health insurance pro· parations payments, and U.S. gov gram. the imperialists. ernment grants. In 1956 Israel lauched an attack The German reparation pay Illusions upon Egypt in conjunction with The fact that Mapai is the lead Britain and France. Israel sup ments recently came to an end. Jewish immigration has dried up, ing government party helps foster ported the U.S. in the Korean war; the illusion of "socialist" Israel. supported the fascist Secret Army leading to a slump in the housing industry. Production in Israel is But the Mapai government no Organization in Algeria against more makes Israel socialist than the Algerian revolution; opposed concentrated in light industry and agriculture, requiring importation the Labor party government makes the independence movements in England socialist. Morocco, Tunisia and Indonesia; of machinery, fuel and raw ma terials. These factors have led to The existence of the kibbutzim trained counterrevolutionary para and the fact that Histadrut owns troopers for the Congo's General a foreign deficit this year of half a billion dollars, and a huge na or partially owns many enterprises Mobutu; opposes the admission of also raise illusions. China into the UN; endorsed the tional debt of over a billion dol lars. Israel is in an economic crisis, The communal farms represent Eisenhower doctrine and supported a very small section of the econo the landing of U.S. and British marked by inflation, unemploy ment, wage freezes and wage cuts, my, and a still smaller section of troops in Lebanon and Jordan the population. Their major func during the Iraqi revolution of and a strike wave. The response of the "workers" tion has been as an advance guard ]958. of the Zionist state in settling and defending territory. Economically unviable, they are supported and subsidized by Zionist funds. They IA...s;·;·i;1i;t· ..·c;;p1·; ....·1;·;·p·;·;·d"I in no way characterize the econo my of Israel as a whole. The Histadrut's enterprises func tion not as a part of a socially owned and planned economy, but 'To the Lossof TheirSon I within the context of capitalist and human - with all the feelings market relations. They confront The following letter was sent NAPALM VICTIM. Wounded captured Egyptian soldier was to the national committee of the and failings of a sensitive revolu their own workers as any other Socialist Workers Party by Winli tionist. capitalist bosses. Histadrut shares burned by napalm in Is:taeli blitzkrieg. Most Egyptian casualties fred and Paul Cbelstrom of Minn From childhood, John was a so ownership and profits of many were caused by the flaming jelly gasoline, which sticks to the eapolis. Their son John, a mem cialist. That capitalist criterion of major enterprises with private sk•n while it burns. In background are Israeli soldiers. ber of the Socialist Workers Par success - money - never meant capitalists. Its enterprises serve to ty and Young Socialist Alliance, a thing to him. If he had it, he aid the development of capitalism over everything . . .. Workers ap pounds, or 26 percent, in the spent it. If not - well, that didn't in Israel, just as nationalization died in an auto accident May 13. plying for jobs in these firms have course of one year. During that really matter either. of certain industries in many ca Mr. and Mrs. Chelstrom are vet to undergo Mapai party screen same year, the profits on their erans of the Minneapolis labor Although he had worked as a pitalist countries serves to stabi ing ... " lize the system. own capital increased by 51.8 per and socialist movements. rail for nearly the past five years, The nature of Israeli society is cent, while profits from operations John left no material goods - out A series of examples of this clearly revealed by the develop and capital together increased by * * * side of a first-class revolutionary were provided by Mapam's gen ment of the capitalist class. In 30.1 percent. These are not normal Dear Comrades: library and a record collection. He Our son and comrade, Johnny, eral secretary, Meir Ya'ari, at the 1956 Time magazine made this capitalist profits! . . . didn't even own a suit or a decent fourth Mapam congress in 1963, evaluation: is no more. The words are hollow pair of shoes. When he had mon when Mapam was not in the gov "In 1958, total returns on (in· and meaningless because we can ey, he gave it to the party or used erning coalition. A typical example "Under the New Economic Policy dustrial) capital were 1,681 mil not believe it. it to further his intellectual life. is described by Ya'ari, concerning laid down in 1952, a conspicuous lion pounds . . . and net gain Truth is cold and hard. Yet we That was what money was for. T'nuva, a Histadrut wholesa'le pro group of near-millionaires has reached 25 percent. During that are materialists and we must ac With this letter are some worn duce marketing agency: arisen. A 'Gold Coast' of Califor same year all wage-earners to cept it. There is no other way. bills - a twenty, a ten and two "T'nuva releases agricultural nia-style villas has sprung up gether received 1,962 million To have raised a son to be in ones - a total of $32, John's en produce before it reaches the con north of Tel Aviv where the wives pounds." every way a comrade - a worker tire cash assets at the time of his sumer, turning the products over of the new $50,000-a:-year men vie Citing official statistics, Ya'ari intellectual who knew and was death, turned over to us by the to middlemen who increase their in entertaining ambassadors or points to the fact that the maxi part of the working-class world funeral parlor in Fort Wayne with price exhorbitantly. It is no won ministers at lavish dinner parties mum monthly wages of the lower all of his life, yet at the same time the other contents of his billfold, der, therefore, that sometimes the . . . half the population is now half of the wage earners was 250 recognized and felt each and ev which were a few personal and products reach the consumer after composed of Oriental Jews ... pounds, while the average was ery touch of beauty in our uni union identification papers. (His having increased prices by over Some Europeans complain of being 140, compared to the minimum of verse and wanted it for all the car, a total wreck, was not even 100 percent." put next door to 'blacks,' and ficial requirement of 450 pounds world - and then to see that life his; he owed $1,300 on it!) Concerning Histadrut's role as a Israel with all its other perplexi per month for a family of four. lost just as he was gaining the We are sending it as Johnny's "trade union,'' Ya'ari writes: "It ties now must worry about the Discrimination is practiced not maturity and judgment to work last donation to the Party Build has been a long time since we color problem." only against Arabs, but also effectively to change the world - ing Fund - to help build a so last heard of Histadrut leading a On the development and enrich against the Oriental Jews. "As we that is the reality we must ac cialist world for future genera strike. We have grown accustomed ment of the Israeli capitalist class, know," Ya'ari points out "most cept. tions. We are sure this is what our to seeing the Histadrut leadership Ya'ari writes: production workers now ' belong Not that our Johnny was per Johnny would have wanted. preventing strikes and applying "A considerable number of our to the Oriental communities. To :fect - far from it. Nor would Comradely, sanctions against them. But there millionaires have demonstrated be quite frank we are concerned we want him to be. He was warm Winifred and Paul Chelstrom are strikes or the threats of strikes their private initiative mainly in not only with freezing wages but T - Monday, July 10, 1967 Page Five ~Ive' Israel ArabRevolution Defense
with deepening the ethnic differ "After the first years of enforced ences in the country. This social segregation, the barriers to the exploitation helps hold the Orien general labor market were lifted. Urgedby 4th International tal communities, one half of the For annual unskilled and skilled population, in their present state occupations they have been lifted of economic, social and cultural completely. For professionals and [The following is from a state discrimination ... " white collar workers, however, the ment issued June 12 by the United Ya'ari compares the ethnic dis gates to jobs outside the Arab sec Secretariat of the Fourth Inter crimination against both Oriental tor have been raised only to a very national, the world party of so Jews and Arabs in Israel: "The small degree . . . cialist revolution founded by Leon common denominator of the two "Tens of thousands of Arabs - Trotsky in 1938.] problems is that the Arab worker most of them young people - For the third time in less than must live in a hut or hovel on the leave their villages in order to 20 years, the Middle East has been outskirts of Jewish towns where seek employment in the towns. convulsed by war. The cease-fire he must seek his work, and the Their hold on the labor market, imposed by the United Nations, worker of the Sephardic [Orien however, is a tenuous one as they sanctioning the conquests Israel tal] community is packed into remain mostly in the unskilled gained by aggression, is only an crowded slums . . . and semi-skilled categories. Since other extremely fragile truce. The "We are witnesses to the de they continue to live in the vil diplomatic negotiations and polit sperate struggle being fought by lage though they work in the city, ical confrontations now opening slum dwellers in Tel Aviv whose they are unorganized for the most can be cut off by a fresh out land was sold from under them part. Their living conditions are break of armed conflict. at exorbitant prices to a corpora very bad, especially when com tion which plans an entertainment The imbroglio in the Middle pared with those of the average East was created by imperialism center on the site of their homes, Jewish worker ... " costing millions and perhaps tens and it has been the only one to benefit from it. In the first world of millions of pounds. This land Although Histadrut finally de cided in the late '50s to open its war, British imperialism made is the stage for a devil's dance of membership contradictory promises to the land speculation involving astro· to Arab workers, Vas chitz points out that "there is Arabs and to the Jews. During the nomical sums. second world war, the "demo "Slums have been destroyed no value in formal member ship of the Histadrut as long as cratic" imperialist powers did no with the help of eviction notices. thing to prevent or stop Hitler's Policemen were recruited to aid it is not accompanied by a funda mental change of values in the genocidal actions toward the Jews. the land speculators in order to Following the war, the survivors evict the dwellers into the streets. organization of employment . . . The Arab worker has not pene of the Nazi camps were barred Almost incredible! Women and from the rich countries by im children tried, empty-handed, to trated into the large-scale indus try of the country, but only to the migration quotas and diverted to defend their homes against the Palestine where they installed policemen and their clubs, against fringes of manufacture - garages, metal workshops, concrete block themselves by force in a poverty the threat of expulsion." stricken area and at the expense Although the military admini and tile manufactures ... " The facts related by these left of the Arab masses, who were stration over the Arab communi stripped and left in despair. ties and the noxious travel per spokesmen for Zionism, give elo IN 1956. Destruction in Port Said, United Arab Republic,• after mit system was recently ended by quent testimony to the falseness Reactionary Role combined French, British and Israeli invasion of UAR. the Eshkol government, the con of the picture of "egalitarian," "so The State of Israel, inspired by ditions of the Arab population in cialist" Israel. Zionism, has since then played a firming the character of this state without precedent in the Egyptian For Is:r-ael to become truly pro Israel still evoke comparisons with reactionary role in the Middle and its policies, it was provided revolution. gressive, it will have to break the black ghettos in this country. East in the service of imperialism beyond any possibility of doubt by The events in the Middle East In a collection of essays entitled with capitalism, Zionism and im and against the freedom move perialism, and seek to aid the Arab the enthusiasm with which the will likewise have grave conse "Israel and the Arabs," published ment of the Arab masses. quences for the bureaucratic lead in June, 1962, by Hashomer Hat revolution in a struggle for a so This role was concretized in spokesmen of imperialism through cialist and independent Middle out the world hailed Dayan's mili ership of the Soviet Union which zair, the main constituent of Ma particular in the 1956 crisis when proved incapable of providing real pam, Yosef Vaschitz points out: East. Israel, taking advantage of an in tary success and by the spirit of revenge whipped up in recent help for its allies and even went ternational conjuncture which ap so far as to join with the rep peared to favor its designs, un weeks against the Arabs and other resentatives of the United States leashed - in alliance with French peoples engaged in carrying out in drawing up the June 7 UN ParisNewspa,per, Reports and British imperialism - an at the colonial revolution. Israel is resolution sanctioning Israel's tack against Egypt which was the keystone in the imperialist military success. "guilty" of having nationalized the system in the Middle East and Suez Canal a few months previous represents a major obstacle to the Under the pressure of certain IsraeliBlitz Atrocities ly. victory of the Arab revolution. peoples democracies that wond ered what their own possible fate (World Outlook) - With the ties, an Israeli reconnaissance Eleven years later, once again On the military plane, Egypt might be in view of the passive announcement by Israeli military plane flew over our trenches at estimating that conditions were and the other Arab countries have attitude of the USSR in Vietnam authorities in Tel Aviv June 19 Oum Koutaief in the Ogueila area. favorable, Israel opened a new of· unquestionably suffered a very and then in the Middle East, a that the number of Arab soldiers A little later other planes ap fensive and, still in agreement with severe defeat, the immediate and Moscow summit meeting was killed in the Sinai desert was peared and showered us with na imperialism, organized provoca longer range causes of which must called. This gave the impression around 20,000 instead of the fig palm. My comrades burned like tions against Syria, which they be probed to the bottom in the of a firmer attitude, but under the ure of 7,000 or 8,000 originally an torches. Only one of them escaped wished to strike at due to the interests of the future develop test of events the threats con nounced, the true story began to with me. progressive policies adopted by ment of the revolution in the tained in the resolution adopted the Syrian government. Middle East. emerge of some of the horrors of "We were going on foot to the at that gathering proved to be Egypt's inevitable reply to the the Israeli blitzkrieg. Suez when a Bedouin offered to But Dayan's victory is far from limited essentially to the field of threats against her ally, along with take us on his camel. An Israeli being able to assure a stable solu propaganda and diplomatic In the June 20 issue of the Paris the attitude adopted by other plane spotted us the next morn tion. The State of Israel iJ;self, maneuvers. daily Le Monde, Eric Rouleau esti Arab countries, became the pretext ing. He machine-gunned us. The despite its momentary expansion, mates the number of wounded in to unleash an international cam The task of the revolutionary camel was killed, but once again has achieved no guarantees what the hospitals of the United Arab paign against the revolutionary Arab organizations is to seek, in Republic may reach as high as we miraculously escaped death. ever for the future. On the polit agreement with the Israeli van Arab nationalist movement, a ical plane it must meet onerous 30,000. When we reached the Suez, my guard circles who reject Zionism, shrewdly conducted campaign in confrontations even in the im In two hospitals alone, in the comrade died from his burns. As which the participation of reac a valid solution to the question of suburbs of Cairo, there are some for me, I managed to reach an mediate future. Israel, a solution that in any case tionaries throughout the world In addition, the balance sheet of 3,000 wounded. Rouleau visited Egyptian town." stood out, including former fascists involves an end to Zionist coloniza Rouleau reports hearing of many the entire operation does not add these two establishments and talk in certain countries guilty of the tion, the expulsion of imperialism ed with many of the soldiers un cases in which the Israelis used up to a plus for the imperialists from this part of the world, and most atrocious crimes against the although they obviously made der treatment. torture. Jews. the establishment - through the Dr. Mansour, the chief of staff, "At the Meadi hospital, Cor gains. In the field of political collaboration of the Arab and told him: "We received more poral Souweilam Abdel Rassoul Defend Arab Revolution combat now opening, Egypt and Israeli masses - of political struc wounded than we expected. More Gadallah, 22, a member of a tank In the conflict which the Zion the other Arab countries have tures that would permit taking the than 75 percent of them were suf unit, stated that he had been sub ists provoked and which is far sharp weapons available in reality road to the construction of social fering from napalm burns, to such mitted to torture by members of from having been concluded, even such as control of the Suez Canal ism. an extent that I and my colleagues the Israeli intelligence service. if military operations have been and the oil of the whole region. The revolutionary Arab van estimate that less than 50 percent His body riddled with bullets, im halted, the Fourth International But it is particularly the mount guard must undertake to analyze will survive." mobile, with an expression of ter holds that it is the duty of the ing hate of the Arab peoples, who the reasons for the military defeat In one of the modern rooms of ror on his face, his voice break international workers mocvement to have once again seen where their and to draw all the necessary pol the Helmieh hospital Rouleau saw ing, he replied in monosyllables reject in the most emphatic way true enemy is, that visibly reduces itical lessons in order to facilitate Lt. Mustapha El Khodari, a doom· to the questions of the journalists. any equivocal or eclectic position. the margin of maneuver for the mobilizing the masses in the strug ed man. All the features of his "Captured at Rafah, when he at We do not underestimate the imperialist powers, and makes gles under preparation, eliminat face were burned away. His body tempted to escape he was taken to complexity of the problems in their presence in the Middle East ing false allies of the Hussein was a charred mass. In the neigh an isolated spot behind a dune volved, particularly the problem more and more precarious and in type, and setting socialism as the boring bed, Col. Kamal El Roubi, where a kind of gallows had been of the fate of the Jewish masses creasingly challenged. perspective. his body wrapped like a mummy, set up. He was bound with chains, settled in this area of the world, This holds all the more in view The task of the international lay paralyzed from head to foot he said, hung up by the feet and who are not at all responsible for of the fact that the military de workers movement is to form a from napalm. He could barely beaten with a rifle butt while the the crimes of imperialism and the feat did not involve either a block with the Arab peoples in whisper. On June 6, he said, Israeli officers questioned him. Zionist state. But while all these demobilization or demoralization their revolutionary struggle Israeli Mirage jets pursued his "When he refused to talk, bursts problems must be carefully ex of the revolutionary Arab nation against the State of Israel and its unit as it fled and dumped de of machine-gun fire were aimed amined in working out solutions, alist movement which is under imperialist masters in this difficult vastating flames on them. in his direction, the shots striking in the opening phase of the strug going fresh radicalization in a stage of their fight for freedom. Lt. Choukry Hanna, writhing his feet, his legs, his arm (it had gle and its pursuit, the revolu series of countries. The most pal It is the duty of the workers states with pain, recounted his experi to be amputated later). He was tionary movement is resolutely on pable demonstration of this was to express their solidarity through ence. "I am the only survivor of given nothing to eat or ,drink for the side of the Arab countries and the mass movement touched off concrete actions and not by empty a company of infantry that was 62 hours. Not far from him a can· their anti-imperialist revolution, by the resignation of Nasser, who phrases having no other objective composed of a hundred men. On vas bag leaked water drop by against the State of Israel. quickly resumed power under the but to cover up an attitude of June 5, the first day of hostili- drop ... " If there were any need of con- pressure of a popular mobilization genuine capitulation. Page Six THE MILITANT Monday, July 10, 1967 A SO,LID ACHIEVEMENT
Lockw1oodon .Castro and Cuba r"'"""''""'Legislator Reports CASTRO'S CUBA, CUBA'S FIDEL, by Lee Lockwood. Mac Reactionsof BlackGls millan and Company, N.Y. Il - lustrated. 288 pp. $9.95. After spending two months talk Like many of today's books, this ing with bla'ck Gis in Vietnam, one is expensive. But relative to Karl Purnell, former Pennsylvania what you usually get, it's worth state legislator, has concluded that scraping up the money for. "a new breed of impatient young men is going home, ready to pro It is indicative of the changing vide shock troops for the civil political climate in the U.S., per rights movement." In an article haps, that a major house like in the July 3 Nation Purnell says Macmillan felt free to publish a that, "having been taught that it serious, honest work about Cuba. is possible to fight a:nd even die And, they've done a technical job for the cause of freedom, these worthy of the skilled photography veterans are coming home deter and objective reporting character mined to receive fair and equal istic of Lee Lockwood at his best. treatment." The book's principal feature is Purnell claims that "despite the a probing, seven-day interview lack of meaningful integration in with Castro. About one-third of the armed forces, most Negroes the interview was chopped out and agree that they get better treat published in the January Play ment in the military service than boy magazine along with stupid at home." and tendentious interjections by Purnell is critical of the many Playboy's editor - interjections articles appearing in the press ''Come on in - this is an in that some unwary readers thought which claim that black Gis are tegrated neighborhood." - were Lockwood's. critical of civil rights leaders who Engelhardt in the St. Louis The one frustrating thing about oppose the war. He says that "dis Post-Dispatch, the book is that the interview took senters like Stokely Carmichael place 22 months a:go, just prior to and Cassius Clay, who take such a new period of significant polit a verbal beating before the tele vision cameras, are seen as heros criminate against whites. "That's ical developments in Cuba. Since nonsense," he said, "I'd be com the interview, the Cuban leaders for their courage in fighting the white establishment." pletely fair. In fact I'm thinking have declared their virtual in of having a white on my cabinet." dependence politically from both * * * Moscow and Peking. They have On June 24 about 200 people * * * sharpened their revolutionary line Last spring a poverty ·agency in picketed a recruiting station in Buffalo mailed out 45,000 job in abroad and stepped up the strug New York protesting the court gle against bureaucracy at home. quiries to 13,000 employers. They decision against Muhammad Ali. got back offers of only 159 jobs. Despite the time lag, however, the They received a good response book is of high political value. Now, after the Buffalo rebellion from passers-by and a number of the city is coming up with a toke~ Lockwood is familiar with Cuba. people joined the line. The dem 600 summer jobs and a promise He was an early partisan of the onstration was sponsored by the to find 3,000 additional jobs in Cuban revolution, although he re Student Mobilization Committee. industry. Bethlehem Steel which gards himself as anti-Marxist. He * * * didn't have any job openings for believes that socialist revolutions Bill Russell, basketball star and blacks last year has suddenlv dis diminish individual freedom, but coach of the Boston Celtics, said covered 100 job openings. • he is hopeful that perhaps Cuba recently that he envied Muham will escape this fate. * * * mad Ali for his "absolute and sin A supervisor at Atlanta's Ful- Was in Cuba Photo by Lee Lockwood cere faith." He said that he did ton County jail has been suspended not think Ali has been treated Lockwood happened to be in TAKES UMBRAGE. Fidel Castro, on pitcher's mound, registers for tear-gassing eight young pri fairly or justly. soners in a storage room. He was Cuba on Jan. 1, 1959 and report anguished dissent at umpire's ruling. ed Castro's triumphal march to * * * attempting to get them to confess Havana. He made additional trips Over 3,500 people turned out to stealing jewelry from another there for major U.S. publications ther Raul?" For this writer, Fidel's views for the national CORE convention prisoner. in 1959 and 1960. Then, after four Castro replies: "Raul, yes. Raul, about the political perspectives for in Oakland, Calif. June 30-July 5. * * * years, he returned in 1964. That completely on his own, while as a the U.S. have been of particular Among the topics discussed were: A majority of the 800 employes visit prompted him to return in the student at the university, had interest. I have argued against his black leadership, building CORE of Columbia University at Harlem spring of 1965 to gather material joined the Communist Youth. But assertions in the interview, as chapters, black consumer power, Hospital have signed up with Local for this book. it should be said that when he presented in the Playboy ex a black self-image, cultural ties 1199 Drug and Hospital Employes went to the Moncada attack he was cerpts (see Militant, Jan. 2, 1967), Lockwood describes his reaction with Africa, opposition to the Viet Union. Harlem Hospital, a muni not behaving in a particularly that there is little prospect for a after a four-year absence: nam war, an educational program, cipal hospital, is operated by Co· disciplined way, properly speak revolutionary development in the and pressure for better enforce lumbia University on a contract "Almost immediately I was ing." U.S. basis. amazed at the apparent discrepan ment of federal laws. Lockwood: "You mean he broke In the full text this is stated In his opening speech Floyd The union has given Columbia cies which existed between what party discipline?" less categorically. Also, Fidel con until July 6 to hold an employe was popularly being said and be McKissick, national director of Fidel: "Exactly." cedes further on that his dim view election to establish Local 1199 as lieved about Cuba in the United CORE, blasted the "Anti-Riot Bill" Lockwood offers testimony on of prospects in the U.S. "perhaps before Congress. He said, "Let's their bargaining agent. States and what I actually saw. is due to our great pessimism There had been considerable the state of the arts in Cuba: get one thing straight on this word about whether the American peo 'riot.' What's happening in our * * * changes of course. Yet, after three "Under the loosely administered A recent survey by the U.S. patronage of the Revolution, the ple have much opportunity to ex cities are not riots, these are re Chamber of Commerce shows that weeks of traveling, including a press their own opinions, or to seven-day, cross-country taken in arts have flourished in Cuba and bellions. These are black people the number of black families liv change a situation ... we have no saying, 'Get off my back!' " Castro's company, I could find lit remained refreshingly free of the ing in substandard housing ideological influence or restraint faith in the government of the dropped from 2.8 million in 1950 tle evidence of the standard image United States and that could also * * * of Cuba so luridly painted by common in other socialist cul At the CORE convention Dick to 2.3 million in 1960 - a de tures ... " have led us to a certain degree of crease of about 20 percent. But American newspapers and maga underestimation of the people of Gregory announced his intention His description of the rehabilita to run for president and countered the number of white families in zines - that of a crumbling econ the United States." omy, a populace in tatters and tion program for political pris the charge that if he were elected such housing was cut almost in near starvation, and a political oners is one of the most fascinat It was, of course, two years ago he would favor blacks and dis- half - from 12 million to 6.1 mil regime that had lost its popular ing chapters in the book. Only that Fidel expressed this view of lion. The gap between blacks and support and was maintaining it those who specifically request it the U.S. Since then he has seen whites had widened. self in power through oppression are enlisted in the program. They the development of a vigorous * * * and terror. lnstea:d, I found that, are given useful work and, where antiwar movement from California On June 20 two black women in spite of rationing, people were warranted, special training, They to Maine. Its significance has not were elected to the Jacksonville well-clothed and adequately fed, go to school three hours a day for escaped him. Following the giant City Council. They are the first nearly everyone was working and a combination of regular courses April 15 demonstration against the Afro-Americans to serve since had money, and - contrary to based on previous education and Vietnam war, he declared in a 1907 on the council, and the first all pronouncements by our State courses in politics. These are de speech that the demonstration women in history. Department - Castro still enjoyed scribed by Lockwood as "indoc showed that the world revolution the ·support, even the affection, of trination." But, "It is not brain ary forces now had a worthy ally * * * right in the U.S., one that would In a brief remark to a reporter, the great majority of Cubans." washing." Dan Kimball, chairman of the Once every 45 days, each prison sooner or later develop into a Lockwood spent 14 weeks in powerful revolutionary force. Aerojet General Corporation Cuba in 1965 before Fidel sat down er in the program is given a pass which has just set up a factory in in front of a tape recorder to a to visit his family for three days, Cuba made a deep positive im Watts, candidly summed up how scheduled one-day interview that plus necessary travel time. The pression on Lockwood. He con big business benefits from the stretched into seven days. Dur trips are on the honor system, cludes: high unemployment of black ing those 14 weeks, Lockwood with the prisoner given money for "There is in Cuba today much people. Said Kimball, "Last year gathered much valuable informa fare and meals. of the same spirit of excitement, we put in plants down South to tion. On the basis of what he saw of a sense of purpose, of a moral get a better labor rate. Then we There are absorbing odd bits first-hand, Lockwood accepts momentum, of a people making thought why not try the surplus of political information strewn Fidel's statement that thus far not their own destiny, that charged labor market at home." through the pages. At one point a single prisoner has failed to re the air when Castro's revolution If any of the 203 employes in Lockwood asks Fidel about the turn from home on time. swept into power seven years ago. the Watts factory aren't satisfied charge that he wa·s really a Com The interview with Fidel is The fact that this spirit, this with job conditions and pay, the munist when he took up the strug wide-ranging. It covers Cuba's elan vital, has been preserved company can always fall back on gle against Batista. Fidel tells him domestic policies, progress and through all the years of difficul one of the 2,200 persons it says neither he nor Che had been Com problems; Fidel's political evolu ties is one of the surest signs of are on the waiting list to get jobs munists. tion, his view of the world in gen the revolution's health." there. Lockwood asks: "Nor your bro- eral and of the U.S. in particular. -Harry Ring Floyd McKissick -Elizabeth Barnes Monday, July 10, 1967 THE MILITANT Page Seven
[This column is an open forum (sic), Merrion St., Dublin 3 and ". . . official Zionist propaganda Thought the Week for all viewpoints on wbjects of come join the protest demonstra claims that the Palestine Arabs for geneTal inteTest to OUT TeadeTs. tipn that will be held in front of fled at the outbreak of the ~948 "Those poor, poor bastards." - Specialist 4 Salvatore Grigola, PleCJBe keep flOUT letteTS brief. the Irish Consulate ( on 50th St. war in response to appeals broad a helicopter door gunner, watching a newly arrived group of Gis WheTe necessari, they will be near 5th Ave.) from 3 to 7 p.m., cast by the Arab League ... This in Vietnam. abridged. WriteTs' initials will be Monday, July 17. Thank you. argument was invented after the used, names being withheld unless Brian Scanlon war was over ... " However, Evans authorization is given fOT uae.] P.S. ·We will also be protesting neglects to state that on dozens of occasions, the Grand Mufti of I support Israel's policies towards Israel, or Arab terrorist infiltra,, the recent arrest of Marcus Fogar tion of Israel. Such an unbalanced ty, IRA election candidate, who Jerusalem broadcast appeals to Arabs living within her borders. IRA Man Victimized Palestinian Arabs to commit It was Kropotkin who pointed out and non-objective view is un was attacked by police while dis worthy of a true revolutionary. New York, N.Y. tributing the Easter Lily (sym sabotage in Jewish communities, that nationalism is usually pro On May 5, Joe Dillon, 22, a bolic of the fight for freedom), and to leave Palestine. He prom gressive, but that it generally be Stan Kohls friend of mine and a member of Easter Sunday. He was charged ised those Arabs that did leave comes reactionary as soon as it [We welcome other readers' the IRA (Ireland's national libera with assaulting a police officer that they would have their proper achieves power. I feel that the view on this. EDITOR] tion army), was sentenced to five and given a month in prison - ty returned to them when the Zionist experience has borne this years in prison falsely charged enough to keep him out of the Arab forces succeed in driving out. However, I recall vividly an Aid for Vietnam with an attempted armed robbery election campaign. Israel into the sea. attack Les Evans deliverd on the Midlothian, Maryland of a Dublin rent collection office B.S. Presumably, these Palestinian U.S. for its imperialistic blockade I am renewing my subscription. in December, 1965. Arabs are still awaiting that day, of Cuba. Egypt has been blockad I wanted to send it sooner but I The police didn't arrest Joe Meaning of Pop Art living in the wretchedness of the ing Israel for many years, by re just didn't have the money. until six months after the incident. New York, N.Y. refugee camps. And let us not fusing their ships passage through I thought it was a wonderful Then, on the night of June 6, In an otherwise good article on forget that Jordan, Syria and the Suez Canal. Most recently. thing that the Quakers sent med 1966, he was taken from his home Expo 67 in the June 26 Militant, Egypt have consistently refused to Egypt has extended her imperial ical supplies to the people of North by Special Branch Detectives Doug Jenness made what I con resettle those Arab refugees, forc ism by blockading the Gulf of Vietnam and the National Libera (who specialize in political cases), sider an incorrect comparison be ing them to continue to live in Aqaba. I wonder why Evans can tion Front of South Vietnam. I taken to Bridewell prison and put tween the "socialist realism" of those drea:dful conditions. Israel's find time to (rightfully) condemn would like to thank them and on an identification parade with current Soviet art and art forms hands are certainly not clean, but the U.S. for its imperialistic block hope they will let me know if they two other IRA men. Witnesses in America today. Jenness says, neither are the hands of the Arabs ade of Cuba, and to. attack Israel send more, as I would like to help, were produced - the rent col "The art exhibit (in the U.S. pavi nations. for its invasions of Arab ter even though I can only give a lector, the owner of a car taken lion) was no better than that in I certainly do not condone what ritories;, but finds it unnecessary couple of dollars. on the night before the crime and the Russian pavilion. It consisted Israel has done recently, nor do to mention Egypt's blockade of William Cecil a few local people who were in mostly of crude pop-art - one the rent office at the time. None painting, for example, was simply of the witnesses identified any of the letters 'USA' in red, white and those on parade. blue." • Before his arrest Joe stated that Although Jenness may have It Was Reported ID the Press he had been offered bribes by the been simply giving his personal Special Branch to inform on the opinion of pop art, I think his attitude was wrong. Pop art is, in Oheaper Than the Pill - "BOM Royce company announced that are used for recreational, not IRA and that when he refused he BAY (AP) - In an effort to only 80 of its Custom Coupes will health purposes. was told that the Special Branch many ca:ses, a way of pointing out the crudity or low level of our promote India's family planning be available in the U.S. An adver Tax Dep't (II) - A University would "get him." program, the Maharashtra state tisement explains that the car will A year later he has been brought society. It hits at the imposed con of Indiana professor proposed to government has announced it will cost $31,800 but is worth every to trial and charged with taking formity and repressive atmosphere cope with the so-called population deny loans and relief subsidies to penny of it. We carefully scrutin a car without the owner's con that prevails in our country. It ex explosion by giving couples a tax families with more than three ized the list of special features sent. The only evidence was a poses the low level of a society rebate each year they don't have that strives for "things" - shiny children." which assertedly make it worth babies. thumbprint found on the driving that amount and were thoroughly mirror of the getaway car which, cars, shiny homes, shiny women. A Very Good Question - The That is why paintings like those unconvinced until we came to Tax Dep't (ill) - An Erie, Pa., according to a state witness, bore June 12 issue of Advertising Age item 11. Then, we must admit, we tax consultant drew 30 days for 14 points of resemblance to Dil by Robert Indiana are a form of was in a bit of a tizzy over the protest. It is hard to avoid the fact were sold. The Custom Coupe "has declaring nonexistent children as lon's print. (Scotland Yard norm FCC ruling that stations must an upper and lower ventilating dependents on his tax return. ally demands 21 points of resem that a: painting that simply says make some free time available for EAT in seven-foot letters is a com system. You can warm your feet Tax Dep't. (IV) - A 102-year blance before they will make posi· the antismoking viewPoint. The and cool your face at the same tive identification.) He was also ment on American society. That publication approvingly quotes one old Canadian railroad worker pro is also why a painting, · such as time." Sounds like the very thing posed that all people over a hun charged with illegal possession of station manager who enquires: for a hangover. a revolver with intent to rob and those done by Andy Warhol, in "And what about public service dred be exempted from paying all endanger life. (It is not unusual which Hollywood sex symbols are announcements themselves? If we Getting Show On Road - If all taxes. (The Indiana prof. migh1i for an IRA man to possess an "il repeated over and over again in run a spot announcement for goes well, multimillionaire show agree with that if he included the legal" weapon.) garish colors is also a comment on army recruiting, do we have to man Billy Rose, who died Feb. 10, proviso that they not have any The sentence was passed by Mr. a society that points to scantily run a spot announcement for peo 1966, may be buried next fall. more kids.) "Justice'' 6 Caoimh, an in-law of clad, supposedly mindless women ple who are against the war in Burial has been delayed by a dis M.artooni, Anyone? - We don't de Valera, who admitted that he as the Ideal Woman. Vietnam?" pute between Rose's relatives and was "probably in error when I And, in the painting that Jen executors of his estate as to the know if he had a green tunic and ness mentions, the "my country Another Friend - That well impose a sentence of five years," known partisan of social progress, amount that should be spent on a bow and arrow, but someone and was "leaving myself open to right or wrong" patriotism of some burying him. According to a re drove off from a New Jersey truck Americans is made fun of by Richard Nixon, says the Israelis criticism." should keep a firm grip on the ter ported agreement, the pint-sized terminal with a trailer containing Anyone wishing to protest this simply blowing up the letters USA showman will be interred in a and painting them in patriotic col·. ritories they conquered until the 1,125 cases of vodka valued at injustice should write Mr. Brian Arab states come to terms. giant mausoleum situated on a plot Lenihan, Department of Justice ors. And, some artists that do the size of 80 average graves. The $45,000. semi-pop paintings have done :Moral Issue? - We may be tak mausoleum, land and future main They Damn Well Better - Mr. other, more "political" paintings ing too straight-laced a view of tainance will cost $124,000. There and Mrs. Patrick Nugent said that that show their real feelings. the matter, but we can't work up was no report on the extent of in WeeklyCalendar For example, Larry Rivers, who much sympathy for National Stu terim storage charges. although they had named their son does some pop-ish work, did a dent Association efforts to balk Patrick Lyndon Nugent, they Tax Dep't (I) - Gen. de Gaulle beautiful job on a huge painting, CIA moves to evict it from its would call him Lyn, short for The rate for advertising in this column construction depicting the Russian rent-free Washington offices. After vetoed a proposal to use medical is 40 cents a line. Display ads are $2 • Revolution, a painting done after all, when people stop sleeping to tax funds for contraceptives on Lyndon. column inch. There is • ten percent dis reading Isaac Deutscher's trilogy gether they generally tend to go grounds that the contraceptives -Harry Ring count for regular advertisers. Advertising on the life of Leon Trotsky. So, their separate ways. must reach us by the Monday prior to the date of publication. in both ways, in one that would be a:ccepted as "good art" by Jenness, Kicky - "Tiger" Morse, self LOS ANGE.LES and one that might be written off declared queen of New York pop FOR ANTIWAR POLITICS IN THE 1968 as "crude pop," the artist was ex fashion, is offering paper dresses, ELECTIONS - Two Views. Speakers: pressing his views on society. That miniskirts, other fashion items and Mike Marcus, for New Politics; and "fun sadist regalia" such as chains Allen Taplin, Socialist Workers Party. Fri., is all -,- and sometimes even that is too much - that can be asked and whips at her botique. An July 14, 8 p.m. 1702 E. 4th St. Ausp. additional feature is a dressing NEW READERS Militant Labor Forum. of an artist. Socialist realism, on the other room with trick mirrors facing NEW •YORK hand, is dictated by the need to the sidewalk. People on the street If you are a new reader and would like to get better will be looking 3t a mirror while THE VIETNAMWAR - As Three Gls glorify and please the bureau acquainted, you may obtain a special four-month Intro Saw It. Speakers: Jan Crumb, Stephen cracy. Other art forms are sup customers will be looking out a Green and Mark Donnelly, members of pressed or sneered at. Artists must window. This is designed, she ex ductory subscription by sending this blank and $1 to the Vietnam Veterans Against the War plains, to give customers "the Committee. Fri., July 14, 8:30 p.m. 873 be free to create as they want. Only then will we, hopefully, get kicky feeling of dressing in the Broadway at 18th St. Contrib. $1. Ausp. street." Militant Labor Forum. "better" art and relegate "pop" to * * * the art history books. The Bright Side - According GUERRILLA WARFARE IN BOLIVIA. M.elissa Singler Speaker: Hedda Garza, editor, U.S. Latin to the U.S. Public Health Service THE MILITANT Amer'ican Justice Committee Reporter. Disagrees on Israel . there is but one dentist for every 873 Broadway Fri., July 21, 8:30 p.m. 873 Broadway Los Angeles, Calif. 2,000 Americans and the ratio is at 18th St. Contrib. $1. Ausp. Militant As an old friend of the YSA, growing worse. Half of American New York, N. Y. 10003 Labor Forum. and of Les Evans, I was greatly children under· 15 have never been * * * to a dentist. We were brooding H. RAP BROWN, Newly Elected Chair disturbed by his article in the June 19 Militant, concerning Arab vic over this the other day but were man of the Student Nonviolent Coor then greatly cheered to learn that Name dinating Committee will make his first tims of "Zionist Politics." From -···- ..··· ..-·~····· .....··---·····-····----·----·-··· ..··-······· ...··------public appearance in New York at a the beginning to the end of the the toothbrush holders in the guest bathrooms in the home of Baron Teach-In on Puerto Rico. Other speakers article, Evans blatantly displays Street ··---·------··- ....-·--- ....------..·-·-- Zip.. include Juan Angel Silen, Stanley Aro his anti-Zionist prejudice as well Guy de Rothschild were designed I in hand-painted porcelain by nowitz and Tom Hayden. Thurs., July 13, as his shallow understanding of 7:30' p.m. Broadway at 120 St. Horace Christian Dior. Mann Auditorium. Ausp. Tricontinental the situation. ICity -·--·-----····--··------··- State ...-- ...... __ Information Center. For example, Evans states that Double Feature - The Rolls ------_...._. Page Eight TH£ MILITANT Monday, July 10, 196'7 Phila.Police InvadeGhetto By Joel Aber PHILADELPHIA, June 20 - Rizzo commiss10ner only one For two successive weekends, the month ago. Since his appointment police force here has invaded the according to one police office!"' ghetto of South Philadelphia, fol "Police morale has never bee~ lowing the pattern of "pacifica higher in the sixteen years I've tion" and intimidation already been on the force." e~ta~lished in Houston, Tampa, Rizzo rose to fame in the late Cmcmnati, Dayton and Boston. 19?0s, when he made frequent This time Philadelphia's finest are raids on coffee houses, arresting making no pretense about quelling all young people under 17 who a ghetto uprising; instead they are were out after 10: 30 p.m. in viola· initiating preemptive warfare to tion of Philadelphia's curfew law. "prevent riots." Then only a captain, Rizzo carried On Friday evening, June 8, one two silver pistols, one on each hip. man threw a beer bottle at a cop He quickly rose through the and police chief Frank Rizzo re: ranks and was promoted to the sponded immediately by sending position of deputy commissioner 500 police with riot helmets into after again making the news when the area, stationing police "stake he clubbed Negro demonstrators Photo by Syd Stapleton out teams" on the rooftops, ready dt:ring the picketing of all-white ing police helicopters for action Girard College in 1964 and 1965 BR~NGING VIETNAM TO .EXPO. Over 2,000 Canadians marched in Montreal on July 1, the 100th Previously, Philadelphia played anruversary of the Canadian confederation. The central demands were: "End Canadian Complic and cordoning off several squar~ blocks along South Street. Acting the usual game of having "hard i!y"; '.'Withd~aw U.S. Troops" and "Self Determination for All Oppressed Peoples." Quebec na with lightning speed, cops arrested cops" and "soft cops," with a "soft tionahsts acttv~ly supported the demonstration. French and English Canadian speakers were joined 36 black people who were out of cop" as commissioner to present by representative of U.S. Student Mobilization Committee. doors on the sweltering night. a good public image. The appoint ment of Rizzo, the man who has Incident reigned supreme among "hard The supposedly perilous situa cops" in recent years, indicates a tion which prompted Rizzo to call ~ew t?ughness, especially in deal- a full mobilization of the police 1~g with the ghetto, and a green AkronRubber Workers Tell force resulted after a small group hght to each individual police offi of local residents picketed a hard cer that he can be as vicious as he desires with impunity. ware store where there had been an argument with the proprietor The day Rizzo was appointed earlier in the day. Police Inspec the Philadelphia Evening BuUeti1~ FactsBehind Their Strike tor Harry Fox was escorting the quoted him: "Whenever I hear the store's owner out when he was words 'long, hot summer' or 'dem· By Barbara Gregorich generation," said one worker. They ing to the men picketing the onstration' it makes me so mad are asking for about 93 percent plants. hit in the face by a beer bottle CLEVELAND, June .24 - Over at 4: 30 p.m. Rizzo then called the my blood boils." 53,000 striking rubber workers of their full wages when laid off A major gripe of the strikers is - they now receive 65 percent. 500 cops to overtime work. The across the country are now in that the union leadership is com 2) Better working conditions. man who admitted throwing the their third month of picketing promising too much and failing The workers at Firestone said that bottle was charged with assault Firestone, Uniroyal, Goodrich and to inform the strikers of what was with intent to kill, resisting ar Doddand Powell, their working conditions were ter going on in the negotiations. The General Tire companies. In an rest, disturbing the peace and in rible and that the company vio workers felt there should be reg interview with about 30 men at lated the contract every day in re citing to riot. three of the companies in Akron, ular meetings at which progress AGood Example of fusing to improve them. The men was reported. For several hours, over-zealous I found the morale of the strikers said they were on piece-work and cops stayed in the area and made still high. They said they were When asked what they thought speed-up. about the increased number of 35 additional arrests, including DoubleStandards "in too deep now to settle for less three members of the Young Mili On June 23, after literally than we want." One striker said he was work strikes in the country, the workers replied it was· the fault of the tants, who were bailed out sev months of stalling and debate the ing on the same machine he had Senate voted to censure Th~mas Some of the reasons for the in 1945, but then he had to pro· companies. One man said "You eral days later by members of the failure of negotiations, according J. Dodd for using campaign and duce five-and-one-half tires a day never saw so much trouble in your antiwar movement. Rizzo said that to the strikers, was that the com life as in the United States today. some of those arrested were "out testimonial funds "for his person panies want a three-year contract while today he has to put out 13 al benefit." Dodd had put over tires a day. The companies are treating the side agitators": one man from while the workers want a one or wor~ers like machines - speedup, New York was visiting friends in $116,000 in his pocket from various two-year contract; and the com Other complaints at Firestone South Philadelphia. The Young Democratic Party dinners and were that the windows were profit. The companies have gone panie,s are offering wage increases crazy - they publicize how many Militants live in other sections of fund-raising events. of a few cents while the workers broken; that the company should Philadelphia's black ghetto, and In four out of the seven spe buy equipment for the workers· millions of dollars they make in want a substantial increase of $2 profits each year, but the work were on South Street to offer help cified dinners, Dodd's good friend or more. that the number of time-stud~ to residents. Lyndon B. Johnson was the fea· men has tripled in the last thre~ ers are the ones making all that When asked what they thought tured speaker. years; and that the workers have money and getting nothing." Mayor James Tate appointed about the United Rubber Workers to race against time to make a No Penalties not striking Goodyear Rubber, the day's wages. stri.kers replied that Goodyear, The censure motion does not which employs over 21,000 men, Several strikers said the com carry any penalties. Dodd will not pany was sending out speakers to lose his seniority, his chairman should be struck. But if it were make plant conditions appear good they are sure the government ship of the subcommittee on in the eyes of the public, while Juvenile Delinquency (!) or his would invoke the Taft-Hartley law in reality, "people are falling all against them. One man said, "A vice chairmanship of the subcom union means unity, and we should over their machines, there's so mittee on Internal Security. much work to do. It's worse in all strike together." Adam Clayton Powell who lost there than you think." Some of the workers' demands all seniority, lost his ~ommittee as described by the strikers, are:' 3) Abolition of the age require chairmanship, was kicked out of ments in the pension plan. One 1) A guaranteed annual wage. the House and not allowed to re· They said this would benefit the worker said he was 56 years old turn after being constitutionally and had been working at Good younger workers in the plant, who re-elected in Harlem, was charged wich for 39 years. "I want to get often get laid off two or three with using about $46,000 in fed· times a year. The strikers said the out and enjoy life," he said. "I eral funds to pay his wife's salary companies lay off these younger don't want to stay here until I as an "absentee office aide." men before they are able to col die." The men said retirement Upon hearing of Dodd's censure lect unemployment compensation. should come after 30 years of Powell declared that he would b~ "We are fighting for the younger service, no matter what the age willing to accept the same treat· of the worker. ment. House Republican leader 4) Paid vacations. Vacation pay Gerald Ford responded, "I don't is now two percent of a worker's think the House should make any yearly gross earnings. They are deals with Powell." U.S.Casualties asking for vacation pay of four The racist double standard of American casualties in Viet percent so they can "go some justice cooked up in the halls of nam for the week ending June where during the vacation." Congress was further underlined 24 were 274 dead, 1,258 Another major issue involved by the fact that the senators could wounded, U.S. military author in the strike is that the companies AGAINST FBI THREATS. New York branch of Movement for not find it in their hearts to cen· ities reported in Saigon. In the are starting plants in places like Independence of Puerto Rico (MPI) demonstrated on July 4 at sure Dodd on a second count previous week the number of Tennessee, paying lower wages FBI headquarters in New York. FBI head J. Edgar Hoover recent brought against him by one of deaths was 143 and the num there, and laying off thousands l;y_charged that MPI was planning a "wave of terror" in Puerto their own committees. By this of men in Akron. charge, Dodd had double-billed ber of wounded was 953. The ~1co. MP~ denounced this redbaiting and any attempt to sup,press total as of June 24 was 11,323 During the strike, the companies various sources for travel ex· have been using Akron Universi rights of _mdependence movement. Demonstrations were also staged penses. dead, 68,341 wounded and 674 by MPI m San Juan, Puerto Rico, on July 4, demanding indepen missing. ty students as scabs, often work· Dodd was exonerated on the sec· ing them 12 hours a day, accord· dence. ond count by a vote of 51·45.