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Labor Officials Remain Silent on One-Hour Work Stoppage Youngstown CIO Backs Kutcher’s t h e PUBLISHEDMILITANT WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE Civil Rights Rally Vol. XX — No. 10 ?67 NEW YORK, N. Y., MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1956 PRICE: 10 Cent« By Shirley Clark FEB. 27 — A civil liberties rally, sponsored by the Kutcher Civil Rights Committee, is being mobilized by united labor, Negro and civil liberties forces in Youngs­ town Obiio. Scheduled to be heldi^ on Friday, March 9, at 8 P. M. lean Civil Liberties Union, will at the YMCA, Central Branch, speak on "Civil Liberties — Which Labor Officials Remain Silent tlhe Rally promises to be a Way?" And Mate Lee, an active vigorous demonstration for the civil rights leader in Ohio, will growing demand that Kutcher’s speak on “The Negro’s Struggle job be restored to him finally for Freedom.” aifter nearly eight years of strug­ gle. Kutcher was fired from ihis CALLING FOR SUPPORT job with the Veterans Adminis­ The CIO Council has asked all tration for his openly proclaimed its affiliated locals to support the On One-Hour Work Stoppage membership in the- Socialist Civil Liberties Rally. The KCRC Workers Party. is planning to distribute announce­ In addition bo James Ku'tcher, ments to about 20 of the union ALABAMA NEGRO LEADERS INDICTED IN BUS BOYCOTT the now famous legless veteran, locals. The ACLU and an inter­ Stevenson Needs A1 Shipka, President of the racial committee are also mailing March 28 Set As Day Mahoning County CIO Council, the Rally program tb their mem­ will speak on “Labor’s Stake in berships. A History Lesson the Bill of Rights.” Professor E. Students on the campus of How old is Jim Crow? Ac­ B. Smith, representing the Aimer- Youngstown College have shown cording to Adlai Stevenson, For Protest Against a great deal of interest in the call leading Democratic presidential for the Civil . Liberties Rally. aspirant in his Feb. 7 Los Notices have been posted on all Angeles remarks, the “habits campus bulletin hoards. The and traditions” of Southern Montgomery Arrests Youth Council of the NAACP at segregation are “older than the the University is especially active Republic.” Stevenson opposed By Harry Ring in advertising the coming meet­ use of Federal troops to Seven leaders of the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott surrender to cops after indictment under ing. Reflecting the anger of millions in America at the enforce school desegregation, state law originally aimed against 1921 coal miners’ strikes. A ll told, 115 indictments were re­ mass arrests of leaders of the Montgomery anti-Jim Crow The four speakers and the four pleading that these allegedly turned against participants in thé 12-week-old Negro boycott of the city’s Jim Crow bus lines. subjects on Which they will talk old traditions not be “upset” Defendants are (1. to r.) : Rev/ R. fD. Abernathy, Rev. Gardner (not indicted), Rufus Lewis, Rev. bus boycott movement, a drive has been initiated by top is a dramatic demonstration of and be changed only “gradu­ Leroy R. Bennett, ÎRcv. W. F. Alford, Rev. J. H. Cherry, Rev. H. H. Herbert and E li Judkins. Negro religious leaders for ai>- the growing unity that is develop­ ally.” Stevenson was either They face sentences of six-months in jail and $1,000 fines. All were released in $300 bond per March 28 “National Deliverance proposal for a national day of ing in the fight for freedom in ignorant of or chose to hide defendant. Day” of prayer and protest. prayer he was opposed to a work America. The laibor movement is the real facts about Jim Crow. A meeting of the Interdenomi­ stoppage. The following ndgihit, in faced with vicious anti - labor He buried the record of the national Ministers Meeting of a radio interview, Powell made legislation amd union-busting at­ Reconstruction Period follow­ Greater New York announced an ambiguous statement to the tempts by powerful companies; ing the Civil War. During Re­ Feb. 24 that if the ca/mpacgn is effect that the proposed demon­ che Negro movement is faced with construction, the Negroes successful “on this day, no Negro stration was not actually a work the gigantic job of liberating the achieved full political equality. Open Letter to Civil Rights man, woman or child shall work stoppage — where people could Negro people forever from Jim The former slaves and the poor or attend school from 2 to 3 P.M. get off from work, they should. Crow; the youth is faced with a white workers and farmers A t the same tame he pointed out regimented future and threats to “Instead, they shall pray at united to elect legislatures church or at home for deliverance that President Jackson was academic freedom; and Kutcher Assembly in Washington speaking solely as an individual which brought substantial from persecution and for the sal­ represents minority political par­ progress to the South — nota­ and that ha6 opinion was not ties that have been faced with the By the Editors vation of all humans afflicted bly the public school system with racial prejudice.” binding on the Baptist church. He Big Business attempt to legislate (on an integrated basis). Be­ To the delegates at the Civil Rights of the civil rights issue and proposed — went on to report that he received and witch hunt all organized po­ tween 1869 and 1876, when Assembly gathered in Washington, D. C., that the Congress set up a bipartisan com­ SUPPORT FOR BOYCOTT expressions of support from litical opposition out of existence. Reconstruction ended, 16 Ne­ March 4-6. Greetings! Adam Clayton Powell, Demo­ virtually every bishop of the The Youngstown Civil Liberties mittee to investigate the matter! groes served in the U.S. Con­ cratic Congressman from New church and particularly from the Rally offers the workers and This conference, representing the major And the representative of the majority gress from Southern states, York and pastor of the Abbvsinian chiurdh’s youth section. The tenor youth in that area the chance to including two in the Sen­ organizations of the working people, Ne­ party of Congress, presidential-aspirani Baptist Church, who chaired the of Powell’s remarks strongly in.« give a united answer to the union- ate (representing Mississippi). gro and white, is the most important Adlai Stevenson, author of the infamou; meeting, said the group planned (Continued on page 3) busters, the eegregators and the Afterwards, Jim Crow was gathering in the United States today. Some statement, “we must be careful not to to enlist white support for the witch hunters. In the long and established by force and vio­ one hour prayer-protest and for heroic struggle of James Kutcher of you may know that we strongly urged upset the habits and traditions of the lence by Southern propertied the broadening of the conference to include the mass rallies to be held that for his rights under the constitu­ interests supported by North­ South,” proposed — that the President use night throughout the country. In tion, the forces are gathering Trotsky’s Widow ern Big Business. It was not mass delegations from every local union, his powerful office to take some decisive has original announcement Mr. that, united, will restore the civil victorious until the turn of the Negro and m inority organization in the action. Powell said efforts would be made liberties of all >vho are denied century. to rent Madison Square Garden JAMES KUTCHER them. country. We fe lt that a greateir4'epresenta- What action? The same action proposed Demands Kremlin tion from the rank and file of the Negro by the governor of Alabama — a meeting for the New York rally. He later announced that the meeting and labor movements would have a strong­ of “ moderate,” “ gradualist” leaders of would be held at Manhattan Clear His Name er affect on the government and Congress. both races in the South to curb the “ ex­ Center. FEB. 29 — Natalia Trotsky Police Assault Picket at Republic Strike We thought Dr. T. R. M. Howard’s ringing tremists” of both sides! Negro officials of the clothing, called on the 20th Congress of call for a million Americans to come to The “ extremists” Stevenson refers to laundry and sleeping car porters the Soviet Communist Party last unions met Saturday with Powell Washington to speak to the “deaf ear” of among the Negroes are the bus boycotters week to remove the label, “enemy to discuss plans for the “Deliver­ of the people,” from the names the powers-that-be was in tune with the of Montgomery, Miss Lucy of Tuscaloosa ance Day” demonstration. “We of Leon Trotsky and their son, needs of the times. and Representative Adam Clayton Powell are going to exhaust every mass Leon Sedov. Taking note of the The officials of the Leadership Confer­ in Congress. In other words — everyone act” Powell said. implied disavowal made by Con­ “The demonstration suggested ence on Civil Rights thought otherwise. and anyone who wants to act to implement gress speakers of Stalinist frame- by Powell gathered momentum up trials, Trotsky’s widow Nevertheless, the conference as it is now the Supreme Court decision on desegrega­ across the country,” reported the demanded in a telegram that the constituted, representing as it does the tion is an “ extremist.” Feb. 26 N. Y. Times as church Kremlin restore their names “be­ NAACP, the AFL-CIO, a number of the That’s where the leading spokesman of organizations in the major cities fore international public opinion.” pledged their support to the The wire was dated Feb. 22. most important international unions and the Democratic party stands in this na­ movement.
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